James F. McCabe

Clients in the financial services industry rely on Jim McCabe’s acumen, gained after more than three decades of experience defending complex civil litigation, particularly with an emphasis on consumer financial products and consumer reports.

Jim is a seasoned business litigator with decades of experience defending companies in class actions and other complex civil litigation involving consumer reports, consumer financial products, employment discrimination, insurance coverage, and various commercial disputes. Throughout his career, Jim has advised on more than 100 different class actions and defended cases in 29 different states.

For more than a decade, Jim has represented various LexisNexis entities in more than 40 individual actions and 12 putative consumer class actions asserting claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Jim defeated a putative class action brought against LinkedIn that attempted to characterize the company as a consumer reporting agency.

Jim also won summary judgment in a putative nationwide class action that challenged the issuance of multiple credit cards to subprime customers. As national coordinating counsel for the Mortgage Bankers Association, he assisted lender defendants in defeating class certification in more than 60 cases asserting claims under RESPA that, if viable as class claims, exposed the defendants to crippling liabilities.

Jim has represented emerging financial technology companies when they become targets of consumer-facing litigation.

Jim has served as a trial skills instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the Stanford University Advocacy Workshop.