Experience Highlights

• Anthropic PBC, an artificial intelligence company, in securing a landmark fair use ruling holding that training generative AI models on copyrighted works constitutes fair use, and in resolving the remaining claims in a closely watched copyright class action.

• Carnival Corporation and its subsidiaries as co-lead counsel in defense of multiple class actions and 200+ individual wrongful-death and personal injury claims arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Obtained dismissal with prejudice or favorable resolution of all actions and established ground-breaking precedents in COVID claims.

• Global Payment Card Network in individual and national class actions in federal court multidistrict litigation challenging interchange fees and network rules under the Sherman Act and state consumer protection statutes.

• Honeywell International, Inc. in the defense of a consolidated class action and over 60 individual toxic tort suits arising out of the presence of PFAS in the groundwater and municipal water supply of Hoosick Falls, New York. 

• IronNet, Inc. and its former officers in defending a securities class action arising from post-SPAC public disclosures regarding forecasted contract revenue.

• McDonald's Corporation, Coty Inc., and Shiseido America Corp. in securing precedent-setting victories in first PFAS class actions against cosmetic and fast-food companies.

• National oil and gas company in its successful defense against lead pigment public nuisance suits brought by the Rhode Island Attorney General, Ohio Attorney General, and numerous cities and counties in California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Ohio. Disposed of hundreds of cases by motion and prevailed in the four cases tried to verdict.

• Puritan’s Pride, a Nestlé subsidiary, in obtaining a rare defense judgment following a certified class action trial, defeating claims that its BOGO promotional pricing constituted false or misleading advertising.

• Samsung Electronics America in obtaining dismissal of a nationwide data breach class action MDL in the District of New Jersey, where plaintiffs asserted class-wide and statutory claims in a 97-count consolidated complaint.

• Samsung Electronics America in securing dismissal of high-stakes, coordinated nationwide consumer class actions alleging that gas cooking appliances are inherently defective, defeating claims that threatened billions in damages and industry-wide disruption.