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Watch CAME 2020 on YouTube

10/15/2020

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Did you miss any of the 4th Annual Class Action Money & Ethics Conference? Not to worry, you can watch recordings of each panel discussion on YouTube. Below are links for each discussion topic. Supplemental materials for each panel can be found here.

'The Conservative Case for Class Actions' by Brian Fitzpatrick
This book by our keynote speaker argues that lifelong Republicans like himself should embrace class actions as a private-sector mechanism to combat commercial malfeasance, as opposed to government regulation and oversight. Fitzpatrick is Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tenn. Before joining Vanderbilt, he graduated first in his class at Harvard Law School, served as a law clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court to Justice Antonin Scalia, practiced corporate litigation in Washington, D.C. and worked as Special Counsel to John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate.

Data, Technology and Privacy
  • Karen Hanson Riebel, Partner, Lockridge Grindal Nauen
  • John A. Yanchunis, Attorney, Morgan & Morgan
  • Moderated by Amy Worley, Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group

Mass Arbitrations
  • Ray E. Gallo, Senior Partner, Gallo LLP; and Founder, Gallo Digital LLC
  • Joshua G. Konecky, Partner, Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP
  • Travis Lenkner, Managing Partner, Keller Lenkner LLC
  • Wesley A. Prichard, Associate, K&L Gates LLP
  • Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin, Of Counsel, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
  • Moderated by Matthew Dundon, Principal, Dundon Advisers

An Analysis of the Antitrust Landscape over 10 Years
  • Nathaniel Ament-Stone, Associate, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
  • Joshua Davis, Professor, University of San Francisco Law School
  • Pamela Gilbert, Partner, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca
  • Jeffrey Klenk, Director, Berkeley Research Group
  • Moderated by Rose Kohles, Assistant Vice President, Huntington Bank

ERISA, Labor and Employment
  • Seth Kaufman, Partner, Fisher Phillips LLP
  • Randy Moon, Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group
  • Moderated by David Lewin, Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group

Recent Trends in Securities Litigation
  • Stephen Cirami, Head of Class Actions and Corporate Actions, Broadridge Financial Solutions
  • Dean Seal, Senior Reporter, Law360
  • Jeroen Van Kwawegen, Partner, Bernstein Litowitz Berger Grossmann
  • Glenn K. Vanzura, Partner, Mayer Brown
  • Moderated by Robyn Griffin, Managing Director, Huntington Bank

No-Injury Class Actions
  • Eric Cramer, Chairman, Berger Montague
  • Michael P. Daly, Partner, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
  • David Kalat, Director, Berkeley Research Group
  • Moderated by Robin Cantor, Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group

Ethics: Protecting Data in Class Actions and Fund Administration
  • Christopher J. Dalton, Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
  • Allison Grande, Senior Reporter, Law360
  • Brent Landau, Global Managing Partner, Hausfeld, and Lecturer in Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Climate Change
  • Katie Beran, Partner, Hausfeld LLP
  • Mike Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School
  • Gabrielle Sigel, Partner, Jenner & Block
  • Moderated by Bradford Cornell, Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group

The 5th Annual Class Action Money & Ethics Conference will commence on Monday, May 3, 2021. See you then!
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Class Action Money & Ethics 2020 postponed to Sept. 21

3/9/2020

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Beard Group wants to communicate the following to participants of the 4th Annual Class Action Money & Ethics Conference:
  1. We have postponed this year's conference to Mon., Sept. 21. 
  2. The safety of conference participants is our top priority.
  3. We are closely monitoring news and information about Covid-19 (coronavirus disease).
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The outlook for "no injury" class actions at CAME 2020

2/20/2020

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Another full panel topic is confirmed for the 4th Annual Class Action Money & Ethics Conference on Mon., May 4 in Midtown Manhattan. This discussion will look at no-injury class actions in which plaintiffs and defendants face unique questions about roles of standing, defining harms and measuring damages.

So-called “no-injury” class actions are the subject of substantial debate not only in the law, but also among experts charged with examining the proximate cause of economic losses and the reliable measurement of damages, if any. Increasingly in these matters, courts must address standing, predominance and due process challenges. The panel will discuss some recent decisions and their potential importance for the treatment of no-injury class actions.

