Conference Agenda
Day 1, Thursday, February 25, 2016
7:45 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Continental Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast Sponsored by Priority-One/Veritext
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Welcome by Co-Chairs
David Katzenstein, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Newark, NJ
John C. Garde, McCarter & English, Newark, NJ
William L. Kuzmin, Cohen, Placitella & Roth, Red Bank, NJ
Joel R. Clark, McGivney & Kluger, P.C., Florham Park, NJ
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
State of the Docket
Agatha N. Dzikiewicz, Esq., Special Master, Superior Court of New Jersey, Middlesex County, New Brunswick, NJ
Joel Clark, McGivney & Kluger, P.C., Florham Park, NJ
Patrick Joseph Bartels, Keefe Bartels, Red Bank, NJ
9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Talc Cases
H. Lockwood (Chip) Miller III, Goldberg Segalla, Princeton, NJ
Allan I. Dunst, Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas, LLP, New Brunswick, NJ
Moshe Maimon, Levy Konigsberg, LLP, New York
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
The Science Behind Low Dose
David Katzenstein, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Newark, NJ
Leonard F. Feldman, Weitz & Luxenberg, Cherry Hill, NJ
Kelly Scribner, Ph.D., Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, LLC, (CTEH), Little Rock, AR
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Summary Judgment and Deposition Questions
Darron E. Berquist, The Lanier Law Firm, New York
Terence W. Camp, Budd Larner, Short Hills, NJ
Marc S. Gaffrey, Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas, LLP, New Brunswick, NJ
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Ethics in Mass Tort Litigation
Lynne M. Kizis, Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Woodbridge, NJ
William D. Sanders, McGivney & Kluger, Florham Park, NJ
Jeffrey M. Pollock, Fox Rothschild LLP, Lawrenceville, NJ
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Refreshment Break
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Pending Appeals
Patricia Henrich, Reilly, Janiczek, McDevitt, Henrich & Cholden, P.C., Merchantville, NJ
John Garde, McCarter & English, Newark, NJ
Robert E. Lytle, Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein & Blader, P.C., Lawrenceville, NJ
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wrongful Death, Cross Claim Proofs
Kevin E. Hoffman, Kent/McBride, Iselin, NJ
Joshua S. Lichtenstein, O´Toole Fernandez Weiner Van Lieu, LLC, Verona, NJ
Joseph W. Belluck, Belluck & Fox, New York
Dennis M. Geier, Cohen, Placitella & Roth, P.C., Red Bank, NJ