Top Class Action Lawyers in PHOENIX | 7 available

Firm: Weiler Law Group, PLLC

5050 N 40th St , Phoenix , Arizona 85018

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Business, Contracts & Agreements, Health Care, Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination, Lawsuits & Disputes, Appeals, Arbitration, Class Action, Mediation, Litigation

Ms. Miller has a diverse practice representing both plaintiffs and defendants in employment and business-related matters. Ms. Miller has a passion for problem-solving and assists clients with developing a strategic approach to legal disputes. She is a fierce advocate and has served as lead counsel and assistant counsel in over one hundred lawsuits. Ms. Miller has counseled multi-million-dollar companies as in-house counsel and has litigated against national and global entities supporting workers and alleging violations of employment laws. In that role, she has collected cumulatively more than $2,000, in settlement funds for clients. She has also filed appellate briefs and argued in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a matter that gained national attention from the EEOC. Ms. Miller has been recognized by Super Lawyers and was selected as a “Rising Star” based on peer recognition and professional achievement.Ms. Miller’s employment practice extends to healthcare and other licensed professionals with complaints against their licenses.Ms. Miller graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law as one of the most distinguished in her class. She was an appointed Chairwoman on the Arizona State Law Review where she was a staff editor.

Firm: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

2929 North Central Avenue , Phoenix , Arizona 85012

Practice Areas: Class Action

I'm an attorney in the Phoenix office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Class Action & Mass Tort and Professional Liability Practices. I joined Lewis Brisbois in 2019 with more than 20 years of litigation experience in class actions and other complex and commercial litigation. Throughout my career, I have represented parties in litigation involving a variety of subjects and claims, including breach of contract, fraud/consumer fraud/misrepresentation, post-secondary educational issues, data breach, professional liability, negligence, antitrust violations, securities fraud, Ponzi schemes, civil rights violations, discrimination, sexual harassment, and employment issues. She has also advised companies on securities, insurance, and regulatory issues.. I have been active in the class action bar, having chaired both the Class Action and Derivative Suits and the Consumer Litigation Committees of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation, and often write and speak on class action subjects.. I began my career in 1998 in Illinois before moving to Arizona in 2000 to join a Phoenix class action firm, where I became a shareholder. In 2015, I was recruited to chair the class action department at a Scottsdale firm.. I also volunteer my time with the Desert Botanical Gardens and The Junior League of Phoenix.. [Note: The Arizona State Bar and other state bars certify lawyers as specialists or experts in specific areas of law. The areas of law listed above are my areas of practice, and do not imply certification from the State Bar of Arizona or any other state.  Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.]

Firm: Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, Llp

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro , Phoenix , Arizona 85016

Practice Areas: Class Action, Election Campaign, Antitrust, Investment Fraud, Personal Injury

Firm: Luis P. Guerra

6225 North 24th Street Suite 125 , Phoenix , Arizona 85016

Practice Areas: Appellate , Aviation & Aerospace, Drugs & Medical Devices, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Products Liability, Wrongful Death, Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Aviation, Health Care, Defective and Dangerous Products, Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death, Construction & Development, Appeals, Class Action, Litigation

Firm: Steve German, A Law Firm

11201 N Tatum Blvd. , Phoenix , Arizona 85028

Practice Areas: Insurance, Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death, Class Action

Mr. German started his career as a lawyer in 1993 employed by a large downtown law firm in Phoenix, Arizona, where he gained excellent litigation training and insight into how large corporations operate and defend against litigation and claims of wrongdoing. He was a member of the firm’s trial practice group, and began his career as a trial attorney learning from the finest, most accomplished trial lawyers. In 1999, Mr. German left the large firm to start his own practice, focused exclusively on helping individuals and family's harmed by defective products, car wrecks, insurance bad-faith, toxic torts, medical malpractice, and the wrongful denial of legitimate disability claims.. Mr. German’s practice began thriving from the start. This was in part due to Mr. German's unique ability to creatively resolve complex matters and to the cases that do not settle to trial. Over the past thirty years, Mr. German has earned an excellent reputation as a compassionate caring trial lawyer who forms close bonds with his clients, provides them with care and understanding knowing the hardships they faced, and uses their pain and suffering as motivation to tenaciously fight for justice without comrpomise until they are made whole.. Mr. German’s trial experience is extensive compared to his peers. Steve has handled two dozen jury and bench trials in State and Federal Courts. His portfolio of trial experience includes several jury trials against Ford and Firestone. A roadway design case against Maricopa County, and another defective roadway he brought against the City of Tucson and prevailed. He is represented clients with injuries cause by substandard care from surgeons, podiatrists, and radiologists, among other professionals. He is perhaps most passionate when he assists innocent claimants facing terrible misfortunate bring suit against disability insurance companies that purposefully deny or terminate legitimate disability claims.. In 2017, Mr. German prosecuted a three-week federal jury trial in the US District Court of Arizona against a large insurance company that wrongfully terminated a legitimate disability claim. The $6.5 Million verdict was the third largest in all of Arizona for the year 2017. He succeeeded in proving a heightened burden of proof and prevailed by getting a verdict for $5 Million in punitive damages. The verdict was upheld in 2020 by the 9th Circuit Court. Mr. German's cases have shaped the law in Arizona in many ways, from the way rules and statutes governing civil lawsuits is interpresented and applied, and has handled cases that helped to shape the law governing wrongful denital of legitiamte insurance claims and bad faith conduct that was intended to cause an insured harm.. In 2003, Danny Adelman became Steve's partner and together they formed Adelman German, A Law Firm, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Their firm grew rapidly to include four attorneys and eight support staff. It was soon recognized as one of the very best law firms in Arizona with an excellent reputation across the country. Steve litigated and/or tried numerous medical malpractice lawsuits with Mr. Adelman. In 2018, Danny accepted the position of Executive Director for the largest non-profit law firm in the state of Arizona.. In 2022, Mr. German was chosen by the Arizona Supreme Court to serve on the Committee that licenses a brand new type of law firm, known as an ABS (Alternative Business Structure) Law Firm. Arizona is the only State in the entire country that has all togehter abolished the Rule prohibiting non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Mr. German became a pioneer and embraced the opportunity by opening and managing one of Arizona's first ABS Law Firms. His vision was to fulfil the objectives of the ABS Model, and use new-found fudning to improve access to to justice and to innovate the how law is practiced, which has been unchanged for decades. Mr. German recently left the ABS Law Firm he started in order to return to Steve German, A Law Firm, where he continues to lead the way as one of Arizona's premier mass-tort, personal injury, product liability and insurance bad-faith attorneys.

