'The Plaintiffs Bar Has Failed on This': Jay Edelson Says It's Time for Consumer Class Action Reform
In this week's episode, Law.com legal technology reporter Isha Marathe talks with prominent plaintiffs lawyer Jay Edelson, who believes consumer class action claims rates are too low—and that the plaintiffs bar is squarely to blame.
May 06, 2022 at 07:36 PM
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Jay Edelson, founder and CEO of Edelson In this week's episode, Law.com legal technology reporter Isha Marathe talks with prominent plaintiffs lawyer Jay Edelson, founder & CEO of Chicago-based Edelson P.C.
Edelson has recently been spreading the word–not to mention rapping–about what he views as a big problem among the plaintiffs bar: consumer class action claims rates. Digital transactions are, of course, the norm in 2022–except when it comes to class action settlement payouts, which are often doled out to class members in the form of paper checks.
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