With high stakes and wide-spread impact, class action matters entail complex management from the very beginning. This handbook provides attorneys and judges with the most up-to-date research and valuable tips from experienced practitioners. It covers the entire process, from potential claims, discovery, and notice, through settlement, fees, and state practice. Further discussion of pleadings, motions, and orders; multidistrict actions; shareholder derivative suits; and the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 round out this comprehensive guide. Also included is a thorough examination of Federal Rule of Procedure 23 focusing on its purposes and prerequisites. Class action notices under Rule 23, and settlement and discretionary notices under Rules 23(c) – 23(e) are also covered. A sample notice to client regarding retention of documents, sample protective order, sample form of stipulation of settlement, and sample final judgment and order of dismissal are among the forms provided in this useful resource.
Chapter 1 — Historical Perspective
Aphrodite Kokolis, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Rule 23 Purposes and Prerequisites
Thomas E. Quinn, Matthew R. Devine & Christina T. Lopez, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 3 — Investigation and Development of Class Cases
Clint Krislov, Krislov & Associates, Ltd., Chicago
Chapter 4 — Discovery
William E. Meyer, Jr., and Vincent Paul Formica, Jr., Fuksa Khorshid, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Class Action Notices Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23
Howard S. Suskin and Alexander Ghantous, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 6 — Providing Notice of a Class Action
W. Jason Rankin and Thomas A. Haine, HelperBroom, Chicago
Chapter 7 — Discretionary and Settlement Notices Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23(c) – 23(e)
Charles R. Watkins, Guin, Stokes & Evans, LLC, Chicago, and Matthew T. Heffner, Heffner Hurst, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Pleadings, Motions, and Orders
Brent R. Austin, Eimer Stahl LLP, Chicago
Chapter 9 — State Practice: Illinois’ Class Action Statute
Kevin R. Malloy, Forde Law Offices LLP, Chicago
Chapter 10 — Settlement Procedures, Negotiations, and Agreements Under State and Federal Rules
Howard S. Suskin, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 11 — Settlement and Consideration (Notice, Standards of Judicial Evaluation, Settlement Hearing, and Judgment and Appeal)
Michael T. Brody and Paul B. Rietema, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 12 — Complex and Multidistrict Actions
Wilber H. Boies, Daniel R. Campbell & Adam Safer, McDermott Will & Emery, Chicago
Chapter 13 — Procedural Aspects of Shareholder Derivative Suits in Illinois
Kevin R. Malloy, Forde Law Offices LLP, Chicago
Chapter 14 — The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005
Aphrodite Kokolis, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago
Chapter 15 — Attorneys’ Fees in Class Actions
Clint Krislov, Krislov & Associates, Ltd., Chicago
