Shira Scheindlin, retired judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, discussing threats to judicial independence during a panel discussion titled ‘Undermining the Courts and the Media: The Consequences for American Democracy, ‘organized by The National Judicial College, at the Press Club building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, December 13, 2018. (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)
Retired U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin won’t shed a tear for those in the defense bar who are crying foul about having to defend thousands of individual arbitrations brought on behalf of employees and consumers.
“The defense bar fought against class actions for years,” said Scheindlin as part of a panel on so-called “mass arbitrations” at the virtual Class Action Money and Ethics 2020 conference yesterday.
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