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Tammy L. Adkins

Counsel

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Practices
Education
  • The Ohio State University, JD, 1995
  • The Ohio State University, BA, summa cum laude, 1992
Admissions
  • Illinois
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. Supreme Court
Affiliations

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Illinois State Bar Association

Member, Chicago Bar Association

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Tammy's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including antitrust, class actions, multidistrict litigation and consumer finance litigation. 

Tammy has participated in the handling of antitrust matters in federal courts and before arbitration tribunals. Her cases have involved price fixing, market allocation, tying arrangements, cartels, monopolization, attempted monopolization, Robinson-Patman Act claims, and antitrust conspiracies.

Tammy has also represented numerous clients in the consumer financial services industry. Recently, she has been litigating a series of consumer financial class action lawsuits across the United States arising out of the foreclosure crisis. Her experience includes defending class action and individual claims related to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and various state consumer fraud and unfair business practices statutes; and counseling clients on compliance with applicable federal and state statutes and regulations.

She also has experience in insurer liquidation proceedings, insurance coverage and defense, director and officer liability, auditor liability, and bankruptcy preference actions.

Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Tammy was a staff attorney in the Office of the Special Deputy Receiver for the State of Illinois.

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Representation of Jo Tankers, Inc., a parcel tanker shipping company, in consolidated multi-district class action litigation and related arbitrations of Sherman Act ยง 1 allegations in the ocean tanker shipping service industry. Along with a McGuireWoods team, she helped secure a May 2010 victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in Stolt-Nielsen v. Animalfeeds Int'l, 130 S. Ct. 1758 (2010), which held that the respondents could not be compelled under the Federal Arbitration Act to engage in class arbitration where the arbitration agreement was silent on the issue of class arbitration.

Defense of domestic ocean shipping company in antitrust class action alleging price-fixing and bid rigging of ocean shipping rates between the United States mainland and Puerto Rico, including oversight and management of class-wide settlement. In Re: Puerto Rican Cabotage Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1960 (U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico).

Defense of domestic ocean shipping company in antitrust putative class action alleging price-fixing and bid rigging of ocean shipping rates between the United States mainland and Hawaii and Guam. Obtained dismissal of claims based upon the filed rate doctrine, which was affirmed by the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. In Re: Hawaiian & Guamanian Cabotage Litigation, MDL 1972 (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington).

Representation of a national bank in a series of putative class actions relating to the mortgage foreclosure crisis.

Representation of debt collection company in an FDCPA class action arising from language in annual privacy notice, including oversight and management of class-wide settlement.

May Antitrust Bulletin, May 24, 2012
December Antitrust Bulletin, December 15, 2010