Registration now open for CAOC's Third Annual Class Action Seminar

Registration is now open for CAOC's Third Annual Class Action Seminar: Class Action Hurdles From The Plaintiff’s Perspective.  The seminar will take place on the afternoon of January 28, 2009 at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. Here is the lineup:

Welcome And Introduction
Co-Moderator: INGRID M. EVANS • Waters & Kraus LLP
Co-Moderator: DAVID M. ARBOGAST • Arbogast & Berns LLP

Protective Orders And Discovery In Class Actions
JENNIE L. ANDERSON • Andrus Liberty & Anderson LLP

Opposing Preemptive Defense Motions To Deny Class Certification
KIMBERLY KRALOWEC • Schubert Jonckheer Kolbe & Kralowec LLP

Establishing Class Liability Using The Pattern Or Practice Theory
BRAD SELIGMAN • The Impact Fund

Dealing With Objectors
ERIC GIBBS • Girard Gibbs LLP

National Class Actions In Consumer Cases
BRIAN KABATECK • Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP

Anticipating, Avoiding And Overcoming Problems With Class Representatives
PAUL KIESEL • Kiesel, Boucher & Larson LLP

Understanding CAFA – The Federalization Of National Class Actions
TIM BLOOD • Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins LLP

Trying Class Actions
ELIZABETH CABRASER • Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein LLP

Preserving Class Actions And Preventing Their Abuse
ARTHUR BRYANT • Public Justice

The Importance Of Class Actions In American Jurisprudence – Perspectives From The Bench
HON. JEREMY FOGEL • Northern District of California
HON. RICHARD A. KRAMER • SF Superior Court, Complex Division
HON. EMILIE H. ELIAS • LA Superior Court, Complex Division

Judges' Welcome Reception