Sentences with phrase «committee on class actions»

Gascon has worked with the commercial division of the Montreal Superior Court, and has represented the Superior Court on the CBA - Quebec committee on class actions as well as a working group studying U.S. - Canada cross-border class actions.

Gagnon at a standing - room - only meeting organized by the Barreau du Québec's decade - old committee on class actions in the provincial regulator's offices on Jan. 12, the new division will feature a group of 10 judges who will collectively handle all class action filings as of Sept. 1.

In the Report of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Class Action Reform (1990), a class action was defined (as):

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All of that comes on top of more than 500 class actions filed on behalf of owners and lessors of Volkswagen diesel cars — an unprecedented number, according to Elizabeth Cabraser, a leading mass - disaster plaintiffs attorney who is heading a 22 - lawyer steering committee trying to bring order to the sprawling mess.

Publication of the editorial came on the same day as two other events of note, first, the release of a new book, Back in the Game, in which sports neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher and award - winning journalist Joanne Gerstner repeatedly and pointedly criticize the media for «irresponsible» reporting on CTE, and second, the filing of a class action lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles against Pop Warner, USA Football, and the National Operating Committee on Standards For Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) which assumes as scientific fact that repetitive head impacts sustained in youth football «exposed» plaintiffs» sons to CTE, and led one to engage in «erratic and reckless behavior» resulting in his untimely death, and the other to take his own life.

Our litigation defense attorneys have significant experience with MDL matters to include having served on steering committees for multi-national corporations experiencing MDL class action litigation issues throughout the United States.

The year 2017 saw two notable decisions in the area of shareholder derivative and class actions, one granting a corporation's motion to dismiss a derivative suit based on the results of a special litigation committee investigation, the other upholding the denial of class certification on the grounds that the proposed class representative could not adequately represent the class.

He has served on the Civil Litigation Committee and Professionalism Committee of the Miami - Dade County Bar Association, and is a frequent speaker on electronic commerce, class actions, and insurance issues.

Prior to joining Dowd Bennett, Jennifer was a partner at Bryan Cave LLP, where she worked in the product liability, class action and commercial litigation groups, served on the firm's recruiting committee and led the summer internship program.

He is a longstanding member of the Planning Committee and speaker / panel moderator at the premier Canadian annual national symposium on class actions.

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, R - Iowa, on May 10 unveiled the Litigation Funding Transparency Act of 2018, which would require disclosure of any third - party litigation funders that have fronted money to class action plaintiffs and their lawyers with the promise of a percentage of any recovery.

Currently, our class action law firm serves on the national plaintiff's steering committee for litigation surrounding the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill and the high - sulfur Chinese drywall linked to odor and metal corrosion in new home construction.

Because of our widely recognized expertise in this area, our attorneys frequently speak before various audiences on class action litigation and serve on local and national rules committees involving complex litigation issues.

Panel discussion with U.S. District Judge Denise Cote (S.D.N.Y.), Professor Sam Issacharoff (NYU Law) and John Beisner (Skadden Arps) on «The Future of Class Actions,» New York City Bar, Federal Courts Committee, March 3, 2015

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As a partner in Akin Gump's litigation practice, Ms. Koopersmith focused on litigating complex commercial disputes, including consumer class actions, in federal and state courts; representing creditors» committees in complex bankruptcy proceedings; and representing foreign interests litigating claims in the U.S. courts.