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Class actions are a vital tool for individual consumers and employees with limited resources to protect their rights against large corporations that adopt unlawful practices and policies fueled by corporate greed. A class action is a type of lawsuit that allows one person or a small number of people to sue a business on behalf of a large group of individuals with the same or similar claims. By allowing one person or a small number of people to protect the rights of many, the class action provides a means to remedy small claims that would not likely be brought on an individual basis due to the expensive nature of litigation. The California Supreme Court has specifically recognized the class action as an invaluable tool to remedy and deter corporate malfeasance. Naturally, an ever-growing amount of corporate money and resources are spent to discredit class action lawsuits and the attorneys who file them. Nevertheless, class actions remain as one of the most effective and necessary tools available to protect the "little guy".
At Harrison Patterson & O´Connor LLP, our class action attorneys have vast experience in a variety of consumer and employee related class actions. Coming from prestigious large national law firms, we have experience defending large corporations against these types of claims. We decided to bring our talents and perspective to "the other side of the fence" to protect consumers and employees. Some of our recent cases include:

• Protecting consumers from identity theft resulting from the wide-spread corporate practice of requesting personal identification information from customers that purchase goods using their credit cards
• Protecting consumers that were not given proper notice of changes to a utility company’s terms of service
• Protecting consumers that were not given proper notice of credit card rate increases
• Protecting consumers that were not given proper notice of changes to workers compensation insurance premiums
• Protecting consumers that have been injured due to unsafe and defective products
• Protecting employees that were forced to work overtime hours for which they were not compensated
• Protecting employees that were forced to work without lunch breaks
• Protecting employees that were terminated and did not receive their vacation pay

At Harrison Patterson & O´Connor LLP, we help the "little guy" take a stand against corporate malfeasance and we use class action lawsuits as the means to do so. Contact the attorneys with Harrison Patterson & O´Connor LLP today to discuss your case.