The term "class action" means a litigation process whereby large numbers of plaintiffs having claims involving common questions of fact and law have all of their claims adjudicated in a single proceeding, against a particular defendant or group of defendants. A class action is generally initiated by a lead plaintiff acting as a representative of a class of similarly situated plaintiffs.

Class actions are theorized as leveling the playing field between numerous small plaintiffs each of whom may have suffered a loss and large, national or international corporations. The class action allows the individual plaintiffs to aggregate their claims and to seek judicial remedies by spreading the cost of complex and time-consuming litigation over the members of the class.

Typically class actions are not funded in advance by the individual plaintiffs, but instead by the law firms representing those plaintiffs who are then paid on a contingency basis out of any recovery but only as approved by the court overseeing the class action.

Our lawyers have experience in class actions and over a wide range of class action subjects.

We will consider taking on commercial, securities, Magnuson Moss (breach of warranty), or business oriented class actions and we are co-class counsel in such a case pending case here in Philadelphia.

But we do not act generally act as class counsel in personal injury, toxic tort, asbestos, or pharmaceutical cases.

If you have a case that you thinks qualifies as a class action we would be very pleased to review it with you. Please feel free to contact us by using the form below.