I’m still on the road with plans to return to Denver later today, but in the interest of keeping the loyal reader completely up to date on the latest in class action news, here are a couple of quick items: This Vancouver Sun article summarizes a NERA Consulting report on trends in securities class action litigation continues [...]
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Class Action News Tidbits
Posted in Class Action News, tagged canadian class action, Class Action News, kickback scandal on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, Practice Tips, tagged blawg review, blog review, class action blawg, class action blog, class action scandals, kickback scandal on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Class action settlement issues provided fuel for commentary in the class action blogosphere this week, and there was still plenty of analysis and debate about the recent class action lawyer scandals. Here are links to those and other blog postings that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Settlements Wage Law analyzes a series of recent decisions [...]


Robin Hood as a Lawyer’s Role Model
Posted in Class Action News, Commentary, tagged class action scandal, david bershad, fee splitting, kickback scandal, legal ethics, Milberg Weiss, securities class action, steven schulman, william lerach on October 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
AP writer Greg Risling reported today on the sentencing of former Milberg Weiss partners Steven Schulman and David Bershad for their roles in a scheme involving the payment of kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities class actions. Both lawyers were sentenced to six month prison terms. The scandal involved paying class representatives a portion of the oftentimes multi-million dollar legal fee awards obtained as [...]
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