About Terence Coates
Terry Coates, the firm's managing partner, focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, class action litigation, and sports and entertainment law. He is Ohio's leading data privacy class action attorney for plaintiffs, having participated as counsel in over 100 data privacy class actions across state and federal courts nationwide. Terry is frequently appointed class counsel in data privacy and consumer protection class actions. His settlements include a $12.225 million data privacy class action (Advocate Aurora Health), an $8.9 million settlement (Tracy v. Elekta), and numerous others ranging from $700,000 to over $8 million.
In consumer protection class actions, he obtained settlements of $4.25 million and $3.65 million against treadmill manufacturers. He also served as special counsel for the State of Ohio in actions against Monsanto ($80 million settlement in 2022) and DuPont ($110 million settlement in 2023). Terry has long represented athletes and entertainers, including working as personal counsel for NBA legends Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell in the landmark NCAA name, image, and likeness antitrust case that resulted in a $40 million settlement with Electronic Arts and a permanent injunction against the NCAA.
Proven verdicts and settlements
After nearly 30 years of litigation, Markovits Stock and DeMarco secured a $742 million-plus-interest settlement for approximately 23,000 Navistar retirees whose healthcare and life insurance benefits had been repeatedly reduced.
A seven-year civil RICO and antitrust class action against Duke Energy Ohio over a secret rebate scheme that favored roughly two dozen large industrial customers at the expense of about one million residential and small-business ratepayers settled for $80.875 million, with Bill Markovits and Paul DeMarco serving as lead co-counsel.
A consolidated federal class action alleging that Advocate Aurora Health secretly shared sensitive patient data with Meta and Google through hidden tracking pixels settled for $12.225 million, with Terence Coates and Dylan Gould of Markovits Stock and DeMarco serving as co-lead class counsel.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
