Mr. Joel S. Feldman

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Joel S. Feldman

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JOEL S. FELDMAN heads the Sidley Insurance and Financial Services Class Action practice area.

Class Action Experience

Joel S. Feldman has served as lead defense counsel in over 50 insurance/financial services class actions venued in over 30 federal and state courts throughout the United States.

Speakers: Joel Feldman, Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP; Michael B. Lehrhoff, Associate Attorney, Barnes & Thornburg

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Experts Anthony Rollo and Joel Feldman will provide you with an in-depth analysis of what the Class Action Fairness Act means for your ongoing cases and practice, including a discussion of the jurisdictional, removal, appeal of removal, notice and settlement aspects of the Act that materially change existing practice and standards.They will also answer your questions submitted prior to the event.

Mssrs.Rollo and Feldman will discuss specific fact patterns from your present cases, and address your biggest challenges concerning the cases you are currently handling.
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Joel Feldman leads team that rounds out Sidley's insurance industry practice group; complements firm's class-action capacity.

An attorney group focused on the defense of insurance companies against class actions has joined Sidley Austin Brown & Wood.Joel S. Feldman and Bruce Braverman have become partners in Sidley's Chicago office, accompanied by Jeffrey E. Crane as counsel and associate Brian W. Bilcer.
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Led by Mr. Feldman, the group has long been in the vanguard of insurance class action defense across the spectrum of market conduct, fraud and sales practices cases, especially in the life and health policy segments.Over the past six years, Mr. Feldman and his colleagues have defended more than forty market conduct cases in federal and state courts across the U.S. on behalf of the country's leading insurance companies.
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Joel Feldman's group is a preeminent practice in insurance class action defense, particularly in successfully opposing class certification.We couldn't have found a better defense practice to fit with our existing financial and regulatory work for many of those same clients."

Sidley has an extensive insurance industry practice which, to date, has largely been working with insurance companies, underwriters and financial market participants with insurance-related M&A and securities transactions, as well as handling major reinsurance arbitrations and insurance insolvencies.The new group brings an important added litigation component and expands the services the firm offers to property, casualty, life and health insurers.

Charles W. Douglas, Chairman of Sidley's Management Committee and head of its Antitrust, Commercial and Regulatory Litigation Group, noted: "From a litigation standpoint, Joel Feldman's team is a superlative addition, complementing the class action work we already do in the areas of mass tort, product liability and securities litigation.
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Mr. Feldman noted, "Given the virtual explosion of the class action insurance bar, with plaintiffs methodically targeting insurance companies product by product and procedure by procedure, it was essential to align our group with a nationally known and diverse insurance and financial services practice that was also associated with a premier litigation group.No other law firm fit that bill as well as Sidley Austin.At the same time, we maintain the highest regard for Sachnoff & Weaver -- the firm supported my work for 24 years and we wish our former colleagues all the best."

Mr. Feldman earned his BA from Oberlin College and his JD from Georgetown University (1979).He served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas Flannery of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.He speaks and writes frequently on class action, insurance defense, and trial practice topics.He has served as the National Chair and Speaker at the PLI National Seminar on Class Action Litigation and has spoken at the annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel.

Joel S. Feldman and Bruce Braverman have become partners in Sidley's Chicago office, accompanied by Jeffrey E. Crane as counsel and associate Brian W. Bilcer.
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Led by Mr. Feldman, the group has long been in the vanguard of insurance class action defense across the spectrum of market conduct, fraud and sales practices cases, especially in the life and health policy segments.Over the past six years, Mr. Feldman and his colleagues have defended more than forty market conduct cases in federal and state courts across the U.S. on behalf of the country's leading insurance companies.The group's representations stem from aggressive legal attacks waged against insurance industry products and marketing practices, including cases involving vanishing premiums, modal premiums, industrial insurance, annuity crediting, product differentiation, universal life, health insurance, and ERISA matters.Mr. Feldman's group has been especially successful in turning back class certification in large-scale litigation.
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Joel Feldman's group is a preeminent practice in insurance class action defense, particularly in successfully opposing class certification.We couldn't have found a better defense practice to fit with our existing financial and regulatory work for many of those same clients."Sidley has an extensive insurance industry practice which, to date, has largely been working with insurance companies, underwriters and financial market participants with insurance-related M&A and securities transactions, as well as handling major reinsurance arbitrations and insurance insolvencies.The new group brings an important added litigation component and expands the services the firm offers to property, casualty, life and health insurers.Charles W. Douglas, Chairman of Sidley's Management Committee and head of its Antitrust, Commercial and Regulatory Litigation Group, noted: "From a litigation standpoint, Joel Feldman's team is a superlative addition, complementing the class action work we already do in the areas of mass tort, product liability and securities litigation.
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Mr. Feldman noted, "Given the virtual explosion of the class action insurance bar, with plaintiffs methodically targeting insurance companies product by product and procedure by procedure, it was essential to align our group with a nationally known and diverse insurance and financial services practice that was also associated with a premier litigation group.No other law firm fit that bill as well as Sidley Austin.At the same time, we maintain the highest regard for Sachnoff & Weaver -- the firm supported my work for 24 years and we wish our former colleagues all the best."Mr. Feldman earned his BA from Oberlin College and his JD from Georgetown University (1979).He served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas Flannery of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.He speaks and writes frequently on class action, insurance defense, and trial practice topics.He has served as the National Chair and Speaker at the PLI National Seminar on Class Action Litigation and has spoken at the annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel.

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