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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Fees, Fees, and More Fees
Posted in Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged attorney fees, attorneys fees, class action blog, class action fees, fee award, fee petition on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In another I must be living under a rock moment, for the first time this evening I came across Octagon Publishing’s Class Action Attorney Fee Digest Blawg. The Blawg, which supplements Octagon’s subscription service, Class Action Attorney Fee Digest, focuses exclusively on orders, decisions, and trends in attorneys’ fee awards in class actions. The publication’s key contributor is Harvard Law Professor [...]
In Defense of the BigLaw Blog
Posted in Off Topic, Other class action blogs, tagged amlaw 10, amlaw 100, amlaw 50, biglaw, blawg, law blog on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The guys at the Drug and Device Law Blog have a post outlining “six things we’ve heard” about why no lawyers from the ten most profitable law firms have blogs. Perhaps wisely, the’ve chosen to stay out of the fray by commenting further. I do not share their good sense. I’m completely unqualified to speak to what motivates lawyers at [...]
More on Sotomayor, Class Actions and Business
Posted in Class Action News, Other class action blogs, tagged sotomayor, supreme court nomination, supreme court nominee, u.s. supreme court, United States Supreme Court on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To follow up with yesterday’s CAB entry on Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor, here are some key quotes from other entries from around the web discussing her record in class actions and related litigation: Business Week: ”When it comes to class-action lawsuits and securities-fraud cases, Sotomayor’s record holds as a pragmatist.” http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/money_politics/archives/2009/05/sotomayor_on_di.html?chan=top%20news_top%20news%20index%20-%20temp_news%20+%20analysis (via Securities Docket) Lots, Stocks, [...]
“Class Actions in Canada”: the Source for Class Actions in Canada
Posted in International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged canada class action, canadian class action, International Class Action Law on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The loyal reader will note that ClassActionBlawg covers class action trends in other parts of the world, including Canada. But since I live about 1000 miles (or 1609.344 km) from Canada, and certainly have no license to practice law there, you have to take anything I say about trends in Canadian law with a huge grain of salt. Not so with Ward Branch’s [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged class action articles, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, class action settlement, Class Action Trends, class certification on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some blog posts from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action-Related Post of the Week Debbie Schlussel does not think too much of a class action settlement offering “victims” free makeup and perfume that the named plaintiffs’ claimed cosmetics companies cheated them out of in an [...]


Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged brinkley, CAFA, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, global coordinating counsel, mass tort litigation, securities class action, TCPA, wage and hour class action on January 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
CABWR is finally back after a three week holiday hiatus! Here are some blog posts from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions CAFA Law Blog discusses a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision addressing jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) before reversing class certification in [...]
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