Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GCG’S LEGAL NOTICE EXPERT, JEANNE FINEGAN, APR,
TO SPEAK AT LSI LITIGATING CLASS ACTIONS CONFERENCE
New Developments and Strategies from Plaintiff and Defense Perspectives
Lake Success, N.Y. (Oct. 17, 2011) – Jeanne C. Finegan, APR, senior vice president, communications and
legal notice expert at the Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG), will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Law
Seminars International (LSI) Litigating Class Actions Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
LSI’s Litigating Class Actions two-day conference, to be held Oct. 24 and 25, is designed to inform and
discuss developments in class action litigation. Finegan’s presentation, Class Action Notice: Rules and
Statues Governing Notice-FRCP (b)(3) “Best Practicable,” will explore what constitutes a best practicable
notice and what practitioners and courts should expect in the new era of online and social media.
Finegan has more than 20 years of communications and advertising experience and is a recognized expert
by courts both throughout the country and internationally. She is Accredited in Public Relations (APR) by
the Universal Accreditation Board, a program administered by the Public Relations Society of America, and
is also recognized by the Canadian Public Relations Society.
Finegan has developed hundreds of the nation’s largest and most high profile notice programs for a wide
range of class actions and consumer matters, including product liability, construction defect, anti-trust,
medical/pharmaceutical, human rights, civil rights, telecommunication, media, environment, securities,
banking, insurance, mass tort, restructuring and product recall.
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“I’m honored to speak and be a part of LSI’s upcoming conference,” said Finegan. “As the first legal notice
expert to integrate new media and social media into court-approved legal notice programs, I am delighted to
share my knowledge and expertise with the distinguished legal practitioners who will be in attendance.”
Finegan has lectured, published and has been cited extensively on various aspects of legal noticing, product
recall and crisis communications. In evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of her notice campaigns,
courts have repeatedly recognized Finegan’s excellent work.
About The Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG)
GCG is the recognized leader in legal administration services for class action settlements and other claims
administration, bankruptcy cases and legal noticing programs, with more than 1,000 employees in offices
coast-to-coast. GCG has been named Best Claims Administrator by the New York Law Journal for two
years in a row. The firm has been engaged in many high-profile distribution matters, including the General
Motors bankruptcy, the $6.05 billion WorldCom settlement, the $3.5 billion Visa/MasterMoney Antitrust
settlement, the $3.4 billion Native American Trust Settlement and the $20 billion Gulf Coast Claims
Facility.
About Crawford
Based in Atlanta, Ga., Crawford & Company (www.crawfordandcompany.com) is the world's largest
independent provider of claims management solutions to the risk management and insurance industry as
well as self-insured entities, with an expansive global network serving
clients in more than 70 countries. The Crawford System of Claims
SolutionsSM offers comprehensive, integrated claims services, business
process outsourcing and consulting services for major product lines
including property and casualty claims management, workers
compensation claims and medical management, and legal settlement
administration. The Company’s shares are traded on the NYSE under the symbols CRDA and CRDB.
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For more information, contact:
Stephanie Caro
631.470.5169 (office)
[email protected]