Stacie Knight
Of Counsel
Stacie has successfully resolved class actions, including nationwide consumer suits with millions of plaintiffs, by obtaining dismissal orders, summary judgments, and negotiating favorable settlements for her clients.
Key Matters
- Regularly represents a national bank and a national consumer lender in connection with a variety of high-profile consumer class action and other complex litigation. Claims defended include alleged violations of federal lending statutes, such as the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), alleged violations of state statutes regulating mortgage lenders, and common law tort claims.
- Secured a successful defense verdict (jury) for a national bank in litigation alleging fraud in connection with its consumer banking practices.
- Obtained summary judgment for a national bank in litigation alleging that a former employee committed fraud and violated California’s Unfair Competition Law through self-dealing and violation of company policies and procedures.
- Successfully defended a multinational company in several patent infringement matters.
- Serve as general consumer protection counsel to a solar power company, including spearheading the company’s effort to formulate company-wide policies and procedures and to revise consumer agreements and correspondence to ensure compliance with state and federal consumer protection laws.
- Defended a national company in putative consumer class action, successfully formulating and implementing early litigation strategy that thwarted class certification prior to discovery.
- Participated in the successful defense of a solar company in arbitration alleging intentional breach of a multi-million dollar contract.
- Seconded to a multinational company’s legal team. Duties included providing advice and counseling to the company’s internal business units, assisting outside counsel in formulating policies and procedures, and responding to regulatory inquiries.