Caddell & Chapman has worked hard to attain a strong reputation for integrity and excellence, even while pursuing difficult and sometimes controversial cases. As Federal District Judge W. Royal Furgeson, Jr. noted during a hearing.

“Mr. Caddell, you and your office have a gold-plated reputation as good and thorough and thoughtful lawyers.”

As United States Bankruptcy Judge Alan H. W. Shiff in Connecticut noted during a contested motion to appoint Michael Caddell as Special Counsel to the Britestar Bankruptcy Estate,

“I think he’s got a national reputation he’s competent.”

“Mr. Caddell appeared before the Court and my recollection is that he comported himself very well.”

Steven Mackey, from the Office of the United States Trustee, Region 2, for the District of Connecticut commented in the same hearing,

“Mr. Caddell is more than competent, he is a pugnacious bulldog and where there is [sic] grounds to make a recovery he usually does.” He then noted, “where the fire is the hottest people tend to get scorched sometimes, and Mr. Caddell takes cases where it is as hot as it gets.”

Even while representing their clients zealously, Caddell & Chapman have maintained an excellent reputation as ethical lawyers. Ethics author and Professor Geoffrey Hazard noted, having “worked with lawyers” at “Caddell & Chapman over the years in various matters,” that Caddell & Chapman’s lawyers “have consistently demonstrated the most proper ethical standards, including those applicable in class suit litigation,” and that their conduct “exemplifies high ethical concern.”

Harvard Professor William Rubenstein, frequent class-action commentator and sole author of Newberg on Class Actions, characterized Caddell & Chapman as “experienced” and “skilled class action attorneys,” and acknowledged Michael Caddell as a “nationally-known plaintiffs’ attorney,”[1] when Professor Rubenstein was serving as an expert for Toshiba in another of Caddell & Chapman’s numerous national class action recoveries.

Prominent class-action expert Professor Geoffrey Miller, in commenting on Caddell & Chapman’s work in In Re: Trans Union Corp. Privacy Litigation, the largest FCRA Settlement in history (where Michael Caddell served as Co-Lead Settlement Counsel and Cynthia Chapman was the principal author of the settlement structure), stated,

“Having worked closely with [Caddell & Chapman], I can also attest that they are among the finest class action attorneys I have been privileged to know during my two decades of experience in this field of law. They not only possess excellent analytical and rhetorical skills, but-more importantly-displayed remarkable qualities of judgment, imagination and persistence.”

Similarly, in May of 2013, in conjunction with his analysis of the work done by Caddell & Chapman in the In Re: Navistar Diesel Engine Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2223 in Chicago (where Michael Caddell served as Lead Counsel and Cynthia Chapman chaired the Law Committee), Professor Miller attested: “I am familiar with the Lead Counsel, Caddell & Chapman, and consider the attorneys at that firm to be among the finest class action attorneys I have encountered in more than a quarter century of work in this area,” “I know Counsel to be highly ethical attorneys,” and “Lead Counsel, with the assistance of the Court, performed admirably.”