Class Action and Multi-District Litigation
Fox Smith attorneys have been involved in some of the biggest and most complex litigation matters in the country. We don’t just help our clients survive class actions and MDLs. We find ways for our clients to thrive—and to win.
Our experience encompasses all aspects of these complex forms of modern trial practice. We have led as regional counsel on environmental claims against the petroleum industry; have defended a variety of purported class actions involving companies in the automotive, cellular service, and product manufacturing industries; have served on multiple expert, sales representative, plaintiff, and physician deposition teams; have represented clients in MDLs and state-variety MDLs in multiple courts and states; and were national settlement counsel in MDL/pattern litigation involving commercial claims in the agricultural industry.
Here are some examples of our successes:
- We defeated class certification on claims of DNA injury due to a gasoline spill in northern Illinois.
- Our efforts led to the vacating of a “drive-by” class certification of nationwide warranty claims against an auto manufacturer in the City of St. Louis.
- In the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, we succeeded in obtaining reversal of class certification in a case involving alleged widespread environmental contamination in an Illinois township.
- The Illinois Supreme Court entered summary judgment for client pharmaceutical company after reversing class certification.
- The Madison County, Illinois court dismissed a class action alleged against a client for consumer fraud.
- A New York federal court denied certification of nationwide class of well owners and later denied personal injury class arising out of gasoline releases.
- Settled a set of class actions consolidated in federal court in Wisconsin with no money paid while co-defendants paid over $50 million.
- A St. Louis court rejected class claims alleging taxi drivers had tampered with meters, leading to voluntary dismissal by plaintiffs.
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