Apple Taps Alabama’s Lightfoot Franklin & White for Major Cases

Apple Inc. consistently turns to Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC to defend it against class action and mass tort litigation filed in the Deep South.

The 66-lawyer litigation boutique based in Birmingham, Ala., appears on about one in every 10 of Apple’s federal docket filings for 2021, making it one of the firms the tech leader turned to the most for new litigation matters last year, according to a report prepared by Bloomberg Law’s data team.

In fact, its representation of Apple was enough to land the firm on the list of Big Tech’s most used law firms in 2021, ...