CLASS ACTION CONFERENCE
Annual Review of Class-Action Developments Conference [Virtual; On-line]
July 20-21, 2023
What a terrific bench-bar conference! The panel moderators, judges, plaintiff lawyers, and defense lawyers engaged in robust discussions, explaining their respective views and concerns, which will better inform the policymakers. The difficult issues listed below were addressed head on. The Center is considering whether it can usefully move forward with any best practices to address them.
- Rising number of privacy-data-breach class actions, including those centralized in MDLs, temporary or here to stay? Consideration of special case-management procedures.
- Maximizing claims rate in consumer class actions; enhancing notice transmissions — potential for using Amazon and other large mailing lists.
- Advantage TAR or ChapGPT? Relative lag before adoption by legal profession.
4. (i) Automatic stay of class actions on filing of MDL centralization motion with JPML. (ii) Evaluation of implementation of 2018 Rule 23(c)(2) amendments, which collapse circuit-wide settlement factors for consideration into four core considerations.
5. Advisory Committee on Civil Rules examination of proposed amendments to Rule 23(b)(3), adding consideration of non-litigation, non-adjudicatory methods of relief to superiority requirement.
6. (i) Validity of incentive or service awards for class representatives in class actions. (ii) Applying lessons from establishing plaintiffs’ leadership structure in mass-tort MDLs to class actions (Mann v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.).
The state of New Jersey has approved 450 minutes (9.0 CLE credits) for participating in the online class action conference on July 20-21, 2023. The CLE materials will remain on this website for those applying for CLE credit.
CHATHAM HOUSE RULE
The conference will be held under the Chatham House Rule: “[P]articipants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), or that of any other participant, may be revealed.”
Registration
The registration fee for the conference is $250. Registration for this class-action conference is open to the public.
CLE
New Jersey has approved 450 minutes (9.0 CLE credits) for participating in the online class action conference on July 20-21, 2023. Attorneys will receive a Certificate of Attendance, a Notification of CLE Course Accreditation, and a completed Uniform Application for Accreditation form after the conference in order to submit CLE hours for their state.
Conference Details
- Agenda
- Panelists
- Materials
- Registration
- Patrons & Sponsors
- Attendees
- CLE
Thursday, July 20, 2023 (All Times Eastern Time Zone)
11:30 am – 11:45 am
Welcoming Remarks
- John Rabiej, Founder & President, Rabiej Litigation Law Center
11:45 am – 1:00 pm
Panel 1: Rising number of privacy-data-breach class actions, including those centralized in MDLs, temporary or here to stay? Consideration of special case-management procedures.
Moderator: Professor Alan Morrison, George Washington University School of Law
- Hon. Karen Caldwell, Eastern District of Kentucky (Chair, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation)
- Michael Dockterman, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
- Norman Siegel, Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP
- Lisa Ghannoum, Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Tim Blood, Blood Hurst & O’Reardon LLP
- Cameron Azari, Epiq
1:10 pm – 2:25 pm
Panel 2: Maximizing claims rate in consumer class actions; enhancing notice transmission – potential for using Amazon and other large mailing lists.
Moderator: Professor Joshua Davis, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- Hon. John Lungstrum, District of Kansas
- Richard Simmons, Analytics Consulting LLC
- Harper Segui, Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman PLLC
- Stewart Haskins, King & Spalding
- Robert Shelquist, Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP
- Charles LaDuca, Cuneo Gilbert LaDuca LLP
- Greg Haber, JND
2:35 pm – 3:50 pm
Panel 3: Advantage TAR or ChapGPT? Relative lag before adoption in legal profession.
Moderator: Professor Joshua Davis, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- Hon. Gene Pratter, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Hon. Frank Maas (ret.) JAMS
- John Tredennick, Merlin Search Technologies
- Jay Edelson, Edelson PC
- Gilbert Keteltas, Baker Hostetler LLP
- Jeffrey Chivers, Chivers LLP
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2023 (All Times Eastern Time Zone)
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Panel 4: (i) Automatic stay of class-actions on filing of MDL centralization motion with JPML; and (ii) Evaluation of implementation of 2018 Rule 23(e)(2) amendments, which collapse circuit-wide settlement factors for consideration into four core considerations.
