Class Action Litigation Ethics: Navigating Gray Areas in Class Communications, Settlement

Ms. Enders is a Shareholder in the Antitrust Practice Group. She has over two decades of experience representing businesses, individuals, and municipalities in complex antitrust class action cases. Ms. Enders has deep experience investigating and developing antitrust cases, navigating complex legal and factual issues, negotiating discovery, synthesizing and distilling conspiracy evidence, drafting complex briefs, and working with economic experts to develop models of antitrust impact and damages.

Mr. Park is a litigator with more than a decade of experience representing companies in high-stakes class actions, complex commercial cases and arbitrations, and regulatory matters. He efficiently guides clients through all phases of class actions, including discovery, summary judgment, class certification, expert motions, pre-trial work, and settlement. Mr. Park understands the complexities and costs associated with litigating class actions and the ever-changing landscape of class action law. He has defeated class actions on the merits and at the certification stage and has implemented strategies for clients that significantly reduced exposure before settlement. Mr. Park has served as counsel for clients in a wide range of industries defending them against claims for violations of the RICO Act, fraud, unfair competition and business practices law, trade secret misappropriation, business interference, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty.

Ms. Patterson is a litigation associate whose practice focuses on class actions and complex civil litigation matters throughout the United States involving the insurance and financial services industries. While in law school, Ms. Patterson served as an intern to the Honorable Edwin G. Torres, where she researched and prepared judicial opinions on various discovery and litigation issues. She was an editorial member of the University of Miami Law Review and was on the executive board for the Charles C. Papy Jr. Moot Court Board.