Consumer class actions appear to be on the rise, lawyers in the field said, and that seems to be driving the focus of a number of Pennsylvania firms that do class action work.
Evan H. Lechtman, a co-chair of Blank Rome’s class action defense team, said major firms generally seem to be growing and emphasizing their class action practices. Decreased activity in some types of class actions has been supplanted by increased focus on others, he said. For instance, Lechtman said, while products liability class actions have decreased, consumer and securities class actions have increased and wage-and-hour cases remain active.
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