The Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Blog is constantly putting out quality content, but they have two new recent posts that I would especially recommend to my readers. They include: This February 6 post from John Lewis discussing the impacts, both on employment cases and otherwise, of the Second Circuit’s recent Amex III decision. This February [...]
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Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Blog – Much More than Quality Employment Class Actions News
Posted in Class Action Trends, Federal Civil Procedure, Federal Court Decisions, Lawyers' Resources, Other class action blogs, tagged american express merchants, amex III, arbitration, class action, compucredit, concepcion, employment class action, FAA, federal arbitration act, federal common law, federal statutory law, greenwood, iqbal, lewis, mersol, pleading, rule 8, scalia, twombly, unconscionability on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Trask’s Key Insights from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions
Posted in Commentary, Other class action blogs, tagged classactioncountermeasures, global class action, International Class Action Law, trask on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fellow class action blogger and defense lawyer Andrew Trask has posted some key insights from his notes of the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions, on his excellent blog, ClassActionCountermeasures. I had the pleasure of finally meeting Andrew in person at the conference, and he was every bit as engaging in person as he is [...]
Vote for TheRacetotheBottom.org in the Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100 Competition
Posted in Other class action blogs, tagged aba journal, blawg, corporate governance, securities class action on December 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have to put in a little pitch for one of the many worthy blogs nominated for the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 awards this year. I must admit my bias. TheRacetotheBottom.org is edited by one of my favorite law school professors, Jay Brown, and the contributors are students and other faculty from my alma mater, the University [...]
Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Newsletter Highlights Key Class Action Developments
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged arbitration, AT&T Mobility, Baker Hostetler, class action, class action waiver, class arbitration, class arbitration waiver, class certification, concepcion, daubert, dukes, expert testimony, FAA, wal-mart on October 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s edition of the Baker Hostetler Employment Class Actions Newsletter has two great articles worth noting. My colleague here in Denver, Holli Hartman, authored an article summarizing developments in challenges to class arbitration waivers following the Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion. Cleveland Partner Greg Mersol and Summer Associate George Skupski contributed an entry examining the application [...]
Don’t Miss the Class Action Symposium on SCOTUSblog
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Commentary, Other class action blogs, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged class action, class action symposium, Class Action Trends, class certification, dukes, erica p. john fund, halliburton, scotus, smith v. bayer, Supreme Court, wal-mart on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The award-winning U.S. Supreme Court blog SCOTUSblog is presenting a symposium on recent Supreme Court developments in the area of class actions that you won’t want to miss. Click here for an introduction to the symposium and here to see a list of the various contributions as they are released. I’m extremely honored to be listed [...]
More on Colorado Class Action Trends from the Wash Park Prophet
Posted in Class Action Trends, Colorado Class Action News, Other class action blogs, tagged class action judges, class action litigation, Class Action Trends, colorado class action, colorado class action filings on December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In October, Colorado attorney and Wash Park Prophet blogger Andrew Oh-Willeke asked whether there were any statistics on class action filing in the state and federal courts in Colorado. I responded by providing the raw data on class action filings that I could find through the Court News Service (see October 15, 2010, CAB Post entitled Colorado [...]
Baker Hostetler Employment Group Launches Employment Class Action Blog
Posted in Employment Class Actions, Other class action blogs, tagged amlaw 100, amlaw 200, baker & hosetler, Baker Hostetler, employment class action, employment litigation, lexblog on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With the help of Kevin O’Keefe’s LexBlog, Baker Hostetler’s employment group has come blazing into the world of 21st century social media with its new law blog, aptly named Employment Class Action Blog. The quality entries submitted so far include case summaries, practice tips, legislative updates, and analysis covering a variety of employment class action-related topics. [...]
Class Action Countermeasures: Practice Tips for Class Action Defense Lawyers and their Clients
Posted in Other class action blogs, tagged class action blog, class action countermeasures, class action strategy on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew J. Trask (twitterfeed: @classstrategist) of the international law firm, McGuire Woods, has a great new legal blog called Class Action Countermeasures. The blog’s tagline is “Discussions of the Strategic Considerations Involved in Class Action Defense,” and it definitely lives up to that promise. Here’s just a sample of the titles of insightful articles published on [...]
Bulletproof Blog Offers Expert Insight on Key Canadian Class Action Trend
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged canada class action, canadian class action, ontario class action, securities class action on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the latest installment of Bulletproof Blog‘s series on class action trends from the plaintiffs’ perspective, Larry Smith interviews Canadian lawyer Won Kim. Kim discusses a recent Ontario court ruling that allows U.S. plaintiffs’ firms to provide administrative support and legal expertise to their Canadian counterparts for class action litigation in Canada. For the complete [...]


Demanding More from Outside Counsel
Posted in Commentary, Other class action blogs, rule 23, tagged class action, constitutional law, constitutionality, herrmann, legal theory, outside counsel, redish, rule 23, trends on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Herrmann, former contributor to Drug and Device Law Blog and Vice President and Chief Counsel for Litigation at Aon, Inc., recently authored and entertaining and enlightening post in the legal industry blog, Above The Law. In Inside Straight, Torpedoing Class Actions, Herrmann highlighted a 2009 book by Northwestern Law’s Martin Redish entitled Wholesale Justice: Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class [...]
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