What when where: class actions, Rome
The International Bar Association and the American Bar Association present a conference on European class actions in Rome’s Grand Hotel Plaza on the 24th and 25th of May, next week. (programme including registration form)
The conference, entitled Class actions at a crossroads: Europe’s choice between its own and the American model, focuses on the current status and legislative developments of class and collective actions here and on comparison with the US model.
Key note speaker is Meglena Kuneva, European Commissioner for Consumers (invited) and other speakers, drawn from a mid-Atlantic pool of academics and practitioners, include:
- Elizabeth J. Cabraser (Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP)
- Professor John C. Coffee (Columbia University School of Law)
- Patricia Hynes (Allen & Overy LLP)
- Judge John G. Koeltl (SDNY)
- Xavier Nyssen (Dechert LLP, Paris)
- Nicola Walter Palmieri (General Counsel, Parmalat SpA)
- Sherrie R. Savett (Berger & Montague PC)
WV&Z will be there to cover the event.