Duns 100 Forum · October 2026
AI and Class Actions
Yoav Hertman discusses how AI affects the cost of bringing class actions and the companies that must defend them.
Transcript and video description
Video description: An excerpt from the Duns 100 Commercial Litigation Forum. The opening shows forum participants and displays the question: “Class actions: a tool for protecting the public or for putting pressure on companies?” Yoav Hertman then speaks to the camera. The on-screen title identifies him as a founding partner at Gutman Hertman & Co.
Opening: We caught up with leading commercial litigators at the Duns 100 Forum to ask questions they do not get to answer every day. This is how they responded.
Yoav Hertman: Well, the answer is actually both. AI reduces the cost of producing a class action, including the cost of drafting it and, above all, the cost of searching for someone to sue. A weak class action should not be a cheap gamble at the defendant company’s expense.