Girard Gibbs Practice Areas
Girard Gibbs LLP represents consumers in class action lawsuits nationwide against some of the country’s largest corporations. Consumers victimized by fraudulent conduct, unfair business practices or faulty products often have recourse against the responsible companies. The consumer protection practice at Girard Gibbs focuses on a variety of consumer-related litigation encompassing a diverse range of substantive and legal areas.
Girard Gibbs represents individuals and institutional investors who lost money on stock purchases when the value of their shares declined due to fraud or other malfeasance on the part of the company and/or its officers and directors. Most securities cases are brought as class actions filed by individual investors or as individual actions filed by institutional investors.
Girard Gibbs litigates class actions on behalf of companies and consumers who have been injured as a result of anticompetitive practices. Antitrust and unfair competition laws exist to ensure that businesses compete against each other in a reasonable and fair way.
The Federal False Claims Act and corresponding state laws provide private citizens the right to file lawsuits, on the government’s behalf, against individuals or companies that defraud the government. In addition, the Act provides compensation to the “relators” or “whistleblowers” who provide information about the fraud, ranging from 15 to 30% of whatever the government ultimately recovers.
Each year defective drugs and/or medical devices injure thousands of people. In order to prevent these defective products from reaching the public, the FDA has established specific protocols and regulations that are placed on the manufacturers. When a company fails to properly investigate their product or fails to report any problems or side effects, they put the health of their customers at risk and violate the law.
Elder abuse, in general, refers to any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver or any other person that causes financial, physical or psychological harm or a serious risk of such harm to an elder or vulnerable adult. There are many different types of elder abuse, including financial or material exploitation, physical abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect.
Employee classification directly impacts the receipt or denial of certain benefits and overtime wages for workers. By classifying particular employees or groups of employees as “exempt,” “managers,” or “executives,” employers may preclude their workers from receiving their rightful benefits and pay. Girard Gibbs works to obtain these lost wages and benefits on behalf of classes of employees who have been summarily denied.
In addition to our complex litigation practice, Girard Gibbs LLP engages in a variety of commercial litigation and pre-litigation matters. Our firm represents institutional clients, individuals and businesses in state and federal courts to redress corporate commercial wrongdoing throughout the country.
