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The 2024 Survey of Federal Class Action Law: A U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit-by-Circuit Analysis is a valuable tool for both in-house and outside counsel who confront the prospect of litigating class actions in federal circuits with which they may have little or no experience and must make informed recommendations on removal. Succinct summaries are prepared by litigators from each of the respective circuits and address changes in rules and statutes as well as significant case law.

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The Class Actions & Derivative Suits Committee consists of practitioners, corporate counsel, and academics interested in class actions and stockholder derivative suits. Its leadership of top practitioners works to keep members abreast of issues in the class actions area, with subcommittees focused on areas that include antitrust law, consumer law, derivative suits, employment law, mass torts, pharmaceuticals and health law, and securities law. Elizabeth J. Cabraser is a founding partner of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP with 28 years' experience representing plaintiffs in mass tort, investment and consumer fraud, product liability, toxic contamination, employment discrimination and civil rights litigation. She has written scholarly and practical articles and lectured extensively on federal civil procedure, complex litigation, securities litigation, class action trials and settlements, environmental claims, mass tort litigation and substantive tort law issues. Ms. Cabraser was named one of The National Law Journal's ""100 Most Influential Lawyers in America"" for 2006. 10/06 Fabrice N. Vincent is a partner at the national plaintiffs' firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. A graduate from Cornell Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1992), Mr. Vincent's practice focuses on class actions, personal injury/torts, defective products, wrongful deaths, medical malpractice, and environmental and toxic torts. He has been recognized by Law & Politics as a ""Northern California Super Lawyer"" for the past two years, and has written extensively on current issues in litigation, including co-editing California Class Actions Practice and Procedures from 20032006. March 2013

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