Charles B. Casper

Charles B. Casper is a member of Montgomery McCracken's Litigation Department. His practice emphasizes the defense of consumer and antitrust class actions, computer software and hardware litigation, insurance coverage litigation, complex commercial litigation and environmental litigation.

Since 1993, Chuck has served as class action counsel to Microsoft Corporation in class actions in federal and state courts across the country, including consumer and indirect-purchaser antitrust class actions.

Courts in California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Illinois, Louisiana, Alabama and Colorado have dismissed nationwide class actions on motion or denied nationwide class certification in cases involving Microsoft's most widely used software, hardware and services: Windows Vista, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98, Windows 95 (two cases), MS-DOS 6.0 (three cases), the Microsoft Network (MSN) (five cases), Xbox (four cases) and Zune. Courts in Michigan and Maine denied statewide class certification in three indirect-purchaser antitrust cases challenging Microsoft Windows and Office. Several of these cases have resulted in published opinions.

Chuck has also represented companies and their directors in a variety of other industries including computer hardware and software, pharmaceuticals, health care, retailing, heavy truck manufacturing, lease financing, and alarm systems in class actions and significant individual cases.

Chuck was previously a member of the Firm's Management Committee.

Chuck received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.