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) [...]
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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, International Class Action Law, CLE Programs, 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 »
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 [...]
Can You Just “Double it and Add 30″ to Get to a Reasonable Fee Award?
Posted in Civil Rights Class Actions, Class Action Decisions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged attorneys fees, class action attorneys fee, fee award, fee shifting, lodestar, Supreme Court, u.s. supreme court on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to SCOTUS Blog, the ABA Journal, and other sources (see the citations within Debra Cassens Weiss’s ABA Journal article), the U.S. Supreme Court has accepted certiorari in Perdue v. Kenny A., et al., Case No. 08-970. The appeal involves an attorneys fee award to attorneys who successfully prosecuted a class action on behalf of thousands of foster children in Georgia’s [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged attorneys fees, blawg review, blog review, CAFA, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, class action publicity, class action review, Class Action Trends, fee sharing, fee splitting, International Class Action Law on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions The UCL Practitioner quotes a recent California Court of Appeal decision reversing a trial court’s order denying class certification on the ground that the court had not allowed pre-certification discovery of the identity of [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged attorneys fees, blawg review, blog review, canadian class action law, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, class action review, Class Action Trends, class certification on September 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions Law and Insurance discusses a recent Texas Supreme Court decision holding that a duty to defend was triggered in the context of class actions in which the plaintiffs argued that an alleged product [...]
Private Litigation Funding Catching on in Loser Pays Jurisdictions
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, Securities Class Actions, tagged attorneys fees, australian class action, award of costs, award of fees, International Class Action Law, litigation funding, loser pays, securities class action, UK collective action on September 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Litigation funding by private corporations other than law firms or individuals who are not lawyers is generally prohibited here in the US, but the concept is catching on overseas, especially in jurisdictions that have a “loser pays” rule for allocating fees and costs. This recent entry from The D&O Diary summarizes an article predicting that the ability to assign of [...]
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Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged attorneys fees, blawg review, blog review, CAFA, CAFA removal, class action articles, class action blog, class action commentary, Class Action News, class action scandals, Class Action Settlements, Class Action Trends, parens patriae on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions For a “brief” commentary on a case addressing the removability under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of a class action counterclaim by a plaintiff/counterclaim defendant, see this guest commentary from Dallas attorney Jonathan Bridges [...]
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