Personal Injury Law

Chief Justice Lambert forms Mass Tort and Class Action Litigation Committee to safeguard against potential abuses in tort litigation
Feb. 7, 2008 Chief Justice Joseph E. Lambert has appointed 12 Kentucky attorneys to a committee that will study mass tort and class action litigation cases and develop recommendations for the Supreme Court of Kentucky...

Kudos to Kentucky
Hmm, why would a state create a mass tort/class action ethics committee? When a few of its finest are in the pokey. Kentucky, which has seen its share of ethics violations in these cases, has formed a Mass Tort and Class Action Litigation Committee "to safeguard against potential abuses in tort litigation...

Kentucky Mass Tort and Class Action Litigation Committee

AOC: CJ Lambert announced yesterday that a special committee was appointed back in September to look into the ethical rules regarding judges and lawyers in mass tort and class action litigation
FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 5, 2008 Chief Justice Joseph E. Lambert has appointed 12 Kentucky attorneys to a committee that will study mass tort and class action litigation cases. The Mass Tort and Class Action Litigation Committee will determine whether current court rules for attorneys and judges provide adequate safeguards against unethical conduct and whether rule changes may provide guidance to attorneys and courts dealing with complex litigation...

Committee to Review Rules for Class Action and Mass Tort Cases
The Kentucky Law Review posted here on a Herald Leader story, about a Supreme Court committee looking into the rules that currently govern class action and mass tort litigation cases...

INDIANA: "Commission on the Courts" Consisting of Court and Legislative Members - et tu Ky
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