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Michael Mallow, managing partner and co-chair of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP‘s class action & pppellate litigation group, maintains a high-stakes commercial litigation practice focused on class actions and complex appellate matters. Mallow represents a prominent client base. Recent highlights include a favorable judgment for EDebitPay in a rare FTC enforcement action after seven years of litigation and successfully enforcing class action waiver arbitration clauses for American Honda in a multistate class action concerning automated emergency braking systems, with potential damages exceeding $5m and affecting roughly 900,000 vehicles.
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Managing Partner
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Michael is a highly experienced trial lawyer who has represented clients in class action and complex litigation matters, including cases related to economic product defects, unfair competition, false and deceptive advertising, business torts, privacy, entertainment and intellectual property. Michael is a co-chair of Shook’s Class Action & Appellate Litigation Practice Group. Before joining Shook, he was a partner with Sidley Austin, where he was the co-leader of the firm’s Consumer Class Action Defense practice. Michael is extremely active in the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and served as the Los Angeles Chapter President in 2024.
Memberships
- Los Angeles Association of Business Trial Lawyers
- Past-President
- Board of Governors
- Founding Civility Committee Chair
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Litigation Section
- Complex Courts Committee (2015-Present)
- Litigation Section, Executive Committee (2017)
- Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Central District of California
- Lawyer Representative
- State Bar of California, Antitrust & Unfair Competition Section
Education
- J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 1991
- B.A., Binghamton University, 1988
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Key clients
- EDebitPay
- American Honda Motor Co.
- University of Southern California
- Toyota Motor North America
- Jaguar Landrover North America
- Kia Motors America
- Hyundai Motor America
- Volvo Car USA
- Praetorian Global
- Mitsubishi Electric, US, Inc.
- Head USA
- Slate Auto
Work highlights
Secured a favorable judgment for EDebitPay and its owners after more than seven years of FTC litigation over online discount clubs, successfully preventing a permanent injunction and protecting the clients’ business interests in a matter worth multiple millions of dollars.
Defending American Honda Motor Co. in a large multistate class action over its automated emergency braking system, successfully enforcing class action waiver arbitration clauses and challenging class certification in a matter involving over 900,000 vehicles and damages exceeding $5m.