June, 2009
Chinese-Made Drywall: A Multi-Defendant, Multi-Claim, Multi-District Litigation Has Litigators Multi-Tasking
By Tom Hagy, HB Litigation Conferences Based on attendance and buzz at recent legal education programs, mass tort, construction defect and, of course, insurance attorneys will be busy for some time litigating causation and culpability surrounding alleged claims of both property damage and personal injury from Chinese-made dry wall. In one June 2 teleconference, sponsored [...]
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Weitz, Yavitz Share Views on Asbestos Settlements
Perry Weitz of Weitz & Luxenberg and Judith Yavitz of Reed Smith offer their views on opportunities and obstacles to asbestos settlements, during HB’s June 3, 2009, Judicial Forum on Asbestos. Recordings and materials are available now. Registrations for our National Asbestos Litigation Conference, Sept. 23-25 in San Francisco are rolling in. Sign up today!
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Linda Kornfeld on D&O Insurance Part 4
Linda Kornfeld, managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Dickstein Shapiro, talks to HB about directors and officers insurance coverage during a time when securities litigation is on the rise.
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Linda Kornfeld on D&O Insurance Part 3
Linda Kornfeld, managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Dickstein Shapiro, talks to HB about directors and officers insurance coverage during a time when securities litigation is on the rise.
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Linda Kornfeld on D&O Insurance Part 2
Linda Kornfeld, managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Dickstein Shapiro, talks to HB about directors and officers insurance coverage during a time when securities litigation is on the rise.
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Linda Kornfeld on D&O Insurance Part 1
Linda Kornfeld, managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Dickstein Shapiro, talks to HB about directors and officers insurance coverage during a time when securities litigation is on the rise.
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Judge Daniel Stack
Judge Daniel Stack of Illinois Speaking at HB’s Judicial Forum on Asbestos. Judges from around the country were asked during the kick-off session of the Judicial Forum on Asbestos held in New York City on June 3 to provide an overview of the asbestos docket they manage. Judge Stack of Madison County, Illinois, said there [...]
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Judge Mark Davidson
Judge Mark Davidson of Houston Speaking at HB’s Judicial Forum on Asbestos. Judges from around the country were asked during the kick-off session of the Judicial Forum on Asbestos held in New York City on June 3 to provide an overview of the asbestos docket they manage. Judge Davidson, who, along with Judge Sandra Mazer [...]
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Follow HB on Twitter
For those of you who can’t get enough info about HB’s conferences and litigation in general, I am posting the latest developments from and about our conferences on Twitter. I just posted four clips from our Judicial Forum on Asbestos, with much more to come. http://twitter.com/TomHagy Thanks! Tom Hagy
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Judge Elihu Berle
Judge Berle, Supervising Judge, Civil Department, Los Angeles Superior Court The judge participated at HB’s Judicial Forum on Asbestos on June 3 in New York City. The judges, in this session, were asked to provide the attendees a look into the docket of asbestos cases in their court. The complete video from this event is [...]
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