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Max C. Gibbons is an attorney in Korein Tillery's Chicago office, licensed to practice in Illinois and the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Gibbons graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 with a B.A. in Anthropology and received his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 2003. Prior to and during law school, Mr. Gibbons worked as a legal assistant at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco and as a summer associate at Jones Day in Los Angeles and Chicago.  While at UCLA, he served as an Editor of the UCLA Law Review and authored a Comment titled Of Windfalls and Property Rights: Palazzolo and the Regulatory Takings Notice Debate which was published in that journal.

Mr. Gibbons has extensive experience at both the trial and appellate level representing plaintiffs in individual and class actions in Illinois, Missouri and California. He has represented clients in a wide range of cases, including consumer fraud, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, labor, securities, asbestos, and environmental contamination. He has been heavily involved in the briefing, presentation and appeal of class certification motions in many matters including: Barbara's Sales, Inc. v. Intel Corp., No. 02-L-788 (Ill. Cir. Ct.); Lott v. Pfizer, Inc., No. 05-L-204 (Ill. Cir. Ct.); Craft v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc., No. 002-00406A (Mo. Cir. Ct.); and Henderson v. Sport Chalet, Inc., No. BC318081 (Cal. Sup. Ct.).

Mr. Gibbons has represented plaintiff classes in state and federal court, briefing dispositive motions, engaging in complex discovery, and taking and defending depositions.  Such actions include: Devine v. Commonwealth Edison Co., No. 06CV2383 (N.D. Ill.); Herrera v. Caliber Bodyworks, Inc., No. BC328623 (Cal. Sup. Ct.); Hoormann v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., No. 04-L-715 (Ill. Cir. Ct.); Meyer v. HomEq Servicing Corp., No. 05-L-208 (Ill. Cir. Ct.); and Hubbert v. Dell, Inc., No. 02-L-786 (Ill. Cir. Ct.). Mr. Gibbons has also represented individual clients, both plaintiffs and defendants, in the circuit courts of Cook County and Kane County, Illinois, including conducting discovery and successfully briefing and arguing summary judgment motions.

Mr. Gibbons has considerable experience researching, briefing and preparing matters at the appellate level, including in: Price v. Philip Morris, Inc., 219 Ill.2d 182 (2005); Craft v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc., 190 S.W.3d 368 (Mo. App. 2005); Caliber Bodyworks, Inc. v. Superior Court, 134 Cal. App. 4th 365 (2005); Barbara's Sales v. Intel Corp., 227 Ill.2d 45 (2007). Mr. Gibbons has also been involved in numerous disputes over federal jurisdiction in, for example: Black v. Brown & Williamson, No. 4:05CV01544 (E.D. Mo. 2006); Collora v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 428 F.Supp.2d 1018 (E.D. Mo. 2006); Craft v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc., No. 4:05CV01531 (E.D. Mo. 2006); Lott v. Pfizer, No. 05CV230 (S.D. Ill. 2005); and Pfizer Inc. v. Lott, 417 F.3d 725 (7th Cir. 2005). 

Finally, Mr. Gibbons has been involved in negotiating and obtaining approval of beneficial class settlements. In Hoormann v. SmithKline Beecham, 04-L-715 (Ill.Cir.Ct. May 17, 2007), Korein Tillery obtained a settlement that established a $63.8 million fund to fully reimburse class members who had purchased Paxil® and Paxil CR^TM for children.  In Henderson v. Sport Chalet, Inc., No. BC318081 (Cal. Sup. Ct.), the settlement provided a class of employees of a sporting goods store compensation for missed lunch and rest breaks, among other benefits.