What are Class Actions?

By Attorney Martin Schmidt

Class actions involve an individual or a group of individuals who represent a larger pool of people who were injured in the same way by the same product or company. We litigate these class action lawsuits in both the US and Canada.

These lawsuits are a way for people to get the justice and compensation they deserve without incurring large legal costs because they are distributed among a large group of people. Settlements reached in these kinds of lawsuits are split equally among plaintiffs. 

The class action lawsuit lawyers and attorneys at Schmidt National Law Group have been representing plaintiffs for decades. Our attorneys are helping people who were injured by some of the country’s biggest banks and corporations, including:

Class Action Lawsuit page updated on April 15, 2026.

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December 16, 2021 – San Diego, CA.  Apple was recently served with a class action lawsuit in California for an alleged design defect that some claim […]
September 29, 2021

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April 28, 2020

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