Jones Day - Services - Class Action Litigation

Jones Day has one of the largest groups of defense-side class action practitioners in the world. More than 50 Jones Day partners—and scores of Jones Day associates—litigate class actions daily as a significant part of their practice. Our range of experience covers every substantive area of class action and aggregate litigation practice, including mass tort, consumer fraud, product liability, labor and employment, ERISA, antitrust, securities, environmental, intellectual property, and others.

Clients come to Jones Day with the cases that make or break companies and industries, either in single states or localities or in nationwide or worldwide attacks. Recent examples include:

Firestone ATX Tire-Recall Litigation. Jones Day has represented Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire LLC as national coordinating counsel in more than 100 class actions filed across the nation in the wake of Firestone's August 2000 recall of certain Firestone passenger tires.

Enron. Jones Day represents The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc and Lehman Brothers in securities fraud and bankruptcy proceedings arising out of the collapse of Enron.

Smoking and Health Litigation. Jones Day has represented R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in massive tobacco class actions that have been filed around the nation, including Castano v. American Tobacco Co., Liggett Group v. Engle, and Simon v. Philip Morris Inc. Jones Day's representation has embraced nationwide and statewide class actions; individual actions in the U.S. and abroad; recoupment actions brought by state Attorneys General; and various other injunctive, administrative, and regulatory proceedings.

Vitamins Antitrust Litigation. Jones Day has represented Aventis in nationwide and international litigation involving allegations of price fixing relating to vitamins.

Orthopedic Bone Screw Litigation. Jones Day coordinated the defense of hundreds of cases involving thousands of product-liability plaintiffs—and more than 20 class actions—involving claims relating to medical devices used in spinal fusion surgery.

Rubber Chemicals/Synthetic Rubber Products. Jones Day has represented Bayer AG and various affiliates in many federal and state class action lawsuits alleging price fixing and market allocation relating to rubber chemicals and synthetic rubber products.

Ongoing Contributions to the Field. Jones Day's lawyers have also advanced the leading edge of class action law and practice. They have written casebooks (Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation (West Group 2000)), nutshells (Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation (Thomson West 2004)), treatises (Statewide Coordinated Proceedings: State Court Analogues to the Federal MDL Process (Thomson West 2004)), and scores of articles in law reviews, trade journals, and other publications about class actions and other aggregate litigation. Jones Day lawyers also teach class actions and complex litigation at many different law schools around the nation.

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Lawyers Staff Overview Experience Professionals News Publications Achievements Main Practice Trial Practice	Jones Day has one of the largest groups of defense-side class action practitioners in the world. More than 50 Jones Day partners—and scores of Jones Day associates—litigate class actions daily as a significant part of their practice. Our range of experience covers every substantive area of class action and aggregate litigation practice, including mass tort, consumer fraud, product liability, labor and employment, ERISA, antitrust, securities, environmental, intellectual property, and others. Clients come to Jones Day with the cases that make or break companies and industries, either in single states or localities or in nationwide or worldwide attacks. Recent examples include: Firestone ATX Tire-Recall Litigation. Jones Day has represented Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire LLC as national coordinating counsel in more than 100 class actions filed across the nation in the wake of Firestone's August 2000 recall of certain Firestone passenger tires. Enron. Jones Day represents The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc and Lehman Brothers in securities fraud and bankruptcy proceedings arising out of the collapse of Enron. Smoking and Health Litigation. Jones Day has represented R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in massive tobacco class actions that have been filed around the nation, including Castano v. American Tobacco Co., Liggett Group v. Engle, and Simon v. Philip Morris Inc. Jones Day's representation has embraced nationwide and statewide class actions; individual actions in the U.S. and abroad; recoupment actions brought by state Attorneys General; and various other injunctive, administrative, and regulatory proceedings. Vitamins Antitrust Litigation. Jones Day has represented Aventis in nationwide and international litigation involving allegations of price fixing relating to vitamins. Orthopedic Bone Screw Litigation. Jones Day coordinated the defense of hundreds of cases involving thousands of product-liability plaintiffs—and more than 20 class actions—involving claims relating to medical devices used in spinal fusion surgery. Rubber Chemicals/Synthetic Rubber Products. Jones Day has represented Bayer AG and various affiliates in many federal and state class action lawsuits alleging price fixing and market allocation relating to rubber chemicals and synthetic rubber products. Ongoing Contributions to the Field. Jones Day's lawyers have also advanced the leading edge of class action law and practice. They have written casebooks (Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation (West Group 2000)), nutshells (Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation (Thomson West 2004)), treatises (Statewide Coordinated Proceedings: State Court Analogues to the Federal MDL Process (Thomson West 2004)), and scores of articles in law reviews, trade journals, and other publications about class actions and other aggregate litigation. Jones Day lawyers also teach class actions and complex litigation at many different law schools around the nation.