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Amanda Bronstad

Amanda Bronstad

Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.

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April 07, 2022 | Law.com

Boeing Faces First Trial Over Toxic Cabin Air

Matt Leckman, a partner at Littlepage Booth Leckman, represents the wife of a pilot allegedly sickened from toxic cabin air, which is caused when engine fumes seep into the cabin. Trial begins on April 18 in Chicago.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

April 06, 2022 | Law.com

Girardi Litigation Funder Calls Edelson's Latest Accusations 'Truly Offensive'

A lawyer for California Attorney Lending II, a Buffalo, New York-based litigation lender named by Edelson in a draft complaint that says Girardi Keese was a "criminal enterprise," called the new accusations "truly offensive" and a "smear campaign."

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

April 05, 2022 | The Recorder

'Criminal Enterprise, Disguised as a Law Firm': Edelson Agrees to Pay Clients, Launches New Salvo in Girardi Scandal

Edelson filed an agreement on Tuesday to compensate clients with $2 million in missing settlement funds from the Lion Air crash but attached a draft complaint the firm plans to file against members of the "Girardi Family Enterprise."

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

April 04, 2022 | Law.com

West Virginia Bench Trial Opens Over the Opioid Crisis

Three drug companies that won a California bench verdict last year in one of the first opioid trials in the nation went to trial on Monday against West Virginia.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

April 01, 2022 | Law.com

Lawyers Seek $30M in Fees for 'Especially Risky' Privacy Case Against TikTok

On Thursday, plaintiffs' lawyers who obtained a $92 million class action settlement with TikTok said that 1.4% of the class had submitted claims.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

March 30, 2022 | The Recorder

Judge Mulls Terminating Sanctions in Facebook Privacy Case

At a Wednesday hearing, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said he is considering whether to issue terminating sanctions against Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Facebook for "dilatory discovery conduct" in the multidistrict litigation over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

March 29, 2022 | Law.com

Could Boeing Be Sued Over China Eastern Crash?

Although the cause of this month's crash of a China Eastern Airlines plane remains unknown, lawyers who previously sued over the 737 Max 8 said there are early signs of a possibly defective Boeing aircraft.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

March 24, 2022 | The Recorder

Judge Cuts Length of SF Trial, the 'Most Complex Yet' Over Opioids

"You have a hard job ahead of you," Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer told lawyers at a pretrial hearing on Wednesday. Opening statements begin April 25.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read