A class action can have devastating economic consequences for a business. Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC) has the expertise and experience to formulate and execute the most effective responses to class litigation. Our national platform enables us to deliver comprehensive and seamless support to deal with multi-jurisdictional issues that increasingly arise in today’s global economy, both within Canada and internationally. Our litigators have appeared in courts across the country and they have contributed to some of Canada’s leading class action jurisprudence in the common law provinces and Quebec. We employ a range of defence strategies to reduce or eliminate the exposure of our clients including:

• Risk managing a potential class claim even before litigation is commenced
• Opposing motions for class action certification in a focused and strategic manner, including initial challenges to jurisdiction, preliminary attacks on unfounded claims, narrowing the proposed class composition and limiting the scope of common issues
• Developing defendant-sponsored preferable procedures that enable a defendant to both control the process and tailor it to the operations of its particular business 
• Devising and implementing innovative settlement strategies

FMC has specialized proficiency in the practice areas that are frequently the subject of class actions and regularly represents clients in all of these areas, including Professional Liability, Product Liability and Consumer Protection, Competition, Securities and Investments, Employment and Pensions, Tax, and Environmental and Aboriginal. Members of our class action team have spoken and written extensively on class actions and are highly ranked by legal directories such as Lexpert, Practical Law Company, Chambers Global and Martindale-Hubbell.