Program Details
2025-12-10 14:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2025-12-10 14:00:00
1h CLE Credits
Intermediate
1
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm ESTThis session explores how mass arbitrations emerged as plaintiffs’ response to class action waivers, aggregating hundreds of individual claims to create fee pressure on defendants. Panelists examine the 2024 rule changes from AAA and JAMS, including new process arbitrator roles, vetting requirements, and restructured fee schedules designed to address procedural challenges.
Behdad Sadeghi
Collin Vierra
Hon. Ellen L. Maas
Steve Lucke 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm ESTThis session analyzes key court rulings on when parties may be subject to consolidated and streamlined arbitration proceedings. Topics include enforceability of pre-arbitration notice requirements, the distinction between permissible consolidation and impermissible batching that creates unreasonable delays, and why bellwether procedures with binding effects on non-participants have been struck down.
Behdad SadeghiCollin VierraHon. Ellen L. MaasSteve Lucke 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm ESTThis session provides practical guidance for counsel and arbitrators navigating mass arbitration proceedings. Panelists discuss comprehensive initial filing preparation, effective communication with neutrals, technology considerations for virtual hearings, and the emerging trend toward actual merits-based resolution rather than fee-pressure settlements.
Behdad SadeghiCollin VierraHon. Ellen L. MaasSteve LuckeBehdad Sadeghi is a Partner at Zimmerman Reed LLP, where he focuses on plaintiff-side representation of individuals and public entities in consumer fraud, data privacy, and civil rights disputes. He has litigated numerous mass arbitration cases from initiation to conclusion before JAMS, AAA, and NAM, achieving relief for tens of thousands of claimants, and also has experience litigating the enforceability of arbitration provisions in federal courts. His broader practice includes complex consumer protection, securities and financial fraud, antitrust, and civil rights litigation in state and federal courts across the country. He is a member of the firm’s Public Client group and has represented state governments in opioid litigation and litigation against e-cigarette manufacturers. He served as trial counsel in a three-week jury trial in 2023 that achieved a $60.5 million settlement the day before closing arguments. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Mitchell Hamline School of Law (formerly William Mitchell College of Law).
Collin Vierra is a Partner at Eimer Stahl LLP, where his nationwide practice focuses on complex trial and appellate litigation, commercial and consumer mass arbitration, and counseling. His work spans data privacy and AI, discrimination, products liability, commercial disputes, antitrust and unfair competition, environmental law, and government regulation, and clients trust him with their most high-stakes and cutting-edge disputes.
The Honorable Ellen L. Maas (Ret.) serves as a JAMS arbitrator and mediator in Minneapolis, bringing to her neutral practice the experience of a 28-year career as a Minnesota District Court judge. Appointed to the bench in 1995 by Governor Arne Carlson and subsequently elected five times, Judge Maas was nationally recognized for her handling of a six-week jury trial arising from a 2003 multiple-fatality train collision — Frazier v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. — and routinely presided over complex civil litigation matters including product liability, employment, professional liability, and consumer law cases. Before taking the bench, she had an active trial practice at Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman and Arthur, Chapman & Michaelson in the areas of toxic tort, product liability, negligence, employment, municipal liability, and insurance coverage. She holds a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Drake University and a J.D., With Distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law.
Stephen (Steve) Lucke serves as a JAMS arbitrator and mediator in Minneapolis, bringing to his neutral practice nearly 40 years of litigation experience — including a nationwide practice handling some of the most complex ERISA, class action, and mass litigation matters in the country. Prior to joining JAMS, Steve spent his career at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, where he was a partner for more than 30 years and developed a nationally recognized practice in ERISA retirement and health plan disputes, class actions, and complex commercial litigation. His matters have included a ‘mass action’ brought against over 300 health plans and their claims administrator that the trial judge described as ‘perhaps the most complex case pending in the Central District of California.’ He also teaches Complex Litigation at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. He holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from the College of the Holy Cross and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, and clerked for the Honorable Myron H. Bright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Behdad Sadeghi is a Partner at Zimmerman Reed LLP, where he focuses on plaintiff-side representation of individuals and public entities in consumer fraud, data privacy, and civil rights disputes. He has litigated numerous mass arbitration cases from initiation to conclusion before JAMS, AAA, and NAM, achieving relief for tens of thousands of claimants, and also has experience litigating the enforceability of arbitration provisions in federal courts. His broader practice includes complex consumer protection, securities and financial fraud, antitrust, and civil rights litigation in state and federal courts across the country. He is a member of the firm’s Public Client group and has represented state governments in opioid litigation and litigation against e-cigarette manufacturers. He served as trial counsel in a three-week jury trial in 2023 that achieved a $60.5 million settlement the day before closing arguments. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Mitchell Hamline School of Law (formerly William Mitchell College of Law).
Collin Vierra is a Partner at Eimer Stahl LLP, where his nationwide practice focuses on complex trial and appellate litigation, commercial and consumer mass arbitration, and counseling. His work spans data privacy and AI, discrimination, products liability, commercial disputes, antitrust and unfair competition, environmental law, and government regulation, and clients trust him with their most high-stakes and cutting-edge disputes.
The Honorable Ellen L. Maas (Ret.) serves as a JAMS arbitrator and mediator in Minneapolis, bringing to her neutral practice the experience of a 28-year career as a Minnesota District Court judge. Appointed to the bench in 1995 by Governor Arne Carlson and subsequently elected five times, Judge Maas was nationally recognized for her handling of a six-week jury trial arising from a 2003 multiple-fatality train collision — Frazier v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. — and routinely presided over complex civil litigation matters including product liability, employment, professional liability, and consumer law cases. Before taking the bench, she had an active trial practice at Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman and Arthur, Chapman & Michaelson in the areas of toxic tort, product liability, negligence, employment, municipal liability, and insurance coverage. She holds a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Drake University and a J.D., With Distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law.
Stephen (Steve) Lucke serves as a JAMS arbitrator and mediator in Minneapolis, bringing to his neutral practice nearly 40 years of litigation experience — including a nationwide practice handling some of the most complex ERISA, class action, and mass litigation matters in the country. Prior to joining JAMS, Steve spent his career at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, where he was a partner for more than 30 years and developed a nationally recognized practice in ERISA retirement and health plan disputes, class actions, and complex commercial litigation. His matters have included a ‘mass action’ brought against over 300 health plans and their claims administrator that the trial judge described as ‘perhaps the most complex case pending in the Central District of California.’ He also teaches Complex Litigation at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. He holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from the College of the Holy Cross and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, and clerked for the Honorable Myron H. Bright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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