Appeals, Removals, & Class Actions - Current Issues - On-Demand #MCLE

Stay up to date on the current issues affecting litigators. Learn the latest rules and best practices regarding appeals, removal to federal court, and class actions. Presentation in this program include:

• To Appeal or Not To Appeal: Factors to consider when deciding whether to appeal an adverse decision, and strategies to increase your chances of success when you are in the appellate courts.
• Removal to Federal Court - The New Rules: Affecting nearly every diversity case filed in or removed to federal court, the new Federal Court Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act of 2011 requires all federal practice litigators to reconsider longstanding litigation strategies. Removal of multiple defendant suits, venue, the rule of unanimity, supplemental jurisdiction of unrelated state claims, residency and how the amount in controversy is determined are all affected. Litigation managers must know these important changes.
• The Continued Erosion of Overbroad Class Actions - The 9th Circuit Takes Action:The permissible scope of class actions has been substantially narrowed. In-house counsel should be incorporating class-waiver arbitration provisions which are now presumptively valid (Concepcion). Classes defined by extrapolation and data models have been dealt a death blow rendering them vulnerable to Daubert challenges (Walmart). Efforts to pursue state court class actions will increase because failure in federal court will not bar re-litigation in state court (Bayer).

Title:
Appeals, Removals, & Class Actions - Current Issues
When/Where:
On-Demand Recording
Speakers:

• Jill M. Wheaton, based in Ann Arbor, is a Dykema litigator involved in high-profile appellate work, commercial litigation, and products liability defense. She is the leader of the Firm's Appellate practice. In addition to handling or assisting in matters on appeal in which Dykema represented the client at the trial court level, Ms. Wheaton is often called on to enter the case for the first time on appeal. In such cases, she has repeatedly obtained reversals of adverse decisions, or sustained favorable rulings. Ms. Wheaton is a leader of the Michigan appellate law community, as indicated by her professional associations and awards.
• Kevin Schiferl is a partner of Frost Brown Todd. Kevin is a trial attorney concentrating his practice in product liability litigation and mass tort, defending corporations and individuals in personal injury claims involving automobiles and other consumer products. He is also engaged in the defense of professional liability and business claims. With over seventy-five (75) jury trials and hundreds of bench trials and hearings, Kevin is one of Indiana’s most active litigators.
• Scott O'Connell is a partner of Nixon Peabody. He serves as deputy chair of Nixon Peabody’s Litigation department as well as the practice group leader of the Commercial Litigation team and the Class Action & Aggregate Litigation team. He represents integrated financial service companies—including banks, securities firms, insurance companies, and regulated subsidiaries of nonfinancial parents—in federal and state court litigation and before regulatory agencies.

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