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Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By Ross Todd | July 18, 2018
At a hearing where 10 plaintiffs lawyers pitched to lead the potentially precedent-setting MDL, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria signaled that plaintiffs might struggle to plead their case.
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By Amanda Bronstad | July 18, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has a thin record on class actions and mass torts -- but his writings in a number of cases leaves clues about how he'd treat those areas of law.
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By Amanda Bronstad | July 17, 2018
The New York firm is objecting to a special master's report that found Labaton and two other firms serving as class counsel in the case had deliberately misled the court about how they planned to distribute $75 million in attorney fees.
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By Ross Todd | July 17, 2018
A federal judge in San Francisco has certified a class of investors in a lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors about key user metrics. They allege Twitter's stock price slid 40 percent after its struggles became public in 2015.
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By Amanda Bronstad | July 16, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has a limited record on class actions and mass torts, but many of his rulings favor businesses, lawyers say, raising the likelihood that he would favor the defense in such cases.
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By Tom McParland | July 16, 2018
GameStop Corp. has reached a settlement agreement in a class action lawsuit from customers whose personal information was compromised in a six-month-long data breach at the Texas-based video game retailer.
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By Catherine Wilson | July 16, 2018
The class action proposal addresses Takata air bags installed in 10 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models made over various periods from 2004 to 2018.
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By Lizzy McLellan | July 16, 2018
The bicoastal group includes Drinker's Philadelphia-based litigation chair and a former managing partner of the firm.
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By Lizzy McLellan | July 16, 2018
The bicoastal group includes Drinker's Philadelphia-based litigation chair and a former managing partner of the firm in addition to Stortz, who is based in San Francisco.
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By Samuel Estreicher and Holly H. Weiss | July 13, 2018
Samuel Estreicher and Holly H. Weiss analyze 'Jock v. Sterling Jewelers,' a case pending in the Second Circuit, in this Arbitration column.
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