Firm: Renaud Cook Drury Mesaros, PA

One North Central Suite 900 , Phoenix , Arizona 85004

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor , Health Care & Hospitalization, Insurance , Personal Injury, Professional Malpractice, Regulatory , Transportation , Government Contracts, Government Contracts, Transportation, Employment & Labor, Federal Regulation, Medical Malpractice, Slip and Fall Accident, Class Action, Litigation

Firm: Frankel Syverson PLLC

2375 E. Camelback Road, Suite 600 , Phoenix , Arizona 85016

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Class Action

Ty Frankel is an Employment Law and Class Action attorney. He represents clients before federal and state courts and agencies in a wide variety of class action and employment law matters and has extensive experience litigating and providing counsel related to wage and hour, equal pay, wrongful discharge, retaliation, discrimination, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, and related claims.. Mr. Frankel’s practice is primarily devoted to wage and hour litigation. He has litigated numerous national, regional, and state-wide class and collective actions on behalf of employees seeking to recover unpaid overtime and minimum wage against businesses of all sizes, ranging from local companies to publicly traded corporations.. Mr. Frankel has navigated his cases through each stage of litigation, including the initial case investigation, filing the complaint, class and collective action certification, engaging in discovery and depositions, dispositive motion practice, pretrial procedures, trial, and appeal.. Mr. Frankel is proud to have represented workers in litigation to recover unpaid wages by challenging corporate practices violating federal and state wage and hour laws.. His experience includes litigation representing:• workers misclassified as independent contractors, independent operators, or independent franchisees who should be receiving benefits as employees, plus minimum wage and overtime, because their work is dependent on and controlled by the company they work for;• workers misclassified as salaried exempt when they should be entitled to overtime because the duties they perform are routine as opposed to managerial in nature;• sales employees whose bonuses and incentive pay should be calculated into their overtime rate;• call center sales employees who spend greater than ten minutes per day loading their systems before they are clocked in;• employees required to perform work duties off-the-clock before, during, and after their scheduled shifts;• employees required to put on and take off personal protective equipment necessary to perform their job without compensation for that time;• workers required to remain on-call and engaged to wait during downtime that they are not paid for;• laborers not paid for drive time after picking up equipment at headquarters and then driving to job sites throughout the day;• workers who have training costs deducted from their paychecks causing their wages to fall below the minimum wage; and• legal assistants and paralegals not paid overtime at time and half their regular rate for hours over forty in a workweek.. Mr. Frankel was included in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 edition of the Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch in America for his work in Labor and Employment Law.  Mr. Frankel is proud to have been nominated by his peers as a Super Lawyers’ Southwest Rising Star for his litigation work on behalf employees. For years, Mr. Frankel has served as a contributor for the American Bar Association Treatise on the Fair Labor Standards Act, which is the federal law mandating minimum wage and overtime for most workers across the United States. He has also been a contributor to the Arizona Republic regarding a wide array of employment law issues.. Mr. Frankel has experience counseling employers about employment law practices and litigation, including matters involving compensation practices, employment policies, hiring, separation from employment, internal workplace investigations, and discrimination charges.. Mr. Frankel is active in community service. He serves on the Board of the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, which is the only organization in Arizona that provides pro bono legal services to vulnerable immigrants in detention, many of whom are refugees. He served as President of the Board during implementation of the Trump administration’s family separation policy, which resulted in immigrant children being separated from their parents at the border. During his tenure as President, the organization grew from just under 40 to more than 150 employees because of a significant increase in donations. This growth enabled the organization to better respond to the family separation crisis and provide even more widespread services to immigrant children and adults detained in Arizona. In addition to his time serving on the Board, Mr. Frankel has also provided pro bono legal services on behalf of immigrants and refugees.. Mr. Frankel earned his law degree from Boston College Law School, graduating cum laude. During law school, he was a LEND Fellow at the Boston Children’s Hospital, where he studied legal and public policy concerning children with developmental disabilities. He was also a Student Attorney at the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project, representing clients before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service and Immigration Court. Mr. Frankel attended his first year of law school at Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans where he earned positions on the Loyola Law Review and Moot Court Staff, as well as the Legal Excellence Award in Property and Torts.. Mr. Frankel earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College in political science and communications. During his undergraduate education, he was an Immigration Intern in the Senate office of the Honorable Edward M. Kennedy for several years.. Mr. Frankel is admitted to practice in Arizona and Massachusetts.