Class Actions
We have an active and successful class action team defending lawsuits in federal and state courts across the United States. We serve as national or regional counsel depending upon the needs of our clients. Our class action experience includes cases asserting claims of product liability, unfair business practices and consumer fraud. Examples of our class action representations include the following:
- Lead trial counsel for a leading international plumbing fixture fitting manufacturer in a putative consumer class action asserting strict liability, breach of warranty, and negligence claims related to certain tub and shower valves.
- Lead trial counsel for an international electronics manufacturer in a putative national consumer class action alleging breach of warranty, consumer fraud, and unjust enrichment claims related to certain high definition televisions.
- Lead trial counsel for an international manufacturer of microwave ovens in a putative national consumer class action.
- Lead counsel representation in a national class action lawsuit in Texas involving a claim that, over a ten-year period, the client manufactured more than three million defective water heaters.
- Lead coordinating counsel representation of a manufacturer of water heaters in eight consumer class action lawsuits brought in Alabama, California, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan (two cases), Missouri, and Tennessee.
- Lead trial counsel for manufacturer and distributor in litigation including series of class action lawsuits for loss of business, environmental damages and toxic tort claims resulting from a catastrophic fire at a manufacturing and storage facility.