Linda S Mullenix
Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy
PhD Columbia University
JD Georgetown University
MPhil Columbia University
BA City College of New York
Linda S. Mullenix holds the Rita and Morris Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law. Professor Mullenix is the author of ten books including STATE CLASS ACTION PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (CCH 2000), UNDERSTANDING FEDERAL COURTS (Matthew Bender 1998), MASS TORT LITIGATION (West Group 1996, 2008), FEDERAL COURTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Lexis/Nexis 1996, 2002, 2007), and MOORE'S FEDERAL PRACTICE (2d and 3d Eds.). She teaches federal civil procedure, mass tort litigation, current issues in class action litigation, class action litigation in a global context, and state class action procedure. She has been a college and law professor since 1974, and has taught complex litigation, federal courts, conflicts, professional responsibility, and civil justice reform. Professor Mullenix graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the City College of New York and holds masters and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in political science. She received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and practiced in Washington, D.C. During 1989-90 she was a Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center. Professor Mullenix has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Michigan, and Southern Methodist law schools, the Reuschlein Distinguished Visiting Chair at Villanova law school, and the Katherine Ryan Distinguished Professor at St. Mary's Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck, Austria. In 2002 she was a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. During spring 2007 she held the Fulbright Senior Distinguished Chair in Law, in Trento, Italy.
Professor Mullenix is a contributing editor and writer for Preview of Supreme Court Cases and a regular columnist on class action litigation for the National Law Journal. She is a member of the American Law Institute, Associate Reporter for the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, a consultative member of the Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Complex Litigation Project, an elected Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, and an elected member of the International Association of Procedural Law. Professor Mullenix has written hundreds of articles relating to class action litigation and procedural law, published in The Chicago Legal Forum, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown University Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, as well as numerous other journals. Professor Mullenix served as Reporter for an ABA Task Force on Class Actions (1995-97), Reporter for the Southern District of Texas, 1990 Civil Justice Reform Act, Reporter for the National Conference of Federal-State Judicial Relationships (1992), Advisor, Texas Class Action Rules Subcommittee (1998), and Advisor, National Center for State Courts, Study on Civil Discovery (1990-92). As a consequence of her experience in complex litigation and class action practice, Professor Mullenix has been an invited participant, and delivered papers and presentations, at the Conference on the Future of Class Action Litigation in America, sponsored by the American Bar Association (Boston 2003); Symposium on Cutting Edge Issues in Class Action Litigation, The Legal Forum, University of Chicago (2002); Class Action Conference, Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (2001); the Gulf States Class Action Symposium (2000)(Tulane University Law School); the University of Pennsylvania Symposium: Mass Torts (1999), the ABA Class Action Institute (1999, 2000, 2004, 2005); the Mass Tort Working Group, Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (1999-98); the Special Study Conference on Federal Rules Governing Attorney Conduct, Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (1996-2001); the Research Conference on Class Actions, Institute for Judicial Administration and N.Y.U. (1995); the Conference on Civil Procedure and the Future of the Federal Rules, Southwest Legal Foundation and S.M.U. University (1995); and the National Mass Tort Litigation Conference (1994). She also has served as a faculty member for the Annual Conference on Complex Litigation and Resolution of Class Action Litigation, sponsored by Glasser and Thomson LegalWorks (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007)(New York, San Francisco). She has delivered lectures and papers relating to class action litigation in Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Brazil.
Courts throughout the United States have cited Professor Mullenix's articles on procedure and complex litigation, including the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth Judicial Circuits; federal district courts for the Middle District of Alabama, Northern District of Georgia, the District of Massachusetts, the District of Minnesota, the Western District of Missouri, the District of New Mexico, the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the District of South Carolina, and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. In addition, she has been cited by the Supreme Courts of Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin; and appellate courts in Missouri and Texas. Professor Mullenix has appeared as a radio commentator on National Public Radio, discussing class action litigation. The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Law Journal, and other media publications frequently have quoted her as an expert on complex litigation and class action litigation. Professor Mullenix has worked with plaintiffs, defendants, and objectors on numerous prominent federal and state class action cases, including the reported cases of Cimino v. Raymark, Georgine v. Amchem, Ahearn v. Fibreboard, In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc, Castano v. American Tobacco Co., Bolin v. Sears Roebuck, In the Matter of Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., Falise v. American Tobacco Co., the Simon II litigation, In re Mexican Money Transfer Litigation, Hayden v. Atochem, and the Alabama MDL 1130 Non-Filing Insurance Fee Litigation. In Texas, she has worked on the reported cases Ford Motor Company v. Sheldon, Wagner & Brown v. Horwood, Samuelson v. United Health Care Corp., Dairyland Mutual v. Casburg, Leonard v. Farmers Ins. Co., Rowe v. National Western Life Ins. Co., Bolanos v. Citizens Ins. Co., and Capital One Bank v. Rollins. During the past decade, she has worked on more than seventy state class action cases in numerous Texas venues. She has been involved with state class actions in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington. In addition, Professor Mullenix has worked on Canadian class actions in Ontario and British Columbia, class action litigation under the Brazilian Consumer Protection Act, London arbitrations relating to settlement of mass tort claims, and has been an adviser regarding proposed Swedish and Finnish class action legislation. Her experience in class action litigation includes breast implant, pacemaker lead, fen-phen, Baycol, medical monitoring, employment discrimination, securities, insurance, oil and gas, RICO, and consumer class actions. Her involvement includes pre-petition planning, development of pleadings, motions, discovery, certification hearings, notice, settlement, fairness hearings, fee petitions, and appellate briefing.
