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25 Aug 2010, 11:29 am
This fall, we welcome the largest LL.M. class ever, with an enrollment of nineteen candidates - seventeen new LL.M. candidates and two returning part-time candidates - in a class composed of a mix of experienced attorneys and recent law graduates.Our experienced attorneys have professional experience that includes leadership at Wal-Mart as Sustainable Development Director, Judge Advocate service at the Pentagon, service as an FAA Regional Environmental Counsel, and international… [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 5:55 am
Thus, no facts support an action against MERS or Countrywide. [read post]
26 Mar 2013, 11:33 am
The employee’s actual duties will determine the outcome of a single plaintiff’s misclassification claim and provide a defense to class-wide misclassification claims. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 3:18 pm
Thornhill participated with the other lead members of the slab committee for the multi-district litigation and class action suits against Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (“TWIA”) to depose TWIA experts on causation issues. [read post]
22 Dec 2017, 11:53 am
The decision in Rosenbach provides clarity as to the viability of certain potential employer defenses in BIPA class actions, particularly at the motion to dismiss stage. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 3:30 am
Usually, when I hear “employee class action,” I think something wage-related. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 10:56 am
Yang As discussed by our Consumer Class Defense Blog, this week’s Supreme Court decision in DirecTV, Inc. v. [read post]
3 Jun 2025, 6:04 am
My research with political scientist Erica Chenoweth and multiple other studies have found that the strongest bulwarks against authoritarianism are broad-based democratic fronts that bring people together across race, class, creed, sector, and geography to engage in sustained nonviolent mass action. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 2:45 pm
In fact, the class action deprives the legal title of the claims and assigns it to a third party, class counsel. [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 8:17 am
But even they must admit that it is not the death blow to wage-hour class actions that they may have hoped for. [read post]
22 Dec 2014, 5:19 am
Concepcion, parties opposing enforcement of an arbitration agreement with a class waiver increasingly relied on the prohibitive-costs-based vindication of statutory rights defense. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 4:57 am
State Courts Erred in Denying Defense Motion to Compel Arbitration Under FAA (Federal Arbitration Act) because They Failed to Consider Whether Any Claims were Subject to Arbitration Plaintiffs filed a putative class action in Florida state court against various defendants, including KPMG LLP, for damages suffered as a result of investments made with Bernard Madoff; the class action named the investment funds, the entity that managed the funds, and… [read post]
29 May 2007, 6:12 am
After the court granted plaintiff’s motion to certify the lawsuit as a class action, plaintiff and defense attorneys filed cross-motions for summary judgment, id. [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 4:39 pm
Several possible defenses — such as removal to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), forceful challenges to class certification and challenges to the pleadings under Rule 12(b)(6) — can be effective in defeating this type of class action lawsuit early in the process. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 1:17 pm
Corporate attorneys and outside counsel for auto manufacturers and component part suppliers must find ways to reduce the cost of litigation while simultaneously dealing with the challenges of juror bias, increased class action suits, and negative press. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 6:48 am
Here, the multitude of individualized issues presented in plaintiffs' claims would entail complicated mini-trials within the class action itself. [read post]
13 Dec 2009, 7:24 pm
_Id._ Plaintiffs in the _Williams_ class action learned of the _Carpenter_ lawsuit, and “sought an evidentiary hearing to explore Carpenter’s allegations. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 11:08 pm
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10 Sep 2021, 2:06 pm
Seyfarth Synopsis: Jerry Maatman, Seyfarth’s chair of the firm’s class action defense group, discusses an EEOC-initiated pregnancy discrimination lawsuit in which a federal district court in granted in part and denied in part the employer’s motion for summary judgment, finding there were several genuine issues of material fact surrounding an employee’s return to work from pregnancy leave, but holding that her constructive discharge claim lacked… [read post]
31 Jan 2023, 8:35 am
On this episode of Health Care Beat, host Chris DeMeo is joined by Kristine Argentine, partner in Seyfarth’s Chicago office and chair of the firm’s Commercial Consumer Class Action Defense group. [read post]
