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A NATIONAL AWARD WINNING

TENNESSEE ​CLASS ACTION LAW FIRM

Advocating on behalf of those without a voice against the powerful and unjust who deny them fair and full compensation. We represent consumers, employees, working people and shareholders - not corporations or insurance companies. We fight every day, as we have for over the last 20 years, to protect their rights and to get them the compensation they deserve. Working for you and never outworked. It is our passion! If you need a class action or mass tort lawyer, call us for a free, confidential, no-risk consultation to get the best outcome in your case.

EXPERIENCE

Timothy L. Miles has over 20 years of experience prosecuting class actions and representing the interest of the underdog and learned from working day-in and day-out. with legendary and some of top plaintiffs’ class action lawyers in the country, many of which are former judges and prosecutors. Mr. Miles has extensive litigation experience in class actions and mass torts, and since 2014 has maintained av AV Rating by Martinile-Hubble in Class Actions, Securities Law and Litigation. Mr. Miles was recognized as one of the top plaintiffs attorneys in the country as well as a Top Ranked Lawyer; Top Rated Litigator; and an Elite Lawyer of the South while maintaining exclusive membership in the Top 100 Civil Trial Lawyers. Thus, Mr. Miles brings a wealth of experience to your case as an experienced class action or mass tort lawyer.

RESULTS

Mr. Miles focuses his practice on class action litigation, including cases involving violations of federal securities law, state consumer protection, products liability and dangerous drugs as well as shareholder derivative litigation and cases involving breaches of fiduciary duty in transactional litigation in connection with the merger or acquisitions of public corporations.

Examples of class actions in which Mr. Miles played a significant role in achieving a substantial settlement include:

In re Global Crossing Ltd. Securities & ERISA Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1472 (S.D.N.Y.) (Lynch, J.) ($79 million recovery); In re Goody’s Family Clothing, Inc. Shareholder Litigation, Master Docket No. 165357- 2 (Chancery Ct., Knox Cty., Tenn.) (Fansler, C.) ($53 million increase in consideration to shareholders in merger); Sherwood v. Microsoft Corporation, Civ. No 99-C-3562 (Davidson Cty. Circuit Ct.) (Kurtz, J.) (settlement with minimal value of $32 million including sizable cy pres award to Tennessee schools); Beach et al. v. Healthways, et al., Civil Action No. 3:08-00569 (M.D. Tenn. (Campbell, J.) ($23.6 million recovery); In re Direct General Corporation Securities Litigation, Civil Action No. 3:05-0077 (M.D. Tenn. (Campbell, J.) ($14.96 million recovery including $2.96 million recovered from the individual defendants); In re America Service Group Litigation, Civ. No. 3:06-cv-00323 (M.D. Tenn.) (Haynes, J.) ($14.894 million recovery); In re Envoy Securities Litigation, Civ. No. 3-98-0760 (M.D. Tenn.) (Haynes, J.) ($11 million recovery);• In re Broadwing, Inc. ERISA Litigation, Case No. C-1-02-857 (S.D. Ohio) (Beckwith, J.) ($11 million recovery); In re HCA Inc. S’holder Litig., No. 06-1816 III (Davidson County Ch. Ct., Tenn.) (Lyle, C.) (settlement which included a modification to the Merger Agreement to provide for a $280 million reduction in termination fee, supplemental material disclosures to shareholders including material information with respect to the true value of the company, and significant improvements to voting process including enhanced appraisal rights and a “majority of the minority” provision); In re Dollar General Corp. S’holder Litig., Master Docket No. 07MD-1 (Circuit Ct., Davidson County, Tn.) (recovery of $40 million in cash for former Dollar General shareholders on the eve of trial.)