Class actions carry the potential for substantial payouts, but it is a long road with many twists and turns. This handbook provides attorneys and judges a road map to help navigate the process from potential claims to settlement. Experienced practitioners impart their knowledge of pleadings, motions, and orders; multidistrict actions; shareholder derivate suits; the purposes and prerequisites of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, and the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. Also provided are forms, such as a sample protective order and a sample form of stipulation of settlement, for the reader’s convenience.
Chapter 1 — Historical Perspective
Aphrodite Kokolis, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Rule 23 Purposes and Prerequisites
W. Patrick Conlon and Brienne M. Letourneau, White & Case 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 Reanne Zheng, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 6 — Providing Notice of a Class Action
W. Jason Rankin, HeplerBroom LLC, Edwardsville
Chapter 7 — Discretionary and Settlement Notices Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23(c) – 23(e)
Charles R. Watkins, Guin, Stokes & Evans, LLC,and Matthew T. Heffner, Heffner Hurst, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Pleadings, Motions, and Orders
Reginald D. Cloyd, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Indianapolis, IN
Chapter 9 — State Practice: Illinois’ Class Action Statute
Kevin R. Malloy, Forde & O'Meara LLP, Chicago
Chapter 10 — Settlement Procedures, Negotiations, and Agreements Under State and Federal Rules
Nickolas J. Hagman, Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel 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
Daniel R. Campbell, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Chicago
Chapter 13 — Procedural Aspects of Shareholder Derivative Suits in Illinois
Kevin R. Malloy, Forde & O'Meara 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
