Hilary Hehman, Senior Research Analyst, Office of Court Research, Judicial Council of California, offered the following comment today, which deserves its own entry: The Judicial Council of California just released the first in a series of reports detailing the findings of a study of class action litigation in California state courts. The first interim report [...]
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Judicial Council of California Report on Class Action Trends Released
Posted in Class Action Trends, Lawyers' Resources, Reports and Surveys on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Report Offers Nice Summary of Class Action Trends from 2008
Posted in Class Action Trends, Reports and Surveys, tagged Class Action Decisions, class action issues, Class Action Trends, gibson dunn report on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a class action defense lawyer in an Am Law 100 law firm, I usually don’t make it a practice to highlight the class action publications of competing U.S. firms, but Gibson Dunn & Crutcher‘s year-end class action report is such a great resource that I had to make an exception. The report, published earlier this month, highlights statistical [...]
Intriguing Online Resource Provides a Forum for Sharing Information about Judges
Posted in Lawyers' Resources, Reports and Surveys, tagged judge, judge background, judge ranking, judge research, judicial performance, judicial ranking on January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Every once in a while I actually open one of those seemingly hundreds of spam emails that I get from legal publishers each week. Today, I had the even rarer occasion to come across one that was advertising a resource I might actually use. The resource in question is a website called The Robing Room, operated by North Law Publishers, Inc. With [...]
Where Not to Get Sued
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, Reports and Surveys, tagged class action reform, judicial hellhole, tort reform on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Legal Blog Watch has a new post from Robert J. Ambrogi up today summarizing the latest edition of the American Tort Reform Association‘s annual “Judicial Hellholes” rankings for 2008-09 (see the link on the executive summary page for the full report). Class action lawyers won’t be too surprised by the “honorees” on this year’s list. One [...]
Class Action Exposure for Failing to Claim Benefits in a Class Action Settlement?
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Reports and Surveys, tagged asian class action, class action survey, fiduciary duty, International Class Action Law, nested class actions, securities class action on November 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
According to Sundeep Tucker of the Financial Times, a recent study by the Goal Group, a UK-based “class action services specialist,” found that Asian institutional investors were not taking advantage of settlement funds available in U.S. securities class action settlements. The article points to a cultural aversion to “corporate confrontation” and perceptions about the complexity of the claims process [...]
UK’s Civil Justice Council Recommends US-Style Procedures for Collective Actions
Posted in Class Action Legislation, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Reports and Surveys, tagged British class action, civil justice council, class action reform, collective action, cy pres, european class action reform, International Class Action Law, UK class action, UK collective action on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As reported today in the UK trade publication Professional Pensions, the Civil Justice Council, a governmental advisory committee charged with studying and recommending policy decisions relating to civil justice issues, issued a report earlier this month recommending that enhanced collective action procedures be adopted in the British civil courts. The procedures, if adopted, would include many of the [...]
Institute for Litigation Reform: “America’s securities class action system is broken . . .”
Posted in Class Action Legislation, class action reform, Class Action Trends, Reports and Surveys, tagged Class Action Legislation, class action reform, class action statistics, securities class actions, SLAATA, U.S. Chamber of Commerce on July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Two news sources reported today on a forum sponsored by the Manhattan Institute to discuss a research paper releaseed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute of Legal Reform (ILR). See the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch section and an American Lawyer article by Brian Baxter posted on Law.com. The report and press release is available for [...]
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Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, Reports and Surveys, tagged CAFA, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, class certification decision, ERISA Class Action, International Class Action Law, securities class action, transnational class action on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CABWR Challenge of the Week Recap I’m very disappointed to have to report that last week’s “Lay Down the Gauntlet” Challenge of the Week did not generate a single vote or comment. This means that I must arbitrarily assign a label for class actions filed against institutional investors for failing to make a claim in another [...]
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