Kreindler & Kreindler LLP's class action and complex litigation lawyers represent groups and individuals throughout the country in securities class and direct actions; antitrust and consumer class actions; takeover, merger and derivative actions; patent litigation; and other complex commercial lawsuits. We also represent whistle-blowers in qui tam lawsuits involving the misuse of taxpayer funds.
Our partners who head this practice have litigated dozens of complex lawsuits that have resulted in multi-million dollar settlements and judgments on behalf of their clients. Over their careers, they have played key front-line roles in cases resulting in favorable settlements or judgments of close to two billion dollars, including:
- Class Action Against Getty Images on Behalf of Professional Photographers
- Biden v. Card (settlement $12 million);
- In re Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litigation (settlement exceeding $700 million);
- In re Broadcom Corp. Securities Litigation (settlement $150 million);
- Canning v. Music Express (settlement $2.2 million);
- In re Comerica Securities Litigation (settlement $15 million);
- In re Domestic Air Transportation Antitrust Litigation (settlement $355 million);
- In re Compact Disc Antitrust Litigation (settlement exceeding $50 million);
- In re Cosmetics Antitrust Litigation, (settlement exceeding $100 million);
- In re Emulex Shareholders Cases (settlement $8 million);
- Kline Hawkes et al. v. Gross et al. (settlement $138 million);
- Federal Reserve v. Shoiab (judgment $26 million);
- In re Heritage Bond Litigation (settlement $28 million);
- Sanwa Bank v. Facciani (settlement $26 million);
- Schneider v. Traweek (settlement $14 million);
- Slaven, et al. v. BP America, Inc. (settlement $6 million);
- In re Taxable Municipal Bond Securities Litigation (settlement $110 million);
- United States ex rel. Baylor v. Kerlan-Jobe (settlement $2.6 million);
- United States v. Lange, et al. (settlement $1.7 million);
- Wingard v. Lowe's/Home Depot (settlement $4 million);
- and In re ZZZZ Best Securities Litigation (settlement $40 million).
In addition to obtaining significant financial recoveries for victims of wrongdoing, our complex litigation lawyers have forced corporations to make governance reforms to protect their shareholders.
These and other class action complex cases, litigated by Kreindler & Kreindler lawyers, have led to dozens of important reported decisions cases in federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country and in state courts in California and other states.
A sampling of current Kreindler & Kreindler cases includes: a class action on behalf of shareholders of a sub-class of JDS Uniphase, a California company that investors allege committed accounting fraud while insiders sold more than one-half billion dollars in stock; a class action on behalf of the owners of stock in Intermix, the company purchased by News Corporation and which owned the popular website MySpace.com; a class action on behalf of the consumers who have paid billions of dollars in ATM fees to banks other than their own; and a class action on behalf of the consumers who purchased more than $4 billion of craftsman tools from Sears Roebuck based on the false representation that those tools were "Made in the USA."
Kreindler & Kreindler lawyers have lectured on complex litigation panels for the Consumer Attorney's Association of Los Angeles, the Association of Trial Lawyers, the Practicing Law Institute, the Business Institute, the Los Angeles Bar Association, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the Institute of Law and Economic Policy, Mealeys, and others. They have held prominent positions in numerous highly-regarded legal organizations and have published articles relating to class action and complex litigation issues in the Advocate, the Forum, the Practicing Law Institute, the Banking Law Review, the American Bar Association's TIPS magazine the Brief, the Los Angeles Lawyer magazine and the Los Angles Daily Journal, among others.
