USA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Amir Nassihi, Michael Mallow, Rachel Straus and Christopher Wray Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP was founded in 1889 has 18 offices in the United States with attorneys and professional staff serving clients in the health, science and technology sectors in areas ranging from product liability defence and
business litigation to intellectual property pros - ecution and litigation, environmental and toxic tort, privacy and data security and regulatory counselling.
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Amir Nassihi of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP dedicates his practice primarily to defending companies in class actions and aggregated litigation. He serves as trial and appellate counsel
Michael Mallow of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP is a highly experienced trial lawyer and has represented clients in California class actions, complex litigation and appellate matters including cases related to economic product defects, unfair competition, false and deceptive advertising, business torts and consumer privacy for more than 25 years. He also defends consumer protection actions and investigations initiated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the US Department of Justice as well as state Attorney Generals, various California District Attorneys and numerous state enforcement agencies.
and he is recognised as one of the leading products class action lawyers in the US. He has led the defence of more than 150 class actions of all types, including automotive, food and beverage, pet food, cosmetics, personal care products and insurance. In securing favourable results, he has helped pioneer favourable law in a number of areas, including personal jurisdiction challenges in class actions, class waiver arbitration clauses, developing limitations on consumer fraud and common law fraud theories and curtailing injunctive relief classes.
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