Julie Singer Brady serves as Co-Leader of BakerHostetler’s Class Action Defense practice team and is a member of the firm’s Policy Committee. Julie concentrates her practice on litigating complex matters, focusing for more than 20 years on defending a wide range of class actions in state and federal courts across the country. She has represented clients across a broad range of industries in consumer class actions, including retailers, product manufacturers, financial institutions, restaurants, hospitality companies, online service providers and insurance companies. Her experience includes defending false advertising and labeling claims, claims regarding alleged deceptive fees and charges, claims regarding allegations of defective products, and data privacy claims – including numerous actions related to website technologies.
In addition to defending numerous claims brought under various states’ consumer protection statutes, Julie has extensive experience defending a wide range of companies for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), as well as state counterparts, such as Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA) and the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA).
The breadth of Julie’s class action defense practice beyond consumer class actions includes representing officers and directors in claims related to the sale and merger of a public company; defending timeshare entities in a class action brought on behalf of current and former owners in a timeshare collection regarding assessments wherein the plaintiffs asserted claims for violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) and breach of fiduciary duty; and representing a subsidiary of an international resort company for claims related to the sale of a golf resort, with her successful defense resulting in the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissing the firm’s client while pursuing the claims against the purchaser of the golf resort to trial.