Complex Class Action Litigation
Leeds Brown is a national class action and complex litigation law firm that fights on behalf of consumers, small and self-insured businesses, municipalities, unions, investors, employees, and society’s most vulnerable against the most powerful corporations in the world.
Antitrust Litigation
Free and fair competition is a fundamental element of the economic charter that the United States has followed for hundreds of years. In a market deprived of competition, consumers and small businesses suffer from higher prices and reduced choice and competitors in the marketplace are left unable to succeed in a rigged business environment.
We regularly challenge some of the largest corporations in the world using antitrust, racketeering, and other laws as a sword to restore competition to the market for goods and services. Our work drives our daily fight to lower prices and make life more affordable for Americans, including combating illegal price-fixing in the pharmaceuticals and food industries, as well as unlawful monopoly practices in consumer products industries.
Examples include:
• Representing consumers who purchased overpriced frozen potato products as a result of a price-fixing scheme.
• Representing victims of a price-fixing scheme who overpaid for medical cannabis vaporizer products.
Data Breach, Privacy and Cybersecurity
In an increasingly online world, it is more critical than ever to protect the data and privacy of consumers on the internet, using mobile devices and on social media networks.
Combining forward-looking litigation theories and the latest technology, we use class action litigation as a check on online platforms to ensure that the private and valuable data of users is used responsibly as well as in accordance with state and federal law.
Examples include:
• Representing medical patients who had their data stolen by cybercriminals due to a negligently protected medical transcription service.
• Representing minors and other class members who, without proper authorization, had their images used to train artificial intelligence and biometric software.
Investor Fraud
More than ever, the modern mechanisms of investing have opened up new pathways for Americans to build personal wealth. Unfortunately, with these developing technologies that drive this effort, investors are increasingly more prone to being defrauded by bad actors and corporate malfeasance.
On behalf of individual investors, unions, pension funds and investment groups, we use the federal securities laws and other state causes of action to restore investor finances in the event of fraudulent conduct.
Examples include:
• Representing a putative class of individual investors who lost over $150 million in a Ponzi scheme.
Pharmaceutical Fraud
Access to medication –by patients or independent pharmacies – is the lifeblood that ensures the physical and mental health of Americans from coast-to-coast. We dedicate ourselves to the herculean effort of ensuring this access by using the antitrust laws and other statutes to lower the costs of medications for patients and to campaign for the survival of a key cog in the American healthcare system: independent pharmacies.
Examples include:
• Representing individual self-insured businesses and municipalities in a major price-fixing and racketeering action seeking restitution for the overpricing of insulin and GLP-1 medications.
• Representing a putative class of independent pharmacies who had their rates of reimbursement suppressed as the result of an algorithm used by pharmacy benefit managers.
With the discipline, experience, knowledge and resources necessary to take on any perpetrators of fraud, we take pride in our consummate efforts to keep you informed every step of the way.
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