The Impact Fund Launches the Notice Project, Free Class Action Notice Templates
*Improving Class Action Communications*
*BERKELEY, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 27, 2024 / *The Impact Fund today launched the Notice Project, an initiative to improve access to justice in class action lawsuits. The mission of the Notice Project is to empower class members with re-imagined class action notices that are simpler, clearer, more effective, and accessible.
As a first step in fulfilling this mission, the Notice Project is releasing free class action notice templates for litigators.
*The new class notice templates can be found at NoticeProject.org.*
Class action litigators often encounter challenges engaging class members and communicating critical case information if they send notices that lack clear visuals and contain complex language. Many class action notices use confusing formats, making it more challenging for class members to understand how to participate in the case.
"The purpose of a class notice is to communicate class members' legal rights," said Impact Fund Executive Director Jocelyn Larkin. "It is crucial that the language and visual design of the class notice impart that information without frustrating or confusing readers."
The new notice templates created by the Notice Project make it simple for litigators to draft notices that are easily understood and visually striking. Using Notice Project templates speeds up notice drafting, as there are multiple versions of the templates loaded with relevant sample text for use in different types of class action cases. Judges have approved notices based on Notice Project templates in the following cases:
· Donna J. Forsyth, et al. v. HP Inc., et al., No. 5:16-cv-04775 (N.D. Cal.)
· In re JUUL Labs, Inc., Marketing Sales Practice and Products Liability Litigation, No. 19-md-02913-WHO (N.D. Cal)
· Clancy v. The Salvation Army, No. 22 cv 1250 (N.D. Ill.)
· Hernandez v. U.S. Steel, No. GD-19-005325 (Allegheny County, PA)
· Mata v. Digital Recognition Network, Inc., No. 3:21-cv-01485 (S.D. Cal)
Litigators can download the new Notice Project templates at NoticeProject.org.
*About The Impact Fund*
The Impact Fund was founded in December 1992 to help advance economic, environmental, racial, and social justice through the courts. Originally envisioned as a purely grantmaking organization, the Impact Fund has made 771 grants totaling $9,243,541.
Since its inception, the Impact Fund has grown to include both advocacy and education in its range of services. Today, the Impact Fund litigates a small number of cases directly, authors amicus briefs, and provides consulting to civil rights practitioners free of charge.
The Impact Fund also presents an annual conference for plaintiff-side class action practitioners, a training institute for budding public interest class action practitioners, and numerous seminars and webinars. Its latest initiative, the Notice Project, creates solutions to improve class action notices. Click here for the 2023 Annual Report.
www.impactfund.org
*What Is Impact Litigation?*
Impact Litigation is a lawsuit, often a class action, where the outcome of the case will advance economic, environmental, racial and/or social justice for a community or a large group, which may not have access to the courts on its own.
*Contact Information*
John Henry Frankel
Communications Specialist
jfrankel@impactfund.org
415-497-9959
*SOURCE:* Impact Fund
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