Kirk Hartley
Update on Class Actions in France (and Across the EU)
Despite the naysayers of years ago, class actions procedures continue to evolve and expand in Europe. A November 11, 2019 online article...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 23, 2019
- 1 min
The Latest Example of Idiocy and Failure at Lexis/Nexis Advantage
For several years, it’s been my experience and opinion that idiocy and failure has been rampant within the technology and management...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min
Headline News from Pro Publica: “Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Yo
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...
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Kirk Hartley
- Mar 11, 2019
- 1 min
From Canada and Japan: Yet Another Mass Tort Bankruptcy, and Possible Fraudulent Conveyance: Big Tob
A tobacco company is the latest entity to use bankruptcy to try to limit its obligations for a mass tort. This instance, however, is...
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Kirk Hartley
- Dec 8, 2018
- 2 min
Fresenius As “Event Driven” Litigation; The Delaware Supreme Court Rapidly Affirms the T
Over the last couple of years, defense oriented commentators have used the meme “event driven securities litigation” as part of...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 27, 2018
- 3 min
F Cubed Suits – “The Myth of Morrison: Securities Fraud Litigation Against Foreign Issue
A detailed data driven study of securities lawsuits before and after Morrison is the subject of a new paper by Professor Davidoff Solomon...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 21, 2018
- 1 min
Class Actions in Europe: “Collective re-dress: all talk and now trousers”
Some years back, a few people (including me, in 2010) bucked conventional wisdom and predicted the rise of class actions in Europe. See,...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jul 18, 2018
- 1 min
All Time Top Canadian Class Action Settlements
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...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 28, 2018
- 1 min
“ILR at 20: Despite Victories for General Counsel, Plenty of Challenges Ahead”
Interesting June 25, 2018 interview/article in Corporate Counsel on the expansion of the ILR through acquisition of news media, and its...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 3, 2018
- 1 min
Plaintiff Firms Attack Each Other Regarding Strategic Tactics in Claims Related to M & A Deals:
It remains fascinating to think about due process, res judicata, and the topic of strategic settlements in class actions. One set of...
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Kirk Hartley
- Mar 28, 2018
- 1 min
Perhaps “American Pipe” Will Survive, After All?
Judging by oral argument questions at SCOTUS, one legal analyst suggests the American Pipe tolling doctrine seems likely to live on to...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jan 4, 2018
- 1 min
D&O Diary: “Securities Suit Filings at Historically High Levels During 2017”
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...
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Kirk Hartley
- Dec 27, 2017
- 1 min
“Big Fights Ahead Over Where Class Actions Can Be Filed,” Argue Various Lawyers
Bloomberg provided an interesting year end article (December 21 – here) with plaintiff and defense views on the class action impact (or...
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 28, 2017
- 1 min
Ted Frank Topples Stupid Subway Sandwich Settlement
Thanks to the seldom bashful Seventh Circuit, Ted Frank has toppled the stupid Subway settlement. Kudos to Ted, on this one (as opposed...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jul 25, 2017
- 2 min
Developments in Consumer Class Actions in the UK
Despite the many who said Europe would never allow class actions, it has happened, in varying ways and to varying degrees. The big news...
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Kirk Hartley
- Feb 5, 2017
- 1 min
Timely, Open Access Web Site Provides a Great Way to Track the Civil Rights Cases Challenging the Va
With so many executive orders being challenged in many forums, keeping track of the events presents challenges similar to the challenges...
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Kirk Hartley
- Oct 6, 2016
- 2 min
An Insurance Underwriter’s View: Growing Global Class Actions, Litigation Funding, and the Ha
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...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 21, 2016
- 1 min
Professor Coffee on: “The Globalization of Securities Litigation”
It’s been obvious for years that lawyers, litigation funders and MBAs could and would engineer global class actions almost as well (maybe...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 14, 2016
- 1 min
Napoli Shkolnik Makes a Splash
Napoli Shkolnik has pushed out a new splash with a class action water contamination suit in NY involving a Grumman facility. The...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 6, 2016
- 1 min
Swinging Pendulums, Class Actions and SCOTUS
An April 4, 2016 Blue Sky blog article from Professor Coffee provides a cogent review of the end of the SCOTUS pendulum swinging against...
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About Kirk
Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”
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