Julie Singer Brady serves as co-leader of BakerHostetler’s Class Action Defense team and is a member of the firm’s Policy Committee and Tariff Task Force. Julie concentrates her practice on litigating complex matters, focusing for more than 20 years on defending a wide range of class actions in state and federal courts across the country. She represents clients across a broad range of industries in consumer class actions, including retailers, restaurants, product manufacturers, financial institutions, hospitality companies, online service providers, healthcare providers and insurance companies. Julie defends a broad range of high‑stakes matters, including false advertising and labeling claims; challenges to alleged deceptive fees and pricing practices, such as “junk fees” and “drip pricing”; product defect claims; and data privacy litigation, including numerous cases involving website “tracking” technologies and data security incidents.
In addition to defending numerous claims brought under various states’ consumer protection statutes, she has extensive experience defending a wide range of companies for alleged violations of federal and state statutes, including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Military Lending Act, the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA) and the 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 wherein the plaintiffs asserted claims for violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act of 1970 (RICO) and breach of fiduciary duty, and representing a subsidiary of an international resort company for claims related to the sale of a golf resort, with her successful defense resulting in the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissing the firm’s client while pursuing the claims against the purchaser of the golf resort at trial.
