Legal Strategies: Complex and Aggregate Litigation
This course will explore legal strategies with an emphasis on complex and aggregate litigation, including class actions, multi-district litigation, pretrial procedure, case management, problems associated with absent and future claimants, evidentiary issues, settlement, alternative dispute resolution techniques. Students will be expected to assume roles in the litigation process and to analyze problems in a wide variety of substantive areas of the law, but from a process and tactical point of view.