Class Actions lawyers

Courtney Baird

Courtney L. Baird is co-chair of the Commercial Litigation Division of the Firm's Trial Practice Group and a member of the Firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Baird serves as outside counsel to businesses handling prosecution and defense of litigation and compliance and risk management issues. She has extensive experience in complex litigation, including defense of class actions, consumer claims (Consumer Legal Remedies Act, Unfair Competition and False Advertising Law), business to business disputes, trade secret misappropriation, anti-SLAPP, products liability, contract and tort. Her strategic approach, substantive experience and ability to cost-effectively optimize her clients' business and legal objectives has led to her representation of companies across the United States and internationally.

Duane Morris LLP

Courtney Stout

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Craig Cardon

Craig Cardon spent the last decade on Sheppard's executive committee, serves as co-leader of the Retail, Fashion & Beauty team, sits on the firm’s international committee and founded the firm’s Mass Arbitration practice. Craig represents retailers, brands and adtech businesses in class actions, mass arbitrations, and governmental investigations and enforcement proceedings in the advertising, data privacy and ecommerce areas.

Sheppard

Craig Ferris

Craig is one of British Columbia’s most accomplished litigation lawyers and acts for clients in commercial and business disputes. His particular areas of focus include shareholder remedies, trust, pension and fiduciary disputes, securities and transactional litigation, product liability, mining disputes and real estate litigation. Craig has appeared in all levels of court in British Columbia as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. He also has extensive experience, both as counsel and as a neutral, in international and domestic arbitrations as well as in administrative settings, including before the British Columbia Securities Commission. Craig has particular knowledge of class actions and acted as lead counsel in several successful defences of major class proceedings in a wide variety of industries.

Lawson Lundell LLP

Craig Phillips

Partner

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Craig Varnen

Craig Varnen is a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Craig serves as a Co-Chair of the Firm’s National Securities Litigation Practice Group, which is consistently recognized as one of the best securities litigation groups in the country. While Craig is an experienced trial attorney who has represented clients in a broad range of “bet the company” commercial disputes, his practice focuses securities litigation. Craig has decades of experience representing public companies and their officers/directors in the defense of federal and state securities class actions, derivative actions and government proceedings. These cases often involve claims related to public offerings, accounting and disclosure practices, mergers and acquisitions, insider trading, corporate governance issues or allegations of breaches of fiduciary duties. Craig is also regularly retained to conduct high-profile internal investigations, as well as advise boards and officers on fiduciary duty and corporate governance issues. He has also handled a wide range of other business and class action litigation, including many different types of consumer class actions, cases involving the misappropriation of trade secrets, employment litigation, and insurance matters. He also often counsels clients in employment contract-related matters.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Crawford Smith

Crawford combines expertise with strategy to represent clients in corporate and commercial litigation, regulation, securities, professional liability, energy proceedings, insurance, competition litigation, public and administrative law, with substantial expertise in class actions. He has significant experience engaging complex disputes that demand subject-matter experience involving specialized and highly regulated industries in the energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, and financial services sectors. Crawford has extensive experience in trials, arbitrations and administrative hearings before all levels of court in Ontario, in the Supreme Court of Canada, in the Federal Court of Appeal, and before a variety of administrative tribunals including the Ontario Energy Board, the Ontario Securities Commission, the Competition Tribunal, the Human Rights Tribunal, and the Environmental Review Tribunal. Crawford is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a past director of The Advocates' Society and chair of the Standing Committee on Advocacy and Practice. He is regularly invited to speak at seminars held by The Advocates' Society, The Law Society of Ontario, and other organizations.

Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP

Cyndie Chang

Cyndie M. Chang is the Managing Partner of the firm's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Chang manages risks and resolves complex business challenges. She advises and partners with clients to defend and litigate their commercial disputes, enforce their rights, and mitigate potential exposure. She has extensive experience handling corporate litigation involving mergers & acquisitions, asset or stock sales, fraud, securities, purchase and sale agreements, and business or partner break-ups. In addition, she has handled complex or class action disputes involving contracts, trademarks, licensing, products liability, product safety and recall, construction defect, trade secrets, California Proposition 65, and real estate. She also defends insurance companies in matters concerning environmental, asbestos, and toxic tort claims, as well as commercial general liability insurance coverage, contribution, bad faith, and reinsurance disputes. Her services have spanned various industries, including manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, healthcare, insurance, cannabis, education, energy, utilities, transportation, auto, telecommunications, financial services and banks. Ms. Chang has represented many public and private businesses, including Fortune 500 companies. She has obtained favorable results serving as first chair in state and federal bench trials, jury trials and arbitration, and has led joint defense groups in complex cases, and resolved cases through creative settlements, confidential proceedings, and dispositive motions.

