Using unpaid intern labor? It’ll cost you

What you need to know about asserting claims for interns, apprentices, trainees, students, and volunteers

Adetunji Olude

From Issue: 2015 June

The role of Special Masters in resolving complex cases

Special Masters streamline the dispute resolution process, minimizing the costs, delays and risks of complex cases such as construction defects

Steven Skikos
Anne M. Lawlor Goyette

From Issue: 2019 August

Principles of litigating consumer class actions

While class actions are complex, the cases most suited to class treatment are statutory driven cases with a simple damages analysis

Abbas Kazerounian

From Issue: 2015 January

New rules: Ramirez v. TransUnion

Ninth Circuit requires each class member to have standing for damages, furthering Chamber of Com-merce’s quest to make “no injury” class actions go away

Dan LeBel

From Issue: 2020 June

Navigating California courts’ complex-case departments

Various California counties have different procedures for litigating complex cases

Jonathan Gertler
Dan Gildor

From Issue: 2012 January

Mediating the class-action case

A look at the process and substance of class-action mediation, and plaintiffs’ intra-team disputes

Dave Rudy

From Issue: 2015 January

The “opt-out” trap

New battlefront in employers’ effort to avoid class liability through arbitration clauses

William C. Jhaveri-Weeks
Byron R. Goldstein

From Issue: 2016 November

Talk is not always cheap

Beware of coercion: Monitoring defense communications with class members is particularly important between defendant employers and their employees

Jahan Sagafi
Nantiya Ruan

From Issue: 2019 February

Perspectives on mediating class actions and other complex cases

A look at the substantive and technical issues unique to class-action case mediation

Dave Rudy

From Issue: 2013 January

Negotiating the reverse auction in class-action cases

How can the “prisoner’s dilemma” work in mediation?

Jeffrey Krivis

From Issue: 2012 November

Multidistrict Litigation consolidation: Pros and cons

MDL has commonalities of purpose with the class action, but they are quite different in practice

Rachel Abrams

From Issue: 2016 January

Material considerations when screening for a class representative

Special care should be given to screening potential class representatives because the failure to do so can have devastating effects on your case

Abbas Kazerounian

From Issue: 2020 June