Employee Benefits

• Successfully represented aircraft manufacturer in ERISA class action regarding 401(k) plan fees, resulting in settlement at start of trial.
• Appellate counsel for diversified manufacturer in ERISA class action regarding 401(k) plan fees; significant portion of judgment and attorney’s fees award reversed.
• Counsel for public utility in ERISA class action regarding retiree health care benefits. Class certification defeated, summary judgment granted and affirmed by Seventh Circuit.
• Appellate counsel for public utility in ERISA class action involving cash balance plan; significant portion of judgment reversed on appeal.
• Counsel for agricultural products company in ERISA class actions regarding vesting of pension benefits. Class certification denied.  Individual judgment reversed on appeal to Eleventh Circuit.
• Counsel for defense contractor in four ERISA class actions involving retiree health care benefits, resulting in settlement without payment by company after summary judgment.
• Successfully represented steel manufacturer in ERISA class action regarding plant closing, resulting in summary judgment granted and affirmed on appeal.

Securities, Finance and Corporate Governance

• Counsel for national bank in multi-district securities litigation involving nation’s largest bank merger.
• Counsel for numerous public companies and their directors and officers in numerous shareholder class actions seeking to enjoin mergers.
• Counsel for 16 Oklahoma savings and loan associations in multi-district litigation securities cases in Oklahoma, Missouri, California, North Dakota and Colorado.
• Counsel for defense contractor in various shareholder derivative actions arising out of various government defense contracts; dismissed by plaintiffs.
• Represented diversified consumer products company in claims against investment banker for professional malpractice in connection with advice provided during hostile tender offer and sale of major division; client received $18.5 million.
• Counsel for national bank in numerous cases involving testamentary and non-testamentary trusts and claims involving breach of fiduciary duty.

Consumer Fraud

• Successfully represented large portfolio debt collector in consumer fraud lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General, obtaining dismissal and affirmance of that dismissal on appeal.
• Defending HVAC manufacturers in class action concerning UL-certification and safety devices
• Served as counsel for automobile manufacturers in dozens of class actions involving consumer fraud claims and a wide variety of alleged product defects, including paint, four-wheel drive systems, transmissions, frames and engines.
• Represented national banks and other lenders in various class actions involving mortgage servicing.
• Successfully defended national bank in Ponzi scheme litigation, obtaining summary judgment on all claims.
• Served as counsel for professional medical organization in more than 250 cases consolidated in federal multi-district litigation proceedings; motions to dismiss granted in all cases.

Antitrust

• Defended animal nutrition manufacturer in defense of over 40 class actions and related foreign proceedings involving alleged international price-fixing cartel.