Last week, CCL’s Valerie M. Nannery participated the ABA’s 18th Annual National Institute on Class Actions in Chicago, IL. The Institute featured speakers from the plaintiffs’ and defense bars, as well as several academics and federal judges. Topics included a review of recent case law developments on class actions, litigating privacy and data-breach class actions, and the Third Circuit’s new “ascertainability” requirement. Members of the Rule 23 Subcommittee of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules also attended in the Institute, as well as conducted their own “town hall” style meeting where practitioners offered specific ideas about potential amendments to Rule 23, and asked questions of the subcommittee members.