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Real People, Real Checks! Class Members Tell Us What It Means To Them
Settlement checks can add up to a significant amount. Some of the regular viewers on our website, Top Class Actions, know this to be true. These awesome individuals, our biggest fans, write to tell us about how they were able to qualify for enough settlements to recoup $1,000 or $3000, $4,000 a year. That's a lot of money for most people. It reminds me that when we’re engaging with communities on social media, like our teachers who live paycheck to paycheck, we are saying to them: This is your money—submit your claim!
Class Action Strategy and Practice Guide: A Must-Have For All Class Action Attorneys
Class actions involve decisions on strategy at every turn. The positions of the parties are constantly changing and counsel must always be looking ahead and, at the same time, carefully watching their flank. This book helps all practitioners and parties identify, analyze and answer key strategy questions. Ever evolving class action tactics, case law and rule make this insightful practice guide a must read for lawyers, judges, advocates and decision makers at every level.
Amendments to Class Action Rule 23 Now in Effect: Objectors Beware!
The amendments to the to the federal class action rule were set to take effect December 1, 2018 subject to Congressional action – rejection, modification, or deferment. That deadline passed without the legislature’s response. As a result, these proposed are now in effect, marking the first substantive update to Rule 23 in fifteen years.