Types of Class Actions
Our work has included class actions involving:
- Antitrust and competition
- Fraud
- Pharmaceutical mass torts
- Securities, financial products, and institutions
- Labor and employment
We have worked on a number of high-profile matters involving antitrust, securities and financial services, false advertising, and drug safety issues, including:
- Assessing allegations of anticompetitive conduct and pass-through
- Examining pricing-related documents and sales data to assess alleged misleading of consumers and economic injury
- Evaluating the relationship between standards and practices, and investor sophistication and knowledge level, in the determination of a putative class
- Analyzing the economic underpinnings of commonality and typicality arguments to determine if causation and damages assessments could be based on common methods of proof
- Assisting clients in settlement talks and settlement agreements to ensure targeted and appropriate relief to the damaged class members
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AG Feature
Implications of the Tyson Ruling for Class Certification
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Case Outcome
In re Countrywide Financial Corp. Mortgage Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation
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Edward Snyder & Pierre Cremieux - The Macro- and Microcommonality Tests
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Featured Expert
John R. Hauser
Kirin Professor of Marketing, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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New Jersey Carpenters Vacation Fund, et al. v. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, plc, et al.
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Economic Assistance in Connection with Class Certification
