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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, December 8-9, 2011
Posted in CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged global class action, globalization, hensler, hodges, international class action, tilburg on September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The avid reader of CAB (maybe there are more than one of you now, but I don’t want to be presumptuous) will notice that I often comment on developments in class and collective actions outside the United States. If you really want to keep abreast of the exiting trends in representative and multi-party litigation around the [...]
Presentation Materials for Tomorrow’s CLE Webinar on the Supreme Court’s Dukes, Bayer, and Halliburton Decisions
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged bayer, class certification, cle, CLE program, commonality, dukes, eisen, employment class action, erica p. john fund, fraud on the market, halliburton, securities class action, smith v. bayer, webinar on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not too late to sign up for tomorrow’s Strafford Publications Webinar Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton Rulings. As a preview, here is a copy of the written materials for my portion of the presentation, Opposing Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton. I hope you can make it.
Don’t Miss this Exciting CLE Webinar: “Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton Rulings”
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged bayer, class certification, CLE program, dukes, erica p. john fund, halliburton, rule 23, scotus, smith v. bayer, Supreme Court, u.s. supreme court, wal-mart, webinar on August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
For those of you who simply can’t get enough of the Supreme Court’s recent class action rulings, I will be speaking in an upcoming live phone/web seminar sponsored by Strafford Publications entitled “Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton Rulings.” The Webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, August 30, 1:00pm-2:30pm EDT. Here is a summary: The [...]
Presentation Materials for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification
Posted in CLE Programs, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged cba cle, cle, cle colorado, dukes, Supreme Court, wal-mart on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In case you’re interested, I’m posting this link to my presentation materials for tomorrow’s CLE, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification. at the Colorado Bar Association. The materials may be a bit cryptic without the oral part of the presentation, but all the more reason to attend the program! If you are a Denver-area lawyer, I [...]
Don’t Miss Next Week’s CBA-CLE Legal Connection Program, Wal-Mart v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged 23(b)(2), class certification, classwide proof, cle, common proof, commonality, continuing legal education, daubert, disparate impact, dukes, employment class action, expert testimony, rigorous analysis, scotus, statistical evidence, Supreme Court, wal-mart on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Along with leading Colorado Employment attorney Todd J. McNamara, I’ll be presenting at a breakfast seminar at the CBA-CLE next Tuesday with the (hopefully) self-explanatory title: Wal-Mart v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification. The particulars follow below. Hope to see you there! When: July 12, 2011 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Where: CLECI Large Classroom 1900 Grant Street, Suite 300 [...]
Don’t Miss the Upcoming CBA Class Action Subsection Luncheon, “Statistics in the Courtroom”
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged cba, class action statistics, class action subsection, class certification, dukes, regression analysis, statistical evidence, wal-mart on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Colorado litigators, I hope you will consider attending our next Class Action Subsection Luncheon scheduled for next Thursday, June 30, 2011 at noon. The topic is “Statistics in the Courtroom.” I will be presenting the law, and my co-presenter, Justin Hopson of Hitachi Consulting, will be presenting the science. Among other things, we will analyze the [...]
Forget Dukes and Concepcion, Shady Grove Is Where It’s At
Posted in CLE Programs, Federal Civil Procedure, rule 23, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged class action, erie doctrine, federal preemption, frcp 23, hanna, preemption, procedural, rule 23, shady grove, substantive, Supreme Court on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After the all the activity in the Supreme Court during the October 2010 term, why would anyone want to talk about a decision from the October 2009 term? Isn’t that kind of like showing off your new Blackberry Curve the day after they unveil the iPhone 4? I prefer to think about it this way–it’s like [...]

