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Last July, in an entry titled Incentive Awards Ok, but Not Incentive Agreements, I commented on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Rodriguez v. West Publishing Corp.   In Rodriguez, the Ninth Circuit panel condemned the use incentive agreements in class actions.  The incentive agreements were engagement agreements between the law firm and the named class representatives that called for the attorneys to seek [...]

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It’s that time of the week already.  Here are some blog postings from the past week that might be of interest to class action practitioners.  The fallout from several plaintiffs’ class action corruption scandals took center stage in the class action blogosphere this week. Mass Tort Litigation Blog discusses the sentencing of plaintiffs’ class action lawyer Melvyn Weiss… http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mass_tort_litigation/2008/06/mel-weiss-recei.html [...]

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