For the defendant, lead-plaintiff motions in class actions can often seem like a small sideshow to the real litigation. (Indeed, in many kinds of class actions, where only a single firm or consortium has brought a lawsuit, the lead-plaintiff motion may only be pro forma.) For plaintiffs however – particularly securities plaintiffs – lead-plaintiff
Stephen Choi
Pay to Play – Grounds for Challenging the Adequacy of Institutional Investors
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Despite the amount of time defense counsel spend handling class actions, one aspect often continues to frustrate analysis – plaintiffs’ counsel. Studying how plaintiffs’ counsel operate in class actions (which is, of course, essential to opposing them in individual litigation) can sometimes feel like Kremlinology, or reading tea leaves. Since plaintiffs’ counsel have…