HarrisMartin's Mass Tort Litigation Conference with Judge Marina Corodemus (Ret.)

7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Introductory Remarks

Chair Hon. Marina Corodemus (ret.), Managing Partner, Corodemus & Corodemus, Iselin, NJ

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

The Shareholders Suit

• Fiduciary Duty
  
• Board of Governors
  
• Special Committee Investigation
  
• Impact on Potential Litigation
  
• Indemnification
  Peter S. Pearlman, Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP, Saddle Brook, NJ
  Alan E. Kraus, Latham & Watkins LLP, Newark NJ
  Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal, U.S. Dist. Ct., Southern District of Texas, Houston

9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

DOJ Prosecution of Fraud and Kick-Back Foreign Governments

• Kickbacks for Potential Use in Hospital and Doctor's Offices
  
• Violation of Previous Consent Orders
  
• Insufficient Quality Controls and Practices at Several of Its Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plants in Violation of Federal Regulations, Ultimately Leading to Product Recalls, Congressional and Federal Criminal Investigations
  
• International Government Pay-offs Federal Corrupt Practices Act
  
• 3rd-Party Payor RICO Fed/State
  Peter C. Harvey, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York
  Wendy R. Fleishman, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, New York
  Sol Weiss, Anapol Schwartz, Harrisburg, PA
  Brian J. McCormick Jr., Sheller, P.C., Philadelphia
  David C. Shonka, Principal Deputy General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC
  Hon. Sandra Mazer Moss, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Refreshment Break

Sponsored by The Lien Resolution Group

10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Medical Proof of Injured Plaintiffs

• History, Studies, Consumer Expectation, Daubert/Frye/Kemp
  
• Sales Reps
  
• Marketing
  
• Surveillance
  Heidi Levine, DLA Piper, New York
  Thomas F. Campion, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Florham Park, NJ
  Seth A. Katz, Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine P.C., Englewood, CO
  Robert J. Gordon, Weitz & Luxenberg PC, New York
  Hon. David A. Katz, U.S. Dist. Ct., Northern District of Ohio, Toledo, OH

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Off Label vs. Approved Labeled Representations

• Preemption
  
• Consequences of Under or Non-Reporting
  
• State of the Law for Medical Devices vs. Federal
  
• Pharmaceutical - Regulatory Accounting Lexapro
  Steven J. Skikos, Skikos, Crawford, Skikos & Joseph, San Francisco
  Paul J. Pennock, Weitz & Luxenberg P.C., New York
  Jayne Conroy, Hanly Conroy Bierstein Sheridan Fisher & Hayes LLP, New York
  Susan M. Sharko, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Florham Park, NJ
  Timothy I. Duffy, Coughlin Duffy LLP, Morristown, NJ
  Sara J. Gourley, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago
  Hon. James Edgar Kinkeade, U.S. Dist. Ct., Northern District of Texas, Dallas
  

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Networking Lunch

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

"May it Please the Court" - MDL Applications/State Applications for Centralized Designation of Mass Torts

• Protecting your Record
  
• When Should I Apply for MDL/Centralization?
  
• What Factors Will Work to Gain/Defeat MDL Centralization
  Hon. W. Royal Furgeson Jr., U.S. Dist. Ct., Northern District of Texas, Dallas
  Hon. Richard A. Kramer, California Superior Court, San Francisco County, San Francisco
  Ezra D. Rosenberg, Dechert LLP, Princeton, NJ
  Ellen Relkin, Weitz & Luxenberg P.C., New York

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Discovery

• E-discovery Preservation Orders
  
• Spoliation/Sanctions
  
• Doctor Investigation
  
• Governmental Privileged Documents
  Ronald J. Hedges, Former U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. Dist. Ct., District of New Jersey, Corodemus & Corodemus, Iselin, NJ
  C. Moze Cowper, Senior Counsel, AMGEN Inc., Los Angeles
  Ariana J. Tadler, Milberg LLP, New York
  Hon. Richard A. Kramer, California Superior Court, San Francisco County, San Francisco
  George A. Tsougarakis, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York
  William P. Butterfield, Hausfeld LLP, Washington, DC

3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Refreshment Break

Sponsored by The Lien Resolution Group

3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Ethics Session - Aggregate Settlements: All or Nothing At All? Doomsday Scenarios

Hon. Cynthia M. Rufe, U.S. Dist. Ct., Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Nina M. Gussack, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia
Perry Weitz, Weitz & Luxenberg P.C., New York
Lori B. Leskin, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York
Douglas R. Marvin, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC
Christopher A. Seeger, Seeger Weiss LLP, New York

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Mass Tort Settlements - Insurance

• Coverage vs. Disclaim
  
• Indemnification
  
• DJ Actions, Bad Faith, Trigger & Allocation
  
• Subrogation
  William P. Shelley, Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia
  Hon. Nicholas Stroumtsos (ret.), Corodemus & Corodemus, Iselin, NJ
  Thomas J. Olsen, Senior Vice President, Mass Tort, Chartis, Jersey City, NJ
  Tancred Schiavoni, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York
  Franklin Solomon, Locks Law Firm, Cherry Hill, NJ
  Donald A. Migliori, Motley Rice, Providence, RI
  David R. Biester, General Counsel, Secretary, Vice President, WTC Captive Insurance Co., Montclair, NJ

4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Judicial Roundtable

5:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Networking Cocktail Reception

*Invited Speakers