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Gregg is a civil litigator who focuses his practice on consumer law. Gregg has extensive experience litigating individual and class claims arising under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Truth-in-Lending Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act, Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, and various consumer protection statutes.
Gregg graduated magna cum laude from the Chicago-Kent College of law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Gregg received the Class of 1976 Honors Scholarship, competed as a senior member of the Chicago-Kent Moot Court Team, and served as an editor for The Seventh Circuit Review, in which he was also published. Gregg earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Gregg has been named an Illinois Rising Star by Superlawyers Magazine each year since 2015, and was named an Associate Fellow by the Litigation Counsel of America. He is licensed to practice in the State of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Prior to joining Keogh Law, Gregg worked at a mid-size litigation firm that specialized in consumer litigation, and leading plaintiff's firm that focused on commercial disputes and consumer class actions.
The following are representative class actions in which Gregg has served as counsel of record or otherwise: Roberts v. TIAA, FSB (Case No. 2019 CH 04089, Cook County, Ill.); Corrigan v. Seterus (Case No. 17-cv-02348); Gentleman v. Mass. Higher Ed. Corp., et al (Case No. 16-cv-3096, N.D. Ill.); Cibula v. Seterus (Case No. 2015CA010910, Palm Beach County, Fla.); Ciolini v. Seterus (Case No. 15-cv-09427, N.D. Ill.); Mednick v. Precor Inc. (Case No. 14-cv-03624, N.D. Ill.); Illinois Nut & Candy Home of Fantasia Confections, LLC v. Grubhub, Inc., et al. (Case No. 14-cv-00949, N.D. Ill.); Dr. William P. Gress et al. v. Premier Healthcare Exchange West, Inc. (Case No. 14-cv-501, N.D. Ill.); Stephan Zouras LLP v. American Registry LLC (Case No. 14-cv-943, N.D. Ill.); Mullins v. Direct Digital (Case No. 13-cv-01829, N.D. Ill.); In Re Prescription Pads TCPA Litigation (Case No. 13-cv-06897, N.D. Ill); Townsend v. Sterling (Case No. 13-cv-3903, N.D. Ill); Windows Plus, Incorporated v. Door Control Services, Inc. (Case No. 13-cv-07072, N.D. Ill); In re Energizer Sunscreen Litigation, (Case No. 13-cv-00131, N.D. Ill.); Padilla v. DISH Network LLC (Case No. 12-cv-07350, N.D. Ill.); Lloyd v. Employment Crossing (Case No. BC491068 (Los Angeles County, Cal.); In re Southwest Airlines Voucher Litigation (Case No. 11-cv-8176, N.D. Ill.).
Job Titles:
- Member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates
Keith was class counsel in two of the largest Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") settlements in the country, which were Hageman v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al., Case 1:13-cv-00050-DLC-RWA (D. MT.) (Co-Lead) (Final Approval Granted February 11, 2015 providing for a $45 million settlement for a class of 16,000 persons); Capital One Telephone Consumer Protection Act Litigation, et al., 12-cv-10064 (N.D. Ill. Judge Holderman) (Liaison Counsel and additional Class Counsel) (Final Approval Granted February 12, 2015, for a $75 million settlement)
Keith was also class counsel in the top six largest all-cash FACTA class settlements in history, including the $30.9 million settlement in Flaum v Doctors Associates, 16-CV-61198-CMA (S.D. Fla. Mar. 11, 2019); Richardson v Ikea, 2020CH05480 (Cook County, 2023)($24,000,000 common fund); Martin v. Safeway, Inc., 2020 CH 5480 (Cir. Ct. Cook Ctny., Ill.) ($20,000,000 common fund); Legg v. Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, No. 14-cv-61543-RLR (S.D. Fla. Feb. 18, 2016) ($11 million); Legg v. Spirit Airlines, Inc., No. 14-cv-61978-JIC (S.D. Fla. Aug. 2, 2016) ($7.5 million); and Muransky v. Godiva Chocolatier, Inc., No. 2020 CH 7156 (Cir. Ct. Cook Cnty. May 13, 2021) ($6.3 million).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Trial Bar of the United States District Court
Michael has lectured on consumer law issues at Upper Iowa University and the Chicago Bar Association.
Michael is a member of the Trial Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and he has represented consumers in state and federal courts around the country on a pro hac vice basis.
Job Titles:
- Member in Good Standing of the Illinois State Bar
William M. Sweetnam concentrates his practice class action and complex litigation and appeals, having prosecuted hundreds of consumer, shareholder and antitrust class action in federal and state courts across the country. In addition to representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of cases involving both economic and non-economic injuries, Mr. Sweetnam has acted as lead counsel, co-lead counsel and has been a member of the executive and steering committees in consumer, antitrust and other class action, complex and multidistrict litigation matters.
Notably, Mr. Sweetnam was appointed sole lead counsel in Kelly v. Old National Bank, 82C01-1012-CT-627 (Cir. Ct Vanderburgh Cty, Ind.), in which he obtained a settlement valued at more than 90% of the class' damages incurred as a result of the unlawful overdraft fee scheme alleged therein, far exceeding the results obtained by much larger firms against some the countries' largest banks, resulting in individual consumers receiving several thousand dollars in refunded overdraft fees.
Before joining Keogh Law, Ltd., Mr. Sweetnam ran a successful class action litigation boutique, Sweetnam LLC, established in 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Sweetnam was a partner at a Chicago class action litigation boutique, where he perfected his skills representing victims of consumer fraud and deceptive and anti-competitive practices. Mr. Sweetnam has extensive litigation experience in a variety of nationwide class actions in state and federal courts alleging violations of consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices statutes, breach of warranty and violations of federal securities laws, shareholder derivative suits and appeals.
Mr. Sweetnam began his career as a class action and complex litigation practitioner with what is now known as Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, one of the largest class action law firms in the United States, where he was part of a team of lawyers involved in prosecuting class actions challenging abusive marketing practices in several areas involving life insurance and annuities. These cases led to class settlements valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, and sometimes even billions of dollars, with such major life insurance companies as Prudential, Met Life, John Hancock, New York Life, State Farm, American Express/IDS, Transamerica, and many others, as well as to numerous changes in industry sales practices.
Mr. Sweetnam continued his career at one of Chicago's oldest and most respected class action litigation firms, Krislov & Associates, Ltd., where he represented consumers and investors engaged in an array of nationwide class actions in state and federal courts involving everything from consumer fraud to breach of warranty and securities and shareholder derivative lawsuits and appeals.
Mr. Sweetnam began his career as a lawyer representing plaintiffs in catastrophic injury cases in 1994. In 1995, he began defending corporate, insurance industry and insurance policyholder clients.
Mr. Sweetnam is a graduate of The University of Michigan and the De Paul University College of Law where he received the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law and was a member of the Journal of Art and Entertainment Law. He has written and lectured on class actions and class action litigation reform.
Mr. Sweetnam was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is married with three children, and resides in Lake Forest, Illinois.