Representing Class Plaintiffs:

• Custom Hair Designs by Sandy v. Central Payment Co., LLC, No. 8:17-cv-00310 (D. Neb.):  Court-appointed lead counsel for a nationwide class of more than 185,000 small businesses asserting civil RICO and state law claims arising from an alleged overbilling fraud scheme for credit card processing services.  Led the case through a successful appeal affirming class certification, 984 F.3d 595, 2020 WL 7755459 (8th Cir.), and through summary judgment to the eve of a class trial in the District of Nebraska, achieving a common fund settlement of $84 million for the class two weeks before trial.
• In re: JUUL Labs, Inc. Marketing, Sales Practices and Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2913 (N.D. Cal.):  Worked closely with class counsel to develop and prosecute a civil RICO theory for school district and class plaintiffs.  Led the strategy and briefing on the RICO theory, handled two successful oral arguments, and was part of the trial team for the San Francisco Unified School District. Class plaintiff settlements with all defendants totaled $300 million.
• In re Syngenta AG MIR162 Corn Litigation, 27-CV-153785 (Hennepin County, Minnesota Fourth Judicial District): One of nine attorneys appointed by the court to prosecute a consolidation of more than 50,000 individual actions and a Minnesota state-wide class action.  In 2018, a federal court gave final approval to a nationwide global settlement of $1.51 billion for all plaintiffs.
• Dahl v. Bain Capital Partners LLC, No. 1:07-cv-12388 (D. Mass.):  Counsel for shareholder plaintiffs and argued in opposition to summary judgment motions in this case challenging collusion by private equity firms in leveraged buyouts that settled for $590.5 million shortly after summary judgment was denied.
• In re Surescripts Antitrust Litigation, No. 1:19-cv-06627 (N.D. Ill.):  Court-appointed interim co-lead counsel in this putative class action alleging illegal monopolization and restraint of trade by Surescripts and others to overcharge pharmacies nationwide for electronic-prescription services.

Representing Public Entities:   

• Commercial Arbitration re: 2003 NPM Adjustment Proceedings. (JAMS Arbitration). When Wagstaff & Cartmell was hired by the Kansas Attorney General to act as private counsel for Kansas in a $1.1 billion arbitration involving 35 states and the largest U.S. tobacco companies, served as lead trial counsel for Kansas at the individual state hearing before a panel of three former federal judges in Chicago. Kansas settled the dispute after the arbitration hearing but before a final decision by the panel, preserving hundreds of millions of dollars of contract payments for the state.
• In re JUUL Labs, Inc., Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2913 (N.D. Cal.):  Represented school districts in litigation arising from the nationwide youth e-cigarette epidemic.  Worked alongside co-lead counsel on the prosecution of the RICO claims and selected to handle oral arguments for plaintiffs on dispositive motions challenging the RICO and government entity claims.  According to media reports, settlements for all plaintiffs total nearly $2 billion.
• In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL No. 2804 (N.D. Ohio):  Represented counties, cities and other government entity plaintiffs in the massive litigation arising from the nationwide prescription opioid epidemic.  Worked alongside plaintiffs’ leadership team in the MDL on bellwether cases, including assisting with financial experts and prosecution of the case against opiate distributors.

Representing Businesses and Individuals in Commercial Disputes:

• Co-lead counsel for hotel franchisee against global hotel franchisor, obtaining confidential eight-figure settlement for client after five years of litigation.
• Lead counsel in a legal malpractice action against an Am Law 20 international law firm, obtaining confidential seven-figure settlement for client.
• Lead counsel for regional banks in breach of fiduciary duty and contract dispute arising from financial loans and participation agreements relating to a failed real estate venture.  Confidential seven-figure settlement for clients.
• Lead counsel for defendant in a contract dispute over whether warrant agreements should adjust for stock splits. Obtained a preliminary injunction against the plaintiff. Plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the case after the ruling on the preliminary injunction.
• Successfully represented numerous business owners in business disputes with partners or co-owners.
• Lead counsel in a $13 million action brought by a bankruptcy trustee. Obtained summary judgment on all claims, and successfully argued an appeal at the Tenth Circuit.

Representing SEC Whistleblowers:

• As a former enforcement attorney at the SEC, represented multiple individuals reporting securities laws violations to the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower.