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The article offers tips for creating opportunities for female, minority, and LGBT lawyers to take on court-appointed leadership roles including build experience for first court appointment; encouraging younger colleagues for their professional development; and listening to federal judges.

The article focuses on the class action settlements which protect people's rights to safe products and fair dealing, and offers guidelines to follow before starting a negotiation. Topics discussed include the role of a class representative in settlement process; relation between class representative and class counsel; and the role of knowledge about case and defense in settlement process. It also mentions the role of class notice and claim administration in class action settlements.

The article discusses a reported lack of women attorneys in the U.S. multidistrict litigation (MDL) field as of March 2014, focusing on hearings involving the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) which deal with topics such as securities law, mass torts, and antitrust matters. According to the article, three of the seven judges on the JPML are women. Female plaintiff lawyers and leadership roles for women are examined, along with American courts and minority attorneys.

The article offers several meaningful praise and feedbacks received by lawyers and law firms from their clients.