Donald R. Frederico, Esq.
Don Frederico has practiced law in Massachusetts and represented clients in courts nationally for more than 40 years. For more than 25 years, he has focused his practice on class actions. He has chaired the class action practices of national and regional law firms, served on the Planning Committee for the ABA's National Institute on Class Actions, and taught Class Action Law at Cornell Law School and Boston College Law School.
Don has handled a wide range of class action and other complex litigation matters for his clients. He served as lead national class action counsel for the "phentermine" defendants in the Diet Drug ("fen-phen") MDL, and has appeared before the Joint Panel on Multi-District Litigation in other class action cases. He has successfully opposed class certification motions and brought and opposed motions to exclude the testimony of scientific and economic experts in class actions and mass tort litigation. Don also has negotiated, drafted, and obtained approval of class action settlements in a variety of federal and state courts.
Don frequently publishes and presents on class action topics. He has co-authored the First Circuit chapter in the American Bar Association's Survey of Federal Class Action Law, and the Massachusetts chapter in the ABA's A Practitioner's Guide to Class Actions, and co-hosted and served as a guest on the ABA's class action podcast, "Common Questions."
Don is a past President of the Boston Bar Association, the immediate past President of the Cornell Law School Alumni Board, and the former Board Chair of his undergraduate college, the College of Wooster. You can find his more detailed biography here.