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Timestamp: 2019-04-22 07:10:57+00:00

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Our litigation teams have prosecuted some of the most cutting edge consumer class actions. As a result, we has been recognized as a “Plaintiffs Class Action powerhouse,” “known for securing multi-million dollar settlements against tech giants” (Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, September 2013), and as “pioneers in the electronic privacy class action field, having litigated some of the largest consumer class actions in the country on this issue.” See In re Facebook Privacy Litig., No. C 10-02389 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 10, 2010); see also In re Netflix Privacy Litig., No. 11-cv-00379 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 12, 2011).
Secured the largest privacy settlement in history: a $76 million settlement under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which will result in as much as several thousand dollars in payments to certain class members. See Birchmeier, et al. v. Caribbean Cruise Line, Inc., et al., No. 12-cv-4069 (N.D. Ill.).
At the forefront of class action litigation in the aftermath of federal bailouts of the banks, winning the first federal appellate decision in the country recognizing the right of borrowers to enforce HAMP trial plans under state law, Wigod v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 673 F.3d 547, 586 (7th Cir. 2012), and securing settlements that restored billions of dollars in credit to borrowers. See, e.g., In re JP Morgan Chase Bank Home Equity Line of Credit Litig., No. 10-cv-3647 (N.D. Ill.) (restoring between $3.2 billion and $4.7 billion in credit to the class); Hamilton v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 09-cv-04152-CW (N.D. Cal.) (restoring access to over $1 billion in credit); In re Citibank HELOC Reduction Litig., No. 09-cv-0350-MMC (N.D. Cal.) (restoring up to $653,920,000 worth of credit to affected borrowers).
Lead counsel in settlement that secured $30 million in relief and resolved the “Thomas the Tank Engine” lead paint recall cases, see Barrett v. RC2 Corp., No. 07 CH 20924 (Cir. Ct. Cook Cty., Ill.), as well as a $32 million settlement involving the largest pet food recall in the history of the United States and Canada, see In re Pet Food Product Liability Litigation, No. 07-2867 (D.N.J.).
Only firm to have secured (in multiple cases) the settlement of data breach claims where class members received monetary relief without having to show any direct loss flowing from the breach. See, e.g., Resnick v. Avmed, No. 10-cv-24513 (S.D. Fla.) (prior to settlement, obtaining landmark appellate decision endorsing common law unjust enrichment theory, irrespective of whether identity theft occurred, and securing first class action settlement in the country to provide data breach victims with monetary payments irrespective of identity theft).
Secured settlements in class actions against data aggregators for collection practices, as well as media companies and others for disclosing customers’ personal information without authorization. See, e.g., Dunstan v. comScore, Inc., No. 11-cv-5807 (N.D. Ill.) (obtaining class certification in action accusing Internet analytics company of improper data collection practices, and securing $14 million classwide settlement); Kinder v. Meredith, No. 14-cv-11284 (E.D. Mich. Oct. 5, 2015) ($7.5 million classwide settlement); Coulter-Owens v. Rodale, No. 14-cv-12688 (E.D. Mich. Dec. 23, 2015) ($4.5 million classwide settlement).
Only firm to have achieved settlements resulting in companies changing their data security practices after we identified exploitable vulnerabilities in their systems, but before any data breach actually occurred.

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