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The panel will be moderated by Robin Cantor, Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group. Dr. Robin Ann Cantor has more than 30 years of experience in environmental, health and energy economics, applied economics, statistics, risk management and insurance claims analysis. Before joining BRG, Dr. Cantor led practice groups at national consulting firms and conducted analysis for companies and financial institutions to better understand environmental health, and other product liability exposures. Dr. Cantor's consulting practice focuses on economics at the interface of science and technology. Many of her projects involve science-based economic analysis used in litigation support, expert testimony, risk assessment, and other advisory services.
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Eric Cramer is Chairman and Co-Chair of the Berger Montague’s antitrust department. In leading antitrust class actions across the country and industries, he has won settlements totaling over $3 billion. Mr. Cramer was the only Plaintiffs’ lawyer selected to serve on the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section Transition Report Task Force delivered to the incoming Obama Administration in 2012. He is a Senior Fellow and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the American Antitrust Institute; a past President of COSAL (Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws), a leading industry group; a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Consumer Antitrust Studies of the Loyola University Chicago School of Law; and Vice President & President Elect of the Board of Directors of Public Justice, a national public interest advocacy group and law firm.
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Mike Daly of Faegre Drinker counsels clients that interact with consumers. His practice focuses on defending class actions, handling critical motions and appeals and maximizing the defense-ibility of marketing and the enforce-ability of contracts. He regularly defends claims challenging marketing, labeling, billing, credit reporting and debt collecting, and counsels clients on issues such as removing actions, compelling arbitration, coordinating proceedings, opposing certification and negotiating settlements.


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David Kalat is a testifying expert in information science and electronic evidence at Berkeley Research Group. He leads the Chicago digital forensics lab for BRG’s Global Investigations + Strategic Intelligence practice. Mr. Kalat is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Computer Examiner (CCE), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), an Access Data Certified Examiner (ACE), an Illinois-licensed private detective and a nonfiction author. Mr. Kalat publishes regular columns to the Legaltech News blog by ALM.
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Climate change and environmental litigation discussion at CAME 2020

2/7/2020

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The 4th Annual Class Action Money & Ethics Conference on Mon., May 4 at The Harmonie Club in Midtown Manhattan will feature a panel discussion environmental litigation in regards to climate change.

If there is one issue that affects virtually everyone, from local communities to the world as a whole, it is climate change.  For some time, various legal approaches have been tried with climate change claims. Will these lawsuits eventually evolve into class action matters, or are climate change impacts poorly suited for the courts and best addressed by policy makers?  The panel will consider recent court decisions such as Juliana vs. United States and the potential role of class action litigation as a response to the consequences of climate change.

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Katie Beran, Partner, Hausfeld LLP

Katie’s practice focuses on pursuing justice for plaintiffs in antitrust, civil and human rights, and environmental litigation. She has received many recognitions and honors in recent years, including being named a Lawyer on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer, a Rising Star in Antitrust Litigation by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, and an Energy & Environmental Trailblazer by the National Law Journal. Before joining the firm, Katie served as a federal Law Clerk to the Honorable Gerald A. McHugh in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania during the first two years of Judge McHugh’s tenure on the bench.
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Mike Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School

Michael B. Gerrard teaches courses on environmental law and founded the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He also chaired the faculty of Columbia University’s Earth Institute from 2015 to 2018. He practiced environmental law for 30 years, trying cases, arguing  appeals, handling the environmental aspects of development projects and providing regulatory compliance advice to clients in the private and public sectors. A prolific writer in environmental law and climate change, Gerrard twice received the Association of American Publishers’ Best Law Book award for works on environmental law and brownfields and has written or edited thirteen books. Gerrard was the 2004-2005 chair of the American Bar Association’s 10,000-member section of environment, energy, and resources. Gerrard has taught courses at Yale, New York University Law School, Universite Paris 1 Panteon-Sorbonne, University of Malta and Vermont Law School.
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Gabrielle Sigel, Partner, Jenner & Block

Gabrielle Sigel is co-chair of the firm's Environmental and Workplace Health and Safety Law Practice and of the firm's Climate and Clean Technology Law Practice. She focuses on environmental, climate change, and safety and health litigation and counseling. Clients seek her representation in complex environmental statutory, common law, Superfund enforcement, and cost recovery actions. She has experience with toxic tort lawsuits and representing clients in claims related to the release of or exposure to hazardous substances. In addition, she counsels corporate clients on a variety of environmental and workplace health and safety regulatory and transactional issues.



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The panel will be moderated by Bradford Cornell, Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group. Bradford Cornell is a financial economist and a leading expert on valuation. Over more than forty years, Prof. Cornell has taught courses on, written books and scholarly papers on, and testified in a wide variety of legal matters involving valuation, damages, and securities. He is developing a new course, Energy, Climate Change, and Finance, at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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An Analysis of the Antitrust Landscape over 10 Years

1/27/2020

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The first complete panel for the 4th Annual Class Action Money & Ethics Conference will deal with trends in antitrust and price-fixing class actions and commercial litigation.

