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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
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Chess, Not Checkers: Multi-case Strategies for Discovery

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It’s important to balance innovation in AI-driven processes with the human element to ensure a defensible approach to litigation that also maximizes the protection of sensitive data. We use the analogy of chess vs. checkers...more

JAMS

My Class Action Checklist

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For a number of years now, I have enjoyed successfully resolving complex class action matters. The cases are challenging, the counsel astute and the results rewarding....more

Carlton Fields

Class Action Trial Preparation Overview: Formalities and Special Issues

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As discussed in earlier posts, trying class actions shares nearly all the same issues, tasks, and risks as other complex trials, but with heightened complexity and risk. Courts, in an effort to efficiently try classwide...more

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Trial Strategy Partnership: Unique Issues in Preparing Class Actions for Trial

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This continues our series of blog posts on trial preparation and presentation as related to class actions. Preparing to try a class action case, in general, encompasses all of the issues and concerns inherent in trying...more

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Class Actions: Trial Preparation and Presentation

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The complexity and importance of the risk-reward dynamic elevates significantly in the context of class actions. Once a class is certified, the risk assessment of inside and outside counsel focuses on the size of the class...more

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To Settle Or Not To Settle: Eight Questions Corporate Counsel Should Ask In Evaluating Class Action Settlements

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To settle or not to settle; that is the question, right? It is asked when you receive the demand letter threatening a class action, when the complaint is filed and served, at the initial scheduling conference, before the...more

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Strategies In Class Action Engagement: Response To Class Certification

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This concludes our series of blog posts on effective partnering between inside and outside counsel to defend against class action lawsuits. An order granting class certification is not the end of the battle regarding...more

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Class Actions: Effective Partnering Between Inside And Outside Counsel

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The following series of blog posts were excerpted from the class actions chapter of Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel, a multi-volume treatise that is a joint project of West and the Association of...more

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