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About CAFA Law Blog
McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC publishes the CAFA Law Blog. The CAFA Law Blog is an online resource for information, cases and insights regarding the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, or “CAFA.” CAFA’s enactment in February 2005 has brought about the most sweeping changes to class action practice in a generation. Today’s rapidly evolving class action landscape is now virtually unrecognizable to many experienced class action practitioners, parties and courts. Ambiguities and uncertainties in class action law and jurisprudence following CAFA’s passage pose immediate opportunities for attorneys who learn how to safely maneuver across this foreign terrain, and dangerous traps for those who do not. The CAFA Law Blog hopes to be a guide along this new landscape.
The CAFA Law Blog is designed to be interactive, and to allow you to respond easily to our posts with questions or comments, through its “Comments/Questions” buttons. The “CAFA Search” button allows you to search the site’s contents and posts. In addition, the CAFA Law Blog’s email notification system allows you to “subscribe” to the CAFA Law Blog and receive notice of new posts. Content may be syndicated or pushed to you through a “news-feed” reader on your computer. The email and syndication features are available through the “Subscribe” button.
About McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC
McGlinchey Stafford is a national full-service commercial and defense law firm with approximately 200 attorneys in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and New York. The firm is recognized nationwide for its practice in the field of class action defense, and has represented Fortune 500 companies across the country in hundreds of consumer class actions in state, federal and bankruptcy courts, arbitration proceedings, and Multi-District Litigation. McGlinchey Stafford’s class action defense group attorneys have represented clients in a wide variety of class action litigation matters, including consumer financial services, banking, deceptive trade practices, advertising, product liability, insurance, telecommunications, environmental law, toxic torts, health care, public utilities, as well as labor and employment claims and issues.
About the CAFA Law Blog’s Editors
Anthony Rollo is Editor of the CAFA Law Blog and a Member of McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, resident in its New Orleans, Louisiana office. Anthony heads McGlinchey Stafford’s nationally recognized Class Action Defense Group. Anthony has defended clients in the financial services and insurance industries in over 100 consumer class actions in state, federal and bankruptcy courts, arbitration proceedings, and Multi-District proceedings, filed in approximately 25 states. Anthony speaks regularly at national conferences on topics relating to CAFA and class action practice, and has coauthored several articles relating to CAFA, including: “Mapping the New Class Action Frontier – A Primer on the Class Action Fairness Act and Amended Federal Rule 23,” Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report, Vol. 59, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2005); “The Newly Enacted Class Action Fairness Act (Part 1 of 2),” Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Vol. 8, Issue 17 (Mar. 9, 2005); “The Newly Enacted Class Action Fairness Act (Part 2 of 2),” Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Vol. 8, Issue 18 (Mar. 23, 2005); “Practitioners review ‘abstention’ procedure under Sections 1332(d)(3) and (4),” Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Vol. 9, Issue 2 (June 15, 2005).
Hunter Twiford is Editor of the CAFA Law Blog and a Member of McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, resident in its Jackson, Mississippi office. Hunter practices in McGlinchey Stafford’s Class Action Defense Group. Hunter has over thirty years experience in a wide range of litigation, and has tried over one hundred jury cases to verdict. Hunter speaks regularly at national conferences on topics relating to CAFA and class action practice, and has coauthored an article relating to CAFA entitled “Practitioners review ‘abstention’ procedure under Sections 1332(d)(3) and (4),” Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Vol. 9, Issue 2 (June 15, 2005). Hunter has also written on a wide variety of technology-related topics for legal publications.
Lisa Stansky is Managing Editor of the CAFA Law Blog and an Associate of McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, resident in its New Orleans, Louisiana office. Lisa practices in McGlinchey Stafford’s Class Action Defense Group. Prior to joining McGlinchey Stafford, Lisa worked as a newspaper reporter and independent journalist.
Gabriel A. Crowson is Associate Editor of the CAFA Law Blog and an Associate of McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, resident in its New Orleans, Louisiana office. Gabe practices in McGlinchey Stafford’s Class Action Defense Group. Gabe has coauthored several articles relating to CAFA, including: “Mapping the New Class Action Frontier – A Primer on the Class Action Fairness Act and Amended Federal Rule 23,” Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report, Vol. 59, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2005); “The Newly Enacted Class Action Fairness Act (Part 1 of 2),” Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Vol. 8, Issue 17 (Mar. 9, 2005); “The Newly Enacted Class Action Fairness Act (Part 2 of 2),” Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Vol. 8, Issue 18 (Mar. 23, 2005); “Practitioners review ‘abstention’ procedure under Sections 1332(d)(3) and (4),” Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Vol. 9, Issue 2 (June 15, 2005).
In addition to its Editors, the CAFA Law Blog is produced with the assistance of Ashley Bond, Cynthia Browne, Gina Herbert and Linda Simpson.