Multi-District Litigation and Emerging State Coordination Procedures
Strategies for Plaintiffs and Defendants Responding to Aggressive Use of MDL
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with Q&A
Conducted on Thursday, October 29, 2009
Recorded event now available
This seminar will provide a thorough review of recent trends in multi-district litigation proceedings, analyze the effect of MDL on class action litigation, and discuss evolving state coordination efforts.
Description
There has been a sharp rise in MDL cases in recent years. Recent trends clearly indicate an aggressive use of the MDL Act, both in an increasing tendency to transfer cases and to resolve those cases in the transferee district.
Motions in proceedings that include a motion for class certification are the most likely to be granted. Transferee courts make certification rulings in a unitary fashion, sort out class representation, and avoid dueling federal court class actions.
The majority of cases transferred as part of an MDL do not return to the transferor court. Thus, pre-trial motion practice is critical in MDL proceedings, highlighting the importance of the evolving Twombly/Iqbal pleadings standards, motions for summary judgment and Daubert motions.
Listen as our panel of class action litigation specialists discusses trends in MDL litigation, the effect of MDL on class action litigation, and recent trends in state coordination efforts.
Outline
- Federal multi-district litigation
- Overview of MDL
- Strategic considerations
- State court coordination procedures
- Overview of key state coordination procedures
- Coordination of state cases with related federal MDL proceedings
- Effect of MDL and state coordination efforts on class action litigation
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- How has the Class Action Fairness Act affected consolidation of class action claims?
- What are the effects of the federal MDL on related state court litigation?
- What has been the impact of the recent Twombly/Iqbal decisions in the MDL context?
Faculty
Mark Herrmann,
Partner
Jones Day, Chicago
From Firestone tires to ephedra to Enron, he has defended many of the leading cases of our generation. He has defended multi-district litigation and hundreds of class actions filed throughout the federal system and in most of the state courts systems. He is the author of Statewide Coordinated Proceedings: State Court Analogues to the Federal MDL Process.
C. Crews Townsend,
Partner
Miller & Martin, Chattanooga, Tenn.
He has a wide range of litigation experience primarily in the commercial and products liability areas. He currently serves as national coordinating counsel for Chattem in the phenylpropanolamine (PPA) products liability litigation concentrated in MDL 1407. He has opposed class action certification attempts by plaintiffs asserting a variety of theories as part of this litigation.
Elizabeth J. Cabraser,
Partner
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, San Francisco
She represent plaintiffs in class and group actions and in individual lawsuits in cases involving substantial losses in the areas of consumer protection, defective products, international and human rights, personal injury/torts, securities and financial. For the last six years, the National Law Journal has selected Lieff Cabraser as one of the top plaintiffs' law firms in the nation.
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Class Action Law Advisory Board
Partner
Reed Smith
Partner
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro
Partner
O'Melveny & Myers
Partner
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Partner
Goldman Scarlato & Karon
Partner
Weinstein Kitchenoff & Asher
Partner
Winston & Strawn
Partner
Edwards Wildman Palmer
Partner
King & Spalding
Professor
Harvard Law School
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