Ethical Issues in Mass & Class Actions
$74.99
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1.00 General
Practice Areas:
Class Actions, Ethics, Personal Injury and Negligence, Tort
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About
This Course
- This session will cover BASF’s two published opinions on representation of clients in class and mass actions:
- May an attorney ethically initiate representation of a large group of plaintiffs in a tort action?
- What ethical obstacles must an attorney consider before undertaking such joint/multiple client representation?
- What ethical obstacles may a lawyer face during the joint representation of a large group of clients in a mass tort action, and how should those issues be addressed in accordance with a lawyer’s ethical obligations?
- The panel will also use recently published topic-specific materials, e.g., Richard Zitrin’s recent law review article if we are permitted to use it
About the Presenters
Richard Zitrin, Esq.
UC College of the Law, San Francisco
Practice Area: Ethics (+ 2 other areas)
Professor Richard Zitrin is a graduate of Oberlin College, A.B. (1968), and New York University School of Law, J.D. (1974). He has taught Legal Ethics since 1977—since 1994 at UC Law SF—and has authored three books and dozens of articles in the field, including a current bimonthly column, The Moral Compass, for American Law Media. He founded and was the first Director of USF’s Center for Applied Legal Ethics. He was coordinator of USF’s ethics curriculum and also taught Trial Practice. He has taught ethics orientations around the country, including for several years at Fordham.In 2019, Professor Zitrin was awarded ...
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Steven Skikos, Esq.
Skikos, Crawford, Skikos & Joseph
Practice Area: Trial (+ 3 other areas)
Steven Skikos, a founding partner of Skikos, Crawford, Skikos & Joseph LLP, has been a trial attorney since 1990. Skikos has tried multiple pharmaceutical and medical device cases, tried numerous employment law cases in state and federal court on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants, prosecuted and tried criminal cases while clerking at the United States Attorney’s Office in San Francisco, and tried personal injury cases. Since 1996, Skikos has focused on complex pharmaceutical drug and medical device litigation. He has been court-appointed lead and/or liaison counsel for California Judicial Counsel Coordinated Proceedings (JCCP) and/or for the federal Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) ...
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Rosanne Mah, Esq.
Gibbs Mura
Practice Area: Class Actions (+ 3 other areas)
Rosanne L. Mah represents consumers in complex class action litigation involving deceptive and misleading practices, false advertising, and defective products. She also represents survivors of childhood sexual abuse in Boy Scouts Sexual Abuse Litigation and in New Orleans Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Litigation.Rosanne is integrally involved in client relations, including communicating with class members, through all stages of the litigation process, from intake to settlement.Rosanne has over 15 years of experience in providing the highest level of legal representation to individuals and businesses in a wide variety of cases. Throughout her legal career she has specialized in consumer protection, defective products, cybersecurity, ...
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David A. Wolf, Esq.
Law Office of David A. Wolf
Practice Area: Labor & Employment (+ 4 other areas)
David Wolf is a California labor and employment law attorney whose career spans almost 40 years of advice and counsel, administrative law and trial work, including scores of labor arbitrations. David is licensed to practice law in all California state courts, as well as California’s Northern District and Eastern District federal courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Tax Court. David has also practiced extensively before the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) in its Regions 16, 19, 20, 21, 31, 32, and Subregion 36 as well as California’s Public Employment Relations Board (“PERB”). David worked in various ...
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