Agenda
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PROGRAM LEADERS
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MED SCHOOL CHAIRS
VANCE ANDRUS
Andrus Wagstaff
MARC GROSSMAN
Sanders Phillips Grossman
VICKI MANIATIS
Sanders Phillips Grossman
AIMEE WAGSTAFF
Andrus Wagstaff
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MEDICAL CONTENT CHAIR
DR. JOHN M. RESTAINO
DPM, JD, MPH
Sanders Phillips Grossman
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CLASS ACTION CHAIRS
ERIC GIBBS
Gibbs Law Group
ARIANA TADLER
Milberg and Meta-e Discovery
ROBIN GREENWALD
Weitz & Luxenberg
ANDY FRIEDMAN
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
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HOST-CITY CHAIRS
JOHN A. YANCHUNIS
Morgan & Morgan
SCOTT W. WEINSTEIN
Morgan & Morgan
KEITH R. MITNIK
Morgan & Morgan
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SPONSORS
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Dress Code: Dress Casually Please! No ties! Shoes are good.
11:30 | Registration & Refreshments in Plaza Ballroom Foyer
01:00 | Welcome! Join us in Plaza I & II
01:15 | Talc: Up-to-the-Minute Status on Trials, State Court Actions, MDL
- Ted G. Meadows, Beasley Allen
- James G. Onder, Onder Law
- Danielle Ward Mason, Beasley Allen
- Carmen S. Scott, Motley Rice
- James F. Green, Ashcraft & Gerel
- R. Alan Smith, The Smith Law Firm
02:45 | Preemption Update: Generic Drugs and More
- Rob Mosier, Sanders Phillips Grossman
- David Wool, Andrus Wagstaff
- Mark Crawford, Skikos, Crawford, Skikos & Joseph
- Michael K. Johnson, Johnson Becker
03:15 | Break
03:40 | WEN Hair Products
04:00 | Bi-Metal Hip Replacements
- John Crone, Andrus Wagstaff
- Jayne Conroy, Simmons Hanly & Conroy
04:20 | Doctors Panel: Drugs, Devices and Practices
Attorneys:
- Proton Pump Inhibitor: TBD
- Risperdal: Rob Mosier, Tim Clark, Suzanne Smith, Sanders Phillips Grossman
- Flouroquinolone: Yvonne Flaherty, Lockridge Grindal Nauen
- Benicar: Rayna Kessler, Robins Kaplan
- IVC: Stuart Goldenberg, Goldenberg Law
- Ramon Rossi Lopez, Lopez McHugh
Physicians and Medical Experts:
- Dr. John M. Restaino, DPM, JD, MPH, Sanders Phillips Grossman
- Shezad Malik, MD
- Dr. Margaret Thompson, MD, JD, MPAFF, Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis & Miles
05:30 | Business of Law: The 21st Century Plaintiff Firm
- Reuven Moskowitz, Chief Operations Officer, Morgan & Morgan and Co-Founder of Litify
05:45 | Opening Reception
Thanks to Andrus Wagstaff and Veritext Legal Solutions Cigar Bar! Thanks to Steve Nober of Consumer Attorney Marketing Group The Body Scrub Bar! Thanks to Garden City Group
Join us on the Citrus Garden Terrace!
- Stop by The Body Scrub Bar Sponsored by Garden City Group!
- Enjoy a hand-rolled cigar! Cigar Bar Sponsored by Consumer Attorney Marketing Group.
- See old friends and make new ones among the beautiful Citrus Gardens.
- Spouses and partners welcome!
07:30 | Faculty Dinner|Amalfi I & II
Thanks Counsel Financial, Gibbs Law Group, and Cohen Milstein
Join us on the Da Vinci Terrace!
- Join other faculty members for dinner under the stars on a beautiful terrace at the Ritz-Carlton.
- Spouses and partners are welcome!
- Pre-registration required.
Day Two
08:00 | Breakfast and Registration in Plaza Ballroom Foyer
08:15-08:45 | Thrive Naturally with MaryAnn Jones in Plaza III
Thanks to Meta-e Discovery LLC
Benefit from this 30-minute introduction and subsequent one-on-one sessions with this nationally recognized holistic wellness expert. Leave feeling inspired and motivated with tools to balance the important elements of your personal and professional life. Built on the premise that we all have unlimited potential to thrive, MaryAnn offers support, inspiration, awareness & attention to motivate action toward health goals. She is a Certified Health Coach who worked for twenty years in magazine publishing before changing careers. As a former art director she is expert at deconstructing information & delivering it in simple, informative & dynamic formats that motivate & inspire. MaryAnn’s own personal journey toward wellness is ongoing. As a recovering picky eater she began to see strong connections to positive choices she was making in her own life. Her daughter’s type 1 diabetes diagnosis in 2002 inspired her to continue to learn more & eventually change careers. When her mother was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer in 2011 she was motivated to earn her Integrative Cancer Care certification to better serve her family & community. Learn more.
