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McGuireWoods partners Issac deVyver and Benjamin Sitter and associate Katelyn Fox wrote an article for Law360 discussing bifurcated discovery, a tool available to litigators to tackle class actions with questionable merits early in a case. A motion to bifurcate advocates discovery pressing forward but limited to a threshold issue that may significantly limit the scope of a proposed class or confirm the plaintiff's claim has no merit. It allows the court to tackle a …

… practice.” DeVyver’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and class actions involving banks, loan servicers, credit card companies and other financial institutions. He has handled more than 100 individual matters and class actions involving mortgage lending. He also has represented securities lending agents in more than a dozen state and federal cases arising from the global financial crisis, with potential damages ranging from $10 million to more than $100 million. “McGuireWoods is a …