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his panel will review the 2019 Antitrust Annual Report, published by Huntington Bank and the University of San Francisco Law School. The first of its kind, the Antitrust Annual Report analyzes private class action lawsuit settlements in the United States Federal Court System to better understand how class action litigation is changing and how those changes affect class action professionals.
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Nathaniel Ament-Stone is an Associate at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. His practice focuses on antitrust, complex commercial litigation, and arbitration. Mr. Ament-Stone has represented clients in the commodities, sports, insurance, and health care sectors, as well as sovereign states and individual clients, in federal courts and in private arbitral tribunals. Mr. Ament-Stone has substantial experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in class-action antitrust litigation, and in environmental/industrial indemnity disputes.

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Joshua Davis is a professor of law and director of the Center for Law and Ethics at the University of San Francisco. Mr. Davis focuses his scholarly research on complex litigation, ethics and the interplay between the two. Mr. Davis is active in law reform, serving from 2001 to 2004 as the reporter for the committee that drafted California Supreme Court Rules 964 to 967 on multi–jurisdictional practice and testifying before Congress on the pleading standard in federal court. Mr. Davis also writes extensively about antitrust, and is on the board of the American Antitrust Institute.

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Pamela Gilbert is a partner at Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, where she represents clients before Congress, the executive branch and regulatory agencies.. Ms. Gilbert has over thirty years of experience in consumer advocacy  and has testified before Congress over 50 times. She served as the leader of President Obama’s transition team for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and as Executive Director of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission from 1995 to 2001.

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Jeffrey Klenk of Berkeley Research Group focuses his practice on applying economic theory to issues of antitrust, as well as to the analysis of damages stemming from commercial litigation matters. Examples of antitrust work undertaken by Mr. Klenk include analysis of alleged price-fixing, tying and bundling arrangements, the use of conditional rebates and resale price maintenance. In the context of damages, he has analyzed reasonable royalties and lost profits in patent infringement matters, lost wages in employment disputes such as wrongful terminations, and public interest and remedy issues in Section 337 cases. He also has significant experience analyzing issues associated with class certification, particularly in the context of alleged price-fixing.

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The panel will be moderated by Rose Kohles, Assistant Vice President in Huntington Bank's Settlement Funds Services division.

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Prof. Brian Fitzpatrick to make conservative case for class actions at CAME 2020

1/22/2020

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The keynote speaker for the 4th Annual Class Action Money & Ethics Conference is Vanderbilt Law Professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick, author of “The Conservative Case for Class Actions.”

A lifelong Republican, Professor Fitzpatrick argues that to prevent companies from committing crimes like fraud and price-fixing, society needs either (A) lawsuits filed by private citizens or (B) government oversight. True conservatives who prefer market-based solutions over more government regulation should choose class actions, which are a private-sector mechanism of enforcing commercial law.

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Although the class action is not perfect, Professor Fitzpatrick shows in several data-driven chapters that our system is working better than might be expected given all the criticism it endures.

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Watch the Class-Action Distributions Panel from CAME 2019

5/28/2019

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Distribution of class action funds is often as complex as the case. With awards "tailored" based on value, the intricate process of distributing funds created a niche market in the industry. Our experts will guide you through the latest class action distributions and the impacts on consumers and the marketplace.

Panelists include Robyn Griffin of The Huntington National Bank, Catherine van Kampen of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, Jen Enck of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check and Victoria Waciura of Epiq.
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Watch the Two-Sided Markets Panel from CAME 2019

5/27/2019

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As the oral arguments were underway for Apple v. Pepper, the question remained - do consumers have the right to sue anyone who provides goods and services when prices are set by third parties? Distributed smartness, where technology and innovation meet indirect purchasers is at the core of this discussion.

The panel features (left to right) Darryl Anderson of Norton Rose Fulbright, Mark Rifkin of Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, David Kaplan of Berkeley Research Group and Leah Nylen of MLex Market Insights.
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Watch the Class Certification Update Panel from CAME 2019

5/27/2019

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What's new and different in class certification? We will discuss the significance of Rules 23(a) and (b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by examining the most pressing cases.

Panelists from left include Matthew DalSanto of Winston & Strawn, Nathaniel Ament-Stone of Robins Kaplan and Jeffrey Klenk of Berkeley Research Group.
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Watch the TCPA Litigation Panel from CAME 2019

5/27/2019

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TCPA was designed to do a number of things, including protecting consumers from telemarketers, pre-recorded calls and restricting telemarketers from calling those on the do-not-call registry. We will take a fresh look at this legislation that is nearly three decades old to determine next steps in a digital world.

Panelists from left include Peggy Daley of Berkeley Research Group, Marcos Sasso of Ballard Spahr and Matthew Loker of Kazerouni Law Group.
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CLASS ACTION MONEY & ETHICS CONFERENCE 2021

Aligning Interests & Optimizing Outcomes in Class Action Litigation
JUNE 29-30

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