Class Actions
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Plaintiffs Firms, Student Loans, Unemployment
The Latest News in the Law School Lawsuits
The litigation against law schools made the front page of Metro, New York's big commuter paper, this morning. What's the latest news? -
Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!
Jesse Strauss, one of the lawyers behind the class action law school lawsuits, was recently interviewed by New York Magazine. What did he have to say about the growing movement and the year of law school litigation? - Sponsored
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Job Searches, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: More Like Week-Old Muffins?
Are the lawsuits against law schools over allegedly misleading employment data going to succeed? Some law professors opine on this question.
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Copyright, Intellectual Property, Jed Rakoff, Legal Research, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw
Lawyers Sue Westlaw, Lexis-Nexis for Copyright Infringement
Where would lawyers be without open (and absurdly expensive) access to Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis for legal research? They’d have to trudge down to the closest law library and read real books made of paper. They’d have to head over to the courthouse and pull actual files with non-electronic documents inside of them. In a time where legal texts are used solely for decorative bookshelf purposes, that is just too much to ask. But that is the behavior that two lawyers would expect of their professional colleagues. Do they have any chance of winning their class action copyright suit? -
Bloomberg, Job Searches, Law Schools
Twenty Additional Law School Class Action Suits Are in the Works; Is Your School One of Them?
David Anziska vowed to make 2012 the "year of law school litigation." Anziska told us that Team Strauss/Anziska's strategy going forward would be to sue as many law schools as possible in the first half of 2012. How's that working out for them? Anziska recently sat down with Bloomberg Law for an on-air interview where he revealed some noteworthy information about the next wave of law school lawsuits. The most relevant piece of information? Twenty more law school class action suits are coming down the pipeline. Which schools will be named as defendants? -
American Bar Association / ABA, John Marshall Law School, Law Schools
Twelve More Law Schools Slapped with Class Action Lawsuits Over Employment Data
Back in October, we informed our readers that law school litigators Jesse Strauss and David Anziska intended to file class action lawsuits against 15 additional schools, on top of the two they'd already filed against Cooley Law and New York Law School. In mid-December, we brought you an update on the status of those potential filings after Anziska told us that at least three named plaintiffs had been secured for 11 out of the 15 law schools on October's target list. And now, about a month and a half later, have we got some news for you.... -
Privacy, Shoes, Technology, Texas
Zappos Suffers a Data Breach, and the Other Shoe Drops with a Lawsuit
On Monday, my roommate came home griping that his Zappos.com account, which he had not used in a year, had been hacked. Instead of feeling sympathetic, I started wondering how I might write about it. Data breaches are a dime a dozen these days. It seems almost every company loses control of their customers’ sensitive […] -
Books, Constitutional Law, In-House Counsel, Law Professors, Litigators
Inside Straight: Torpedoing Class Actions
In 2009, Professor Martin H. Redish of Northwestern Law School published a book arguing that class actions are in large part unconstitutional: Wholesale Justice: Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class Action Lawsuit (Stanford Univ. Press 2009). Where is the practicing bar? I understand that nobody reads law review articles or books published by […] - Sponsored
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American Bar Association / ABA, Job Searches, Law Schools, Student Loans, Unemployment
The ABA Thinks It's Your Own Fault If You're Poor and Unemployed
William Robinson, the newly appointed president of the American Bar Association, is taking a stand on the status quo of legal education in our country. But instead calling for reform, Robinson is defending the ABA's role, stating that young lawyers "should have known what they were getting into." Isn't it wonderful to know that the man in charge of the ABA is essentially playing the "blame the victim" card when it comes to debt-saddled and unemployed law school graduates? -
California, Cars
Former Attorney Sues Honda... in Small Claims Court
A former attorney in Los Angeles is unsatisfied with her Honda Civic hybrid's gas mileage. It seems her supposedly high-efficiency car was emitting more smog than smug. A class action lawsuit against the auto manufacturer probably won't give her the relief she wants. So she is taking on Honda in an unusual judicial venue and hoping to remove lawyers from the equation.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, John Marshall Law School, Law Schools
Calling All Disgruntled Law School Graduates: Will You Ring in the New Year By Suing Your School?
