Ross Weiner

July 26, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A look at three recent class action settlements that were impacted by fraudulent claims and one third-party administrator's prescription for remedying this risk.

By Ross Weiner

6 minute read

February 28, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Class action lawsuits are usually resolved with one of two settlement structures: a common-fund settlement or a claims-made settlement. A simple way to think about the difference between the two is that the former is for a fixed amount while the cost of the latter is variable.

By Ross Weiner

7 minute read

May 03, 2004 | National Law Journal

After reading Roger Daniels' Guarding the Golden Door, a detailed perspective on the development of immigration policy in the United States, one may wonder why any immigrant would choose to come here.

By Ross Weiner

4 minute read

September 01, 2003 | National Law Journal

The Smoking Gun is at once both an amazing tale of the Jones family's abusive interaction with the Oregon judicial system and a chronicle of Gerry Spence's quest, as their defense attorney, to save Sandy Jones and her son from prosecution.

By Ross Weiner

5 minute read

April 07, 2003 | National Law Journal

In Trial and Error: The Education of a Courtroom Lawyer, John C. Tucker walks his readers through the most fascinating cases of his long legal career. In chapter after chapter, engrossing trials feature strange story lines, intriguing clients, and nefarious judges. If you're wondering how someone can find job satisfaction as a trial lawyer, Trial and Error is the book to read.

By Ross Weiner

5 minute read

May 05, 2003 | National Law Journal

"Democracy by Decree," by Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod, is a forceful critique of the consent decrees that often result from institutional reform litigation and have, over time, reduced the power of democratically elected state and local institutions to make public policy choices.

By Ross Weiner

6 minute read

June 04, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Guarding the Golden Door gives an amazingly detailed historical perspective on the development of immigration policy in the United States, meticulously describing the often-bigoted attempts by Congress and various administrations to keep immigrants from entering the United States and analyzing how these measures have largely failed in their stated purposes.

By Ross Weiner

4 minute read