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Simpson Thacher is pleased to announce the recently released Fourth Edition of Joseph M. McLaughlin's two-volume treatise, McLaughlin on Class Actions: Law and Practice, published by Thomson West. The Fourth Edition has been updated to include analyses of:

recent amendments to Rule 23;
recent interpretations of the Class Action Fairness Act; and
numerous United States Supreme Court and other recent appellate decisions that have recast the class action landscape.

Cited by federal circuit and district courts as authority, McLaughlin on Class Actions: Law and Practice is a resource synthesizing the vast body of case law and legislation that amplifies Federal Rule 23 and its state analogs, including the Class Action Fairness Act, and recent class actions decisions. The treatise also features user-friendly class discovery models, and discrete sections analyzing the application of class action law in key practice areas, including securities, products liability, antitrust, employment discrimination, ERISA, RICO, various statutory claims and other areas. Click here to learn more about McLaughlin on Class Actions: Law and Practice.