We represent clients in high-stakes disputes. This means cases where there are substantial dollars at issue, significant political and reputational risk for the litigants, or precedent-setting legal issues—and often all three.

Representing the City of Baltimore in an antitrust class action, we allege that several major producers of shale oil colluded to restrict the production of crude oil so as to drive up its price and the price of petroleum products.

Federal law lets victims of forced labor sue American companies that knowingly profit from it. Our client — a Chinese dissident — spent five months in a Hunan prison sewing work gloves stamped with the Milwaukee Tool logo, up to thirteen hours a day for as little as $1.41 a month. We sued Milwaukee Tool in federal court in Wisconsin. Without reaching the facts, the district court held that the law’s civil remedy stops at the water’s edge. The appeal is pending in the Seventh Circuit, where twelve states have filed briefs supporting our client. We argue that U.S. companies can and should be sued in U.S. courts for profiting from forced labor abroad.

On behalf of four former performers, we allege that the performing arts company Shen Yun and certain of its affiliates have generated hundreds of millions of dollars from a forced child labor scheme, recruiting vulnerable young dancers and musicians into an educational program that is ultimately a pretext for a brutal system of coercion and control.

In March 2025, three chartered planes carried more than 230 Venezuelan men out of Texas. The men had been told they were going home to Venezuela. Instead they were flown to El Salvador and locked in CECOT, a prison whose own officials boasted that no one leaves alive, where they were held incommunicado for four months and, they allege, beaten and tortured. A federal judge ordered the flights halted and the planes returned. They went to El Salvador anyway. We represent three of those men in a class action against the two aviation companies that flew them, CSI Aviation and GlobalX.

Agora has cultivated the image of an offbeat Baltimore publisher writing about health, finance, and retirement. The City of Baltimore alleges it is something else: a marketing and supplements operation that targets older consumers, with ads promising a cancer treatment with no side effects and get-rich-quick “insider” investment strategies. The complaint alleges Agora lures customers with cheap subscriptions and refund guarantees, then upsells them into products that are hard to cancel — one elderly consumer’s family reported spending more than $30,000 in two years. We represent the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, with Relman Colfax and the Baltimore City Law Department, seeking penalties, restitution, and an order stopping the practices.

Say you have a clothing company and want to do online sales on both your own website, as well as on Amazon. Amazon’s fees are so high that your own website’s price for a given product could be significantly lower than on Amazon and you could still make the same profit. The problem is that, for years, Amazon prohibited sellers from setting that lower price. This practice, we think, violated the antitrust and related laws of several states, and caused consumers to pay higher prices. We filed a class action in federal court on behalf of those consumers.

The IEEPA tariffs imposed costs across the economy, largely on consumers. e.l.f. Cosmetics sued the U.S. government for a full refund of the tariffs it paid — and after the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down, that money is coming. But e.l.f. passed the cost of those tariffs on to its customers, so keeping the entire refund for itself would be a big windfall. On behalf of two of those customers, we intervened in e.l.f.’s case in the U.S. Court of International Trade and filed a class action, demanding that e.l.f. pay the refund to the people who actually paid the tariffs rather than pocketing it.

To settle a controversy over its complicity in the jailing of Chinese internet users whose data it handed to the government, Yahoo created a $17.3 million charitable trust in 2007 for imprisoned dissidents. But Yahoo and the nonprofit it partnered with frittered the money away — less than 4% ever reached the people it was meant for. We sued in federal court on behalf of six former political prisoners. The defendants fought for eight years. We won an appeal, then won a trial on whether Yahoo had intended to create a trust at all. The case settled in 2025 for $5.425 million, most of it endowing a new fund to finish the job.

We are trial counsel in a historic class action seeking to end slavery and involuntary servitude in the Colorado prison system. Alongside our co-counsel, we went to trial, helping craft trial and examination strategy, draft trial briefs, and conduct witness examinations. And we won. The case is now headed to an appeal before the Colorado Supreme Court.

We allege that 10 Wall Street banks created and then manipulated the auction process used in the valuation of certain financial instruments, causing artificial prices for the banks’ own benefit. On behalf of the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office and multiple public institutional investors, we filed a federal antitrust and market manipulation class action against the banks.