Can you prevent a class action lawsuit in San Diego before it happens?  What should you do if you are being threatened with a class action lawsuit?  The experienced class action defense attorneys at the Watkins Firm have 40+ years of experience serving the business, science and tech, real estate and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and across California.  We work with our clients to prevent a class action lawsuit before it ever happens, and work to disrupt the class and seek dismissal of a class action lawsuit once any action has been filed.

In many cases our employer defense strategies help our clients to prevent a class action lawsuit from the outset of any employment contract.  A recent decision in the Supreme Court will positively impact San Diego employers.  This decision provides relief from the risk of class action lawsuits through the proper addition of waiver clauses in employment contracts.  Our attorneys work with San Diego and California employers to apply the lessons of this decision (and others like it) as well as recent changes in arbitration law or even independent contractor classification to ensure compliance and reduce the likelihood of a class action lawsuit.

The class action defense attorneys at the Watkins Firm have more than 40 decades of experience and work to help our clients to prevent a class action lawsuit in San Diego from succeeding.  We work to prevent the certification of the class from the outset.  In order for plaintiff’s attorneys to proceed with a class action lawsuit, they must use “representative cases” to convince the Court to establish a “class” and combine multiple cases into a single class action.  We aggressively challenge this process at each step.  We defend our clients against the time and expense associated with plaintiff’s attempts at discovery and other “fishing expeditions” to limit their access to information.

We fight plaintiff’s damage models and damages calculations and ultimately to prevent the certification of the class while seeking a dismissal of the class action.  Have you been threatened with a class action lawsuit?  You can prevent a class action lawsuit in San Diego or anywhere in California or defeat it once it is filed.  The Watkins Firm has the experience, legal skill and resources to successfully protect and defend your interests.

Pro-Tip: “A class action against your business can result in a substantial and often life-threatening financial exposure for any company. It is important to take swift action to prevent the certification of the class or to assail the representative cases and the nature of the class itself to defeat the class action. This requires extensive legal skill, expertise, resources and experience to diffuse a complex and potentially expensive legal challenge.

Our immediate goal is usually to do everything possible to prevent the certification of the class. The judge is presented with a large number of cases by plaintiff’s attorneys. The plaintiff is attempting to establish the related nature of the cases and the experiences of the members of the class. The defense of a class action begins with a thorough analysis of the proposed class. What we are looking for are the differences between representative cases. If the underlying cases are different, they cannot be related and bound into a class.

So, we work to identify the differences in the experiences, financial exposure and damages associated with representative cases of the proposed class. How did the plaintiff in case “A” differ from the plaintiff in cases “B”, “C” and so on? How did the plaintiffs in each case use the product, good or service, or how were they treated? We work to disrupt the position that all of the cases are related. If the plaintiffs are not uniform in their experience with the product, good, issue or service in question a class cannot exist.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

We invite you to review our podcast Episode 12 – Resolving Business Disputes as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.   Learn more about our track record at trial and how you can put our proven experience and skill to work to defend and protect your interests and achieve a successful outcome in your case.