Tyler Ulrich

Tyler is an experienced litigator who focuses on complex civil litigation and high-stakes business matters, and frequently represents both plaintiffs and defendants in consumer class actions. He is valued by clients for his judgment, creativity, and tenacity in litigating challenging, high-profile, and cutting-edge cases.

Tyler’s diverse clients have included Fortune 100 companies, sovereign nations, consumers in class actions, Indian tribes, high-net-worth individuals, and individuals in pro bono cases. Tyler has extensive experience with all aspects of litigation, including early-stage strategies, dispositive motions, trial, and appeals. He has litigated, managed, arbitrated, mediated, negotiated settlements, tried to verdict, and handled appeals in significant cases across the country. Tyler also has been appointed to leadership committees in a variety of multibillion-dollar federal multidistrict litigations, including In re FTX Cryptocurrency Collapse Litigation, In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, and In re Takata Airbag Products Liability Litigation.
 
Before joining the firm, Tyler clerked several years for federal judges in New Orleans and Miami, and worked as an associate in the antitrust group of another national firm in Washington D.C. 

Tyler’s representative matters include:

• Class counsel for consumers in multidistrict litigation in the Southern District of Florida against Takata, Honda, Toyota, and other automotive companies concerning defective airbags, in which BSF has recovered over $1.5 billion dollars in settlements
• Lead counsel for Cherokee Nation in claims against McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Walgreens and other prescription drug distributors litigated in state, federal, and tribal trial courts in Oklahoma, as well the Oklahoma Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, resulting in settlements of over $130 million
• Co-lead counsel for class of FTX users seeking over $1 billion in damages in pending multidistrict litigation relating to the promotion and sale of unregistered securities
• Litigation counsel for Philip Morris USA in numerous jury trials brought by former smokers in Florida state court
• Lead counsel for United Healthcare in pending litigation against AmerisourceBergen in the District of Minnesota relating to payments for over $100 million in oncology medicine
• Trial and appellate counsel for movie production company in a two-week trial relating to the funding of a major Hollywood motion picture
• Trial counsel for an investment fund manager successfully defending against a $20 million breach-of-contract claim in AAA arbitration
   
• Class counsel for mortgage borrowers against United Wholesale Mortgage in a putative class action pending in the Eastern District of Michigan relating to overpayments for their mortgages and broker services
• Litigation and appellate counsel for major commercial real estate company in $25 million breach of contract case against Walgreens in Miami Dade County, in which BSF prevailed on summary judgment and on appeal
• Trial counsel in a two-week federal bench trial against the Bureau of Prisons in the Southern District of Florida
• Litigation counsel to Chevron in successful prosecution of a high-profile RICO lawsuit in the Southern District of New York related to defendants’ bribery of a judge in Ecuador to enter a multi-billion dollar judgment against Chevron
• Litigation and appellate counsel in Missouri mass action by cancer patients against major pharmaceutical companies relating to defective chemotherapy