There is little discussion of legal ethics in the American Law Institute’s recently adopted Principles of Aggregate Litigation, either in the black-letter rules or the comments. The primary exception is that the Principles devote several sections to the so-called aggregate settlement rule (Rule 1.8(g) of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct), although the purpose of these sections appears to be a proposed modification of that rule to permit claimants to agree in advance to be bound by majority approval of a particular settlement. The purpose of this essay is not to discuss the controversial aggregate settlement proposal (which the author has opposed elsewhere), but rather to examine other parts of the Principles and to comment on the...
At the close of the twentieth century, we are witnessing very significant changes in the litigation ...
In 2003, I published an article entitled “Who Should Regulate Class Action Lawyers?”1 In that articl...
In this Article, Professor Hazard addresses the concerns many people have regarding the application ...
There is little discussion of legal ethics in the American Law Institute’s recently adopted Principl...
In an aggregate settlement, usually of a mass tort claim, a defendant agrees to pay a specific dolla...
Ethical issues arise frequently in class action litigation. These issues include conflicts of intere...
Those who have addressed ethics issues for plaintiffs’ lawyers in mass tort litigation have focused ...
As the rest of the papers in this symposium issue demonstrate, aggregate litigationi raises difficul...
The American legal system has witnessed a gradual, almost surreptitious, movement toward collective...
The settlement of mass torts through the class action device presents some difficult and troubling i...
The American Law Institute has recently undertaken an entirely new project - Principles of the Law o...
In this Article, I explore the roles of lawyers in alternative dispute resolution ( ADR ), including...
While aggregate litigation has become an integral part of the U.S. civil justice system, it is often...
Much recent academic discussion exaggerates the distance between plausible legal ethics and ordinary...
Cases in which lawyers represent large numbers of individual plaintiffs are increasingly common. Whi...
At the close of the twentieth century, we are witnessing very significant changes in the litigation ...
In 2003, I published an article entitled “Who Should Regulate Class Action Lawyers?”1 In that articl...
In this Article, Professor Hazard addresses the concerns many people have regarding the application ...
There is little discussion of legal ethics in the American Law Institute’s recently adopted Principl...
In an aggregate settlement, usually of a mass tort claim, a defendant agrees to pay a specific dolla...
Ethical issues arise frequently in class action litigation. These issues include conflicts of intere...
Those who have addressed ethics issues for plaintiffs’ lawyers in mass tort litigation have focused ...
As the rest of the papers in this symposium issue demonstrate, aggregate litigationi raises difficul...
The American legal system has witnessed a gradual, almost surreptitious, movement toward collective...
The settlement of mass torts through the class action device presents some difficult and troubling i...
The American Law Institute has recently undertaken an entirely new project - Principles of the Law o...
In this Article, I explore the roles of lawyers in alternative dispute resolution ( ADR ), including...
While aggregate litigation has become an integral part of the U.S. civil justice system, it is often...
Much recent academic discussion exaggerates the distance between plausible legal ethics and ordinary...
Cases in which lawyers represent large numbers of individual plaintiffs are increasingly common. Whi...
At the close of the twentieth century, we are witnessing very significant changes in the litigation ...
In 2003, I published an article entitled “Who Should Regulate Class Action Lawyers?”1 In that articl...
In this Article, Professor Hazard addresses the concerns many people have regarding the application ...