Issue identification
Recurring conduct is identified through public records: consumer complaints, market data, operational disclosures, regulatory filings, enforcement actions, and the accounts of the people affected.
Our Method
Research-Driven Litigation.
Schwartz & Associates identifies, evaluates, and prosecutes class and mass tort actions arising from recurring conduct, common practices, or systemic failures affecting similarly situated persons.
Potential matters are identified through review of publicly available information, including consumer complaints, market activity, operational disclosures, regulatory filings, and other lawful sources. Counsel assesses whether the conduct supports legally cognizable claims under applicable law.
Three stages, in order
Every matter moves through the same sequence. A matter that does not hold up at one stage does not reach the next.
Legal evaluation
Counsel assesses whether the conduct supports legally cognizable claims, whether the proof is likely to be admissible, and whether the claims can proceed on a class-wide or coordinated basis.
Litigation
Where the evidence supports it, the claims are prosecuted, by the firm alone or with co-counsel, through pleadings, discovery, class certification, and resolution.
Where harm is patterned
Most large-scale harm is not the product of a single bad decision. It is the product of a structure that made the same decision repeatedly.
Terms that shift risk
Agreements that move downside onto customers, investors, or workers who never saw the trade-off.
Incentives that reward the conduct
Compensation and control arrangements that make a practice profitable long after its costs are known internally.
Oversight that fails under pressure
Governance and escalation that break down when decisions carry the greatest consequences, and leave a record when they do.
Risk disclosed late, or not at all
Exposure that surfaces in an earnings call, a breach notice, or an enforcement action rather than when it was known.
Judgment before filing.
All litigation decisions are made by counsel based on applicable law, admissible evidence, and good-faith professional judgment.
Active CasesIf something happened to more people than you, tell us.
Many class actions begin with one person who noticed a pattern. Reviewing your information costs nothing and creates no obligation.