Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By Allison Dunn | February 4, 2025
"The legislature can, and did, reopen the doors to the courthouse in order to rectify this problem. The enactment was not just constitutional, but essential," said Andrew S. Janet, a partner at Janet, Janet & Suggs, who joins two other firms in litigating against the archdiocese.
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By Marianna Wharry | February 4, 2025
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide. Sign up today and be among the first to know about new suits in your region, practice area or client sector.
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By ALM Staff | February 3, 2025
Catch up on data and insights from across the Law.com Newsroom, including what's driving the dollar value of class action and mass tort settlements to surpass $40 billion for the third year in a row.
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By Adam J. Levitt | February 3, 2025
Arguing Class Actions is a monthly column for the National Law Journal.
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By Ross Todd | January 31, 2025
More than eight years ago, Michael Nemelka of Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick got a call from an automotive software company alleging CDK Global conspired with its main rival to eliminate competition. This week, on the eve of trial, Nemelka and partners Derek Ho and Dan Dorris helped a class of vendors reach a $630 million settlement with CDK.
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By Riley Brennan | January 30, 2025
The plaintiff accused the cosmetics company of failing to disclose that its eyelash serums contain dechloro dihydroxy difluoro ethylcloprostenolamide, which allegedly causes eye irritation.
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By Michael A. Mora | January 30, 2025
“Based on the allegations, there’s a tension between what’s a failed business idea that was launched in good faith and what’s a nefarious rug pull," said Scott Armstrong, a principal at McGovern Weems and former federal prosecutor.
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By Ross Todd | January 29, 2025
Jerry Silk of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann and Scott Musoff of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom discuss the latest annual report on securities class action filings from Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.
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By Mason Lawlor | January 24, 2025
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide. Sign up today and be among the first to know about new suits in your region, practice area or client sector.
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By Tommaso Baronio | January 24, 2025
“If there is a contract, you must meet that contract, whether it is good or bad for you. And here, all these schools just tried to say there is no contract, which is absurd because you have student debt collection on this tuition happening every single day,” said Adam M. Moskowitz, the managing partner of the Moskowitz Law Firm.
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