HarrisMartin’s Emerging Trends in the Prosecution and Defense of Auto Defect Litigation Conference

Conference Agenda

Day 1, Tuesday, January 28, 2020

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome by Co-Chairs

Thomas E. Loeser, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle
Robert C. Hilliard, Hilliard Martinez Gonzales LLP, Corpus Christi, TX
Mark S. Mester, Latham & Watkins LLP, Chicago
Sharon L. Nelles, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP


8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
News From the (Racing) Circuits: Appellate Decisions Applicable to Auto-Defect Litigation

Mark Pifko, Baron & Budd, P.C., Los Angeles
Laura Kabler Oswell, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Palo Alto, CA


9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Five Years of GM Ignition Switch Litigation: Observations and Lessons

Robert C. Hilliard, Hilliard Martinez Gonzales LLP, Corpus Christi, TX


10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Five Years of VW Dieselgate: This is Not GM

David S. Stellings, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York
Thomas E. Loeser, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle
Sharon L. Nelles, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York
Paul T. Collins, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Columbia, SC


11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Five Years of Airbags: No One Gets Out of This Alive

Peter Prieto, Podhurst Orseck, P.A., Miami
Kevin R. Dean, Motley Rice LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC


12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Defect? What Defect? How Over-the-Air Updates are Changing Automobile Defect Litigation

Thomas E. Loeser, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle
Paul T. Collins, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Columbia, SC
Steven A. McKelvey Jr., Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Columbia, SC


2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
GDPR Ethics: A Very Turney Route to Documents

Jennifer Scullion, Seeger Weiss, New York
Suhana S. Han, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York


3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Refreshment Break

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
This Has Nothing to do With Emissions: Auto-Defect Mega Cases Spooling Up Now

Mark S. Mester, Latham & Watkins LLP, Chicago
Russell D. Paul, Berger Montague, Philadelphia


4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Networking Cocktail Reception