Class Action lawyers in District of Columbia

Firm: Goodwin Procter LLP

901 New York Avenue, NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20001

Practice Areas: Banking, White Collar Crime, Government, Class Action, Litigation

Firm: Kotchen & Low LLP

1745 Kalorama Rd NW Ste 101 , Washington , District of Columbia 20009

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Law, Discrimination, Class Action, Litigation

Daniel Kotchen is a partner with Kotchen & Low LLP. His main practice areas include complex commercial litigation, patent licensing, counseling, and representing clients before governmental agencies.. In private practice, Mr. Kotchen has taken leadership roles in a number of complex commercial litigation matters in a wide variety of substantive areas, including antitrust, intellectual property, fraud, and class action claims. Mr. Kotchen has successfully represented defendants against claims in excess of $1 billion and plaintiffs in cases resulting in settlements of up to $220 million.. Mr. Kotchen has developed an expertise in antitrust. He served previously as a trial lawyer with the Federal Trade Commission, where he litigated merger and non-merger cases in both federal court and administratively within the FTC; led or took leadership roles in investigations of pharmaceutical companies and health care providers; and served as the FTC’s liaison to the Food and Drug Administration. He has litigated matters involving a broad spectrum of antitrust theories, including allegations concerning conspiracies, monopolization, intellectual property licensing, patent misuse, and mergers and acquisitions.. Mr. Kotchen has also developed an expertise in intellectual property litigation and licensing. He has represented patent holders in matters spanning diverse technologies, including electronic commodity exchanges, medical devices, computer chips, cargo shipping, wireless transmission of data, and radio frequency identification.. Mr. Kotchen has counseled clients in a broad array of industries, including consumer goods and retail, health care, financial services, manufacturing and distribution, airline and other forms of transportation, telecommunications, and energy. He has represented clients before the FTC, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Transportation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and state attorneys general.. Mr. Kotchen grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and Morgantown, West Virginia, enjoys politics and sports, and is married with three children.

Firm: Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP (Formerly Gardner Carton & Douglas)

1500 K Street NW Suite 1100 , Washington , District of Columbia 20005

Practice Areas: Class Action

Firm: Mason Lietz & Klinger LLP

5101 Wisconsin Ave NW Ste 305 , Washington , District of Columbia 20016

Practice Areas: Class Action, Consumer Protection

Gary Mason is a nationally recognized leader of the class action bar. Focusing on consumer class actions and mass torts, Gary has recovered more than $1.5 billion in the 22 years he has represented plaintiffs.. Gary attended Brown University in Rhode Island where he graduated Magna Cum Laude before attending law school at Duke University School of Law. During his studies in law school, Gary was the editor of the school’s law review, Law & Contemporary Problems. Gary also clerked for the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld, U.S. District Court Judge, in Anchorage, Alaska.. After law school, Gary joined Skadden Arps, one of the leading law firms in the world. Gary then joined Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC as a partner where he focused his practice on class action litigations.. With his broad experience, Gary is nationally known for representing consumers in class actions involving a wide range of defective products, including Chinese drywall, fire retardant plywood, polybutylene pipe, high-temperature plastic venting, hardboard siding, pharmaceutical products, consumer electronics and automobiles.

Firm: Tycko & Zavareei LLP

1828 L Street, NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20036

Practice Areas: Class Action

Hassan Zavareei earned his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1995, where he graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif.. Mr. Zavareei graduated cum laude from Duke University in 1990, with degrees in Comparative Area Studies and Russian. After graduation from Boalt Hall, Mr. Zavareei joined the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, one of the nation’s premier law firms. In April of 2002, Mr. Zavareei became a founding partner of Tycko & Zavareei LLP. Mr. Zavareei has handled numerous trials and appeals in state and federal courts across the nation in a wide range of practice areas. In his civil rights practice, Mr. Zavareei represents individuals, groups of employees, and tenant associations in employment and fair housing litigation. Since co-founding Tycko & Zavareei LLP in 2002, Mr. Zavareei has obtained substantial judgments and settlements for his civil rights clients.In a recent appeal he argued before the Fifth Circuit, Mr. Zavareei successfully overturned an injunction that infringed on his client’s First Amendment rights to free speech. Mr. Zavareei is currently representing defrauded students and a nationally known test preparation business in high profile trademark, copyright, and unfair competition litigation in California, Texas, and the District of Columbia.Mr. Zavareei also has significant experience and success in litigating nationwide class actions on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants. For instance, Mr. Zavareei managed the defense of a nationwide class action brought against a major insurance carrier, and, along with co-counsel, negotiated a nationwide class settlement. Mr. Zavareei successfully obtained court approval of the settlement, and supervised the administration of the multi-million dollar settlement fund. Mr. Zavareei is currently litigating several class action lawsuits on behalf of injured consumers.As part of his environmental and administrative law practice, Mr. Zavareei has obtained significant victories for his municipal and Indian Tribe clients in challenges to federal rulemakings, and negotiated complex settlements in CERCLA cases on behalf of Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Zavareei also led a team of attorneys representing a state agency that was investigated by the United States Attorney’s Office for alleged violations of environmental criminal laws. At the conclusion of the investigation, the U.S. Attorney exonerated Mr. Zavareei’s client.Mr. Zavareei is admitted to the State Bar of California, the Bar of the District of Columbia, the Bar of the State of Maryland, the District Court of the District of Columbia, and the Circuit Courts of the District of Columbia, the Ninth Circuit, and the Fifth Circuit.

