About the Notice Project
Brief History of the Notice Project
The Notice Project, led by the Impact Fund, began in response to public confusion about class actions.
Initial focus groups revealed that people got most of their information about class actions from the Class Notices - and class members found these notices incomprehensible.
Rather than pursuing rule changes, the team focused on redesigning class action notices with the help of graphic designers, plain language experts, and legal practitioners. Through years of development, testing, and feedback, the project produced a suite of templates for notices that are easier to understand.
The team also launched NoticeAssist, an AI-powered tool that litigators can use to simplify notice language.
Today, the templates have been approved by judges in dozens of cases, and the project continues to grow with expanded formats, languages, and outreach.
Our Team
Jocelyn Larkin - Of Counsel, former Executive Director of the Impact Fund
Ms. Larkin joined the Impact Fund in 2000 and served as its Executive Director from 2010 until February 2024. She is now Of Counsel to the organization with a focus on the Notice Project initiative.
Larkin's practice has focused on complex employment discrimination and class action practice on behalf of plaintiffs. Ms. Larkin has served as class counsel in many major class actions, including Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Ellis v. Costco Wholesale Corp., Parra v. Bashas’ Inc, Williams v. City of Antioch, and Stender v. Lucky Stores. Ms. Larkin first developed the Impact Fund’s Class Action Training Institute and its annual Class Action Conference.
Ms. Larkin has been a frequent speaker and author on issues concerning class actions, employment law, ethics, and civil rights. Ms. Larkin is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and the UCLA School of Law.
John Henry Frankel - Communications Manager
John Henry is the communications lead for the Notice Project initiative. Prior to joining the Impact Fund, John Henry worked in PR and content, writing Forbes articles, Wikipedia pages, LinkedIn blog posts, and technical press releases across multiple tech verticals as well as the music industry.
John Henry has two history degrees, and his historical area of focus is the intersection of colonialism, gender, and the media in the 20th and 21st centuries. In his free time, he enjoys watching Nicolas Cage movies.
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