Surveys and Certification in Consumer-Finance Class Action: Supporting, Attacking Predominance and Superiority

Mr. Nylen has more than 29 years of experience in litigating complex commercial cases across many industries. He handles matter over a wide range of areas, including intellectual property disputes, entertainment litigation, anti-counterfeiting enforcement for luxury brands, food and beverage law, class action defense, and general business litigation. Mr. Nylen's clients include the owners of significant intellectual properties, including copyrights, trademarks, and domain names, as well as businesses involved in sophisticated commercial litigation.

Ms. Simonetti focuses on the defense of complex litigation, with broad experience representing clients in the financial services industry, including regional and national banks, credit card issuers, mortgage bankers, various types of loan servicers, consumer finance companies and third-party collectors. She serves as trial and appellate counsel in courts across the country and routinely counsels financial services clients on compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.

As a litigation and management consultant, Mr. Boedeker focuses on the application of economic, statistical, and financial models to areas such as solutions to business issues, economic impact studies, and complex litigation cases. Over the course of his 30-year career, Mr. Boedeker has provided economic, financial, and statistical consulting and expert services to clients across a wide range of industries. He has issued hundreds of expert reports and given deposition and trial testimony in state and federal courts, arbitrations, and regulatory hearings over 140 times. Mr. Boedeker’s extensive work in the healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences space, includes providing statistical and economic consulting to clients such as providers, payors, and federal, state, and local government agencies. He has experience in assisting healthcare organizations facing disputes where complex economic issues must be assessed and where complex statistical methods are necessary to answer questions of liability, over/underpayments, and damages. Mr. Boedeker has also helped clients negotiate and present statistical methodology to government agencies such as the Office of Inspector General (OIG), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Department of Justice (DOJ) when assessing the appropriateness of claims submission and payment practices based on statistical samples. He also has coordinated statistical sampling methodology on numerous healthcare audits.