Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By Chris O'Malley | February 9, 2024
Six former Bank of America loan officers says the financial institution "systemically" misclassified loan officers as exempt from overtime.
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By Amanda O'Brien | February 8, 2024
The suit says that income partners and counsel were forced to defer a portion of their annual compensation into the firm's pension plan, despite the pension plan itself not requiring such a contribution, and that money was ultimately commingled with firm operating funds.
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By Amanda Bronstad | February 8, 2024
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Kirkland & Ellis and other Big Law firms have appeared in court for shale oil producers accused of conspiring to fix gas prices since early 2021.
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By Colleen Murphy | February 8, 2024
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By Amanda Bronstad | February 7, 2024
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By Stephen J. Finley, Jr. and Cecilia Y. Carreras | February 5, 2024
In Oberdorf v. Amazon.com, the plaintiff filed suit against Amazon alleging the product she purchased from a third-party vendor was defective. Although the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania held Amazon was not a "product seller" within the meaning of Section 402A, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit disagreed, finding that Amazon qualified as a product seller, thus expanding the scope of strict products liability to include online sales platforms.
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By Molly E. Flynn, Rebecca L. Trela and Chanda A. Miller | February 2, 2024
Numerous practitioners, academics and parties have already submitted written comments that raise significant concerns about the potential implications of the proposed rule.
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By ALM Staff | February 1, 2024
Retired U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin was in attendance at a Jan. 30 event hosted by the City University of New York School of Law to mark the 10-year anniversary of her ruling in Floyd v. City of New York.
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By Ross Todd | February 1, 2024
Jerry Silk of Bernstein Litowitz and Scott Musoff of Skadden weigh in on what's going on behind the numbers in the latest Cornerstone Research annual report on securities class actions.
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By Amanda Bronstad | January 31, 2024
Edelson's Rafey Balabanian, in a Jan. 26 motion to appoint him as lead counsel, said a 'rudderless crowd of firms' was attempting to mediate the cases before leadership had been decided and without further investigation of the facts.
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