Webinar: Defending Against Class Actions and Handling Consumer Protection Issues
Bilzin Sumberg Webinar
Webinar
May 22, 2014
The first in our Homebuilder Series of monthly webinars
The speaker discusses recent developments affecting consumer class actions. Phil Stein, a partner in Bilzin Sumberg's Litigation Group with a national practice that includes extensive work on behalf of the country's leading homebuilders, covers topics that include the status of waivers of class action rights in arbitration provisions, claims under the Consumer Protection Act and other developments, including issues affecting plaintiffs' ability to file and maintain class actions.
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