Bryan Cave has a national reputation for excellence in defending class and derivative actions. We represent a wide range of business clients – including service, financial, retail, and manufacturing – in a variety of franchising, consumer, commercial, product liability, securities, intellectual property and environmental class actions.
Bryan Cave's class action practice is distinguished by:
- its national scope;
- the breadth and depth of our class action experience;
- our ability to effectively develop sensible and meaningful strategies to defend our clients;
- our ability to implement our clients’ objectives; and
- our use of cutting-edge litigation technology.
The approximately 100 lawyers in our Class and Derivative Actions Client Service Group handle several hundred class action and multi-jurisdictional cases across the U.S. at any one time. As a national practice, this client service group utilizes lawyers from all of the firm’s U.S. offices. Class action lawyers practice in state and federal courts throughout the country, including class action "hot-beds" such as California, Southern Illinois, Mississippi and Texas. We regularly lead and coordinate litigation in multiple forums simultaneously. Whether a case is filed in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, St. Louis or Philadelphia, we are prepared to defend.