Sentences with phrase «class action proceedings with»

A search engine is located on the webpage to allow users to identify quickly the existence of class action proceedings with overlapping class members or subject matter.

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We have a long history of acting for companies faced with class actions, including actual or threatened proceedings.

Together with the certification of classes in recent overtime actions, the IQT case provides a further example of the breadth of class proceedings that courts will certify in the employment arena.

* Study and explore the possibility of the development of a judicial protocol with the aim to: * Allow for communication among judges in overlapping class actions proceedings * Coordinate and harmonize activities in proposed overlapping class proceedings in order to maximize efficiency, reduce costs and avoid the duplication of effort; * Honour the independence and integrity of the superior courts while promoting inter-provincial cooperation and respect for comity; * Implement a framework of general principles to address basic administrative issues arising out of national and multijurisdictional class actions; and * Provide for nationally - accepted carriage motions.

So, the Ontario Superior Court has added to the decisions confirming that class action proceedings are appropriate — even preferable — for claims arising from mass terminations, even if the common issues trial won't dispose of all the issues and some of the class members have already started or finished proceedings in other forums, particularly with the Ministry of Labour and the Labour Relations Board, which preclude class claims.

Whether acting on the defence of large class action proceedings, the pursuit of subrogated recovery in highly technical matters, or resolving claims within modest deductibles, lawyers within our Products Liability Group are committed to working closely with our clients to implement cost - efficient, innovative, and proactive solutions.

We are familiar with nearly every issue class actions present, including class certification, challenges to standing, jurisdiction and venue, removal, dismissal, summary judgement, arbitration, settlement administration and MDL proceedings.

Self's routine involvement in mass litigation / class action proceedings provides him with an adeptness for working on complex legal matters.

With more than 20 years of experience as a trial lawyer, Hart - Edwards represents corporations and their executives in labor and employment related litigation, class / collective actions, agency proceedings, arbitrations and mediations and investigations.

Adept at class and collective actions defense, the group represents clients in connection with employment law compliance, collective bargaining and NLRB proceedings, ADA public access, global workforce issues, immigration and non-compete and trade secret advice and litigation.

In a ruling today with implications for wage & hour class actions, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed an arbitrator's interpretation of an arbitration clause to permit class proceedings.

Merchant agreed to discontinue the class proceedings commenced in all provinces other than British Columbia, and to proceed with case management and certification of the British Columbia action (the Dodd action).

Notable mandates: current and ongoing class actions have included representing employee groups in several insolvency proceedings, including Nortel, Canwest and Plasco; representing former patients of Norman Barwin, who is alleged to have negligently inseminated his patients with the wrong sperm; representing air pilots employed by Air Canada over a breach of contract; representing former students of the residential school system, and their entitlements, under the 2007 Residential Schools Settlement Agreement; representing employees of BlackBerry Canada after a transfer of employees.

He has handled drug and device matters from pre-litigation demands to appeals and all points in between, with particular interests in «mass» proceedings and class actions, to the extent the latter should ever be allowed in the drug and medical device context.

International commodities company Representation of a South American - based international commodities company publicly - traded on US and foreign exchanges, in connection with a Securities & Exchange Commission accounting and reporting fraud investigation, Section 10b class action federal court proceedings, and a home country regulatory investigation.