Key Insights from Duane Morris’ Annual Class Action Review
Alternative Litigation Strategies
Release Date: 04/17/2024
Data Insights – Best Practices For Working With Your eDiscovery Partner
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On Episode #30 of the Alternative Litigation Strategies podcast, host Kevin Skrzysowski sits down with author and technology evangelist W. Curtis Preston to discuss the latest eDiscovery challenges, strategies, and best practices for law firms and in-house legal departments. Kevin and Curtis discuss what surprises lawyers the most about eDiscovery, the challenges of extracting backup information, the increasing complexity of dealing with mobile devices, and best practices for selecting and working with your eDiscovery provider.
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The Benefits of Leveraging Trial Psychology with Drs. Jaine and Bo Fraser of the Trial Psychology Institute
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In the latest episode of Certum Group’s podcast, Alternative Litigation Strategies, host Kevin Skrzysowski had the pleasure of speaking with Drs. Jaine and Bo Fraser of the Trial Psychology Institute. You don’t want to miss this episode to learn about the benefits of leveraging trial psychologists when you should engage with them, the critical importance of the research process, voir dire and opening statement phases, and how to turn your case into a winning story.
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Litigation Finance – An Academic Perspective from Penn Carey Law School
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In the latest episode of the Alternative Litigation Strategy Podcast, I had a fascinating discussion with Professor Tom Baker and Lecturer in Law, Will Marra, about their litigation finance course at the Penn Carey Law School. We explored the history, economics, business practice, law, and social implications of this burgeoning field. We discussed this new asset-class of investor backed litigation finance offered on a non-recourse basis which is transforming law firm behavior and client relationships. Tom and Will stressed the importance of how the course weaves in...
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Optimal Legal Audio (OLA) - an Artificial Intelligence Platform for Oral Arguments
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You don’t want to miss the 27th episode of the Alternative Litigation Strategies podcast where we discuss one of the most innovative and transformative legal technology platforms to hit the litigation marketplace in the last several years – Optimal Legal Audio (OLA). In this episode Certum Group Director, Kevin Skrzysowski, interviews Adam Feldman, a lawyer, political scientist, professor, Supreme Court scholar, and creator of the Empirical SCOTUS Blog, and Badri Narasimhan, an engineer, serial technology entrepreneur, and all-around analytics wizard. Adam and Badri...
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Litigation Finance and Your Career
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On this 26th episode of Alternative Litigation Strategies, Kevin speaks with one of Certum’s Legal Directors, , about leveraging litigation to advance your career – Here’s a summary: back when law was a profession and not a business, landing a job at an established firm reasonably set you up for a long and fruitful career. Firms had institutional clients. Lateral moves among stable firms were rare. And partners cared about mentoring the next generation because the next generation would pay for their retirement. Those halcyon days are long gone. Today, even...
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Key Insights from Duane Morris’ Annual Class Action Review
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In the latest episode of Certum Group’s podcast, Alternative Litigation Strategies, Kevin sits down with Jennifer Riley, a Partner and Vice Chair of Duane Morris’ Class Action Group and General Editor of their annual Class Action Review. The Duane Morris Review is a one-of-a-kind 650 page comprehensive analysis of class action litigation trends and significant rulings and settlements from 2023 designed to help corporate counsel and business leaders make informed decisions when facing complex litigation risks in the coming year. Kevin and Jennifer discuss several of the...
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What’s Cooking In Food And Beverage Class Action Litigation in 2024
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If you handle advertising litigation you don’t want to miss this episode of Alternative Litigation Strategies! In the latest show Kevin interviews litigation Partner, Tyler Young from Faegre Drinker. Tyler defends food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods companies in consumer fraud class actions and complex litigation across the country. Kevin and Tyler discuss some of the mostly hotly anticipated litigation in this arena for 2024, including; the new version of “all natural” lawsuits, heavy metal and PFAS cases, geographic origin claims, and recycling and...
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Avoiding and Managing U.S. Litigation Risks
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In this episode of Alternative Litigation Strategies, Certum Group’s Kevin Skrzysowski speaks with Dorsey & Whitney litigation partner, podcast host, and author, , about his recently released book, Kevin and Kent discuss his system, “The Five-C’s”, to help companies better understand the sources of commercial litigation, implement preventative measures to avoid it, and the most effective techniques for managing litigation when it strikes. These include: Corporate governance, Contract disputes, Customer Claims, Competitors, and Crewmembers. Get your...
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Show Me The Funding! (…And Monetization and Insurance) – How Legal Departments and Law Firms Can Leverage Litigation Risk Transfer Solutions to Increase Profitability
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Listen to the latest episode of Alternative Litigation Strategies for practical step-by-step guidance on how in-house legal departments and large law firms can increase profitability through litigation risk transfer solutions. In this episode, Kevin interviews DLA Piper Partner, Vincent Montalto. Kevin and Vinny discuss how in-house legal departments can create and leverage litigation funding and claim monetization programs to transform their departments from cost centers to profit centers. They discuss how to build out these programs, identify potential claims, vet commercial concerns against...
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The New Fraud Phenomena in Class Action Settlement Administration
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Class action claims administration is currently threatened by unprecedented fraud. Over the past year digital fraud from foreign agents, chat bots, GPT software, and other sources have wreaked havoc on settlement administration. Listen to the latest episode of the Alternative Litigation Strategies podcast where Kevin Skrzysowski interviews Jim Prutsman, a Senior Director at Kroll Settlement Administration, on ways to identify and combat these pervasive threats.
info_outlineIn the latest episode of Certum Group’s podcast, Alternative Litigation Strategies, Kevin sits down with Jennifer Riley, a Partner and Vice Chair of Duane Morris’ Class Action Group and General Editor of their annual Class Action Review. The Duane Morris Review is a one-of-a-kind 650 page comprehensive analysis of class action litigation trends and significant rulings and settlements from 2023 designed to help corporate counsel and business leaders make informed decisions when facing complex litigation risks in the coming year. Kevin and Jennifer discuss several of the overarching trends in class action litigation from last year, including: the continuing increase in number of case filings, record setting settlement amounts, the surge in data breach and privacy matters, and how generative AI will transform class action litigation. You don’t want to miss this episode!