Kenneth M. Kliebard

He litigates such consumer protection statutes as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), the RICO Act, the Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA), the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), California’s Business and Professions Code § 17200, state consumer protection and UDAP laws, the Sherman Antitrust Act, Robinson-Patman Act, and state privacy laws. He also advises companies about data protection and cybersecurity, and guides their responses to data breaches. Ken also has significant experience litigating tax controversies.  

Clients facing novel and complex legal issues turn to Ken for representation. He has won full dismissals, defeated class certification, and obtained favorable summary judgment results in significant class action matters.

Ken has appeared on major news outlets to explain complicated legal issues.  He has spoken to CNBC, The National Law Journal, The Recorder, and Product Liability Law360, as well as various trade publications. He writes articles on computer and technology law, and often speaks to bar associations and other groups about computer crime, electronic discovery, and consumer arbitration clauses.

• Successfully represented a major French bank in U.S. proceedings stemming from the bankruptcy of a large Chicago hospital, for which the bank had provided $124 million in financing, as a result of the fraud of the hospital’s CEO. We successfully obtained a judgment against the CEO. In post-judgment execution proceedings, we obtained tens of millions of dollars of assets, most of which has been hidden by the CEO in off-shore bank accounts, secreted in the names of nominees or sham entities, and hidden in offshore trusts created for the CEO’s children.
• Successfully represented the same bank in a federal civil lawsuit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act against the law firm which facilitated the scheme of its hospital’s CEO by establishing fraudulent trusts and partnerships and laundering money through use of offshore accounts. After the court denied a motion to dismiss our RICO complaint, we obtained a very favorable settlement for client. The matter was also referred by the court to the United States Attorneys’ office for a criminal investigation.
• Represent one of the largest U.S. banks in designing and implementing that bank’s asset recovery policies and procedures. Our work includes surveying and analyzing asset recovery laws and procedures in all fifty states in the United States, assisting the client in cost-benefit analyses, advising the client on compliance with state and federal laws concerning asset recovery requirements to aid the client in its pre-lawsuit collection efforts, and preparing court documents for use in asset recovery proceedings.