This is the sixth and final installment of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4, and Session 5. Paths to (Mass) Justice To wrap up the conference, Dr. Sam [...]
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Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 6 – Paths to (Mass) Justice
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged Class Action Trends, collective action, collective redress, european class action, european collective action, international class action, mass harm, mass injury, mass tort, prediction on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Presentation Materials for Tomorrow’s Webinar on Class Action Objectors
Posted in CLE Programs, Practice Tips, tagged class action, class action objector, class action settlement, greenmail, professional objector, strafford on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
For those who can’t make the live presentation, or those who simply can’t wait until tomorrow, here are the Program Slides for tomorrow’s Strafford webinar, Class Action Settlement Objectors, Minimizing and Defending Challenges by Professional Objectors, Government Officials and Public Interest Groups. We hope you can make it!
Don’t Miss Tuesday’s Strafford CLE Webinar on Class Action Objectors
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class action objector, class action settlement, class certification, final approval, government objector, greenmail, professional objector, public interest objector, rule 23 on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It’s not too late to sign up for next Tuesday’s Strafford CLE Webinar entitled Class Action Settlement Objectors, Minimizing and Defending Challenges by Professional Objectors, Government Officials and Public Interest Groups. Here is a link to the registration page for the webinar, and see the synopsis below. New Jersey Appellate Law Blog‘s Bruce Greenberg and I will be the [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 5 – Who Has Jurisdiction in a Global Market?
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged cashman, chevron, globalization, gomez, groenewout, hensler, international class action, international mdl, lago agrio, mdl, multi-national, multi-national class action, scheurleer, securities, sour lake, texaco, toxic tort, transnational, transnational class action on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This is the fifth in a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, and Session 4. Who Has Jurisdiction in a Global Market? This presentation was chaired by Professor Deborah Hensler, Stanford [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 4 – Giving Away Money
Posted in Class Action Settlements, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged 9/11, agent orange, altena, bp, compensation program, des, feinberg, gulf coast, indian residential schools, iran, iraq, irs, kalajdzic, kuwait, mass claims, mass tort, mcgovern, reparation, rough justice, september 11, settlement fund, united nations, wuhler on December 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This is the fourth in a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1, Session 2, and Session 3. Giving Away Money: Calculating Damages & Allocating Damages Professor Francis McGovern, Duke University Law School chaired this [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session II – Who’s Paying?
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged attorney fees, attorneys fees, australia, cameron, cartel claims, class action, class action funding, collective litigation, cost shifting, european class action, fee shifting, foris, hodges, ilf, IMF, international class action, litigation funder, litigation funding, loser pays, Meincke, netherlands, omni bridgeway, private litigation funder, schreiber, vaughn walker, wieling on December 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This is part II of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. For the introduction, see part I posted yesterday. Who’s Paying? New Developments in Funding Professor Christopher Hodges, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford/Erasmus University (and a co-sponsor and co-founder of the conference) [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session I – The Challenge of Mass Communications
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, Uncategorized, tagged aggregated action, class action, collective action, dexia, dutch class action, european class action, globalization, international class action, mass action, mass communication, PR, public relations, taco bell on December 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation was even better than advertised. It was an engaging and enlightened gathering of the world’s top experts in the areas of class, collective, and mass litigation. And what better environment to have a conference on developments in international law than at the beautiful and historic Raad [...]
Notes From the 15th Annual National Institute on Class Actions
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged at&t, AT&T Mobility, class action, class action notice, class action trial, class notice, concepcion, discover bank, dukes, empire cases, iqbal, kinsella, national institute, objector, plain language notice, professional objector, twombly, wal-mart, weinstein, wheatman on October 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was not able to attend the ABA National Institute on Class Actions program in New York City last week, but class action notice expert and occasional CAB contributor, Dr. Shannon R. Wheatman, Vice President, Kinsella Media (swheatman@kinsellamedia.com), was there and she graciously agreed to send me her notes of what sounds like another great [...]
Don’t Forget to Sign Up for Our Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions, this Thursday at 1:00 PM EDT
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged class actions, daubert, dukes, expert testimony, regression analysis, statistical, statistics, wal-mart on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not too late to sign up for this Thursday’s Strafford Publications Webinar, entitled Statistics in Class Action Litigation: Admissibility and the Impact of Wal-Mart v. Dukes. Click the link on the title of the program for more information and to sign up. For anyone looking for sneak preview, here are the program materials, which [...]
Don’t Miss the Upcoming Strafford CLE Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class actions, class certification, daubert, descriptive statistics, dukes, expert testimony, expert witness, inferential statistics, regression analysis, shreck, statistical evidence, statistician, statistics, wal-mart on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m very excited to be speaking at an upcoming Strafford Publications CLE webinar entitled: Statistics in Class Action Litigation: Admissibility and the Impact of Wal-Mart v. Dukes. The program is scheduled for Thursday, October 6, at 1:00pm-2:30pm EDT. This is a beefed up version of a presentation that Justin Hopson and I did for the Colorado Bar Association class actions [...]

