Retired Former Partners
William T. Payne
Bill Payne—one of the founding partners of FDPK—retired in June 2024, after more than 45 years of practicing law. Throughout his career, Bill served as counsel for retirees or employees in more than one hundred class action lawsuits throughout the United States. Many of his lawsuits challenged cuts in company-provided retiree health care benefits. In…
Ellen M. Doyle
Ellen Doyle—one of the founding partners of FDPK—retired in December 2021, after more than 46 years of practicing law. Throughout her career, Ellen litigated complex class actions against many large financial and corporate defendants in federal and state courts and represented ERISA plan participants, insureds, borrowers, consumers and others adversely affected by corporate abuses and…
“Both classes would have been hard-pressed to find someone with greater experience in handling class actions.”
6th Circuit on Bill Payne
UAW v. General Motors Corp.,
497 F.3d 615, 626 (6th Cir. 2007).