Class action defense

Overview

When faced with a class action, your money is not the only thing at stake; your reputation and entire business could be on the line, too. At McDonald Hopkins, our class action defense attorneys will aggressively pursue your defense to achieve the best possible outcome.

The starting point for any successful class action defense is knowledge of the law, the facts, the players, and the business. Our team will work with yours to truly understand the issues, identify strengths and weaknesses, define success, develop a litigation strategy, and engage the right experts – with an eye toward narrowing discovery, defeating class certification, and ultimately ending the case at the earliest possible opportunity.

McDonald Hopkins’ attorneys have extensive experience defending against numerous types of class action claims. Our experience covers a wide range of issues, from data breach, consumer protection, product labeling, and securities matters, to Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act cases and antitrust, wage-and-hour, and mass-tort claims. Through our class action defense and data privacy experience, McDonald Hopkins attorneys have worked with a broad array of businesses, including in the insurance, software and technology, healthcare, food production, banking, manufacturing, and transportation industries.

McDonald Hopkins has particular expertise in supporting companies involved in data breach, cybersecurity and other privacy matters. Our attorneys have responded to thousands of incidents involving the inadvertent disclosure of customer and patient information, phishing scams, and ransomware attacks, and have handled numerous class action cases arising from those events.