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Firm News 52 results

Firm News | 1 min read | 07.17.25

Kent Goss Named to Los Angeles Business Journal 2025 Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys List

The Los Angeles Business Journal has named Crowell & Moring partner Kent B. Goss to its 2025 Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys list. The list recognizes the top litigation lawyers in the Los Angeles region who have achieved outstanding professional successes and contributions to the community.

Firm News | 1 min read | 06.05.25

Emily Kuwahara and Sima Namiri-Kalantari Recognized as Los Angeles Business Journal Women of Influence

Los Angeles – June 5, 2025: The Los Angeles Business Journal has named Crowell & Moring partners Emily Kuwahara and Sima Namiri-Kalantari to its 2025 Women of Influence: Attorneys list. The honorees demonstrate “exceptional legal skill and achievement across the full spectrum of responsibility, exemplary leadership as evidenced by the highest professional and ethical standards, and for contributions to the Los Angeles community at large.”
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Firm News | 2 min read | 05.30.25

Kristin Madigan Named 2025 Top Woman Lawyer by the Daily Journal

San Francisco – May 30, 2025: The Daily Journal has named Crowell & Moring’s Kristin Madigan as a Top Woman Lawyer in California in 2025. The annual list celebrates “excellence, impact, and leadership across the legal profession” and recognizes the top 100 women lawyers practicing in California. You can view full in-depth profile of Kristin on the Daily Journal’s website (subscription required).

Client Alerts 41 results

Client Alert | 1 min read | 07.14.25

Trump v. Casa: Nationwide Injunctions And The Class Action Loophole

On June 27, in Trump v. Casa, the Supreme Court held that federal courts lack equitable authority to issue “nationwide”—or, using the Court’s preferred parlance, “universal”—injunctions. Writing for the 6-3 majority, Justice Barrett explained that whether Congress vested the judiciary with such power depends on the existence of a founding-era antecedent to the practice of universal injunctions. Finding none, the Court held that universal injunctions fall outside a federal court’s equitable authority.
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.02.25

Preparing for Multidistrict Litigation: Lessons for the Defense Toolkit

When a company learns that it may wind up as a defendant in a multidistrict litigation (or MDL), it may initially feel like a disaster. Between expensive, drawn out, and complicated legal proceedings and the possibility of outsized damages and company-threatening liability, it is difficult to imagine the upside. However, MDLs may not be as unfavorable a forum for defendants as they initially seem.
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 06.18.24

Class Actions: The Amended Belgian Regime on Actions for Collective Redress

On 31 May 2024, the law of 21 April 2024 amending Books I, XV and XVII of the Economic Code, and transposing Directive (EU) 2020/1828 on representative actions to protect the collective interests of consumers, was published in the Belgian Official Journal.
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Press Coverage 23 results

Press Coverage | 06.28.16

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Publications 45 results

Publication | 01.15.25

Administrative Law: Big Shifts in Administrative Law

As companies consider taking class actions to trial, a blockbuster decision from the U.S. Supreme Court instructing lower courts not to defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of the statutes Congress charged them with administering may prove useful. Companies should also be aware of a second decision holding agencies’ use of in-house judges to mete out civil penalties to be unconstitutional.
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Publication | 01.15.25

Antitrust: A New Frontier: Algorithmic Pricing Class Actions

On a very basic level, generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) takes in vast amounts of information, analyzes it, and provides results. It uses mathematical algorithms to find patterns in the information and exploits those patterns to achieve the user’s goal.
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Publication | 01.15.25

Appellate: The Landscape of Pretrial Appeals Is Changing Rapidly

In class action lawsuits, much of the focus is on pretrial motions—and often, the appeal of lower court rulings on those motions. But for defendants, two trends could make it more difficult to win on those appeals.
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Events 7 results

Event | 04.29.25 - 04.30.25, 8:00 AM CDT - 5:00 PM CDT

ACI 9th Advanced Summit on Food Law Regulation, Compliance and Litigation

Crowell is an associate sponsor of the American Conference Institute (ACI) Advanced Summit on Food Law Regulation, Compliance and Litigation in Chicago April 29-30.

Event | 12.03.24, 8:30 AM EST - 9:30 AM EST

29th Annual Drug & Medical Device Litigation Conference

2024 has been a pivotal year for drug and medical device litigation, marked by significant case law developments that have reshape the landscape.

Event | 06.22.18, 4:30 AM PDT - 10:30 AM PDT

ABA - 5th Annual Western Regional CLE Program on Class Actions and Mass Torts

This half-day program will present four panels on hot topics in class action and mass tort litigation, including class action ethics, expert witnesses in securities class actions, and more. The panelists include federal judges, plaintiffs' and defense lawyers, academics, experts, and private mediators. 
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Blog Posts 1 result

Blog Post | 03.17.17

Update: Class Action Reform Bill Passes House 220-201

Crowell & Moring's Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer