Meat and poultry workers have fired off a slew of class action lawsuits against Tyson Foods Inc. over the years, complaining that the meat processing giant stiffs them on wages. But you’ll hear no complaints from the company’s go-to outside lawyer, Michael Mueller, who estimates that he’s represented Tyson in 35 such cases.
Mueller, co-head of Hunton & Williams’ retail and consumer products litigation group, boasts on his firm’s website that he’s likely tried more class actions to verdict than any other lawyer. This week he shot down two more of them for Tyson, winning a pair of appellate reversals that erased $24 million in class action awards for plant workers in Nebraska.
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