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# How Defendants Can Use Class Certification to Their Advantage

  July 17, 2022

Thompson Reuters

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Michael Lynch](/Our-People/Michael-C-Lynch), [Whitney Smith](/Our-People/Whitney-M-Smith), and [Matthew Chakmakian](/Our-People/Matthew-Chakmakian), provide an update to their 2013 Article explaining developments in federal law that may potentially benefit class action defendants.  
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