Moderator: Professor Alan Morrison, George Washington University School of Law
- Hon. Gary Feinerman (ret.) Latham & Watkins
- Anthony Weibell, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Michael Shortnacy, King & Spalding LLP
- Scott Smith, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
- Mark Dearman, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
12:55 pm – 2:10 pm
Panel 5: Advisory Committee on Civil Rules examination of proposed amendments to Rule 23(b)(3), which add consideration of non-litigation, non-adjudicatory methods of relief to the superiority requirement.
Moderator: Professor Rick Marcus, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- Hon. Kent Jordan, Third Circuit Court of Appeals
- Hon. John Tunheim, District of Minnesota
- Amir Nassihi, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
- Rand Nolen, Fleming Nolen and Jez LLP
- Kara McCall, Sidley Austin LLP
- Adam Moskowitz, The Moskowitz Law Firm
2:20 pm — 3:35 pm
Panel 6: (i) Validity of incentive or service awards for class representatives challenged in class actions; and (ii) Lessons from establishing plaintiffs’ leadership structure in mass-tort MDLs applied to class actions (Mann v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.).
Moderator: Professor Rick Marcus, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- Hon. Cynthia Rufe, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Douglas Dunham — Dechert LLP
- Chris Seeger, Seeger Weiss LLP
- John Yanchunis, Morgan and Morgan
- Jeff Wilkerson, Winston & Strawn LLP
ADJOURNMENT
PANELISTS’ BIOS — VIEW DETAILS
- Azari, Cameron — Epiq
- Blood, Tim — Blood Hurst & O’Reardon LLP
- Hon. Caldwell, Karen — Eastern District of Kentucky (Chair, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation)
- Chivers, Jeffrey — Chivers LLP
- Davis, Joshua — University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- Dearman, Mark — Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
- Dockterman, Michael — Steptoe & Johnson LLP
- Dunham, Douglas — Dechert LLP
- Edelson, Jay — Edelson PC
- Hon. Feinerman, Gary (ret.) — Latham & Watkins
- Ghannoum, Lisa — Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Haber, Greg — JND
- Haskins, Stewart — King & Spalding
- Hon. Jordan, Kent — Third Circuit Court of Appeals
- Keteltas, Gilbert — Baker Hostetler LLP
- LaDuca, Charles — Cuneo Gilbert LaDuca LLP
- Hon. Lungstrum, John — District of Kansas
- Hon. Maas, Frank (ret.) JAMS
- Marcus, Rick — University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- McCall, Kara — Sidley Austin LLP
- Morrison, Alan — George Washington University School of Law
- Moskowitz, Adam — The Moskowitz Law Firm
- Nassihi, Amir — Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
- Nolen, Rand — Fleming Nolen and Jez LLP
- Hon. Pratter, Gene — Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Hon. Rufe, Cynthia — Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Seeger, Chris — Seeger Weiss LLP
- Segui, Harper — Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman PLLC
- Shelquist, Robert — Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP
- Shortnacy, Michael — King & Spalding LLP
- Siegel, Norman — Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP
- Simmons, Richard — Analytics Consulting LLC
- Smith, Scott — Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
- Tredennick, John — Merlin Search Technologies
- Hon. Tunheim, John — District of Minnesota
- Weibell, Anthony — Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Wilkerson, Jeff — Winston & Strawn LLP
- Yanchunis, John — Morgan and Morgan
Panel 1 — Rising number of privacy-data-breach class actions, including those centralized in MDLs, temporary or here to stay? Consideration of special case-management procedures.
