Cutting Edge Issues In Mediating and Arbitrating Consumer Class/Mass Action Claims

Join JAMS neutrals, Hon. S. James Otero (Ret.) and Barbara A. Reeves, Esq., CEDS, for an upcoming panel on litigating, mediating and arbitrating consumer class actions and mass consumer claims.

Topics the program will cover:
Litigating and mediating consumer class actions 

• How Transunion, Bumble Bee Foods and In re Qualcomm are affecting class litigation and mediation
• Standing challenges after Kimberly-Clark and their impact on settling class litigation
• Are UCL claims dead in the water after the Premier Nutrition decision? 
• Strategies for settling class actions after the Kia and Briseno decisions

Arbitrating mass consumer claims 

• The rise of mass arbitration
• Procedural tools for managing and litigating mass arbitration proceedings
• Plaintiff and defense strategies for addressing mass arbitration filings
• Suggestions from the arbitrators on presenting consumer claims in arbitration 

Hon. S. James Otero (Ret.) | JAMS 

Gillian L. Wade | Milstein Jackson Fairchild & Wade LLP 

Simon Grille | Girard Sharp

Christopher Chorba | Gibson Dunn

Robert J. Herrington | Greenberg Traurig, LLP