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Class Action

We are seasoned trial lawyers with extensive backgrounds in class action litigation in jurisdictions throughout the United States. We resolve class action disputes that corporate clients face with their customers, competitors, suppliers, investors, shareholders, and regulators. Our class action practice reaches across the major substantive areas of the law, including antitrust, securities, business tort, consumer finance, consumer fraud, contract, insurance, product liability, and other fields.

Representative Matters

  • We are currently representing a restaurant in a class action lawsuit brought by the EEOC. The EEOC is representing approximately 200 current and former Hispanic employees of the restaurant who are alleging discrimination based upon national origin.
  • Represented a corporate client in a putative class action some years ago where the proposed class included roughly 38,000 residents from northern Twin Cities suburbs. The case involved a proposed personal injury, property damage, and injunctive relief class arising out of groundwater contamination. We successfully beat off the motion to certify.
  • Represented client in one of the financial arms of a large automobile manufacturer on a proposed Minnesota class relating to consumer lease provisions. The trial court certified a class, but the claims were ultimately defeated on the merits.
  • Represented franchisor against class action antitrust, contract, and fiduciary duty claims relating to advertising programs and supply of product to franchisees; obtained interlocutory appeal of class action certification; appeal granted by court of appeals, then case settled on appeal
  • Represented client in a class action brought alleging practice of sending unsolicited advertisements via fax
  • Represented client in case involving restraint and monopolization claims; consolidated actions brought by two nationwide classes, attorneys general of 34 states; separate action by Federal Trade Commission
  • Acted as local counsel for one client in three state-court class actions challenging pricing practices in pharmaceuticals industry
  • Represented client in a putative class action gender and race discrimination suit. Resolved by confidential settlement