Back in October, we brought you the news that Jesse Strauss and David Anziska intended to sue 15 more law schools over their post-graduate employment rates, in addition to their already pending class action suits against Cooley Law and New York Law School. As mentioned during their October 5 media conference, Team Strauss/Anziska will not […] -
Books, California, FDA, Food, Morning Docket, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, UVA Law, Wall Street
Morning Docket: 12.08.11
* In an unprecedented move, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has overruled the FDA. Looks like the Obama administration thinks that Plan B will turn little girls into promiscuous prosti-tots. [Wall Street Journal] * Due to this ruling, Occupy Boston protesters will probably have to STFU and GTFO. Bring out the brooms, because this will be […]
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Cellphones, Eavesdropping / Wiretapping, Privacy, Technology
This Cell Phone Software Company Might Know Everything About You
Last week, the tech world caught fire with the newest in an increasingly long list of electronic privacy scandals. Carrier IQ, a small Silicon Valley software company with its product installed on millions of cell phones, made headlines when a young programmer posted a video allegedly showing the software’s ability to log keystrokes and collect […]
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Brett Kavanaugh, Conferences / Symposia, Federalist Society, Litigators, Money, Plaintiffs Firms, Ted Frank
Attorneys Fees in Class Actions: Too Low, Too High, or Just Right?
Plaintiffs’ lawyers in class action cases: are they heroes, or villains? Do they make too much in fees, leaving the classes they represent high and dry? Or could it be argued that they make too little for the work that they do? Let’s discuss…. -
American Bar Association / ABA, Biglaw, Law Schools, Small Law Firms, Venable
New York Law School Files Motion to Dismiss Suit Over Employment Data
In August, New York Law School was hit with a class action lawsuit over the school's allegedly deceptive post-graduate employment data. The suit accused NYLS of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and deceptive business practices. Now, two months later, NYLS is packing some Biglaw heat against two small firms, and moving to dismiss the complaint.... -
California, Cyberlaw, Eavesdropping / Wiretapping, Facebook, Privacy, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Did Facebook Illegally Wiretap 150 Million People? Maybe! Probably Not
A new lawsuit, filed by an average Facebook user, claims a class of 150 million people, and damages of hundreds or thousands of dollars per class member. It's almost like there's no privacy anywhere anymore! (We're kidding, of course: Privacy completely disappeared years ago.) Exactly what heinous offense has Facebook supposedly committed? We're so glad you asked.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, John Marshall Law School, Law Schools, Lawsuit of the Day
Fifteen More Law Schools to Be Hit with Class Action Lawsuits Over Post-Grad Employment Rates
Kurzon Strauss, the law firm that brought us some of the most prolific class action lawsuits of the year has split up. Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you've got major cases to deal with. So, what's a lawyer to do? Apparently the solution is to file fifteen more class action lawsuits against law schools with questionable post-graduate employment data. Is your law school or alma mater a defendant? -
Antonin Scalia, Breasts, Crime, Drinking, Election 2012, Facebook, Morning Docket, Privacy, SCOTUS, Screw-Ups, Violence
Morning Docket: 10.03.11
* After Anwar al-Awlaki’s death, everyone wants to know if it’s legal to kill American citizens abroad. Well, if Ron Paul is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. [New York Daily News] * Sullivan & Cromwell and the Mailroom of Death: Harry Potter series reject or SCOTUS-bound appeal? If only there were a […]
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Contracts, Document Review, Litigators, Plaintiffs Firms, Technology, Trials
Prominent Plaintiffs' Attorneys Ordered to Pay Up After Losing Breach of Contract Trial
Last week, more than a dozen high-profile mass torts attorneys lost a San Francisco jury trial against a small technology company. The jury decided the attorneys had illegally breached a document review contract during the high-profile Chinese drywall class-action litigation. Tempers are still running hot, and we've got more from both sides of the dispute…. -
Andrew Cuomo, Antitrust, Cars, Death Penalty, Department of Justice, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Mergers and Acquisitions, Morning Docket, Pornography, SCOTUS, Trademarks, Violence
Morning Docket: 09.22.11
* It took SCOTUS more than four hours to write one sentence. But oh, to be a fly on the wall last night when they decided to deny a stay of execution for Troy Davis. [New York Times] * AT&T wants to take the DOJ’s antitrust case to trial. This must be some sort of […]