- List of Consumer Data Security Breach and Privacy MDLs, Rabiej Litigation Law Center (June 20, 2023) View Details
- Order Appointing Plaintiffs’ Leadership, Mednax Serv., Inc. MDL 2994 (July 6, 2021) View Details
- Order Appointing Leadership, Marriott Inter. Customer Data Security Breach, MDL 2879 (April 29, 2019) View Details
- Order Appointing Chairs of Multiple Committees, Samsung Customer Data Security Breach , MDL 3055 (March 27, 2023) View Details
- Orders in Three Customer Data Security Breach MDLs Appointing Leadership: Equifax MDL 2800 (Feb. 12, 2018); Capital One MDL 2915 (Dec. 2, 2019); and T-Mobile MDL 3019 (Feb. 25, 2022) View Details
- Opinion and Order Addressing Attorney Fee’s Allocation, Equifax MDL 2800 (Mar. 22, 2023) View Details
- Proposed Settlement Agreement, Overby-Seawell Co. Customer Data Security Breach, MDL 2994 (April 7, 2023, filed 70 days after action centralized into MDL) View Details
Panel 2 — Maximizing claims rate in consumer class actions; enhancing notice transmissions — potential for using Amazon and other large mailing lists.
- Work-in-Progress Best Practice Maximizing Consumer Class-Action Claims Rate (January 13, 2023), Rabiej Litigation Law Center View Details
- Consumers and Class Actions: A Retrospective and Analysis of Settlement Campaigns, Federal Trade Commission (September 2019) View Details
- Procedural Guidance for Class Action Settlements, Northern District of California (Published Nov. 1, 2018; Modified Aug. 4, 2022) View Details
Panel 3 — Advantage TAR or ChapGPT? Relative lag before adoption by legal profession.
- What Will Ediscovery Lawyers Do After ChatGPT?, John Tredennick and William Weber, EDRM (February 8, 2023) View Details
Panel 4 — (i) Automatic stay of class actions on filing of MDL centralization motion with JPML. (ii) Evaluation of implementation of 2018 Rule 23(e)(2) amendments, which collapse circuit-wide settlement factors for consideration into four core considerations.
- Motion to Stay Proceedings, Tado v. Tiktok Inc. (Mar. 20, 2023) View Details
- Motion to Stay Proceedings, Youngers v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Aug. 24, 2022) View Details
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§ 22.31 Authority of a Judge Pending Decision by the MDL Panel, Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth Edition (2004) View Details
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Removal and Remand in the MDL Context (Continuing Jurisdiction of the Transferor Court), Tommy Fibich, Fibich Leebron Copeland Briggs, View Details
- Treatment of Tag-Along Cases and Need to File Motion and Brief to Stay Proceedings, Rabiej Litigation Law Center (2023) View Details
- Compendium of Guidelines and Best Practices in Class Action Litigation, Best Practice 2 (Rule 23(e)(2)), Rabiej Litigation Law Center (2022) View Details
Panel 5 — Advisory Committee on Civil Rules examination of proposed amendments to Rule 23(b)(3), adding consideration of non-litigation, non-adjudicatory methods of relief to superiority requirement.
- Agenda Item Addressing Lawyers for Civil Justice Proposed Amendments to Rule 23(b)(3)(B), (E), and (F) , Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (March 28, 2023), View Details
Panel 6 — (i) Validity of incentive or service awards for class representatives in class actions. (ii) Applying lessons from establishing plaintiffs’ leadership structure in mass-tort MDLs to class actions (Mann v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.).
- Class Representative Awards Discussion, including Opinion in Johnson v. NPAS Solutions, Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (March 28, 2023) View Details
- Order Appointing Interim Counsel and Plaintiffs’ Leadership Structure in Mann v Norfolk Southern Corp., Class Action (April 5, 2023) View Details
The registration fee for the conference is $250. Registration for this class-action conference is open to the public.
PATRONS
Premier
- TCDI (Technology, Concepts & Design. Inc.)
Patron
- Litigation Management, Inc.
