Our committee focuses on issues facing litigators with broad commercial practices, including substantive areas such as bankruptcy, creditors rights, professional liability, and trade secret law, and procedural matters such as e-discovery, privilege, ADR, and international litigation.

The Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) grants federal courts subject matter jurisdiction over many large, multistate class actions by creating a specialized form of diversity jurisdiction.

In Williams, the Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a constitutional challenge to the City of Knoxville’s procedures for imposing fines to drivers who are caught on overhead surveillance cameras running a red light.

In Ruehle, the Ninth Circuit “explore[d] the treacherous path which corporate counsel must tread under the attorney-client privilege when conducting an internal investigation to advise a publicly traded company on its financial disclosure obligations