Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP’s Class Action team is nationally recognized for its class action, coordinated mass action and appellate experience. Even before the explosion of class action litigation in the 1990s, members of the Class Action team were already at the forefront of defending such cases, shaping precedent on important class action issues.
Having defended hundreds of class action and mass action matters across more than thirty states, in both state and federal courts, the Class Action team has a depth of experience that comes only from years spent handling such cases. Much of that experience was forged in “bet-the-company” type litigation brought in what are considered some of the most plaintiff-friendly venues of the United States. Our Class Action team has successfully obtained the dismissal of, or defeated the certification of, class actions on many occasions, both at the trial level and on appeal. Our team has also designed innovative and cost effective class settlement strategies when our clients’ business objectives dictated that course, thereby assisting our clients in alleviating significant exposure and repetitive claims.
The Class Action team has defended class and mass actions in practically every substantive area of law, including financial services and lender liability, product liability, securities law, consumer fraud and deceptive practices, antitrust law, environmental liability, ERISA, real estate, civil rights, labor and employment, insurance and annuity sales practices, consumer claims, contract law, and claims brought under a variety of other specific state and federal laws. The team regularly defends companies within the health care, pharmaceutical and medical device, insurance and annuity, mortgage and financial service, banking, retail, automotive, manufacturing, credit card, and construction industries, among others.
In today’s litigious environment, a class or mass action may be only one facet of a larger legal puzzle facing a corporation. The subject matter on which such suits are brought may also give rise to federal or state regulatory and criminal investigations, multi-jurisdictional opt-out litigation, shareholder and creditor lawsuits, employee “whistleblower” litigation, vendor disputes and distributor claims. Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP’s Class Action team is experienced in crafting and implementing the coordinated defense of such matters. We have the ability to draw upon the resources and experience offered by the firm’s more than 380 lawyers, who are licensed in more than half of the nation’s states, to develop creative and versatile strategies tailored to serve the business objectives of our clients.