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Class actions evolving to survive, conference concludes.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-MAY-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Class action litigation faces many challenges, but it is evolving, not dying, according to panelists at 'Justice and the Role of Class Actions," a March conference held at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

Countering the conventional wisdom that plaintiffs generally favor and defendants typically oppose class actions, keynote speaker Kenneth Feinberg said these cases should not be regarded as ideological battles between David and Goliath. Feinberg, an expert in mediation and alternative dispute resolution who served as special master for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, noted that defendants may seek class actions as eagerly as...

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