Andre Mura to moderate panel at CJRI symposium on Northern District of California Class Action Guidelines

The Civil Justice Research Initiative will hold a symposium, “Class Action Approval: Guidelines and Fault Lines in the Northern District of California” on Wednesday, November 1 at 3p in Berkeley, CA. This program, co-sponsored by the Impact Fund and the Federal Bar Association of the Northern District of California, will be a discussion on how the 2018 updates to N.D. Class Action guidelines are working, including data-driven reports on whether the guidelines have achieved their objectives.

Class Action Approval: Guidelines and Fault Lines in the Northern District of California

Wednesday, November 1 | Bancroft Hotel, Berkeley, CA | 3-6p with Reception afterwards

Andre Mura will moderate the panel, “The N.D. Guidelines in Practice.” Panelists include Joceyln Larkin, Lesley E. Weaver, Elizabeth J. Cabraser and Steven Weisbrot; and commenters include Andrew Bradt, the Honorable Jon Tigar and the Honorable Jacqueline Scott Corley.

About Andre Mura

Andre M. Mura represents plaintiffs in class actions and mass torts including in the areas of consumer protection, privacy, and products liability. Before joining Gibbs Law Group, Andre was senior litigation counsel at the Center for Constitutional Litigation PC, where he represented plaintiffs in high-stakes appeals in state supreme courts and federal appellate courts.

Andre has been honored twice with a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award: in 2023 for his involvement and success at trial in Patz v. City of San Diego, and in 2019 for his work in the California Supreme Court in De La Torre v. CashCall. He is on the Board of the Civil Justice Research Initiative of Berkeley Law, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the Lawyers Committee of the National Center for State Courts, a Trustee of the National Civil Justice Institute, past Chair of the American Association for Justice’s LGBT Caucus, past Trustee of the National College of Advocacy, and a member of Williams College’s Latino/a and BiGLATA Alumni Network.