A trial attorney on Tuesday pointed to a multimillion-dollar federal class action complaint against an American online retailer of pet foods and its subsidiary as an example of a rising trend in the legal industry.

“There have been more class actions against pet food companies in the last decade,” said Kathy Hardee, a Shawnee, Kansas, trial attorney not involved in the litigation. “All of these fraudulent labeling cases that I’ve seen are substantially similar to this.”