Firm: Migliaccio & Rathod LLP

412 H Street Northeast , Washington , District of Columbia 20002

Practice Areas: Class Action, Consumer Protection, Employment & Labor

Jason Rathod litigates class actions across the firm’s areas of practice, including consumer protection, worker rights, and civil rights. He has been the primary author of motions and briefs in support of class certification, which have been granted, leading to Mr. Rathod’s appointment as class counsel.. Mr. Rathod graduated from Grinnell College in 2006 (B.A. with honors in Political Science and Religious Studies). After college, he traveled to Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname on a Watson Fellowship, studying the Indian Diaspora. He attended law school at the Duke University School of Law in 2010, where he was an Articles Editor of the Duke Law Journal. In law school, he also worked for the Self-Employed Women’s Association in Ahmedabad, India on behalf of street vendors seeking an injunction against the city government for unlawful harassment and evictions.. Mr. Rathod is the author of several published works, including a law review note on racial discrimination in the federal security clearance process, and law review articles on the Voting Rights Act and aggregate litigation in poor countries. He also has as a forthcoming, co-authored work on public and private enforcement in the United State and Europe. He is admitted to practice in Illinois and Washington D.C.

Firm: Bryan Cave

700 Thirteenth Street NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20005

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Law, Franchising, Commercial, Class Action

Firm: Ponder Legal Group

3221 M St. NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20007

Practice Areas: Civil , Insurance , Class Action, Class Action, Class Action, Class Action

Brad specializes in complex litigation, including class actions and mass torts in both state and federal court. He represents consumer and business owners in a variety of law suits, including class actions against major corporations and energy cooperatives.. Throughout his career, Brad has litigated numerous corporate disputes and automotive/commercial trucking cases, including several complex railroad grade crossing accident cases. He has handled multiple coverage issues relating to commercial and personal insurance policies.. Brad has spent a large portion of his career representing injured railroad workers throughout the southeastern United States in actions brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (“FELA”), as well as the Safety Appliance Act (“SAA”) and the Locomotive Inspection Act (“LIA”). He has represented numerous railroaders in Title 49 “Whistleblower” claims as well.. Following receiving his degree in Political Science from Rhodes College, Brad spent two years in Washington, DC working in governmental affairs and campaign finance. He also has served as a political advisor on an Alabama Supreme Court campaign. While in law school, Brad received the George Peach Taylor Award for outstanding advocacy in a national trial advocacy competition. He also served as the Vice President of the Student Farrah Law Society and a Senior Editor of the Law & Psychology Review. During his time at law school, Brad also published But Look Over Here: How the Use of Technology at Trial Mesmerizes Jurors and Secures Verdicts, 29 LAW & PSYCHOL. REV. 289 (2005), which explores the effectiveness and potential pitfalls of technology in the courtroom.

Firm: Innovista Law PLLC

1200 18th St., N.W. , Washington , District of Columbia 20036

Practice Areas: Telecommunications, Class Action, Litigation

555 12 Th St NW Ste 400 , Washington , District of Columbia 20004

Practice Areas: Class Action

Firm: Hollingsworth LLP

1350 I St NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20005

Practice Areas: Litigation, Defective and Dangerous Products, Class Action

Firm: Migliaccio & Rathod LLP

412 H St NE , Washington , District of Columbia 20002

Practice Areas: Class Action

I have been practicing for over 15 years and have successfully prosecuted a number of noteworthy wage and hour, civil rights, consumer protection, and environmental contamination cases. Most of the cases that we take are class and collective actions in which a few claimants step forward to vindicate their own rights and the rights of many others. We take these cases solely on a contingency basis, and take great pride in gaining meaningful relief for people who may otherwise never get any. We have recovered tens of millions of dollars for claimants throughout our careers. We focus our practice on representing plaintiffs in class and collective actions for Wage and Hour Violations, Defective Products, Environmental Contamination, Civil Rights Violations, and Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices.. If you believe you have a case, we are offer free consultations to evaluate your potential claims.

Firm: McTigue Law, LLC

4530 Wisconsin Ave, NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20016

Practice Areas: Class Action

Firm: Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP

1710 N St. NW 20036 , Washington , District of Columbia 20036

Practice Areas: Class Action

Stephen M. Kohn is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading qui tam and whistleblower attorneys. He won the largest ever individual tax whistleblower reward/qui tam payment for UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld ($104 million reward), and the largest ever reward ever paid to an individual under the related action provisions of the IRS, SEC and DOJ programs ($177 million).. He represents Danske Bank whistleblower Howard Wilkinson in the largest money laundering scandal in world history ($230 billion), and successfully represented Greek whistleblowers whose information triggered a $320 million sanction against Norvartis drug company under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.. His record of winning whistleblower cases dates back to 1984, and he was peer-review rated by the National Law Journal as one of the 50-top plaintiff’s lawyers in the United States, the only whistleblower rights lawyer to achieve this distinction. His successful advocacy has resulted in landmark precedents in whistleblower and qui tam law.. Kohn helped draft key whistleblower legislation and regulatory rules, including those incorporated into the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Act, the IRS Qui Tam whistleblower amendments, and Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act.. He is the author of the first legal treatise on whistleblowing and is the world’s most published author on whistleblower protection. His most recent book is The New Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself.. In 1988 he helped found the National Whistleblower Center, where is currently serves, pro bono, as Chairman of the Board. Steve Kohn also teaches an annual seminar on Whistleblower Law at the Northeastern University School of Law.