On Tuesday, September 3, 2024, Lieff Cabraser partners Kevin Budner and Phong-Chau Nguyen will present a live Strafford interactive CLE video webinar on “Class Action Ethical Challenges: Intra-Class Conflicts, Communication With Class Members, Attorney Fees, and More.” Subtitled “Avoiding Legal Ethics Violations and Malpractice Liability,” the course will provide class action attorneys with guidance on dealing with the legal ethics hurdles and malpractice threats inherent in class action litigation. The program will address intra-class conflicts, communication with class members, and attorney fees.
As noted in the course description, “Class action litigation presents unique ethical challenges and malpractice vulnerabilities due to increased potential for conflicts of interest, rules regarding no contact, solicitation issues, and attorneys’ fees. However, the applicable ethics rules do not specifically address how to resolve these dilemmas.
“Courts generally adapt applicable ethics rules to the ethical concerns in class action lawsuits. However, unsettled and divergent viewpoints among class action plaintiff and defense counsel make applying the standard rules vastly more complicated.
“Listen as our panel of plaintiff and defense class action attorneys discusses best practices for dealing with the ethical hurdles and malpractice threats inherent when there are large classes of plaintiffs in a single lawsuit. The panel will address intra-class conflicts, communication with class members, and attorney fees.”
Interested legal professionals can register for the seminar online.
About Kevin R. Budner
Kevin R. Budner is a partner in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco specializing in complex, high-impact litigation. Kevin was one of the lead attorneys prosecuting San Francisco’s case in the nationwide opioid litigation. Among other roles, Kevin directed the team’s discovery efforts against Walgreens and played a key role in the multi-month bellwether trial. In a milestone opinion, Judge Charles R. Breyer concluded that “the aggregate evidence that Plaintiff presented at trial was not only adequate to establish Walgreens’ culpability—it was devastating.” This landmark victory led to a $230 million recovery for San Francisco and was a significant factor in driving Walgreens’ multi-billion dollar, nationwide settlement.
Kevin has also had a number of success representing the owners of over-polluting and underperforming vehicles, beginning with the Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” multidistrict litigation. In that case, plaintiffs alleged that Volkswagen lied to the government and misled its customers about the emissions of its diesel engine vehicles.
About Phong-Chau G. Nguyen
A partner in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office, Phong-Chau G. Nguyen specializes in consumer and defective product cases as well as personal injury/mass tort matters. He was part of the leadership team in the Volkswagen Diesel Emissions multidistrict litigation, which secured an unprecedented $14+ billion in settlements on behalf of U.S. owners and lessees of Volkswagen diesel vehicles, and won a finalist position for the 2017 Consumer Attorneys of California “Consumer Attorneys of the Year” award. Phong is involved in similar work on Lieff Cabraser’s leadership team in the Fiat Chrysler diesel emissions case.
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