Med School Sessions (continued)
09:00 | Settlement Update
- TVM:
- Bryan Aylstock, Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz
- Henry G. Garrard, III, Blasingame Burch Garrard Ashley
- Aimee Wagstaff, Andrus Wagstaff
- Trevor Rockstad, Davis & Crump
- NFL:
- Derriel McCorvey, McCorvey Law
- Actos:
- Catherine Heacox, The Lanier Law Firm
- Morcellator:
- Aimee Wagstaff, Andrus Wagstaff
- Granuflo:
- Randi Kassan, Sanders Phillips Grossman
09:30 | Essure
- Breanne Cope, Motley Rice
- Erin Copeland, Fibich, Leebron, Copeland, Briggs & Josephson
09:50 | Abilify
- Bryan Aylstock, Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz
- Marlene Goldenberg, Goldenberg Law
10:10 | Taxotere
10:30 | Refreshment Break
Thanks to BrownGreer
Joint Sessions
For All Med School + Class Actions Attendees
10:25 | Emerging Litigations: How to Acquire New Cases Using a Data-Driven Marketing Approach
A discussion and details about the latest emerging mass torts including analysis of the qualified injured, and how response data and analytics can help acquire cases at lower costs. Also, we will be distributing copies of our Legal Marketing Index®, which provides in-depth proprietary information on both spend and response legal marketing details – the only of its kind in the industry – includes customer heat maps, spend data, intake analysis and more for the most popular litigations.
- Steve Nober, Consumer Attorney Marketing Group
10:45 | Financing Your Mass Tort Practice
- Paul Cody, President, Counsel Financial
- Glenn Phillips, Sanders Phillips Grossman
An in-depth discussion on options for financing your mass torts practice and how to intelligently use leverage to successfully build build your practice.
11:45 | Discovery
Rule 26(b)(1) – proportionality | Rule 37(a)(4) – evasiveness | Rule 37(e) – sanctions | Avoiding bifurcated discovery
- Ariana Tadler, Milberg and Meta-e Discovery
- James Bilsborrow, Weitz & Luxenberg
12:00 | Lunch Buffet on the Da Vinci Terrace
Dual Track: Pick One! A or B
A. Class Actions: Plaza III
01:00 | X-Pollination: The Mass Tort / Class Actions Intersection
Class actions | Mass torts | Whistleblowers | Third-party payors | Government enforcement | When class actions collide with government actions | Who is “the government” | How to benefit from the government’s involvement and what to avoid | Global settlement strategies
- Eric Gibbs, Gibbs Law Group
- James D. Young, Morgan & Morgan
- Robin Greenwald, Weitz & Luxenberg
- Theodore J. Leopold, Cohen Milstein
01:45 | Settlement
- Sol Weiss, Anapol Weiss
02:15 | Fees
- Amy Zeman, Gibbs Law Group
- Keith Mitnik, Morgan & Morgan
B. Med School: Plaza I & II
01:00 | Doctors Panel: FDA, Science and Data
- Dr. John M. Restaino, DPM, JD, MPH, Sanders Phillips Grossman
- Charles Bennett, MD, PhD, MPP
- Robert Kane, MD
- Benjamin Djulbegovic, MD
Joint Sessions: For All Attendees
Refreshments sponsored by Ankura Consulting and Thrive Naturally’s MaryAnn Jones
Meet the Authors
02:30 | Trial Skills | Winning at the Beginning: The Untappped Powers of Opening
Keith R. Mitnick, is Senior Trial Lawyer at Morgan & Morgan. In this session this “Super Lawyer” and veteran of many high-profile, high-stakes cases will share his insights into the art of the opening statement, providing three alternatives to eating the defense’s favored facts at the very beginning of the case: eliminating them, owning them, or putting them into your own positive context. He will discuss the power of word choice, offer analogies that will help jurors put themselves in a client’s shoes, and demonstrate the importance of common sense versus coincidence. He is author of several highly regarded books: Winning at the Beginning: The Untapped Power of Voir Dire, Opening, and Beyond; Don’t Eat the Bruises: How to Foil Their Plans to Spoil Your Case; and The Power of Analogy.
