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Miami Firms Gift $1M In Hopes Of Creating Class Action Hub

Three Miami trial and class action law firms have made a $1 million gift to the University of Miami School of Law to support scholarships and fund an annual forum on class action law that the attorneys hope will help make South Florida a hub for complex mass actions and MDL litigation.

Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton PA, Podhurst Orseck PA and Harke Clasby & Bushman LLP have joined to make the gift that will fund an annual forum set to debut in December. They hope it will become the premier conference on the subject of class action litigation.

“I've traveled and spoken at seminars and programs, but it's not the consistent academic study that we think is necessary,” said Adam Moskowitz, chair of the class action practice at Kozyak Tropin. “There's really not that much out there other than just scrambling when there's a new case that makes the news. We want to have an opportunity to take a step back without all of the political frenzy.”