The author presented the following paper at the 2020 Class Actions National Institute of the American Bar Association. What makes mediating a class action different from mediating an individual case?

Since pre-action protocols were introduced, parties have incurred significant costs prior to proceedings being issued as they attempt to clarify the key issues in dispute with a view to resolving ...

A class-action lawsuit filed in Virginia by consumers who claim their Samsung refrigerators have defects with their ice makers has been ordered to mediation. The mediation was scheduled to begin in ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) - The family of a town of Freedom woman who died at an Appleton hospital in 2021 takes the first step in what they call a landmark lawsuit. The Schara family tells Action 2 News ...

The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences began their long-awaited mediation Monday in an attempt to settle the poaching penalty and exit fee lawsuits with potentially more than $100 million at stake.

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Wage cases are stressful for everyone involved. Workers, sometimes representing a large, similarly situated group, feel as though they were systematically underpaid. Employers often feel as though ...

UPDATE, 5:08 PM: Two days after NBCUniversal settled a potential class action lawsuit by former Saturday Night Live interns for $6.4 million, ICM Partners has moved one step closer to possibly ...