Top Women Lawyers
May 11, 2011
Carolyn Kubota
O'Melveny & Myers LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Civil and criminal trials, white-collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations and civil fraud actions
Kubota said that she's been observing a whole new spin in her practice - plaintiffs counsel who are trying to make an end run around class-action certification.
"Class actions have been around forever," she said. "But there is a new species of lawsuits called mass actions - multi-plaintiffs lawsuits."
Class actions have always been desirable, Kubota noted, because they can ring up significant damages.
"They ha...
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