The ABA’s 13th Annual National Institute on Class Actions, the gold standard in class action CLE conferences, is coming up this fall. This year’s format is a little different. They will be holding two sessions, one on each coast. The dates and locations are: Friday, October 30, 2009 San Francisco, CA 8:00 AM – 5:00 [...]
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Save the Date(s): 2009 National Institute on Class Actions Coming to a Coast Near You
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class action CLE, Class Action Decisions, class action jurisprudence, Class Action Trends, class actions national institute, national institute on class actions on September 7, 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 [...]
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 [...]
2008 Recap of Class Action Decisions and Trends, America Votes
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, tagged Class Action Decisions, class action reform, class action scandal, Class Action Trends, class certification, FACTA, foreign cubed, International Class Action Law, pollution class action, RICO Class Action, rule 23, scheme liability, securities fraud, tila, wage and hour class action on December 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As the new year approaches, everyone seems to be doing a “top ten” list for 2008, so of course, ClassActionBlawg has to have one too. However, this “top ten” list has two improvements. First, the rankings will be decided by reader vote. Second, and even better, it goes to 11! So, here are some key class action [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in CLE Programs, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, tagged CAFA, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, Class Action Trends on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some blog posts from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Top Stories that Are Hopefully Not Indicative of Class Action Trends Overlawyered reports on a courtroom fistfight between two lawyers pursuing rival class action suits against the same defendant: http://overlawyered.com/2008/12/new-orleans-brawl-between-class-action-lawyers/ Class Action Decisions How Appealing summarizes and [...]
Class Action Blogojevich 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, class action reform, tagged aggregate litigation, class action commentary class action scholarship, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, class certification, International Class Action Law, UDCPA on December 11, 2008 | 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 Kudos to the folks at Drug and Device Law Blog on their excellent review, with the help of O’Melveny’s John Beisner, of the most recent draft of ALI’s Principles of Aggregate Litigation: http://druganddevicelaw.blogspot.com/2008/12/umm-what-he-said.html [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
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 [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, litigation about litigation, malkovich, nested class actions, top notch class action lawyer on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Class Action Blawgosphere Review “Lay Down the Gauntlet” Challenge of the Week In Monday’s ClassActionBlawg entry, I commented about the possibility of “nested” class actions, or class actions seeking damages for breach of fiduciary duty for failing to make a claim in another securities class action. Bruce Carton of Securities Docket was quick to point out in response that not only was [...]
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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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