The Madoff Ponzi scheme had far-reaching impact. How far? At least as far as Ireland and Luxembourg, each of which produced a number of plaintiffs in Trezziova v. Kohn (2d Cir. Sep. 17, 2013). In Trezziova, investors in a number of funds (the Thema International Fund PLC [], the Herald LUX Fund
Class Action a la Francais? – The Approach of the French Group Action
The Economist is reporting that the French president Francois Hollande’s government just presented a class action bill to the Council of Ministers on May 2. While the bill still must be debated and passed, it has already generated a fair amount of buzz in Europe about whether this means that the French Socialist government
Book Review – World Class Actions Lives Up To Its Name
Back over the summer, I was approached to blurb Paul Karlsgodt’s now-published World Class Actions: A Practitioner’s Guide to Group and Representative Actions around the Globe, which I did happily. Here’s the text of the blurb:
World Class Actions is a comprehensive and practical look at everything a class-action litigator needs to know about
Insight from Other Strategists – The 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions
This month, we have an abundance of "other strategists." At the beginning of the month, I attended the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions at the Hague. The conference was extremely informative, even though it focused more on mass litigation than class actions specifically. Fellow blogger (and extremely nice guy in-person) Paul
Never Say Die: The Vivendi Post-Trial Opinion
Last year, a jury in New York City decided one of the few securities class actions ever to go to trial. Lest anyone think that a jury verdict is ever the end of a piece of complex litigation, the Southern District of New York released a post-trial opinion last week. The opinion is
Canadian Class Actions – Colder, Faster, and Still Likely to Cross the Border
NERA Economic Consulting has released its annual study on Canadian securities class actions. It headlines the fact that there were a record number of active class actions (28). But some of the other trends it notes are as — if not more — interesting for class-action defense lawyers:
2010 was not substantially different from
Bigger, Faster, Sunnier – NERA’s 2010 Report on Securities Class-Action Trends
In welcome news for content-starved class-action bloggers, NERA Economic Consulting (source of the perennially popular report on Italian class actions) has released its annual report on trends in securities class actions.
The report contains some of its usual data, always interesting but mostly just confirming existing trends. Among those:
- Overall, securities class-action filings
Class Action Collation
Many apologies for providing you all with just a linkdump for my Tuesday entry, but I’m lying in bed with a triple-digit fever. Still, there are certainly other legal blogs that do a thoughtful job of covering class-action issues, and I’m lucky that several of them have great entries right now.
- Justice Scalia has stayed
The Italian Class Action – More Stylish Than in the US?
National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA), an excellent source for statistics on litigation, has released a report on the recently-implemented class-action law in Italy: Italian Class Actions Eight Months In: The Driving Forces.
The report describes (for those of us in the US) the law governing class actions in Italy. Class
More About Plaintiffs’ Lawyers – Inside a Class Action
A little while ago, I reviewed Circle of Greed, the story of William Lerach’s rise and fall in the world of the class-action plaintiffs’ bar. The posts on the subject drew some criticism from some plaintiffs’ lawyers, but I still think it was worth it to see how at least one plaintiffs’ counsel