US Class Action Attorney Directory

A class action attorney is a legal professional that litigates cases on behalf of their clients who belong to a larger group who are collectively prosecuting a claim before the court or named as defendants being sued. In prosecuting class action claims, class action attorneys in the United States follow Rule 23 and 28 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, if the class suit is brought before a federal court, or the statutes or procedural rules of a State where said class action attorney is practicing and litigating his clients’ claim, if the claim is being prosecuted before a State-level court. A class action attorney must still take note of where to file said class action. In Standard Fire Insurance Company v. Knowles (Decided March 19, 2013), the United States Supreme Court said that federal district courts have original jurisdiction over class actions in which, among other things, the matter in controversy exceeds Five million dollars ($5,000,000.00) in sum or value, as stated in the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), which also provides that to determine whether a matter exceeds that amount the “claims of the individual class members must be aggregated”.