LEW GOLDFARB ASSOCIATES offers alternative strategies for resolving class actions and other complex litigation. It is founded on the premise that those retained to defend class action litigation are less effective in resolving the dispute than a third party authorized to pursue all other means of ending the litigation. This view is based on many years of experience in separating the litigators from those tasked with dispute resolution, and the successful outcomes this approach has produced.

Litigation is the least efficient, most costly and disruptive means of resolving disputes. Lew Goldfarb has devoted much of his 35 year legal career to the pursuit of alternative means of resolving such claims. First as a government lawyer, then as corporate counsel and, most recently with a large law firm on behalf of corporate defendants, Lew has achieved notable success in bringing class actions and other complex litigation to an early conclusion.

Settlement is not the only means of resolving litigation early in the process. Sometimes a class action will identify a legitimate problem that the company may wish to remedy directly with its customers, without going through the arduous, often risky, settlement process. There are many ways this can be done to minimize the cost of corrective action as well as any payments to plaintiffs' counsel.

Communications with putative class members either to resolve or strengthen the defense of the lawsuit have also proven effective. Alternatively, a company may wish to consider resolving an issue directly with a regulatory agency in an effort to pre-empt the pending litigation. These are just a few of the early resolution strategies a defendant may pursue to end the cost and disruption of class action litigation.