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- W2015128260 abstract "All clients are to some extent subject to their attorney's construction of their interests. This state of affairs reaches the extreme in the case of the class action because the class action permits masses of individual claims to be combined in one proceeding to promote efficiency and solve collective action problems. Class action scholars have long debated the role of class members without conclusion, but a conceptual understanding of the relationship between class counsel and the class is necessary for delineating the ethical duty of the lawyer to the class and its members. This essay argues that the class is neither an entity nor an aggregation but instead a phantom client, a creature of the attorney's imagination. Like any ghost, it requires recognition by others in order to exist. Rather than seeing the class client as merely an aggregation of members, we should recognize that the class is a fluid construct that includes members of the class, members of the public, and other constituencies. The essay explores the nature and consequences of this new understanding of the class as phantom client, through an analogy to the Russian novel Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. In this novel, a low level functionary named Chichikov engages in a fraudulent scheme to obtain a mortgage using as collateral serfs who have lately died but are still on the tax rolls and therefore technically exist as property. The novel gives us an important issue to consider: what potential exists for class counsel to act virtuously in imagining the phantom client? I propose that a public dialogue, skeptical of motivations, is part of the solution to the problem this exercise of attorney imagination poses, and present an example of such a dialogue in the context of cy pres distributions. Every class action lawyer should be required to ask him or herself: Am I not, even slightly, somewhat of a Chichikov?" @default.
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- W2015128260 title "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Dead Souls, Phantom Clients and the Modern Class Action" @default.
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