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 [...]
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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 »
Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Newsletter Highlights Key Class Action Developments
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged arbitration, AT&T Mobility, Baker Hostetler, class action, class action waiver, class arbitration, class arbitration waiver, class certification, concepcion, daubert, dukes, expert testimony, FAA, wal-mart on October 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s edition of the Baker Hostetler Employment Class Actions Newsletter has two great articles worth noting. My colleague here in Denver, Holli Hartman, authored an article summarizing developments in challenges to class arbitration waivers following the Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion. Cleveland Partner Greg Mersol and Summer Associate George Skupski contributed an entry examining the application [...]
Don’t Forget to Sign Up for Our Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions, this Thursday at 1:00 PM EDT
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged class actions, daubert, dukes, expert testimony, regression analysis, statistical, statistics, wal-mart on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not too late to sign up for this Thursday’s Strafford Publications Webinar, entitled Statistics in Class Action Litigation: Admissibility and the Impact of Wal-Mart v. Dukes. Click the link on the title of the program for more information and to sign up. For anyone looking for sneak preview, here are the program materials, which [...]
Class Actions Won’t Die this Easily
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged arbitration, AT&T Mobility, class action, concepcion, death knell, dukes, Supreme Court, wal-mart on September 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
UPI contributor Michael Kirkland published a recent article entitled Is Class Action on Its Last Shaky Legs, in which he quotes several legal experts as predicting that the Supreme Court’s recent rulings in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes and AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion could spell the end of the class action lawsuit. But, near the end of [...]
Don’t Miss the Upcoming Strafford CLE Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class actions, class certification, daubert, descriptive statistics, dukes, expert testimony, expert witness, inferential statistics, regression analysis, shreck, statistical evidence, statistician, statistics, wal-mart on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m very excited to be speaking at an upcoming Strafford Publications CLE webinar entitled: Statistics in Class Action Litigation: Admissibility and the Impact of Wal-Mart v. Dukes. The program is scheduled for Thursday, October 6, at 1:00pm-2:30pm EDT. This is a beefed up version of a presentation that Justin Hopson and I did for the Colorado Bar Association class actions [...]
Don’t Miss the Class Action Symposium on SCOTUSblog
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Commentary, Other class action blogs, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged class action, class action symposium, Class Action Trends, class certification, dukes, erica p. john fund, halliburton, scotus, smith v. bayer, Supreme Court, wal-mart on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The award-winning U.S. Supreme Court blog SCOTUSblog is presenting a symposium on recent Supreme Court developments in the area of class actions that you won’t want to miss. Click here for an introduction to the symposium and here to see a list of the various contributions as they are released. I’m extremely honored to be listed [...]
Don’t Miss this Exciting CLE Webinar: “Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton Rulings”
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged bayer, class certification, CLE program, dukes, erica p. john fund, halliburton, rule 23, scotus, smith v. bayer, Supreme Court, u.s. supreme court, wal-mart, webinar on August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
For those of you who simply can’t get enough of the Supreme Court’s recent class action rulings, I will be speaking in an upcoming live phone/web seminar sponsored by Strafford Publications entitled “Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton Rulings.” The Webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, August 30, 1:00pm-2:30pm EDT. Here is a summary: The [...]
Presentation Materials for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification
Posted in CLE Programs, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged cba cle, cle, cle colorado, dukes, Supreme Court, wal-mart on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In case you’re interested, I’m posting this link to my presentation materials for tomorrow’s CLE, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification. at the Colorado Bar Association. The materials may be a bit cryptic without the oral part of the presentation, but all the more reason to attend the program! If you are a Denver-area lawyer, I [...]
Don’t Miss Next Week’s CBA-CLE Legal Connection Program, Wal-Mart v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged 23(b)(2), class certification, classwide proof, cle, common proof, commonality, continuing legal education, daubert, disparate impact, dukes, employment class action, expert testimony, rigorous analysis, scotus, statistical evidence, Supreme Court, wal-mart on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Along with leading Colorado Employment attorney Todd J. McNamara, I’ll be presenting at a breakfast seminar at the CBA-CLE next Tuesday with the (hopefully) self-explanatory title: Wal-Mart v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification. The particulars follow below. Hope to see you there! When: July 12, 2011 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Where: CLECI Large Classroom 1900 Grant Street, Suite 300 [...]
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Perspectives on the October 2010 Supreme Court Term
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged bayer, class action, class certification, dukes, erica p. john fund, halliburton, scotus, scotusblog, Supreme Court, u.s. supreme court, wal-mart on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My submission to the SCOTUSblog Class Action Symposium is now available for viewing. Click the title below for the link: The October 2010 Supreme Court Term in review: For defendants, life returns to normal after the celebration ends
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