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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.
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Our Labor & Employment Practice is one of the largest and most experienced practices among the country’s multi-disciplined law firms. Our attorneys represent global employers of all types and sizes—ranging from the Fortune 100 to privately held startups—often serving as national, regional, or preferred counsel to many of these major employers.
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Securities, M&A & Corporate Governance Litigation
In today’s market, litigators with experience in securities, corporate governance, and M&A-related (collectively, “securities litigation”) matters need to leverage their broad experience to serve as both advocate and as counsel and strategist, focused on helping clients to overcome not just a legal issue but a collective business problem. Given the frequent interplay between things such as corporate-control transactions, public offerings, activist shareholders, the use of complex derivatives and other financial instruments, bad news impacting stock performance, regulatory inquiries and investigations, and insurance coverage, strategic and tactical litigation decisions can have a wide-ranging impact on the success of a given transaction, as well as on companies, their boards, senior management, and advisors.
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|January 19, 2024
Experience
|October 1, 2023
Class Action Plaintiff Sent Packing After Winston Secures Enforcement of Binance’s Terms of Use
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|February 12, 2025
Antitrust Merger Review Under a Second Trump Administration
Winston is pleased to invite you to a virtual presentation regarding antitrust merger review under a second Trump Administration. Moderated by Winston’s Co-Chair of the Public Company Advisory Practice, Eric Johnson, in discussion with Winston’s Antitrust/Competition Transactions Co-Chairs Richard Falek and Conor Reidy, this half-hour program will address the new administration’s nominees to head the FTC and DOJ and the anticipated policy changes and key sectors likely to remain in focus. The speakers will address upcoming changes to the HSR form, and outline practical and actionable considerations for corporate counsel in managing merger reviews.
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|January 31, 2025
AI-Enabled Drug Development: Best Practices for Mitigating Risks and Ensuring Good Governance
Join Winston’s Health Care & Life Sciences team for an insightful webinar featuring Intellectual Property, Competition, and AI partner Kathi Vidal, who recently returned to Winston after serving as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO since 2022.
Client Alert
|January 23, 2025
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Executive Order Changes Requirements for Affirmative Action Plans and Other DEI Programs
On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed the “Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” Executive Order (the EO). This EO targets Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, upends 60 years of federal contractor affirmative action, and signals increased scrutiny of private company DEI programs by the federal government. In addition, the EO imposes potentially significant consequences for maintenance of “discriminatory” DEI programs.
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Law Glossary
A class action is a procedural device that allows one or more persons, usually plaintiffs (though federal and state procedural rules also authorize defendant classes) to file suit on behalf of a group of similarly situated persons. Federal law defines a class action as “any civil action filed under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or similar State statute or rule of judicial procedure authorizing an action to be brought by 1 or more representative persons as a class action.” 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(1)(B), (d)(8).
Law Glossary
Removal is a procedural mechanism through which a case filed in state court may be transferred to federal court upon the request of one or more parties. Actions filed in state court over which a federal court would have original jurisdiction may be transferred—or removed—to federal court under the removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1441. Generally speaking, removal is possible if (1) the plaintiff(s) and defendant(s) are citizens of different states and the case places more than $75,000 in controversy (so-called “diversity” jurisdiction), or (2) the case turns on issues of federal law (so-called “federal question” jurisdiction). In many cases, defendants prefer to be in federal court, and so defendants often analyze early in the case whether removal is possible.
Law Glossary
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