Harvard Law
School – Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities
Name: William Rubenstein
Institution: HLS
Title (HLS): Tenured Professor
The faculty member above engages from time to time in outside activities, some
of which are compensated, some of which are ongoing, and also has outside
financial interests that may relate to his/her scholarly activities. The
disclosures below are intended to provide interested parties information about
potential conflicts of interest from 2011 through the date of this report (June
2012) that might exist between the faculty member's scholarly and teaching
activities, on the one hand, and his/her outside activities, on the other hand.
|
Client/Interest |
Role/Interest |
Matter |
Issue |
Dates |
|
Nixon Peabody LLP |
Expert |
Tuttle vs. N.H. Medical Malprac. Jt. Underwr. Assoc.,
No. 217-2010-CV-414, Superior Court, Merrimack Cty.,
N.H. |
Attorney's fees |
06/12-Ongoing |
|
Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton,
LLP for putative class of MedPartners' common stock
purchasers |
Expert |
Lauriello v. Caremark, Case No.
03-CV-03-6630, Circuit Court for Jefferson County, Alabama |
Certification of nationwide fraud
class action |
06/10-06/12 |
|
Anapol Schwartz, PC for putative class
of former NFL players |
Expert |
In re: National Football League
Players' Concussion Injury Litigation, MDL No. 2323, Case No.
2:12-md-02323-AB, U.S. Dist. Ct., Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Certification of nationwide
medical monitoring class action |
01/2012-02/2012 |
|
The Brualdi
Law Firm |
Expert |
Rational Strategies Fund v. Jhung, Case No. BC 460783, California Superior Court, Los
Angeles County, CA |
Value of disclosures achieved in
derivative suit and related attorney's fees issues |
12/11-01/12 |
|
White & Weddle PC for a
putative class of all persons in the US who submitted a claim for benefits
under the Med-Pay coverage of Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance
Company automobile insurance policy |
Expert |
Simon v. Metropolitan Property and
Cas. Co., Case No. CIV-2008-1008-W, U.S. Dist. Ct.,
Western District of Oklahoma |
Certification of nationwide
consumer class action |
08/11-09/11 |
|
Lisa Blue/Baron and Blue, Charla G. Aldous d/b/a Aldous Law Firm, Stephen F. Malouf,
P.C. |
Expert |
Blue, et al. v. Hill, Case No.
3:10-CV-02269-O-BK, U.S. Dist. Ct., Northern District of Texas |
Value of attorneys' services |
01/2011-06/2011 |
|
Ten (10) civil procedure and
complex litigation professors as amici curiae |
Counsel |
AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion,
No. 09-893, 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011) |
Importance of the class action
mechanism |
09/10-04/11 |
|
Christopher Dydyk
on behalf of putative class of iPhone users |
Counsel |
Dydyk v. Apple Inc., 5:10-cv-02897-HRL,
U.S. Dist. Court, N.D. Cal. |
Product defect class action (P) |
06/10-Ongoing |
|
Class of all Gmail users in the
United States presented with the opportunity to use Google Buzz |
Counsel |
In re Google Buzz Privacy
Litigation, 5:10-cv-00672-JW, U.S. Dist. Court, N.D. Cal. |
Invasion of privacy class action
(P) |
02/10-03/12 |
|
Frank Buono |
Counsel |
Salazar v. Buono,
130 S. Ct. 1803 (2010) |
Procedural issues in challenge to
constitutionality of display of Christian cross on federal land in
California's Mojave preserve (P) |
05/09-06/10 |
|
American Law Institute |
Expert |
Principles of the Law of Aggregate
Litigation |
Adviser to a restatement-like
project aimed at identifying best practices in aggregate litigation |
05/05-12/10 |