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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
June 21, 2023 | Daily Report Online
In multidistrict litigation dockets created in 2022, about 13% of plaintiffs lawyers appointed to leadership posts were not white, according to Law.com's exclusive data. That's down from the 16% in 2021, and 14% in 2020, but up from 2016 to 2019, when white attorneys dominated with 95% of appointments.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
June 21, 2023 | Law.com
"Judges are more aware of the importance of experience over title," said Patrick Luff of the Luff Law Firm.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
June 20, 2023 | The Recorder
The $25 million, sent last week to bankruptcy trustee Elissa Miller, comes from attorney fees owed to the Girardi Keese estate from the $1.8 billion settlement over the 2015 gas leak in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
June 20, 2023 | Law.com
In multidistrict litigation dockets created in 2022, about 13% of plaintiffs lawyers appointed to leadership posts were not white, according to Law.com's exclusive data. That's down from the 16% in 2021, and 14% in 2020, but up from 2016 to 2019, when white attorneys dominated with 95% of appointments.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
June 14, 2023 | Law.com
A jury in Oregon came back with nearly $18 million in punitive damages to a $72 million verdict it awarded on June 9 to 17 named plaintiffs in a class action over wildfires in 2020.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 14, 2023 | Law.com
Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. This week: A bankruptcy judge dismissed…
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 12, 2023 | Law.com
On Friday, the jury reached its verdict, which Mulnomah County Circuit Court Judge Steffan Alexander read on Monday. The trial moves to a second phase of punitive damages, which could reach $15 billion when including the entire class.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 9, 2023 | Law.com
In a swift blow to 3M, U.S. Chief Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Graham, in Indianapolis, dismissed the Chapter 11 case of its subsidiary Aearo Technologies on Friday. "These cases were and are a litigation management tactic and not a rehabilitative effort," Graham wrote.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 9, 2023 | Law.com
The deal, announced on Friday by the state of New Mexico's outside counsel Baron & Budd, is one of the largest opioid settlements to date involving one state and a single defendant.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
June 7, 2023 | The Recorder
The trustee of the Girardi Keese bankruptcy estate continues to pursue an investigation of California Attorney Lending II's owner, while Edelson alerted a federal judge to a former Girardi consultant's "suspicious and potentially improper" text message.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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