Class Actions Archives - The BTI Consulting Group

Elizabeth M. Chiarello

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:11 +0000

Clients rely on Beth’s nearly two decades of experience to manage their high-stakes mass tort, toxic tort, products liability, class action, and other complex disputes. She is known for advising clients on crisis management and strategic response, developing cases for trial, and creative and innovative settlement strategies.

Beth Chiarello focuses her practice on defending companies in mass tort, toxic tort, products liability, class action, and other complex litigation disputes. She is a vigorous advocate both inside and outside the courtroom, as she represents clients in significant and high-stakes litigation matters. She has defended class actions and mass tort cases on behalf of Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries, including industrial services, medical device, contract sterilization, pharmaceutical, electronics, financial services, transportation, telecommunications, cosmetics, food, nutritional supplements, and other types of consumer and industrial products. She has served as national coordinating counsel in a variety of nationwide putative class actions and mass tort lawsuits filed in federal and state courts.

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Genevieve Walser-Jolly

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:07 +0000

Genevieve Walser-Jolly represents financial institutions, including banks, lenders, and loan servicers. Her practice includes defending individual and consumer class actions (for example, data privacy, mortgage servicing, TCPA, and auto finance).

Genevieve helps clients (in and outside of financial services) set up data privacy and security programs to comply with federal statutory schemes and the evolving patchwork of state privacy laws. She assists clients as they compile data maps, update vendor management programs, draft contractual privacy requirements and policies, and operationalize comprehensive consumer response programs. She guides clients as they navigate the quickly developing regulatory environment in privacy and resulting investigations. Her privacy practice focuses on U.S. laws, including but not limited to GLBA, CalFIPA, CalOPPA, CCPA (California), CPA (Colorado), CTDPA (Connecticut), and VCDPA (Virginia).

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Richard J. Williams, Jr.

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:16:25 +0000

RICHARD J. WILLIAMS, JR. is a 1993 graduate of the University of Scranton, where he obtained a B.S. in Political Science, magna cum laude, and an M.A. in History. Mr. Williams graduated from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1996, where he obtained a Juris Doctorate, cum laude. He is admitted to the New Jersey Bar, the New York Bar, the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Mr. Williams served as law clerk to The Honorable James J. Petrella, P.J.A.D. from 1996 through 1997, at which time he joined the Firm as an associate. While a student at Seton Hall University, School of Law he served as the Editor-In-Chief of the Seton Hall University School of Law Constitutional Law Journal, from 1995 through 1996, and as the research assistant to the Hon. Peter Rodino from 1994 to 1996.

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David Zins

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:16:24 +0000

David Zins is a leader in employment class action litigation. He represents a wide array of California employers in and out of the courtroom, with a focus on defending leading retailers, manufacturers, financial institutions, and tech companies in high-stakes disputes over wage-and-hour matters. He has a long track record of defeating putative class actions, Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) representative actions, and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective actions. He also has significant experience defending employers against claims of wrongful termination, employment discrimination, retaliation, and other kinds of employment liability. When litigation arises, David is his clients’ most zealous advocate and their most trusted advisor.

In addition to winning in court, David maintains a robust employment counseling practice. Drawing on his extensive experience with workplace issues, his advice helps clients optimize their employment practices, avoid litigation altogether when possible, and set themselves up to win when challenged.

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Brian D. Wright

BTIConsulting — Wed, 29 May 2024 14:01:48 +0000

Brian helps businesses and individuals pursue and protect legal rights. He litigates matters throughout Ohio and the United States. He has successfully represented clients in numerous class actions and individual actions involving securities, privacy, business torts, copyright, trademarks, consumer protection, product liability, breach of contract and warranty, trade secrets, restrictive covenants (including covenants not to compete), and false advertising disputes.

Brian also routinely serves as outside general counsel for businesses. Working closely with clients, he provides focused, client-centered, and cost-effective advice and efficient, thoughtful, and innovative solutions. He typically receives the first call when clients encounter business issues with legal implications. Acting as a strategic advisor, he works swiftly and effectively to implement the correct solution.

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Megan B. Poetzel

BTIConsulting — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:56:11 +0000

Megan Poetzel is a first-chair trial lawyer and litigator, representing businesses in a variety of disputes arising from corporate transactions and consumer relationships. She works with clients in numerous industries, including real estate, technology, commercial and consumer lending, and financial services. Megan resolves government investigations and inquiries and burgeoning private disputes prior to litigation and brings and defends claims in courts and arbitration proceedings.

Megan currently represents many of Chicago’s most iconic and well-known restaurants in a lawsuit against their insurance carriers for refusing to cover losses resulting from executive orders shutting down and restricting restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic. She also represents several clients in connection with class action lawsuits or government inquiries concerning in-person, telephone, and online interactions with consumers.

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Michael S. Gardener

BTIConsulting — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:56:10 +0000

Michael specializes in complex civil and criminal litigation and class actions, representing Fortune 100 corporations, health care companies, real estate developers and financial institutions in courts across the country. In addition to his full litigation practice, Michael also serves as General Counsel to the firm.

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A. Craig Cleland

BTIConsulting — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:30:30 +0000

Craig counsels and defends employers in litigation, including class and collective actions. As an adjunct professor, he teaches Class Actions and Aggregate Litigation at the Georgia State University College of Law, and he is the former Co-Chair of the Firm’s Class Action Practice Group. Craig is the Immediate Past President of the Atlanta Bar Association.

Craig is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and of the Litigation Counsel of America’s Trial Lawyer Honorary Society as well as a Master of the Bleckley Inn of Court. BTI Consulting Group has named him a Client Service MVP and All-Star, one of a few lawyers who “combine exceptional legal expertise with practical advice, business savvy and creative, effective solutions.” He has also been named a “Lawyer of the Year” in Best Lawyers in America, one of the “Top 100 Georgia SuperLawyers,” and a first-tier attorney in Chambers USA’s Leading Business Lawyers.

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Thomas R. Waskom

tthorp — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:50:33 +0000

Tom is co-head of the firm’s product liability and mass tort litigation practice group. His practice focuses on class action, mass tort and environmental litigation.

Tom is a litigator, handling complex civil matters, including class actions and mass torts. He has successfully defended class actions and product liability cases on behalf of companies in a variety of industries, including consumer and industrial products, energy and transportation.

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Steven B. Weisburd

tthorp — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:50:29 +0000

Over three decades, Steven has built a long track record of winning high-profile cases and defeating high-stakes litigation, including multimillion-dollar disputes, through tactically executing legal arguments and vigorous advocacy. A skilled litigator and legal strategist, Steven has extensive experience representing businesses and individuals in federal and state courts in California and across the country, including in class actions, business disputes, mass torts, MDLs, product liability, and other complex civil litigation. Steven represents clients in the consumer products, pharmaceutical, medical device, mass media and entertainment, technology, and financial services industries.

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