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Katten Muchin creates group to protect clients from class actions

By Jason Siegel

Katten Muchin is creating a new practice group that will draw together attorneys focused on protecting clients against consumer class actions.

The new group, called the consumer class action practice, will be headed by Stuart Richter, a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office, Katten Muchin said in a press release. Partners Stewart Kusper, Bruce Sabados and Ugo Colella will also play leadership roles in the new group.

The firm is creating the group partly because of the growing prevalence of class actions and due to the "significant exposure and risk" that they pose for clients, it said in the press release. Creating the group will allow more efficient and effective pooling of resources and expertise for the benefit of clients, the firm said.

Katten Muchin, founded in Chicago, has about 650 attorneys in seven U.S. offices and a London office.

-- Lynne Marek

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).