- Alvarez & Marsal
- Epiq
Friends of the Center
- CDS (Complete Discovery Source )
- Azari, Cameron — Epiq
- Baehr, Alexander — Summit Law Group PLLC
- Basar, Demet — Beasley Allen Law Firm
- Beall, Brad — Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
- Blood, Tim — Blood Hurst & O’Reardon LLP
- Bunnell, Angela — Greenberg Traurig LLP
- Burrichter, Christopher — Dechert
- Hon. Caldwell, Karen — Eastern District of Kentucky (Chair, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation)
- Chivers, Jeffrey — Chivers LLP
- Citron, Julia — Sidley Austin LLP
- Cohen, Alex — Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
- Davis, Joshua — University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- Dearman, Mark — Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
- DeJong, Allison — Dechert
- Dockterman, Michael — Steptoe & Johnson LLP
- Dunham, Douglas — Dechert LLP
- Edelson, Jay — Edelson PC
- Hon. Feinerman, Gary (ret.) — Latham & Watkins
- Finley, Blaine — Cuneo Gilbert LaDuca LLP
- Flageollet, Kara — Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
- Fleming, George — Fleming Nolen and Jez LLP
- Ghannoum, Lisa — Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Guerra, Patricia Camille — Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield LLP
- Guerrero, Susana — Sidley Austin LLP
- Haber, Greg — JND
- Haider, Jay — King & Spalding LLP
- Haskins, Stewart — King & Spalding
- Herrington, Robert — Greenberg Traurig LLP
- Isaacson, Eric Alan — Isaacson Law Office
- Kaye, Joseph — Moskowitz Law Firm
- Hon. Jordan, Kent — Third Circuit Court of Appeals
- Kester, Francesca — Morgan and Morgan
- Keteltas, Gilbert — Baker Hostetler LLP
- Khajenoori, Sanam — Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP
- King, Sarah — Sidley Austin LLP
- LaDuca, Charles — Cuneo Gilbert LaDuca LLP
- Laird, Mary — Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
- Hon. Lungstrum, John — District of Kansas
- Hon. Maas, Frank (ret.) — JAMS
- Marcus, Rick — University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- Marker, Caleb — Zimmerman Reed LLP
- Martin, Amy — Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
- Martin, Jean — Morgan and Morgan
- McCall, Kara — Sidley Austin LLP
- McGeever, Lauren — Epiq
- Mitchell, Chris — King & Spalding
- Morrison, Alan — George Washington University School of Law
- Moskowitz, Adam — The Moskowitz Law Firm
- Nassihi, Amir — Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
- Nolen, Rand — Fleming Nolen and Jez LLP
- Oliver, Alyson — Oliver Law Group
- Opsitnick, Tim — TCDI
- Panek, Michael — King & Spalding
- Peterson, Rebecca — Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP
- Hon. Pratter, Gene — Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Rabiej, John — Rabiej Litigation Law Center
- Reddy, Kenya — Morgan and Morgan
- Hon. Rufe, Cynthia — Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Seeger, Chris — Seeger Weiss LLP
- Segui, Harper — Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman PLLC
- Shelquist, Robert — Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP
- Shortnacy, Michael — King & Spalding LLP
- Siegel, Norman — Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP
- Simmons, Richard — Analytics Consulting LLC
- Smith, Scott — Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
- Steen, Dan — Lawyers for Civil Justice
- Tredennick, John — Merlin Search Technologies
- Thomas, David — Greenberg Traurig LLP
- Hon. Tunheim, John — District of Minnesota
- Vander Weide, Vernon — Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP
- Waldron, Jim — Rabiej Litigation Law Center
- Weibell, Anthony — Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Wilkerson, Jeff — Winston & Strawn LLP
- Yanchunis, John — Morgan and Morgan
New Jersey has approved 450 minutes (9.0 CLE credits) for participating in the online class action conference on July 20-21, 2023.
For those seeking CLE credit, a signed “Uniform Certificate of Attendance,” a “Notification of CLE Course Accreditation,” and the “Uniform Application for Approval of Continuing Legal Education” will be forwarded to you after the conference for completion and submission to your state bar to receive CLE credit. Several states have reciprocity with New Jersey, which means that you will need only to submit the “Certificate of Attendance.”
For those states that do not extend reciprocity, you will also need to submit the “Uniform Application for Approval of Continuing Legal Education.” This form requires you to attach: (i) Time Schedule/Agenda; (ii) Table of Contents; (iii) Faculty Description; (iv) Complete Set of Materials, and (v) Fees. The requested information is posted on this site under the Agenda, Panelists (including Panelists’ Bios), Materials, and Registration tabs below Conference Details.
A handful of states require their own forms or additional information. If they require additional information, please send a request to Click Here along with the requested information.