BORISON FIRM
Consumer Rights.
Complex Litigation.
Appellate Advocacy.
Shaping Consumer Law. For nearly four decades, the firm has handled trials, class actions, and appeals involving significant questions of consumer law.
EXPERIENCE
Trial work, class actions, appeals, and law reform.
Class Actions
Certification, trials, settlements, and appellate proceedings in state and federal consumer cases.
Trial Results
Representative jury and bench results in state and federal courts.
Published Opinions
Reported state and federal decisions involving consumer protection, licensing, arbitration, class actions, and statutory interpretation.
Shaping Consumer Law
A documented progression from early debt-buyer licensing cases through later appellate precedent and foreclosure reform.
REPRESENTATIVE RESULTS
Selected matters.
Huizar v. Horizon Bank
$2,865,000
$365,000 compensatory damages and $2,500,000 punitive damages.
Finch v. LVNV Funding
$38,630,344
The class judgment was later reduced to $25,000,000.
Moya / Ciox Litigation
$43,421,442
Wisconsin medical-record charge class litigation.
Parsons
$1,062,324
Foreclosure-rescue litigation under Maryland’s Protection of Homeowners in Foreclosure Act.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in any other matter.
SELECTED PRECEDENT
Cases that developed the law.
LVNV Funding v. Finch
Maryland appellate decisions addressing unlicensed debt-buyer collection activity and the remedies available to consumers.
Smith v. Wakefield
The Supreme Court of Maryland held that residential back-rent actions remain subject to a three-year limitations period despite lease language purporting to extend it.
Simmons v. Maryland Management
Applied consumer-protection remedies to efforts to collect time-barred residential rent claims.
Williams v. eWrit Filings
Held that an entity filing failure-to-pay-rent actions for another was engaged in collection activity requiring a Maryland collection-agency license.