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Settlement
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Employment Class Action Blog
Fifth Circuit Upholds Unsupervised Release of FLSA Claims
By Greg Mersol
Do you remember the movie “Spring Break ’83”? We don’t either, but it has spawned what may be the most significant Fair Labor Standards Act case this year. The FLSA…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
McShane et al. on Predicting Securities Fraud Settlements
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The latest issue of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies contains an article by Blakeley B. McShane, Oliver P. Watson, Tom Baker, and Sean J. Griffith entitled Predicting Securities Fraud…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Only One Way Out of This Mess: Settlement of FLSA Lawsuit May Need to Be Public to Receive Court’s Approval
Co-authored by Robert S. Whitman and Robert T. Szyba Experienced practitioners have long understood that very few wage-hour class or collective actions go all the way to trial. Nearly all…
SDNY Blog
Preliminary Settlement Reached in Goldman Sachs Securities Fraud Case
In a letter endorsement today, Judge Baer granted the class plaintiffs' request to stay proceedings pending a motion to approve settlement in an ongoing securities fraud class action against Goldman…
Class Defense Blog
Berry: Another Class Settlement Benefiting Class Counsel But Not Class Members Approved
As part of our ongoing series covering class actions in which the only real beneficiaries are the plaintiffs’ lawyers, here is the Missouri Court of Appeals’ decision in Berry v.…
Illinois Workers Compensation Law Blog
Can a settlement offer be taken away?
By Mike Helfand
Here’s a somewhat odd one from a reader: I’ve had my lawyer since 2010. He helped me with a pension case although he screwed that up and now I’m worried…
Illinois Workers Compensation Law Blog
What makes an Illinois work comp case successful?
By Mike Helfand
If you were to go on the website of most Illinois personal injury lawyers, you’d likely see a link that shows their success in certain cases. Many of them have…
ContractsProf Blog
As if being a big firm ex-partner weren’t bad enough…
The Wall Street Journal reported that as part of a settlement with creditors, former partners of belly-up Dewey & LeBoeuf law firm will be asked to give back amounts ranging…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Forsythe settlement news
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
You'll remember back in May we posted about Vice Chancellor Laster's innovation in settlement of a derivative suit. Back then objectors to a settlement appeared. VC Laster challenged them to…
TortsProf Blog
Olson on Early Offers
Walter Olson has an op-ed on early offers in todays New York Post.--CJR