Last week the Eleventh Circuit addressed an issue that many class action practitioners probably haven’t thought much about: whether approval of a class action settlement requires that each class ...

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and class definitions. Every class action complaint contains a proposed class definition. It is an indispensable piece of the landscape, just like the ...

The next time you call yourself middle class, think about what you really mean when you say that. Do you earn what might constitute a middle-class salary–somewhere between $37,000 and $147,000? Or is ...