Class Actions lawyers

Boris Roginkin

Partner

Meitar Law Offices

Brad Woodhouse

Brad specialises in large scale, complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on strategic and reputationally significant claims, including class actions and test cases. Brad has acted on a number of the country’s largest pieces of litigation across a range of industries, including financial services, professional negligence, employment, natural disasters and product liability.

Clifford Chance

Bradley Pensyl

Partner

BakerHostetler

Brent B. Barriere

Brent Barriere is a partner in Fishman Haygood’s Litigation Section with over 40 years of experience litigating commercial cases. He represents clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes, including bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, securities litigation, breach of contract, business valuation disputes, director and officer claims, error and omission claims, and class actions.

Fishman Haygood LLP

Brett Bartlett

Innovative partner and business advisor helping employers to solve problems practically, especially related to the defense of complex and class action employee pay-related litigation and the execution of best practice workforce solutions and strategies.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Brett Burns

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Brian Boyle

Partner; DLA Piper's Deputy Chair, US Antitrust & Competition

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Brian Matsui

Brian R. Matsui | Morrison Foerster Brian Matsui co-chairs Morrison Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice. Brian is a go-to appellate advocate for sophisticated clients in complex appeals. Brian has a nationwide appellate practice. He has argued many cases in federal and state appellate courts throughout the country, winning appeals involving federal preemption, securities litigation and enforcement, consumer class actions, and intellectual property. He has led appeals in the D.C., Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Eleventh, and Federal Circuits. His arguments include significant victories in class action appeals and in appeals for leading financial services companies, with multiple victories in the Ninth Circuit, where he clerked. Brian recently has gone five for six when representing appellants, including a precedential victory in the Ninth Circuit in a licensing dispute concerning alleged patent misuse. He also argued and won a D.C. Circuit appeal against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about the retroactivity of part of the Dodd-Frank Act. As a result of Brian’s win, the SEC had to change its enforcement practices against certain securities industry professionals. Clients frequently turn to Brian for his substantial experience with appeals in the Federal Circuit, praising him as “an invaluable advocate in patent matters” (Chambers USA). Brian has won 13 of his last 15 appeals in that Court. His arguments before the Federal Circuit include winning appeals from district courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the International Trade Commission. He has handled appeals in a myriad of industries, including mobile devices, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, semiconductors, and software. Brian also plays a key role on trial teams, advising clients on both critical legal issues and appellate preservation. He recently argued and prevailed against a summary judgment invalidity motion in a case involving Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s revolutionary antibody recycling technology, which ultimately led to a $775 million settlement on the eve of trial for Chugai. A former law clerk for the United States Supreme Court, Brian has authored many briefs in that Court, including on important constitutional and statutory interpretation issues. He often represents clients’ interests in amicus briefs in significant Supreme Court cases affecting the business community. Leading publications have recognized Brian for his appellate skills. The Legal 500 US recommends him for appellate litigation, and the National Law Journal named Brian a “Minority 40 Under 40.” Brian also dedicates significant time to pro bono matters. He argued and won two significant appeals—in the Second and Ninth Circuits—obtaining reversals of judgments that had denied private rights of action under the Child Welfare Act in precedential decisions. Brian also led the Morrison Foerster team who co-counseled a successful Eighth Amendment challenge to Florida’s imposition of a “life without the possibility of parole” sentence to a juvenile offender convicted of a non-homicide crime. For years, Brian chaired the ABA’s seven-person Standing Committee for Amicus Curiae Briefs. He served on the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s amicus committee and co-chaired the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s amicus committee. Brian served as an appellate lawyer representative for the Ninth Circuit. Brian also serves on the board of directors for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before entering private practice, Brian clerked on the United States Supreme Court for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. He also clerked for Judge Pamela Ann Rymer in the Ninth Circuit and Judge David F. Levi in the Eastern District of California. While in law school, Brian served as managing editor of Volume 51 of the Stanford Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Morrison Foerster

Brian P. O’Connell

Associate

Pomerantz LLP

Brian Patterson

Brian Patterson is a skilled litigator and advisor who represents employers in a wide range of labor and employment matters. His practice encompasses non-competition agreements, wage and hour disputes, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforcement actions, whistleblower issues, executive employment contracts, and employment discrimination. Brian also has extensive experience overseeing and conducting sensitive workplace investigations. In his litigation practice, Brian has extensive trial experience, particularly in Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) cases, disputes involving restrictive covenant agreements, and matters arising from the separation of senior executives. He has also successfully defended employers against individual and class action claims under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in both state and federal courts. Beyond litigation, Brian has significant experience leading the labor and employment aspects of major corporate transactions, ensuring seamless integration and compliance in complex business deals.

Bracewell LLP

Brooke Kim

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Bryce Friedman

Co-Head of Simpson Thacher’s Business Litigation Practice and Head of the Insurance Litigation Practice with a focus on complex commercial litigation and trials. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Defends regulated companies, officers and directors against fraud allegations, including alleged False Claims Act violations and government investigations. Represents the insurance and reinsurance industries in trials and arbitrations of coverage, trade practice and class actions nationwide. Counsels boards of directors and C-suite executives on strategic concerns, governance issues, disputes and sensitive employee matters.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Caitlin Coslett

Caitlin G. Coslett is a Shareholder and Co-Chair of Berger Montague’s Antitrust Department. Ms. Coslett concentrates her practice on complex litigation, including antitrust, qui tam (whistleblower), and mass tort litigation, and specializes in, among other things, economic experts and class certification issues.

Berger Montague

Caitriona Kinane

Partner

Corrigan & Corrigan

Calhoun Watson

Partner and General Counsel

Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte LLC

Callum O’Connor

Partner

Bowmans

Cameron Scholes

DLA Piper

Camila Maldi

Associate

Dentons

Camille Olson

Camille Olson is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP and Chair of its National Complex Discrimination Litigation Practice Group.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Caroline Biron, Ad. E.

Caroline is a leading litigator with over 30 years of practice in commercial law, corporate law, employment law, civil litigation (including defamation issues), privacy and professional liability law. Her experience as a litigator covers a wide range of fields and she has handled complex legal matters involving fraud and cybersecurity issues, shareholder disputes, administrative and estate law. She also has significant experience defending class actions in the fields of contractual and extra-contractual liability, product liability, competition law, consumer law, privacy and personal data protection law and regularly intervenes in seizures and injunctions. She has appeared before all levels of court in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the Federal Court, as well as before several administrative tribunals and arbitration boards. Caroline frequently handles governance cases, including human resources issues and those involving internal investigations. Furthermore, Caroline advises companies and their boards of directors on risk management, ethics and corporate governance. She provides strategic advice in critical situations such as whistleblowing, security breaches, Privacy Commissioner investigations, Public Sector Integrity Commissioner investigations and class actions. In addition to her work as a lawyer, she works closely with her clients’ communications teams and public relations agencies. Before joining Blakes, Caroline was the managing partner of a boutique litigation law firm. Caroline is fluent in English and French.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Caroline Suydam

Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Caroline Zayid

National Leader of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Practice focuses on product liability and class actions, at the trial and appellate levels. Has litigated many significant product liability cases including on behalf of manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and consumer products. Has also acted on numerous cross-border class actions in relation to health care, financial services, securities, and automotive products. Extensive experience in administrative and public law for public and private sector clients. Represents clients at all levels of courts including the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the courts of appeal of Ontario, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

McCarthy Tétrault

Cary R. Perlman

Partner

Latham & Watkins

Casey Watkins

Of Counsel

Ballard Spahr LLP