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    <namePart>Bramson, Robert</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1956-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2016</dateIssued>
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    <edition>Ninth edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>Case and claims selection, other first considerations -- Forum selection -- Venue -- Choosing the class definition -- Drafting the complaint -- Plaintiff's preliminary actions to protect the class -- The defendant's response : preliminary motions, individual settlement offers, counterclaims, and more -- Discovery -- Representing the named plaintiff at deposition -- Class certification -- The class motion and briefs -- Appeals of certification rulings -- Class notice -- Negotiations and settlement -- The court settlement approval process -- Claims administration and distribution of benefits -- The class action trial -- Res judicata and collateral estoppel -- Attorney fees -- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23 and advisory committee notes -- Federal class action legislation -- Survey of state class action law : 2015-2016 -- NACA class action guidelines - 299 F.R.D 160 -- Sample agreements with named plaintiffs, co-counsel -- Consumer class action web addresses  -- Index.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Stuart Rossman, Charles Delbaum ; contributing authors: Robert M. Bramson [and 11 others].</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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