Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Conference on Mass Litigation
ALI-ABA is running a conference on mass litigation in Charleston, South Carolina, from May 29-31, 2008 with a strong faculty of judges, practitioners, and academics. Some agenda items of interest to mass tort lawyers include sessions on Negotiating Mass Litigation with Sheila Birnbaum and Joe Rice, bellwether tort trials with James Stengel, the ALI Aggregate Litigation project with Drew Berry, CAFA with Birnbaum and Elizabeth Cabraser, the mass litigation attorney-client relationship with Richard Nagareda, various sessions with Judges Rosenthal, Rothstein, and Scheindlin, and brief litigation updates on contact lens solution, MTBE, tobacco, auto, lead paint, headsets, and wireless telephones.
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