Maveric focuses his practice on business litigation of all types, with particular experience with antitrust, biometric privacy and privacy and data security matters. He handles matters at all phases of litigation, from pretrial counseling through appeal. Maveric drafts and argues motions and appellate briefs, manages discovery, and prepares lay witnesses and expert witnesses for deposition or trial.
Maveric has taken on significant roles in a number of data privacy class actions, including defending companies who have been sued under various state and federal wiretap laws regarding the companies’ use of advertising tracking technology. He has also defended numerous companies facing class actions under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act and clients in multiple data breach class actions across the country.
Beyond litigation, Maveric helps his clients comply with applicable data privacy laws by drafting internal and consumer-facing policies and procedures. He also assists clients in responding to data incidents, including overseeing forensic investigations and preparing and delivering notifications.
Maveric has an undergraduate degree in information systems and, before attending law school, gained experience in software and database development. His prior technical experience helps him to understand privacy and data security matters from a client’s perspective.
Representative Matters
Represented a regional financial institution in a putative class action following a data breach that was experienced by one of the institution’s vendors. Prior to the beginning of discovery, the Court ruled in favor of Maveric’s client on a motion to dismiss and became one of the first state courts in North Dakota to dismiss a data breach class action, with prejudice, at the pleading stage. Maveric’s work on this matter included drafting the motion to dismiss and arguing that motion before the court.
Representing a retailer in multi-district privacy litigation regarding the retailer’s use of session replay software on its website. Maveric’s client successfully achieved a dismissal of the consolidated complaint in the trial court and that dismissal is currently on appeal in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Maveric’s work in this matter included drafting the motion to dismiss.
Representing a multi-family housing lessor in consolidated proceedings involving putative nationwide class actions filed on behalf of renters alleging that lessors conspired to raise rental prices in the mulit-family housing industry through the use of revenue management software.
Representing a chicken producer in consolidated proceedings involving multiple classes of direct and indirect purchasers, as well as numerous direct-action opt-out cases, alleging that producers conspired to fix production levels and pricing in the broiler chicken industry.
Representing numerous health care providers and hospital systems in putative class action alleging privacy violations related to the providers’ alleged use of advertising tracking technology on the providers’ websites.
Representing various clients in a wide-range of industries in data breach class action lawsuits.
Presentations
Panelist, ‘I Didn't Know We Were Doing That’: Minimizing Privacy and Cybersecurity Risks Through Stakeholder Coordination, Chicago Ethics CLE Conference, May 18, 2023 (with Matt Wolfe, Anna Gadberry and Jenn Hatcher).