Special Book Offer. Attending firms qualify for a 10% discount from publisher Trial Guides LLC for products authored by Morgan & Morgan‘s John Morgan and Keith Mitnik. To get the discount use the promo code (sent to you by email) checkout. Also, look for sample chapters in the HB PPT Presentations & Materials Folder for the event (link sent via email). Click the titles to learn more about John Morgan’s books, You Can’t Teach Vision: The 21st Century Law Firm and You Can’t Teach Hungry: Creating the Multimillion Dollar Law Firm. Click on the title to learn more about Keith Mitnik’s Don’t Eat the Bruises: How to Foil Their Plans to Spoil Your Case.
03:30 | Donald J. Trump’s First Cunning Rise (and Fall): The Man I Knew
Jack R. O’Donnell, author, casino developer/consultant, former CEO of Sierra Tucson a behavioral health facility and Miraval the nation’s premier destination spa, avid horseman— and former President and COO of the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. It was at the Trump Plaza, the number one East Coast casino and the jewel in the crown of the Trump portfolio, where O’Donnell reported directly to the man who would become the 45th President of the United States. O’Donnell later wrote Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump — His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall, and is working on a second book about his experience working for the casino mogul, reality TV star, and our current commander in chief. O’Donnell will share his insights and experiences working with Donald J. Trump when he was riding high in the glitz and glamor of a vibrant 1980s Atlantic City.
04:00 | President Donald J. Trump’s Judiciary:
Potential Impact of The New Administration on Mass Torts and Class Actions
- Ariana Tadler, Milberg
- Eric Gibbs, Gibbs Law Group
- Robin Greenwald, Weitz & Luxenberg
- Andy Friedman, Cohen Milstein
- F. Paul Bland, Jr., Public Justice
04:30 | Emerging Drugs, Devices and Consumer Products: What Our Experts and Big Data Tell Us
How big data is changing the world of mass torts. | New drugs and devices to watch.
- Marc Grossman, Sanders Phillips Grossman
- Glenn Phillips, Sanders Phillips Grossman
- Tim Clark, Suzanne Smith, Sanders Phillips Grossman
- Aimee Wagstaff, Andrus Wagstaff
- Edward Lake, Gacovino & Lake
- David Eisbrouch, Eisbrouch Marsh
- Keith Altman, The Law Office of Keith Altman
- Bryan Aylstock, Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz
- Stuart Goldenberg, Goldenberg Law
06:30- 09:30 | Networking Party on Da Vinci Terrace
Thanks Esquire Bank, Morgan & Morgan, and Monarch Structured Settlements!
March Madness prizes and post-party drinks at the Lobby Bar hosted by Brett Newman of The Lien Resolution Group
March Madness tickets giveaway sponsored by Angeion Group
Cigar Bar! Thanks to Steve Nober of Consumer Marketing Group
- March Madness Bracket Challenge! Win fun prizes! Sponsored by The Lien Resolution Group.
- Elegant outdoor terrace surrounded by bamboo and lush tropical trees.
- An ideal backdrop to network with colleagues and make new contacts.
- Enjoy music, drinks, food, and other surprises!
- Cigar Bar! Authentic cigar rollers demonstrate their native art and share their freshly rolled cigars. Sponsored by Consumer Attorney Marketing Group.
Day Three
Class Actions: Final Stretch
08:00 | Breakfast
- Bloody Mary Bar
08:50 | Welcome! Plaza I & II
09:00 | Where to Begin?
MDL Strategies | Master complaints | Rule 23(g)(3) | Class Action Fairness Act
- John Yanchunis, Morgan & Morgan
- Robin Greenwald, Weitz & Luxenberg
- Karen Riebel, Lockridge Grindal Nauen
- Aideen Gaffney, Garden City Group
09:45 | Motion to Dismiss – What’s Trending?
Standing | Knowledge | Particularity
- David Stein, Gibbs Law Group
- David A. Straite, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP
10:15 | Telemedicine
Privacy | Patience Safety | Licensing Issues | Professional Liability | Accuracy
- Bradley Sherman, MD
10:45 | Class Certification
Ascertainability | Multi-state classes | Issue classes | Injury, harm and damages | 23(b)(2) classes
- Beth Fegan, Hagens Berman
- Henry Kelston, Milberg
11:30 | Qui Tam
Background on Qui Tam: Sitting on a gold mine | Timing of filing | Working with the government | Evidentiary burden | Litigating declined cases | Global settlement strategies | Issues on the horizon under a Trump/Sessions DOJ
- James D. Young, Morgan & Morgan
- Amy Zeman, Gibbs Law Group
12:00 | Class Remedies
Actual Damages | Restitution | Injunctive Relief | Statutory Damages | Cy Pres
- David Stein, Gibbs Law Group
- Marisa Glassman, Morgan & Morgan
12:45 | Adjourn
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