Despite the naysayers of years ago, class actions procedures continue to evolve and expand in Europe.  A November 11, 2019 online article...

For several years, it’s been my experience and opinion that idiocy and failure has been rampant within the technology and management...

Hmmm – it will be interesting to see if state AG’s and/or private class action lawyers successfully sue Turbo Tax for its bait and switch...

A tobacco company is the latest entity to use bankruptcy to try to limit its obligations for a mass tort. This instance, however, is...

Over the last couple of years, defense oriented commentators have used the meme “event driven securities litigation” as part of...

A detailed data driven study of securities lawsuits before and after Morrison is the subject of a new paper by Professor Davidoff Solomon...

Some years back, a few people (including me, in 2010) bucked conventional wisdom and predicted the rise of class actions in Europe. See,...

A list of the all time top Canadian class action settlements is summarized and linked to in a June 28, 2018 post at D&O Diary. The report...

Interesting June 25, 2018 interview/article in Corporate Counsel on the expansion of the ILR through acquisition of news media, and its...

It remains fascinating to think about due process, res judicata, and the topic of strategic settlements in class actions. One set of...

Judging by oral argument questions at SCOTUS, one legal analyst suggests the American Pipe tolling doctrine seems likely to live on to...

Securities suits were filed at highest ever levels, as calculated by D&O Diary. The specifics are set out in January 1, 2018 post at the...

Bloomberg provided an interesting year end article (December 21 – here) with plaintiff and defense views on the class action impact (or...

Thanks to the seldom bashful Seventh Circuit, Ted Frank has toppled the stupid Subway settlement. Kudos to Ted, on this one (as opposed...

Despite the many who said Europe would never allow class actions, it has happened, in varying ways and to varying degrees. The big news...

With so many executive orders being challenged in many forums, keeping track of the events presents challenges similar to the challenges...

The growing breadth and depth of global class actions is explored in a September 20, 2016 post at D&O Diary. Riffing off of Professor...

It’s been obvious for years that lawyers, litigation funders and MBAs could and would engineer global class actions almost as well (maybe...

Napoli Shkolnik has pushed out a new splash with a class action water contamination suit in NY involving a Grumman facility.  The...

An April 4, 2016 Blue Sky blog article from Professor Coffee provides a cogent review of the end of the SCOTUS pendulum swinging against...