Kaplan Fox is pleased to announce that Maia Kats has joined the firm. Maia will focus her practice on consumer class actions with a specialty in food and dietary supplements litigation. Prior to joining Kaplan Fox, Maia was, for several years, Litigation Director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the leading non-profit public health advocate and pioneer of food class actions. Maia is widely regarded as a leader in food-based consumer litigation and has successfully represented numerous classes against a wide variety of food and supplement companies.

Maia’s record for consumers is excellent. Favorable deceptive advertising settlements include claims against Focus Brands for Jamba Juice, PepsiCo for Naked Juice, The Coca-Cola Co. for vitaminwater, Campbell’s for Plum Organics, General Mills for Cheerios Protein, CVS for Algal-DHA Memory Supplements, and many others. She also led the team that prevailed against Kellogg Company before the Second Circuit in an ongoing litigation over Cheez-Its Whole Grain marketing.

Maia speaks regularly on consumer class actions. She has presented to the Aspen Institute, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Food & Drug Law Institute, where she is a member of the Food Advertising, Labeling, & Litigation Planning Committee, Bloomberg Philanthropies, UCLA Law School, Georgetown Law School, New York University, CLE, and PLI, among others. Maia’s cases have been featured on Good Morning America and ABC News, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, and more. She is an Angel Scholar and magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan and Michigan Law, where she was awarded both the Anthony S. Benton Award and Belfield & Bates Fellowship. Earlier in her career, Maia was a partner with the class action firm of Sprenger & Lang and an associate with Hughes Hubbard & Reed in New York.