Our work on class action litigation has ranged from helping our clients develop compelling mediation presentations to mock trying cases, preparing witnesses, and assisting with jury selection and trial strategy.
Our consulting staff includes a trained statistician who has testified in court, among other things about representative sampling. We are experts at helping our clients communicate the complex statistical issues that often arise in these cases, including regression, clustering, classification, and factor analyses.
We have a considerable amount of experience working on class action litigation for a variety of case types, including wage and hour, employment discrimination, securities, antitrust, Fair Credit Reporting Act, product liability, construction defect, environmental contamination and cleanup, false advertising and trespass nuisance.
Representative Class Action Matters:
- A consolidated matter involving separate classes over late meal periods, underpaid meal periods and rest periods for a fast-food restaurant chain. A jury in Federal Court in California ultimately awarded a small fraction of what plaintiffs were seeking.
- An employment class action lawsuit for a tech industry client, involving claims of suppressed pay, and collusion to not recruit competitors’ employees.
- Wage and hour litigation brought by mortgage loan officers and other commissioned employees over failure to pay minimum wages and premium pay for overtime hours.
- An employment class action on behalf of a restaurant chain over misinformation printed on employee paystubs.
- A class action for a retail clothing company for unpaid time spent on security inspections at the end of employee shifts in their retail stores.
- A lawsuit for an insurance company over claims they failed to provide customers the correct notice required under the Fair Credit Reporting Act for increasing premiums.
- A class action for a banking company for claims of fraud, breach of contract, bad faith, and defamation over their credit card fees.
- A consumer class action for a computer manufacturer involving claims of faulty computer screens.
- A false advertising lawsuit against a sporting goods manufacturer over misleading advertising for celebrity-endorsed equipment.
- Class action litigation involving faulty plumbing equipment.
- A lawsuit brought by a class of law school students suing for alleged negligent and false statements about the school’s accreditation.
- An environmental class action brought by landowners against the state claiming firefighting activities were negligently conducted.
- A securities class action for a banking corporation over investment losses.
- Securities class action litigation for a semiconductor manufacturer for alleged breach of fiduciary duty and violations of Sections 11 and 12 of the Securities Code.
- Pharmaceutical price fixing class action litigation.
- A pair of consumer class action cases involving claims of price fixing on behalf of oil and gas corporations
- Price fixing class action litigation for a natural gas corporation.
- Antitrust class action litigation involving price fixing of flat-panel screens.
- Hundreds of individual cases arising out of class action product liability litigation, in which the class was decertified on appeal.