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Michael Grimaldi
Associate
Los Angeles
633 West Fifth Street
Suite 4000
Los Angeles, California 90071
Phone: 213.599.7761
Fax: 213.250.7900
Email: [email protected]
Michael Grimaldi is a seasoned associate in the firm's Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on complex litigation, including class actions, mass torts, and products liability matters. He has developed significant experience in the defense and management of purported class actions and other forms of aggregated litigation for major corporations and other business entities in numerous industries and involving many areas of substantive law.
He regularly defends class action and individual litigation in state and federal courts, including cases involving consumer-protection claims, consumer fraud, nondisclosure, deceptive business practices, false advertising, products liability, privacy claims, data breach litigation, and employment litigation.
These cases regularly include claims for violation of California’s Unfair Business Practices Law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 et seq.), False Advertising Law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17500 et seq.), Consumers Legal Remedies Act (Cal. Civil Code § 1750 et seq.), Customer Records Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80 et seq.),California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Cal. Civil Code § 56.10 et seq.), Song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (Cal. Civil Code § 1792 et seq.), similar claims under the laws of other states, fraud, breach of express and implied warranty claims, negligence, and unjust enrichment. He has experience defending cases alleging violations of numerous federal statutes such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, and the Hobby Protection Act.
Michael has developed experience as an appellate lawyer and has briefed numerous matters before various state and federal appellate courts.
Representative Experience:
- Secured dismissal of a rabbinical council that certifies foods as glatt kosher from a consumer-protection class action based on a demurrer raising novel First Amendment issues.
- Defended a major American footwear company in connection with claims by approximately 740 consumers who claim to have been injured as a result of what they allege are design defects in the footwear, and settled claims on a favorable basis. Won motions for summary adjudication dismissing consumer claims on collateral estoppel grounds against bellwether plaintiffs.
- Defended numerous putative class actions against automobile manufacturers such as BMW, Hyundai, Honda, and Maserati. Secured dismissal with prejudice at the pleading stage of an automobile manufacturer by making a novel argument that the case is prudentially moot based on a national recall. Cheng v. BMW of N. Am., LLC, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107580, 2013 WL 3940815 (C.D. Cal. July 26, 2013).
- Secured dismissal with prejudice of a government contractor that delivers the personal vehicles of United States military personnel to and from various domestic and international locations with a motion to dismiss raising a standing challenge.
- Drafted numerous petitions to compel arbitration that were granted and that have been affirmed on appeal.