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Covington regularly defends companies facing class actions in nearly every substantive area of our litigation practice. We defend companies facing class actions involving antitrust, securities, consumer protection, product liability, employment, ERISA, contract, and accounting issues, among others. Our litigators have been successful in denying and limiting class certification in novel ways that have substantially reduced or eliminated some of the largest lawsuits facing our clients.
Judicial determinations of the size and scope of the class turn upon the complexities of the substantive area involved, and our substantive and industry expertise has proven an invaluable advantage in defeating plaintiffs’ attempts to certify large damage classes. Even in those cases in which class treatment may be a foregone conclusion, litigation over class certification principles may allow early determinations that affect the merits and lead to favorable dispositions.
Representative Matters
- Representation of JPMorgan Chase in consumer class actions and attorney general representative actions on various practices relating to credit cards.
- Representation of Johnson & Johnson and McNeil Consumer Healthcare in a consumer class action arising out of recall of children’s medicines.
- Representation of Wells Fargo Bank in consumer class actions under the laws of multiple states challenging fees, disclosures, and other banking practices.
- Representation of Samsung in consolidated antitrust price-fixing and deceptive practice class actions involving liquid crystal displays.
- Representation of Citibank in numerous class actions alleging violations of antitrust, commodities exchange, RICO, and state laws in conjunction with alleged manipulation of LIBOR rates.
- Representation of Expedia in multiple national antitrust class actions relating to hotel bookings.
- Representation of Pixar in multi-defendant antitrust class action alleging an unlawful agreement among certain Silicon Valley firms to limit their recruiting of each other’s employees.
- Representation of numerous food and cosmetics companies in responding to demand letters and class actions under the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act and Unfair Competition Law arising out of alleged false and misleading statements on labels and marketing materials.
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