Ogletree Deakins' Class Action Defense Practice Group has extensive experience in the defense of a wide variety of representative and class action lawsuits in state and federal courts throughout the United States. Trial attorneys in our forty (40) U.S. offices have defended class actions in such substantive areas as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the WARN Act, the National Labor Relations Act, FLSA, ERISA, toxic tort, breach of contract, civil RICO, consumer fraud, product liability, securities fraud, and unfair competition.

Our lawyers have successfully obtained precertification dismissals and summary judgments, conducted class discovery, defeated class certification and obtained de-certification of classes in a wide variety of claims.