Ted Frank, "Class Action Fairness"

With commentary by Professor Anthony Casey

Theodore H. Frank is a senior attorney and the director of CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF). Before it merged with CEI in October 2015, he founded and ran CCAF as a non-profit, public interest law firm in 2009. Frank has won several landmark appeals and tens of millions of dollars for consumers and other plaintiffs through his class action work. Adam Liptak of The New York Times calls Frank “the leading critic of abusive class action settlements” and the American Lawyer Litigation Daily referred to him as “the indefatigable scourge of underwhelming class action settlements.”

Professor Casey graduated from The Law School in 2002. He received the John M. Olin Prize for the outstanding student of law and economics and was a member of the Law Review and the Order of the Coif. After law school, Professor Casey clerked for Chief Judge Joel M. Flaum of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Before teaching at the Law School, Professor Casey worked as an associate in the Litigation Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. His practice focused on merger litigation, white-collar investigations, and securities litigation. Professor Casey then moved to Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, where he added the areas of bankruptcy litigation and complex class actions to his practice. He became a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, in 2008.

Presented on December 1, 2016, by the Federalist Society.