About Girard Gibbs

Girard Gibbs LLP has offices in San Francisco and New York, but we operate nationwide. Our practice is devoted exclusively to class action and complex litigation. Our clients range from individual consumers and small businesses to large corporations and public pension funds.

We strive to represent all our clients, whether they are individuals or major financial institutions, with the highest level of competence and dedication, and seek to obtain favorable results in an efficient and responsible manner. We believe strongly in the social utility of class actions, which, through the aggregation of claims that otherwise would not be prosecuted, level the playing field. We believe class actions enhance economic efficiency by enforcing the fair trade and disclosure laws on which our competitive economy depends.

Since the firm was founded in 1995, we have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for our clients. In 2001 alone, the firm played a leadership role in obtaining the largest all-cash settlement ever of a class action under the Communications Act (MCI Non-Subscriber Rates Litigation), the largest all-cash settlement ever of a case brought on behalf of credit card holders for unfair marketing and billing practices (Providian Credit Card Litigation), the largest settlement ever achieved in Delaware Chancery Court, (In re Digex), and one of the largest securities class action settlements ever (Prison Realty Securities Litigation).

We feel that the firm's size is ideal to serve clients—large enough to fully staff the exigencies of cases, yet small enough to foster a team approach to cases, which in turn allows for an energetic interchange of ideas, ensuring the professional development of our young attorneys. Perhaps more important to our clients is that because we specialize in only a few areas of law, we achieve a high level of competence in those areas. Contrasted to a large firm with many practice areas, our structure allows for a much greater degree of independence and flexibility, allowing our attorneys to act quickly and decisively, providing the quality of representation necessary to litigate complex actions successfully throughout the country.

In prosecuting cases to successful conclusions, our attorneys bring a wealth of knowledge and specialized experience from a variety of environments, including large firms, technical environments, government regulatory enforcement agencies, and judicial clerkships. One of the leading authorities on securities, corporate and partnership law is counsel to the firm. The firm also maintains consulting relationships with independent certified accountants and prominent legal scholars.

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