At this year’s National Consumer Law Center’s Class Action Seminar, November 16-17, 2019 (Boston, MA), Drew will present on the topic of Ethical Issues in Class Actions. The symposium follows NCLC’s annual Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, which draws hundreds of consumer lawyers to dozens of sessions discussing the latest developments in consumer litigation. Drew will […]
Myth: Class actions never go to trial. For just one example of the fact that they do, see ; Myth: The lawyers get all the money; consumer get a pittance. See above link to debunk this one; and Myth: Class actions don’t actually advance consumer interests. Again, see the above link. It describes how an […]
Unfortunately, these forced-arbitration clauses typically bar class actions as well, further denying access to courts for vulnerable citizens. See discussion .
Click here for a good example of why we need class actions.
Unfortunately, JP Morgan Chase Bank has decided to adopted forced arbitration clauses in its credit card terms. These clauses prohibit customers from participating in class actions. A cool website you can use to opt out BY AUGUST 7, 2019, can be found HERE.
I spent some time going through the brochure for this Spring’s ABA Litigation SAC in NYC, May 1-3, and it looks like a good one. In addition to my panel on class actions and solo/small firm practice (“How Do Small Firms and Solo Practitioners Navigate the Class Action Arena?”), there are plenty of trial practice […]
I’ll be moderating a panel on the topic of “ascertainability” as a requirement in class actions in San Francisco on February 22, 2019, as part of the Impact Fund Class Action Conference. This somewhat dry (but important) topic has generated various approaches among the federal and state appellate courts that have wrestled with it. I’m […]
In re. Johnson & Johnson (SEC ruling) In what is sure to be an ongoing effort by some to block stockholders and other investors from seeking to hold company managements accountable through securities fraud class action, chalk up one for the little guy: . Arbitration is being used more and more often–not as the less […]
Currently and for many decades, publicly-held companies have not been able to avoid securities fraud suits against themselves and their executives and officers, other than behaving well. In the mid- to late 1990’s, “tort reform”-style legislation, principally the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) tightened up the rules for bringing such actions successfully, leading to […]
On September 28, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Michigan issued a final order and judgment approving the proposed class action settlement in Martin, et al. v. Trott Law PC, et al. The Court’s order and other settlement documents can be reviewed under the “Documents” tab at the settlement […]
