By Amanda Bronstad | May 2, 2024
The inaugural Class Action Litigation Report, released on Thursday by Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis, found class action filings steadily increased from 2014 to 2020, dipped 10% in 2021, then started rising again in 2022. Last year, class action filings jumped 4% to 9,705.
The American Lawyer | Analysis|Research
By Amanda O'Brien | October 25, 2023
"The differences the data reflects are that mothers are disproportionately not getting important assignments, not being assigned matters with travel, not having sponsors and mentors, and there's a disparity in income particularly as income rises," attorney Roberta Liebenberg, a co-author of the report, said.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 23, 2023
The inaugural "Digital Payments in Class Actions and Mass Torts" report, released on Monday by Western Alliance Bank's Digital Disbursements, found 170 settlements had a digital payment option in 2022, up from two in 2019.
By Amanda Bronstad | September 14, 2023
Product liability cases that aren't coordinated in multidistrict litigation reached their highest level since 2013, with 5,826 filed in 2022, according to a Lex Machina report released Thursday.
Daily Business Review | News|Research
By Michael A. Mora | August 16, 2022
"There has not been a more powerful time to be an American worker and to be able to shape how you work," said Gregory Brumfield, employment practice area lead at Lex Machina.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 21, 2022
About 16% of attorneys appointed to leadership roles in multidistrict litigation created in 2021 identified as nonwhite, up slightly from 14% in 2020. In 2016, only 4% went to nonwhite attorneys.
The American Lawyer | Research
By Gina Passarella Cipriani | March 30, 2022
We invite anyone working in a law firm of any size and location to take this anonymous survey on mental health in the legal profession. Detailed analysis will be provided back to the community.
The Legal Intelligencer | Research
By The Legal Intelligencer | November 2, 2021
We are about to close the survey for this year, and If you have already completed the survey, thank you! If not, time is running out.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 6, 2020
The number of new lawsuits caused by COVID-19 dipped in August to 660, according to data released Tuesday by the Silicon Valley-based litigation research firm Lex Machina, but may just be the end of the "first wave" of cases.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 10, 2019
New venues to make the American Tort Reform Association's annual Top 10 list are Georgia, for its "nuclear verdicts," and Oklahoma, due to its $572 million judgment in the first trial over the opioid crisis.
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