Consumer Class Action Defense:
600+ Matters Defended.
The firm's entire defense practice is built around one outcome: preventing class certification. That singular focus, across more than 600 matters, has produced a record that defines the practice.
Why Class Actions Demand Specialist Defense
A certified class action transforms a manageable individual dispute into existential litigation. When a court certifies a class, settlement pressure becomes overwhelming regardless of merits, because the cost of losing at trial multiplies by the number of class members.
Watstein Terepka's approach is built around a different premise: the certification fight begins at the complaint. Every motion, every discovery response, every expert engagement is designed to build the record that defeats certification.
Consumer Class Actions We Defend, by Category
TCPA & Telecommunications
Autodialer, prerecorded message, and Do-Not-Call claims, often overlapping with broader consumer class allegations.
Privacy & Data Claims
CIPA, CDAFA, Federal Wiretap Act, and state privacy statute claims asserted as class actions.
Consumer Protection Statutes
State UDAP claims, false advertising, warranty, and consumer fraud allegations at class scale.
Financial Products & Services
Fee disputes, disclosure claims, and financial product class actions with substantial aggregate exposure.
Employment Class Actions
Wage and hour, misclassification, and FLSA collective actions with class certification components.
Data Breach & Biometric
BIPA, state biometric privacy law, and data breach class actions where standing and damages are contested.
Our Five-Stage Class Action Defense Process
Step 01: Pre-Certification
Standing challenges, early dispositive motions, arbitration assessment
Step 02: Discovery Strategy
Protective orders, ESI, building the record that defeats predominance
Step 03: Rule 23 Opposition
Typicality, commonality, predominance, and superiority attacks
Step 04: Expert & Daubert
Challenging plaintiff's damages models at the Daubert stage
Step 05: Appellate Strategy
Rule 23(f) petitions built into the record from day one
Facing a consumer class action or threatened class complaint?
Partners guide every inquiry. Watstein Terepka has defended more than 600 class action matters with a zero-class-certification record across federal courts nationwide.