Duane Morris LLP

Daan Beenders

Daan is widely regarded as one of the most prominent litigation partners in the Netherlands. Daan specializes in liability and contract law, procedural law and mass claims. Daan leads Van Doorne’s top tier litigation team, which has grown into one of the largest litigation teams in the Netherlands. Before joining Van Doorne as partner and Head of Litigation, Daan was a partner at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek for many years, where he was one of the senior litigators within the dispute resolution group of the firm. Daan represents leading companies and multinationals in complex commercial litigation and class actions, both nationally and internationally. He advises a broad spectrum of leading companies on liability and commercial contracting matters and has been involved as lead counsel in numerous groundbreaking lawsuits in the Netherlands. Daan regularly lectures and publishes on his areas of expertise. He is often cited in leading newspapers and media outlets on litigation and mass claims topics. His expertise has earned him the prestigious ILO Client Choice Award as the best Litigation lawyer in the Netherlands. Daan is recognized as a Leading Partner in two Legal500 categories: Commercial Litigation and Class Actions. Both Daan and his team are highly ranked in the Legal500 and Chambers. Daan has been serving as a deputy judge (rechter-plaatsvervanger) for more than 15 years. Clients Daan is regularly instructed in many of the largest and most complex litigation matters in the Netherlands. His practice spans high‑stakes commercial disputes, collective actions and regulatory litigation. He acts for some of the most prominent and influential companies operating in the Dutch market, including Ahold, Bergman Clinics, Domino’s, FrieslandCampina, Havenbedrijf Rotterdam, Holland Casino, Pon Holdings, Tata Steel, Tommy Hilfiger and Trivium. These clients rely on his strategic insight, his ability to navigate sensitive corporate and reputational issues and his track record in delivering results in high-stake matters.

Van Doorne

Daan Lunsingh Scheurleer

Daan Lunsingh Scheurleer specialises in complex international litigation and dispute resolution with a focus on class actions. He frequently represents issuers, financial institutions, audit firms and companies as defence counsel in class action and multiparty litigation, relating to securities, prospectus liability, fraud, financial products, auditor liability and cartel damage claims, including the private international law aspects of those matters.

Clifford Chance

Dale Bampton

5 Wentworth Chambers

Damiën Berkhout

Damiën Berkhout is one of the founders of Lindenbaum and the managing partner of the firm. He has extensive experience in coordinating and resolving complex litigation, with a focus on class actions, antitrust litigation, ESG, as well as commercial and corporate disputes.

Lindenbaum

Dan Friedman

Co-founder & Co-managing partner

Friedman, Yunger & Co. Advocates

Dana Amir-Fried

Dana Amir-Fried is a partner at our Class Actions and Litigation Department, specializing in class action suits and civil commercial law. Dana represents clients in complex and high-profile litigation cases conducted in courts, in arbitration and mediation proceedings in a variety of practice areas and issues including communications, contracts, intellectual property, corporations, consumer protection, antitrust, privacy protection, labour law and regulation. Dana specializes in representing defendants in class action lawsuits in various fields (food and retail, telecommunication, software). Dana represents our clients in proceedings before government ministries, including the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Consumer Protection and Fair-Trade Authority. Dana provides ongoing consultation and legal support to the firm clients in their day-to-day business, on regulation, commercial engagements, labour law, franchising, intellectual property and consumer protection. Dana participates as a speaker at conferences, panels and lectures in the field of class actions, inter alia, on panels of the Bar Association, before members of the ACC Israel – Association of Corporate Counsels, and before students at academic institutions. Dana co-heads the firm’s intern recruitment and training programme. Dana was recognized as a recommended lawyer by The LEGAL 500 international ranking guide for her achievements in the fields of Dispute Resolution – Class Actions and Communications Law.

AYR – Amar Reiter Jeanne Shochatovitch & Co

Dana Hen

Partner

Agmon with Tulchinsky Law Firm

Dana Peebles

Past Chair of the firm’s National Class Actions Team and partner in the litigation group in Toronto. Civil litigation practice focused on class actions (particularly securities, data breach, pensions) and corporate-commercial litigation. Acted for leading Canadian and international companies in complex and challenging matters in the trial and appellate Courts in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Quebec, and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Was co-counsel for Defendants in the first two statutory secondary market securities class action leave motions in Canada.

McCarthy Tétrault

Daniel Abarbanel

Partner, Litigation

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy

Daniel Bitton

Partner

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider

Daniel Campbell

Daniel R. Campbell is a trial lawyer with significant experience trying cases in state and federal courts. Daniel focuses his trial practice on a variety of commercial litigation matters, including collective and class actions, products liability actions, trust and estate litigation matters, private equity and corporate deal disputes and actions under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Read full biography here: https://www.mwe.com/people/campbell-daniel/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Daniel González Estrada

Partner

DLA Piper Mexico

Daniel Marquet

Partner.

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Daniel Rockey

Partner - Litigation and Investigations Co-Leader, Data Privacy, Telecommunications & Collections

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Danielle Menashe Volman

Associate

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Danny Kabir

Danny Kabir is a partner at Firon Law Firm, leading the practice of class actions at the Firm. Danny is one of Israel’s top class action attorneys, representing clients before all instances of the Israeli courts, including the Supreme Court. Over the years, Danny has handled high profile class action suits filed against some of the most prominent Israeli enterprises, as well as against foreign companies. In addition to class actions, Danny has vast, multifaceted experience in the full range of civil litigation, including contractual claims, administrative law, suits involving tenders, intricate financial claims, labor law suits and torts. He also handles arbitrations. Danny’s clientele includes leading companies and corporations, both local and foreign, in multiple industry sectors including insurance, health, construction, infrastructure, communication, tourism and food.

Firon Law Firm