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21 Feb 2011, 7:31 am
 The debate over class action reform saw invectives hurled at plaintiffs’ attorneys, both for forum shopping and for other less easily defensible practices. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 2:09 pm by Marcus Fulton
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former SECDEF Donald Rumsfeld were named as defendants today in a Bivens class-action suit, alleging among other things that they “failed to . . . provide an adequate judicial system as provided by the Uniform Code of Military Justice Act. [read post]
10 May 2007, 1:09 pm
My old law firm Skadden is "launching a class-action defense practice in London in preparation for what it thinks could be a wave of class-action lawsuits brought in Europe. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 6:00 am by Wystan M. Ackerman
   Jim suggested that in the opening, defense counsel should spend time on what a class action is, the plaintiffs’ obligation to prove the case on a classwide basis, and the weaknesses of the named plaintiffs’ claims. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 7:06 am by Walter Olson
…Wal-Mart is stripped of its defense because the individualized defense would be inconvenient to trying the case as a class action. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 8:11 am
The agenda also features programs that will examine issues concerning arbitration and class action waivers, recent developments in the standards for certifying a class, and advice for both plaintiffs and defense counsel on settling class actions. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 8:25 am by Wystan M. Ackerman
  Seth and his partner, Ralph Hubbard, ran the defense group in the Eastern District of Louisiana for the flood exclusion-related class actions and the Louisiana Attorney General’s Road Home litigation. [read post]
1 Jan 2008, 4:21 pm
Some prominent defense lawyers recently suggested that plaintiffs should hire "trial-only counsel" in class actions. [read post]