Class Action

Stoll Keenon Ogden’s Class Action subgroup includes more than 15 lawyers who have a broad array of class action litigation experience.  Our professionals have represented both plaintiffs and defendants in class actions in state and federal courts in Kentucky and beyond.  Because our subgroup’s members regularly practice in other areas of both civil and administrative agency litigation, they have a deep knowledge not only of the procedural intricacies of class litigation, but also of the substantive legal issues found at the core of class claims.   As with all litigation matters we handle, our class action professionals use the best available tools to handle document management and discovery, knowing that efficiency is vitally important in all complex litigation. 

In any particular class action, the SKO team will include trial lawyers who are familiar with the nuances of Rule 23 practice and experience in the relevant subject matter of the action.  Using that approach, an SKO team working on a class action matter involving employment law issues would include class action litigators and lawyers with broad employment law experience.  SKO has handled class certification issues in the wake of the United State Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes and is therefore positioned to immediately advise clients on the key issue in every one of such cases—will a class be certified?  Our clients have used SKO class action teams to handle many types of class actions, including:

Tax refund matters;

Statutory overcharge claims;

Coal, oil, and gas lease contractual disputes;

Actions having related or collateral administrative agency issues, including primary jurisdiction claims;

Matters involving filed rate doctrine claims;

Employment matters involving wage and hour claims;

Employment matters involving discrimination claims;

Actions involving various insurance issues;

Antitrust matters;

Structured settlement matters;

Tobacco litigation matters; and