Julie Singer Brady serves as BakerHostetler’s Class Action Defense team co-leader and is a member of the firm’s Policy Committee. Julie concentrates her practice on litigating complex matters, focusing for more than 10 years on defending class actions in federal and state courts across the country. She has zealously represented clients across a broad range of industries such as financial institutions, restaurants, title insurance companies, public utilities and online service providers, and defended consumer class actions asserting various claims regarding fees, charges, advertising and other promotions, including claims brought under the consumer protection statutes of individual states.
Julie has also defended national retailers from claims brought under wiretapping statutes concerning their use of software to track activity on their websites and defended manufacturers in claims related to allegations of defective products. She has extensive experience defending claims of violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and state counterparts such as Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA) and Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA). The breadth of Julie’s class action defense practice beyond consumer class actions includes representing officers and directors in claims related to the sale and merger of a public company; defending timeshare entities in a class action brought on behalf of current and former owners in a timeshare collection regarding assessments assessed to timeshare owners wherein the plaintiffs asserted claims for violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) and for breach of fiduciary duties; and representing a subsidiary of an international resort company for claims related to the sale of a golf resort which resulted in the plaintiff voluntarily dismissing the firm’s client from the action after certification of a class and pursuing the claims against the purchaser of the golf resort to trial.
In addition to her class action experience, Julie has litigated a vast array of other types of cases, including serving as lead counsel in more than 100 litigations on behalf of a financial institution and its non-bank successor-in-interest concerning defaulted multimillion-dollar commercial loans, successfully pursuing numerous actions for fraudulent transfers and prevailing in a multi-day trial in the Northern District of Florida to thwart judgment-debtors’ attempt to render the client’s multimillion-dollar interest in a significant judgment uncollectable.