Class Action Threats in 2023 And Beyond - A Webinar Series
Webinar Recordings
Data Beware! Defending Class Actions in the Privacy and Data-Sharing Space
Speakers: David Poell, Wynter Deagle, Tenaya Rodewald
This presentation will discuss the recent surge in class actions challenging companies’ practices for collecting, sharing, and storing consumer data, including claims arising under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, Video Privacy Protection Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and other privacy-related statutes. The presentation will also address emerging trends in data-breach class actions.
Careful What You Say: The Latest in False Advertising Litigation
July 25, 2023 (10 a.m. PT; 12 p.m. CT; 1 p.m. ET)
Speakers: Rob Guite, Abby Meyer, Paul Garrity
This presentation will cover the newest trends in false advertising cases, including product-labeling claims, ESG claims, statutory damage threats and more.
No Class, Just a Massive Headache: Mass Arbitrations
August 29, 2023 (10 a.m. PT; 12 p.m. CT; 1 p.m. ET)
Speakers: Craig Cardon, Kevin Cloutier, Jay Ramsey, Kari Rollins,
This presentation will cover the plaintiff bar's effort to use mass arbitration to coerce settlements and strategies for how to defend them and thwart them.
So You Want to Be a Landlord? Rise in Residential Housing Class Actions
September 14, 2023 (10 a.m. PT; 12 p.m. CT; 1 p.m. ET)
Speakers: Mark Rackers, Shannon Petersen
This presentation will cover the recent spate of class actions being filed against landlords and property managers relating to tenant protection statutes, which include challenges to rent increases, late fees in residential leases, security deposit practices, the charging of application fees and personal liability insurance fees, as well as TCPA/debt collection claims, and claims of false advertising.
Arbitration and Class Action Waivers: A Vision of a Classless Society
October 3, 2023 (10 a.m. PT; 12 p.m. CT; 1 p.m. ET)
Speakers: Anna McLean, Alex Moreno, Cameron Gates
This presentation will review best practices for ensuring agreement to arbitration clauses, drafting arbitration clauses, the plaintiff bar's ongoing efforts to invalidate the clauses and how best to craft a clause that is enforceable.
Recent Trends In Securities Class Actions
October 24, 2023 (10 a.m. PT; 12 p.m. CT; 1 p.m. ET)
Speaker: Rob Weber, Chris Bosch
This presentation will review recent trends surrounding securities class action cases, including the impact on public companies, the industries being targeted the most, the factors most likely to trigger a lawsuit, recent settlement activity, and strategies to avoid becoming a potential target.
Emerging Claims Involving Insurance Class Actions
November 9, 2023 (10 a.m. PT; 12 p.m. CT; 1 p.m. ET)
Speakers: Jeff Crowe, Jenny Hoffman, Wynter Deagle
This presentation will offer insight and strategies against emerging insurance class action claims in California involving a variety of topics, including total loss auto claims, wildfire smoke and Covid-19 claims, and theories of liability alleging under insurance.
Questions? Please contact Shanae Wong via email.