Class Action Disputes

Valuable insight and clarity throughout a class action dispute.

Stout professionals understand the complexity of class actions and multidistrict litigations, leveraging our experience and understanding of the unique class certification issues throughout the entire litigation lifecycle.

Our professionals have served as consulting and testifying experts in class actions concerning a wide variety of matters in U.S. District and State courts. Stout’s testifying experts regularly offer opinions on class certification and damages issues, leveraging our robust data analytic capabilities and deep bench of PhDs, MBAs, CPAs, and other professionals.

Stout also supports parties in a consulting capacity, regularly advising decision makers on the intersection of case economics and strategy to enable educated decision making at the earliest stages of litigation. We have deep expertise across a broad array of matters, such as those that involve antitrust class/collective actions, consumer class actions, product liability, breach of contract, and labor and employment disputes. Our professionals have served parties ranging from small, privately held organizations to educational institutions to Fortune 100 companies.

Expertise Across Industries

• Business & industrial services
• Consumer goods
• Financial services
• Energy & power
• Insurance
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Education

Our Services

Stout offers end-to-end services to support class action disputes throughout the entire litigation process.

Pre-litigation

• Pre-settlement strategy and negotiations
• Settlement consulting and design

Litigation

Discovery

• Large data set acquisition, review, and analysis
• Assessment of current systems and legacy systems
• Data acquisition, cleansing, and normalization
• Complex data analytics

Class Certification

Expert testimony for class certification issues, such as:

• Adequacy of class
• Class definition
• Commonality
• Ascertainability
• Typicality
• Statistical Sampling and Testing

Damages

• Damages calculations by class and sub-class
• Expert testimony
• Critique and rebuttal of opposing experts

Settlement and Resolution

• Settlement consulting and design
• Damages calculations and assessments
• Damages allocation/apportionment
• Identification of account records eligible for class inclusion

Insurance

In addition to Stout’s value-add on the underlying case, Stout also has a world-class team of insurance recovery specialists that work closely with policyholders and their outside counsel to seek proper recoupment of settlement and litigation costs from available insurance coverage.

• Policy review
• Allocation of damages and defense costs to policies
• Settlement negotiation strategy and support

Why Stout

With extensive expertise in economic damages advisory services, we specialize in serving as expert witnesses and privileged consultants in complex class action cases. Our team offers support throughout the litigation process and draws from a robust background that includes providing economic and statistical analyses and handling large datasets.

Our experts have extensive qualifications and relevant, on-point experience:

• Professionals with advanced degrees in economics, finance, accounting, statistics, mathematics, and business
• Qualified by federal, state, international, and ADR venues to provide testimony
• Testimony experience at trial, deposition, arbitration, and mediations
• Well-versed in accepted methodologies

Our portfolio of expertise encompasses:

• Commercial contract disputes, intellectual property, mass torts, antitrust, and consumer class actions
• Financial, economic, accounting, and statistical analyses
• Lost profits, price erosion, disgorgement, and more
• Applied statistics, including regression analysis and sampling
• Wage and hour class action litigation and nationwide class and collective actions
• Economic damage analysis, class action defense, complex data analytics, and fraud investigations
• Management of large datasets for expert testimony