Class Action Attorney

I am speaking at the 11th Annual National Institute on Class Actions , held at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago on October 19, 2007. I will be providing a doctrinal overview of all of the significant doctrinal developments concerning the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. Here is an outline of my talk. I write a monthly column entitled "Expert's Corne... r" in Class Action Attorney Fee Digest . My August Column describes an interesting situation: a nationwide consumer class action settlement entered by a state court in Illinois that a state court in North Carolina has refused to respect under the Full, Faith, and Credit Clause in part because the class members received almost no compensation while the attorneys received a significant fee. See Moody v. Sears, Roebuck and Co., 2007 WL 2582193 (N.C.Super. May 7, 2007). The case raises a host of interesting issues which I describe and critique. I write a monthly column entitled "Expert's Corner" in Class Actions Attorney Fee Digest . My July column provides a round-up of the 2007-2008 Supreme Court Term, analyzing cases concerning class action law generally, and class action attorney's fees in particular. I write a monthly column entitled "Expert's Corner" in Class Actions Attorney Fee Digest . My June column looks at two cases in which class certification was denied and yet fees were sought. In one case, class counsel recovered fees while in the other they did not. The column discusses the differences between the two cases and explains their outcomes. I write a monthly column entitled "Expert's Corner" in Class Actions Attorney Fee Digest . My May column analyzes the issue of aggregate fee awards that must be divided up among many class counsel -- I consider who does the dividing, according to what standard, and whether the outcome should be kept confidential. The column discusses a fee dispute presently preceding in the federal district court in New Orleans, where the court -- at lead counsel's request -- has sealed the amounts each class counsel is receiving from the ...Read More