A boutique that saw its genesis when two litigators calved off from a Los Angeles boutique, DTO Law is the new platform for William Delgado and Megan O’Neill. With ambitions to expand their reach and client base beyond California, the pair have teamed up with a transactional partner to forge a more diversified shop while remaining at the forefront of novel litigation matters for which clients have sought them out. The firm provides counsel to Honda on a regular basis, for example. Most recently, Delgado and O’Neill
represent this client in two nationwide automotive class actions, which have been consolidated into one case. The complaints all assert the same core allegation: Honda knowingly sold millions of vehicles containing defective fuel pumps without disclosing the defect to consumers. The DTO pair also represented The Bountiful Company (formerly Nature’s Bounty) in a putative class action alleging “fish oil” supplement labels are false and misleading under New York and California law because of certain manufacturing processes. The duo filed a motion to dismiss on the basis that “fish oil” is the common name of the product, making plaintiffs’ claims preempted, and this was granted in March 2023. O’Neill secured a major victory for HP in a putative class action filed in the Northern District of California when a court ruled that the plaintiff could not represent a nationwide class – but, instead, only consumers from the state of New York. The complaint alleged that, through their “Instant Ink” subscription program, HP is unable to replace ink cartridges in a timely manner and misleads subscribers by claiming they will “never run out of ink.”
