GLG Topic: Class Action Law
Class Action Law is a set of laws that govern the rights and remedies of a large group of individuals when the group resorts to litigation. Class-action lawsuits aggregate a large number of individualized claims into one representational lawsuit. Class-action lawsuits have been brought against car manufacturers, insurance companies, toy makers, and tobacco companies, among others.
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Nicholas PournaderCOO / CFO
GRANT & EISENHOFER, PA
Nick Pournader, Ph.D., is the Chief Operating Officer at Grant & Eisenhofer PA, a class-action securities litigation firm in the US representing institutional investors. He has over 16 years of experience in the IT services, software, and professional services industries. He also serves as an IT strategy...
Litigation Management Consultant
Alpert & Associates
Martin Alpert is a Litigation Management Consultant at Alpert & Associates, a law firm. He analyzes M & A's, Class Actions, Electronic Evidence & Claims involving fortune 500 companies & over 2,500 select companies. He was Claim Director for GE Reinsurance, resolving complex emerging industry issues...
Giuseppe RosaPartner
THE LAW OFFICES OF G.L ROSA & ASSOCIATED COUNSELS
Giuseppe L. Rosa is a Partner in Italy at the Law Offices of G.L Rosa & Associated Counsels. He focuses on M&A, interplay of contracts - particularly in the area of foreign direct investment/divestitures - arbitration & ADR consulting, taxation, international class action litigation, contract drafting-negotiation-monitoring,...
Ted FrankResident Fellow & Director, Legal Center
American Enterprise Institute
Ted Frank is Resident Fellow and Director of the American Enterprise Institute Legal Center for the Public Interest in Washington, DC. Mr. Frank manages the Institute's research in and studies liability reform. His research areas include products liability (including pharmaceuticals and asbestos), class...
Robert HeimPartner
MEYERS & HEIM LLP
Robert G. Heim is Partner at the law firm of Meyers & Heim in New York City, where he specializes in corporate and securities law, including corporate formation and capital raising, securities regulatory work, securities litigation, white collar criminal defense and NASD arbitrations. Previously, Mr....
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Analysis: Class Action Law(?)
Depends on the jurisdiction. Many times the challenge is basaed on unconscionability. But don't count on it every place. It's a hot area that requires analysis by an attorney with a lot of experience. Comes up in credit card arbitration all the time. If there is any real interst in talking about the...
challenges to clauses that try to exculpate class action loability have been the subject of as lot of law suits and there is little agreement as to whether or not such a clause is unconscionable. This is an area that is constantly moving in all directions at once. Great care must be taken when trying...
In discounting prospects for "winning in court" in litigation arising from losses in the mortgage market, the NYT unfortunately ignores a growing, and perhaps ultimately the primary, form of non-class action private securities litigation--litigation under state securities laws, which generally...
Companies that have in essence contracts of adhesion may be able contractually set up a waiver of class action status? If this type of waiver is allowed do your rights to sue really exist?
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