What we say about the firm's legal practice in United States
Litigation
Within Mass tort and class action: plaintiff representation – antitrust, Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP is a second tier firm,
Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP fields a team of 29 fee-earners in its ‘well-regarded’ antitrust practice. Opposing counsel hold Francis Scarpulla and Craig Corbitt in particularly high regard as two ‘excellent adversaries’, both of whom are based in San Francisco. Although the firm does undertake defense-side work, it is for its plaintiff representations that the antitrust practice has made its name. For example, the team was appointed liaison counsel and a member of the plaintiffs’ executive committee in a class action seeking injunctive relief and damages, brought by indirect purchasers of DRAM (dynamic random access memory) computer hardware. The defendants in the case face allegations of conspiracy to fix prices between April 1999 and December 2002. The firm is also representing a class of indirect purchasers of LCD products as the court-appointed co-lead counsel in In re TFT-LCD (Flat Panel) Antitrust Litigation, in which plaintiffs allege that leading manufacturers of these products (such as flat-screen TVs) conspired to artificially inflate prices.