Greenberg Traurig LLP issued the following announcement on Apr. 14.
Robert J. Herrington, co-chair of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Class Action Litigation Practice, presented the webinar, “Preclusion in Class Actions: Asserting Judgments and Releases to Prevent Repetitive Litigation,” on April 15, from 1:00-2:30 pm EDT.
The Strafford live CLE webinar discussed how class action lawyers can assert or challenge the preclusive effect of class releases and class judgments on future claims. The webinar also explore trial strategies and release language that offers defendants the broadest relief and finality. Other topics include how preclusion can be asserted or avoided by the parties’ successors, heirs, and assigns, even decades after the judgment or settlement, and the impact of notice and other class action procedures on the enforceability of judgments and releases.
Herrington, who is based in Greenberg Traurig’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices, focuses his practice on defending consumer products companies in complex, multi-party litigation, including class actions, government enforcement litigation, product defect litigation, and mass torts. He represents companies in a variety of industries, including apparel and footwear, retail, emerging technologies, consumer electronics, video game, telecommunications, advertising and publicity, online retailing, food and beverage, nutritional supplements, personal care products, sports and fitness, outdoor equipment, home appliances, automotive, and insurance.
Herrington is an author of the bestselling book, Verdict for the Defense (Sutton Hart Press 2011), and a co-author of The Class Action Fairness Act: Law and Strategy (ABA Publishing 2013, update scheduled for publication in late-2020) and Class Action Strategy and Practice Guide (ABA Publishing 2018). He was a team member of The American Lawyer’s 2018 “Products Liability Litigation Department of the Year,” has been listed for seven consecutive years in the Legal 500 United States’ “Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products” category, and from 2013-15, was noted as a “Rising Star” by Law 360.
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