Bailey Glasser's consumer team brings decades of experience and a results-oriented approach to protecting our clients across many areas.
Overview
The firm’s consumer litigation lawyers litigate individual and class cases involving debt collection, consumer finance, TCPA violations, illegal repossessions and foreclosures, predatory mortgage loans, illegal loan servicing, defective products, employee wage-payment and overtime rights, mismanaged ERISA funds, and a host of other consumer and employment matters.
Bailey Glasser’s consumer practice was initiated with the landmark settlement of Cummins v. H&R Block. In a case litigated for five years in venues ranging from the West Virginia trial and appellate courts, to federal district courts in West Virginia and Illinois, to the US Supreme Court, our lawyers served as lead counsel in winning a $62.5 million multistate class action settlement against H&R Block. The case involved first-impression claims relating to the application of West Virginia’s credit-services organization statute to Block’s refund anticipation loan product. Other firms across the country litigated cases against Block alleging similar claims, without success, for more than ten years. West Virginia’s share of the settlement was $32.5 million.
Bailey Glasser attorneys work as a team, led by nationally recognized consumer lawyers across the country. The firm’s cross disciplinary approach integrates excellent lawyering, subject matter knowledge, creativity, and cutting-edge technology to solve consumers’ problems.
We successfully litigate cases under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and other federal consumer statutes. We have deep experience resolving matters under the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act and many other state consumer protection statutes.
