Paul Karlsgodt is a partner in the Denver office of Baker & Hostetler LLP. His practice emphasizes class action defense. He has represented defendants in nationwide and statewide consumer class action lawsuits and related litigation across the United States. He has represented clients in class action lawsuits involving privacy breaches, sales and marketing practices, insurance coverage, claims adjustment practices, corporate securities, civil rights, employment and taxation. Paul’s Complete Biography.
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Your readers may be interested in an article on international class arbitration that was published recently in 30 University of Pennsylvania International Law Journal 1 (2008). It touches on a lot of the issues that are discussed on the blog. The full title is “Enforcing Class Arbitration in the International Sphere: Due Process and Public Policy Concerns” and the SSRN link is found at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1330611.
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Dear blawgers,
You might be interested in a Brussels Conference on E.U. Class Actions on November 12-13, 2012.
The list of speakers includes a lawyer who drafted Poland’s law on opt-in class actions; the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Ireland Michael McDowell; former vice president of the European Parliament Diana Wallis; Boston lawyer Jan Schlichtmann who was portrayed by John Travolta in the film “A Civil Action”; Prof. Laura Caraballo of Spain; Prof. Rachael Mulheron of Queen Mary University, London; Michele Carpagnano, co-author of a recent report on class actions for the European Parliament’s Economic & Monetary Affairs Committee; and many others.
The location is the European Parliament with a few of its committee rooms, graciously hosted by Members of European Parliament McGuinness, Gallagher, Harkin, and Van der Stoep.
The topics that will be discussed include Access to Justice as a Human Right; How to Prosecute a Class Action; How to Defend a Class Action; The New Paternalism in Europe: Why Some Prefer Governments and NGOs Over Private Plaintiffs; the Opt-Out Mechanism versus the Opt-in Mechanism; and numerous other topics. The conference will provide a balanced look at some of the critical issues that Brussels is thinking about in deciding whether to design a system of collective redress for the entire E.U. The speakers will discuss class action mechanisms that already exist in certain Member States such as Sweden and Italy as well as any lessons to be learned form the United States experience with class actions.
To register, please go to http://www.ambar.org/brussels2012 as soon as possible to save your space, since seating in the European Parliament is limited, and to book a room at the nearby Renaissance Hotel at a reduced rate.
Numerous organizations are jointly presenting the conference including the Netherlands Bar Association, the French-speaking Brussels Bar Association, Union Internationale des Avocats, AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers); National University of Ireland Maynooth Department of Law; Catholic University of Lyon Department of Law; PEOPIL (Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers); American Bar Association Section of International Law; and others.