Thomas J. O’Reardon II (cont.)
Email: toreardon@bholaw.com
Phone: 619.338.1100
Fax: 619.338.1101
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Prior to co-founding the Firm, Mr. O’Reardon worked at a large nationwide law firm that represented consumers and investors against large corporations. While there, Mr. O’Reardon worked on a number of complex class action litigation matters, including actions involving: annuity policies marketed and sold to senior citizens; insurer kickbacks known as “contingent commissions” in the property and casualty insurance brokerage industry; Sherman Act claims against the world’s largest manufacturers of random access memory for computers; invasions of credit card holder’s rights of privacy; false and deceptive advertising of consumer goods and wireless telephone services; automobile insurers’ unlawful practices with respect to installment pay plans; and dangerous and defective products, including recalled children’s toys. He was also part of the team representing the California Department of Insurance against five of the largest Employee Benefit Insurance companies for violations relating to their failure to disclose payments of contingent commissions to brokers. As a result of the action, all five defendants agreed to sweeping changes in their disclosure practices.
Some of the actions on which Mr. O’Reardon has worked include: In re Dynamic Random Access Memory Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.) (settled for more than $300 million); In re Mattel, Inc. Toy Lead Paint Prods. Liab. Litigation (C.D. Cal.) (nationwide settlement valued at over $50 million); Gemelas v. The Dannon Co., Inc. (N.D. Ohio) (nationwide settlement in excess of $45 million involving false advertising of Dannon’s Activia and DanActive yogurt products); Smith v. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. (S.D. Fla.) (awaiting final approval of nationwide settlement valued at over $7 million involving false advertising of Wrigley Eclipse chewing gum and mints); In re Enron Corp. Sec. Litigation (S.D. Tex.) (settlements of $7.3 billion); AOL Time Warner Cases (settlements of approximately $630 million); Morris v. CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.) (nationwide settlement on behalf of purchasers of asbestos-laden children’s toys); In re Aqua Dots Prods. Liab. Litigation (N.D. Ill.) (pending multidistrict litigation on behalf of purchasers of more than 4 million toxic children’s toys); and Berry v. Mega Brands, Inc. (D.N.J.) (pending class action litigation on behalf of purchasers of more than 10 million lethal children’s toys).
Mr. O’Reardon is an active member of the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, the Consumer Attorneys of California, and a founding member of the CAOC Young Lawyers Division. He is also a member of The Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production.