Sentences with phrase «requiring class action lawyers»

The bill also contains additional provisions prohibiting judges from approving class actions in which the lawyer representing the class is a relative of a party in the class action suit; requiring class action lawyers only receive payment after victims are paid; and ordering that any third - party funding agreement be disclosed to the court.

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David Assor, a Montreal lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Danone class action, agrees that other provinces are more strict about requiring reliance on what is claimed on the label.

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Most notably, Archis was one of the Mayer Brown lawyers who represented AT&T in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, a blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that the Federal Arbitration Act generally requires enforcing arbitration agreements that waive 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.