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Brent Jordan joined the firm as counsel in 2024, after many years of private practice – beginning with his first position at the Minneapolis-based law firm of Lockridge Grindal Nauen LLP and including nearly two decades with the Phoenix-based law firm of Bonnett Fairbourn Friedman & Balint, P.C. His practice has exclusively focused on representing plaintiffs located across the United States in class action and other complex litigation. He has helped prosecute class claims arising under consumer protection and antitrust statutes, environmental protection laws, and common law breach of contract, negligence, and trespass, among other claims.
A native of the Midwest, Brent has lived in Philadelphia for more than 25 years and establishes a Philadelphia presence for the firm.
Since joining the firm, Brent has become one of the lead attorneys in the firm’s representation of cardholders in the Visa Debit Card Antitrust Litigation, No. 24-cv-7435 (S.D.N.Y.), which is being prosecuted in coordination with an action brought by the United States Department of Justice.
Very early in his career, Brent helped prepare for trial in In re Catfish Antitrust Litigation, MDL 928 (N.D. Miss.) and worked in leadership roles on In re Polypropylene Carpet Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1075 (N.D. Ga.). Later, he helped lead serial class actions brought against various life insurers across the United States, bringing claims that plaintiffs were charged premiums for periods of time when no coverage was being provided. More recently, Brent helped prosecute a case which made new law after the Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled in his clients’ favor on two issues which were both a matter of first impression – that plaintiffs bringing suit under Pennsylvania’s Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act may sue to recover response costs for environmental sampling of property even without being personally responsible for those costs, and that HSCA’s listed remedies do not restrict plaintiffs from recovering future response costs.
Brent recently was first-chair questioning attorney on behalf of all class plaintiffs at key depositions of the CEO of Chaucer Group, and the CEO and Compliance Director of S.A. Meacock, in a large RICO action against Lloyd’s of London syndicates filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Brent also was lead brief writer in Wheeler v. Arkema, Inc. (S.D. Tex.), where in hard-fought litigation, plaintiffs secured class certification on behalf of a class of property owners near the site of the defendant’s chemical plant, which had released plumes of toxic substances that decimated the surrounding area after Hurricane Harvey. The case ultimately settled for injunctive relief valued at over $21 million.
Brent served a vital role in the prosecution of the West Virginia Water class action, Good v. West Virginia-American Water, No. 2:14-cv-01374 (S.D. W. Va.), which was brought after a chemical spill severely impacted the water supply to the city of Charleston, West Virginia. The case reached an approved settlement of $150 million, which represented full recovery of all claimed damages.
Brent is a former federal judicial clerk. Immediately after graduating from law school, Brent served a two-year term as law clerk for the Honorable Raymond L. Erickson, United States Magistrate Judge for United States District Court, District of Minnesota, with chambers in Duluth.
Brent has presented on civil procedure issues at bar association seminars and has been published by Philadelphia’s The Legal Intelligencer, with commentary on recent United States Supreme Court decisions. He has served as an active community volunteer, holding senior leadership positions in local organizations with the goal of helping expand access to youth sports throughout the Philadelphia area.
Brent is a member of the American Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association.