Class actions can pose enormous risks to a business. Because each case is unique, our attorneys develop a unique, case-specific approach to defending each client.
UB Greensfelder aggressively and creatively defends nationwide and statewide class actions. Our class action defense practice provides effective, comprehensive, and multifaceted legal representation to major corporations, smaller businesses, institutions, and individuals faced with defending class action litigation.
Who We Are
Our class action defense attorneys have extensive experience litigating class action cases in state and federal courts throughout the country. We have litigated class action cases on behalf of clients in a wide range of industries, including financial services, pharmaceutical and medical devices, manufacturing, and consumer goods and services. Our class action defense practice also provides advice and counsel to our clients on matters relating to class action avoidance and due diligence, landmark cases, proposed or enacted legislation, and emerging trends in class action and complex litigation.
How We Help
Our interdisciplinary approach draws upon the collective and wide-ranging expertise and experience across diverse practice groups to assemble and integrate the substantive and class action experience into a client and case-centered team. We comprehensively and efficiently defend each case.
We have litigated all facets of class actions, from initial pleading challenges through class certification, trial or settlement, and claims processes. We routinely address issues under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) and have experience with the unique issues of damages, use of experts, and settlements in the class action context, as well as with contractual class action waivers. Our representation encompasses a broad array of substantive legal issues, including securities, investment fraud, mass and toxic torts, product liability, health care, employment practices, consumer sales practices and advertising claims, environmental contamination, debtor/creditor rights, insurance coverage and insurance claims practices, real estate issues, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), director and officer (D&O) liability, privacy, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Why Clients Choose UB Greensfelder
Practicing in some of the most challenging venues in the country, our class action group is experienced at defending high-stakes matters. With industry-specific expertise, our class action attorneys have successfully handled all facets of class action practice, including trial of class action claims to verdict before juries and judges, as well as multidistrict litigation (MDL). Coupled with our team’s trial experience and depth of knowledge, we focus on defeating class actions at the earliest stage possible.
Some of our work has thrust the group to the forefront of the cutting-edge issues in class action practice. The firm handled a key case in Missouri establishing ascertainability standards for class definitions at the pleading stage at the time ascertainability had been given new vigor as a defense by courts around the country. The group has litigated the evolving standards for class certification as a result of recent Supreme Court decisions, including the enforcement of arbitration clauses and defeating unconscionability challenges even before the Concepcion decision by the Supreme Court.
