Saturday, December 09, 2006  Take our thesis -- please! (Class
action notice)  We're busy guys. We can just barely manage the
full-time practice of law, blogging, being decent husbands and
fathers, and the rest, without writing sophisticated legal
articles in our spare time. So here's an idea for a law review
article that would make a real contribution to the legal
profession. We'll never get around to writing this. So take our
thesis (and write this article) -- please!  The article would
answer the question that clients regularly ask when class action
settlement notices are about to be mailed: What will the
response rate be? Defense lawyers have different ways of evading
this question. No one provides details, but all lawyers give the
same basic answer: The response rate will be "low,"
"extraordinarily low," "nil," or "next to nothing." With luck,
clients don't press further.  Surely there's an empirical answer
to this question.  Litigants have now implemented thousands of
class action settlements, and the r