Welcome to Critical MassLaw.com’s weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. Here’s what’s happening: Lawmakers introduced a new package of billsagainst forced arbitration. A record 35% of lead counsel positions in MDLs went to women last year. How did Wilkinson Walsh and Keker Van Nest get defense verdicts in a pair of class actions?

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Congress Launches New Bid to Curb ‘Forced’ Arbitration