Tag Archives: Class Actions

Maurice Wutscher Attorney Donald Maurice Named 2024 Super Lawyer

April 2, 2024 — Donald Maurice, a partner at national business and financial services law firm Maurice Wutscher LLP, has been named a New Jersey Super Lawyer in the area of Class Action/Mass Torts.

Each year, only five percent of the lawyers in the state receive this honor. Super Lawyers is a Thomson Reuters rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Mr. Maurice provides counsel to businesses and financial services companies, successfully litigating matters in appellate and trial courts throughout the country in individual and class actions. He has been retained as counsel for amicus curiae in the U.S. Supreme Court and in U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, and frequently testifies before state legislatures.

He also counsels clients in data privacy law and other regulatory compliance matters and provides advice and counsel to attorneys in matters of professional responsibility and attorney ethics.

In addition to being a frequent speaker and author on consumer financial services law, he is outside counsel to Receivables Management Association International. He is a regent of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, a fellow of the ABA’s American Bar Foundation and a former chair of the ABA’s Debt Collection Practices and Bankruptcy Subcommittee, Business Law Section.

Mr. Maurice is rated AV Preeminent, the highest rating given by Martindale-Hubbell, the worldwide guide to lawyers. A description of the selection methodology can be found at www.martindale.com/ratings-and-reviews/.

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Maurice Wutscher’s Donald Maurice Named 2022 Super Lawyer

April 6, 2022 — Donald Maurice, a partner at national business and financial services law firm Maurice Wutscher LLP, has been named a New Jersey Super Lawyer in the area of Class Action & Mass Torts.

Mr. Maurice provides counsel to businesses and financial services companies, successfully litigating matters in state and federal courts in individual and class actions. He has argued before various U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, and has been retained as counsel for amicus curiae in the U.S. Supreme Court and in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.

He also counsels clients in data privacy and other regulatory compliance matters and provides advice and counsel to attorneys in matters of professional responsibility and attorney ethics.

Webinar: Maurice Wutscher’s Donald Maurice to Discuss Trends and Developments in Consumer Finance Class Actions

Sept. 9, 2020 — Maurice Wutscher attorney Donald Maurice will participate in a panel discussion of recent and emerging trends and developments in consumer finance class action claims alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) during a live CLE webinar on Sept. 16.

Mr. Maurice and panelists will review the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions and discuss strategies and approaches for pursuing or defending these claims along with issues of standing, statutory damages, the burden of proof, causation, and more.

The webinar is being presented by Strafford and will also offer a recorded version. Click here to register for the live webinar at 1 pm ET.

Mr. Maurice provides counsel to businesses and financial services companies, successfully litigating matters in state and federal courts in individual and class actions. He also counsels clients in data privacy and other regulatory compliance matters and provides advice and counsel to attorneys in matters of professional responsibility and attorney ethics.

Donald Maurice on New Wave of Class Actions in Corporate Counsel Cover Story

April 5, 2016 — Maurice Wutscher attorney Donald Maurice speaks about a new wave of putative class actions being waged against companies in Corporate Counsel’s April cover story, Out of Focus, Plaintiffs Lawyers Take Aim at Web Access and Privacy.

The suits involve cutting edge technology, such as biometrics, website accessibity and e-commerce.

Maurice discusses actions involving the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and whether a favorable U.S. Supreme Court decision in Spokeo Inc. v. Robins may curtail their filings by imposing stricter standing requirements.

Author Jan Wolfe writes, “But even if the defense bar gets a win in Spokeo—which, again, got more unlikely with Scalia’s death—these cases will likely continue, predicts Maurice. He points out that Spokeo only deals with whether ‘noinjury’ plaintiffs have standing to sue in federal court. No matter what happens, plaintiffs can still bring EFTA cases in state court. The statute explicitly states that federal courts and state courts have concurrent jurisdiction.”

Maurice Wutscher is a national law firm focused on the defense of the financial services industry. With offices throughout the United States, the firm’s skilled team of litigators specialize in appellate matters, business formation and transactions, class action litigation, commercial litigation, construction litigation, consumer credit litigation, contested bankruptcies, contested foreclosures, employment litigation, equine law, insurance recovery and advisory services, intellectual property litigation, regulatory compliance, and trials and evidentiary hearings.