Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

Class Action & Appellate Litigation

Partner and Co-Chair, Class Action & Appellate Litigation Practice Group

Amir is the national co-chair of Shook’s Class Action Practice Group and co-leads Shook’s Automotive Industry Group. His practice is primarily dedicated to defending companies in class actions and aggregated litigation. In that area, Amir is recognized as one of the leading products class action lawyers in the U.S., and regularly speaks on strategies to defend high stakes class actions.

Amir has led the defense of over 150 class actions throughout the U.S., including successfully leading the defense of class actions with multibillion dollar exposure. He has defended national and international class actions in the U.S., Australia, Canada and Israel. In the U.S., Amir has led teams to successfully dispose of class actions in California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas and Washington.

In securing positive results, Amir has helped pioneer favorable law in a number of areas, including personal jurisdiction challenges in class actions, class waiver arbitration clauses, developing limitations on consumer fraud and common law fraud theories, and curtailing injunctive relief classes. Amir has also helped develop the law to limit the impact of challenging state consumer protection laws such as California’s Unfair Competition and False Advertising Laws (Business & Professions Code § 17200 and § 17500).

Based on his class litigation acumen, Amir serves in a national class counsel role for six product manufacturers and distributors. He also regularly defends other companies in regional and specialty class action roles.

Beyond traditional class actions, Amir also serves as lead counsel in mass and aggregated litigation, including JCCP and MDL proceedings, and in managing class opt-out litigation and mass arbitrations.

American Bar Association, Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section; Litigation Section Bar Association of San Francisco California Minority Counsel Program Defense Research Institute

L.P.C. Legal Practices University of the West of England, Bristol 1998 LL.B Law University of the West of England, Bristol 1997