Lead plaintiffs are supposed to hire attorneys and oversee the litigation on behalf of the rest of the class, although in practice it usually works the other way around, with the lawyers using portfolio-monitoring software to identify an institutional investor with a loss and then recruiting that investor to represent the class.

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In practice, this accord would have the effect of imposing new limitations on a whole class of promising anti-missile systems.

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Wasserman has a thriving practice supplying expert testimony in legal malpractice cases and teaches a popular class on the subject at Hofstra University School of Law.

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The typical practice in securities class actions, according to lawyers on both sides I have spoken with, is to hire contract attorneys to perform the grunt work of sifting through millions of pages of documents obtained in discovery.

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Teacher Mr Randall sounded exhausted but exhilarated after throwing his class of 31 Year 7's right in the deep end on their first practice News Day.

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In response to the revelation that Google bypassed cookie blocking features on browsers such as Safari and Internet Explorer, enterprising lawyers have filed consumer class actions alleging that the practice constitutes illegal wiretapping.

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