Practice Expertise

  • Advertising and Marketing Litigation
  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Advertising Litigation
  • Antitrust and Consumer Protection

Areas of Practice

  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Advertising and Marketing Litigation
  • Advertising Litigation
  • Antitrust and Consumer Protection
  • Antitrust and Unfair Competition
  • Antitrust Litigation
  • Business Litigation
  • Class Action, Multidistrict Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Competition and Consumer Protection
  • Cyber Investigation and Privacy Litigation
  • Cyber Investigations and Privacy Litigation
  • Cybersecurity Incidents
  • Data Breach
  • Discovery and E-Discovery
  • Energy Sector Security Team
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Litigation
  • National Security
  • Retail
  • Retail and Consumer Products Litigation
  • Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement
  • View More

Profile

Neil is head of the firm’s antitrust and consumer protection practice. His practice focuses on class action and other complex litigation.

Neil’s complex litigation practice focuses on class action and other litigation in the areas of, privacy and cybersecurity, antitrust, health care, consumer fraud, and products liability. Neil has appeared before a number of trial and appellate courts throughout the country. Neil served as a law clerk to the Hon. A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Relevant Experience

  • Represent retail, health care, hospitality and infrastructure companies in data breach putative class actions and regulatory investigations
  • Represent consumer companies in false advertising putative class actions
  • Represent various companies in antitrust and contract litigation
  • Represented health insurer in antitrust actions brought by Department of Justice and related competitor and class action suits.
  • Represented health insurer in data breach class action.
  • Argued appeals in insurance, antitrust, data privacy and breach of contract cases in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits.

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • New York

Education
AB, Amherst College, magna cum laude, 1990

Areas of Practice

  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Advertising and Marketing Litigation
  • Advertising Litigation
  • Antitrust and Consumer Protection
  • Antitrust and Unfair Competition
  • Antitrust Litigation
  • Business Litigation
  • Class Action, Multidistrict Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Competition and Consumer Protection
  • Cyber Investigation and Privacy Litigation
  • Cyber Investigations and Privacy Litigation
  • Cybersecurity Incidents
  • Data Breach
  • Discovery and E-Discovery
  • Energy Sector Security Team
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Litigation
  • National Security
  • Retail
  • Retail and Consumer Products Litigation
  • Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Represent health insurer in antitrust actions brought by Department of Justice and related competitor and class action suits.
  • Represent health insurer in data breach class action.
  • Represent multiple retailers in data privacy investigations and litigations, including claims related to data breaches, theft of information, and data collections issues, including point of sale requests for ZIP codes.
  • Represent credit union in numerous class action relating to alleged TILA, Uniform Commercial Code and other statutory and common law claims.
  • Represented retailer in Federal Trade Commission data security investigation.
  • Represented several financial institutions in long-term data security investigations.
  • Represented large payment processor in data breach investigation and subsequent class action litigation.
  • Served as counsel to national insurance intermediary in In re Insurance Antitrust MDL and federal and state investigations.




Articles

  • Data Breach Resource Center
  • Expert Analysis: How to Defend Against Multi-Model Product Class Actions, Westlaw Journal Class Action, Volume 23, Issue 12
  • Second Circuit Reminds Consumer Product Companies That Insurance Options Exist For Big Data Blunders and Privacy Faux Pas, FC&S Legal
  • 2nd Circ. Slack-Fill Ruling Makes Injunctive Relief Harder, Class Action 360
  • FTC Antitrust Enforcement Post-AMG Capital Management, Some Assembly Required, (AHLA) American Health Law Association
  • Plaintiffs' Potential Pitfalls When Obtaining Fed. Forum, Law360

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