Class Actions & Group Litigation
Winston has developed a consistent record of success handling class action cases in state and federal courts. The practice is anchored by seasoned class action lawyers, many of whom have been recognized by Chambers USA and other ranking organizations as being top practitioners in their field. Our clients rely on us to steer them through class action matters by drawing on the firm’s significant experience in resolving complex litigation using creative and aggressive arguments, across a broad range of class, collective, coordinated, and mass actions, as well multidistrict litigation. We also have succeeded at trial in several class actions—a rare occurrence.
Areas of Focus
State Consumer-Protection Statutes
We have deep experience with state consumer-protection statutes in class action hubs across the United States, including:
- UCL (California’s Unfair Competition Law), FAL (False Advertising Law), and CLRA (Consumer Legal Remedies Act);
- FDUTPA (Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act) (Fla. Stat. 501 et seq.);
- ICFA (Illinois’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act) (815 ILCS 505/1 et seq);
- New York’s Gen. Business Law §§ 349-50; and
- DTPA (Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act) (Tex. Bus. & Comm. Code §§ 17.41 et seq.).
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Resources
Class Action InsiderNotable
Ranked Tier 1 Nationally in General Commercial Litigation
Ranked Tier 1 Nationally in Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants
Ranked in Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
We regularly represent clients in all segments of the automotive industry, including manufacturers, OEMs, part manufacturers, rental companies, dealerships, electric vehicles, battery/lithium manufacturers, and financial service providers. We have secured numerous favorable rulings and early resolutions for clients defending against class action and multi-district litigation involving claims of false advertising and product liability in connection with alleged manufacturing defects.
We regularly represent clients in all segments of the automotive industry, including manufacturers, OEMs, part manufacturers, rental companies, dealerships, electric vehicles, battery/lithium manufacturers, and financial service providers. We have secured numerous favorable rulings and early resolutions for clients defending against class action and multi-district litigation involving claims of false advertising and product liability in connection with alleged manufacturing defects.