Name: William Rubenstein
Institution:
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 2013) 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.
Institution:
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 2013) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howarth & Smith as counsel for KB Home | Expert | KB Home v. K&L Gates, LLP, Case No. BC484090, Superior Court for the State of California, County of Los Angeles | Legal malpractice | 05/11-Ongoing |
| Cadell & Chapman as counsel for putative class of persons alleging harm from defendants' record keeping practices | Expert | Henderson v. Acxiom Risk Mitigation, Inc., Civil Action No. 3:12-cv-00589, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. of Va. | Class certification | 06/13-Ongoing |
| Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP as attorneys for a group of plaintiffs and putative class of consumers subject to post-bankruptcy credit report | Expert | Radcliffe v. Experian Information Solutions Inc., 715 F.3d 1157(9th Cir. 2013); White v Experian Information Solutions, Inc., No. 05-CV-1070, U.S. Dist. Court, C.D. Cal. | Class representative structure in class action; appointment of interim class counsel under Rule 23(g) | 01/10-Ongoing |
| Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP on behalf of a class of Massachusetts Nexium purchasers and third party payors | Expert | Commonwealth Care Alliance v. Astrazeneca Pharm. L.P., Civil Action No. 05-0269 BLS2, Massachusetts Superior Court, Suffolk County | Fairness of proposed class action settlement and reasonableness of attorney's fee request | 03/13-03/13 |
| Cadell & Chapman as counsel for nationwide class of owners of Ford vehicles containing the 6.0L diesel engine | Expert | In re: Navistar Diesel Enging Products Liability Litigation, Case No. 11-C-2496, MDL No. 2223, U.S. Dist. Ct., N. D. Ill. | Fairness of proposed class action settlement | 09/12-05/13 |
| The Heller Law Firm on behalf of several hundred individual workers (and spouses) at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach | Counsel | Trevino v. Cummins, Inc., Case No. 2:13-cv-00192-JAK-MRW, U.S. Dist. Court, C.D. Cal. | Federal subject matter jurisdiction under Class Action Fairness Act's local controversy exception to mass action jurisdiction | 01/13-03/13 |
| Frederick T. Kuykendall, III, as Of Counsel to 795 businesses in states of FL, AL, MI, LA, and Texas | Expert | In re: Settlement of the Economic and Property Damages Classes Oil Spill Litigation related to the "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, MDL No. 2179, Docket No. 10-7777; 12-968, U.S. Dist. Ct., E.D. La. | Fairness of proposed class action settlement | 09/12-Ongoing |
| Bursor & Fisher, P.A. on behalf of putative class of purchasers of the QuickTrim Weight Loss System | Expert | Anaya v. Quicktrim, LLC, Case No. Civ. VS 1201177, Superior Court for the State of California, County of San Bernardino | Fairness of proposed class action settlement | 10/12-07/13 |
| Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on behalf of Access Industries Management LLC and CMMF, LLC | Expert | CMMF LLC, v. J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc. and Ted C. Ufferfilge, Index No. 09-601924, Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York | Remedies | 01/13-02/13 |
| Various law firms serving as plaintiffs' counsel for putative nationwide class of all credit card holders charged a late fee or over-limit fee | Expert | In re: Pinon, et al v. Bank of America, et al., Case No. 08-15218, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Motion to dismiss standards and related procedural and substantive issues in putative nationwide class action challenging legality of card fees | 12/12-Ongoing |
| 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 | 06/12-08/12 |
| 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 | 01/12-2/12 |
| The Brualdi Law Firm | Expert | Rational Strategies Fund v. Jhung, Case No. BC 460783, Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles | Value of disclosures achieved in derivative suit and related attorney's fees issues | 12/11-01/12 |
| White & Weddle PC for a putative nationwide class of persons who submitted a claim for benefits under the Med-Pay coverage | 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 | 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 | 01/11-06/11 |
| 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 | 06/10-12/12 |
| 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 | 02/10-03/12 |