For those who can’t make the live presentation, or those who simply can’t wait until tomorrow, here are the Program Slides for tomorrow’s Strafford webinar, Class Action Settlement Objectors, Minimizing and Defending Challenges by Professional Objectors, Government Officials and Public Interest Groups. We hope you can make it!
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Presentation Materials for Tomorrow’s Webinar on Class Action Objectors
Posted in CLE Programs, Practice Tips, tagged class action, class action objector, class action settlement, greenmail, professional objector, strafford on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Don’t Miss Tuesday’s Strafford CLE Webinar on Class Action Objectors
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class action objector, class action settlement, class certification, final approval, government objector, greenmail, professional objector, public interest objector, rule 23 on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It’s not too late to sign up for next Tuesday’s Strafford CLE Webinar entitled Class Action Settlement Objectors, Minimizing and Defending Challenges by Professional Objectors, Government Officials and Public Interest Groups. Here is a link to the registration page for the webinar, and see the synopsis below. New Jersey Appellate Law Blog‘s Bruce Greenberg and I will be the [...]
Notes From the 15th Annual National Institute on Class Actions
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged at&t, AT&T Mobility, class action, class action notice, class action trial, class notice, concepcion, discover bank, dukes, empire cases, iqbal, kinsella, national institute, objector, plain language notice, professional objector, twombly, wal-mart, weinstein, wheatman on October 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was not able to attend the ABA National Institute on Class Actions program in New York City last week, but class action notice expert and occasional CAB contributor, Dr. Shannon R. Wheatman, Vice President, Kinsella Media (swheatman@kinsellamedia.com), was there and she graciously agreed to send me her notes of what sounds like another great [...]
BNA Article: Class Action Settlement Objectors: Minor Nuisance or Serious Threat to Approval?
Posted in Articles, Practice Tips, tagged attorney general, bna, bna reporter, class action, class action settlement, fairness hearing, final approval, government objector, non-profit objector, nonprofit objector, objector, professional objector, public interest objector, settlement objector on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who hadn’t already seen it, here is a link to an article that Raj Chohan and I co-authored entitled Class Action Settlement Objectors: Minor Nuisance or Serious Threat to Approval? which was published in both the BNA Product Safety Reporter & Liability and Class Action Litigation Report several weeks ago. I had asked for and received [...]
Public Interest Objectors in Class Action Settlements
Posted in Articles, Class Action Settlements, Practice Tips, tagged appropriate government official, class action notice, class action settlement, coupon settlement, cy pres, nonprofit objector, organized objector, professional objector, public interest objector, reversion on April 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Recently, I have commented on two types of objectors in class action settlements. This March 31 entry discusses the problem of so-called “professional” objectors. And this April 12 entry addresses objections raised by government officials. There is at least one other type of organized objectors to class action settlements: public interest organizations. (I use the term “organized objectors” to distinguish these types [...]
Warding Off “Professional” Objectors to Class Action Settlements
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Settlements, Commentary, Practice Tips, tagged class action, class action reform, class action settlement, collusion, objection, predatory, professional objector, settlement notice on March 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Legal commentator and unabashed crusader for class action reform, Lawrence W. Schonbrun, has a new article on The Huffington Post discussing so-called “professional” objectors in class action lawsuits. Schonbrun criticizes what he believes is hypocrisy in plaintiffs’ class action lawyers attempting to vilify those who seek to object to class action settlements for profit because, in his view, many class [...]
I Object, Unless You Pay Me … One Million Dollars!
Posted in Articles, class action reform, Class Action Trends, Commentary, Practice Tips, tagged class action objection, class certification, objector blackmail, professional objector, quick-pay, settlement approval on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vanderbilt law professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick has published a great new research paper titled The End of Objector Blackmail? The paper discusses the problems of objectors blackmailing the parties to a class action settlement into paying them a portion of the fees at the threat of holding up final approval and resolution of the settlement. Professor Fitzpatrick [...]
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BNA Reporter Article, Class Action Settlement Objectors: Minor Nuisance or Serious Threat to Final Approval?
Posted in Articles, Commentary, tagged bna reporter, class action objection, class action objector, class action settlement, fairness hearing, final approval, objection deadline, objector, professional objector, public interest objector on August 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Raj Chohan and I recently co-authored an article entitled Class Action Settlement Objectors: Minor Nuisance or Serious Threat to Final Approval?, which appears on page 739 of the July 11, 2011 edition of the BNA Product Safety & Liability Reporter. The article is only available online to subscribers, but the publisher gave me a box [...]
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