Wal-Mart Class Certification: How An Individual Can Take on a Whole Company and How to Prevent It

Join the American Bar Association and the Section of Labor and Employment Law for the next CLE Program, Wednesday, August 25, 2004, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern

In this program you will learn:

• What was the role of "corporate culture" in the decision and what does that mean for plaintiffs and employers?
• What was the impact of the experts on the Court’s decision and how does that affect class action litigation strategy?
• What were the winning (and losing) legal arguments and strategies?
• How will corporate employment practices and policies be affected by the decision?
• What were the key factual and procedural points in the record before the Court?
• How does the Court’s definition of the class affect class action litigation strategy?
• Who’s next and how to avoid similar corporate class action suits.

Panelists includes . . .

Lynn Matityahu Frankis a principal in the mediation firm of Gregorio, Haldeman, Piazza, Rotman and Matityahu.  She has successfully mediated over one thousand matters, including countless class action and employment cases across the country, over the last 18 years.

Christopher P. Reynoldsis a partner in the Labor and Employment Law Practice Group of the New York office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, an international, multi-practice law firm with over 1,100 attorneys. His practice includes the litigation of single plaintiff, multi-plaintiff and class action employment matters in federal, state and administrative fora. Mr. Reynolds is a frequent author and speaker on various employment-related topics, including harassment, class action litigation, domestic partner benefits, FMLA, ADA, crisis management of employment matters, global workforce diversity and the employment law implications of e-mail and Internet technologies. He has also been interviewed on NBC’s "Dateline" newscast regarding workplace sexual harassment issues and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal.

Brad Seligmanis currently lead counsel in a pending nationwide class action sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores (Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (N.D.Cal.) has been a civil rights attorney specializing in class action and individual employment and civil rights litigation for the last 22 years. He is the executive director of a public foundation, The Impact Fund, which provides financial and technical assistance and representation for complex public interest litigation. From 1988-1991, he was the managing partner of the Oakland firm of Saperstein, Seligman, Mayeda and Larkin. From September 1991 until June 1994, he was of counsel to the firm's successor, Saperstein, Mayeda and Goldstein. He taught employment discrimination law at Hastings College of the Law and Golden Gate University Law School. He is a 1978 graduate of Hastings College of the Law and was a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School. He has served as the chair of the Northern District Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel, and as a Northern District delegate to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.

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