Conference Agenda
Day 1, Tuesday, May 17, 2016
7:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Continental Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast Sponsored by Gacovino, Lake & Associates and Persist Automated Lead Communication
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Litigation Overview
Co-Chair Ted G. Meadows, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Montgomery, AL
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Liability Cases Against Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies and Imerys Talc
• The Positions Taken by Parties at Trial
Co-Chair R. Allen Smith Jr., The Smith Law Firm, PLLC, Ridgeland, MS
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
General Causation
• How Plaintiffs Prove General Causation
• What Defendants Do to Disprove General Causation
Russ Abney, Ferrer, Poirot & Wansbrough, Atlanta
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Case Specific Discovery
• Plaintiff Depositions
• Treater Depositions
Danielle Ward Mason, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Montgomery, AL
Timothy W. Porter, Porter & Malouf, P.A., Ridgeland, MS
Carmen S. Scott, Motley Rice LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC
1:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Talc Heat Map
Steve Nober, Found & CEO, CAMG, Woodland Hills, CA
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue Updates
Missouri - James G. Onder, Onder, Shelton, O'Leary & Peterson, LLC, St. Louis
New Jersey - Steven D. Resnick, Golomb & Honik, P.C., Philadelphia
Washington, D.C. - James F. Green, Ashcraft & Gerel LLP, Washington, D.C.
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Refreshment Break
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Class Action and Attorney General Actions
• Johnson and Johnson's Conduct and How It Adversely Affects Consumers
• What Claims Do Attorneys General Have to Combat J&J on Behalf of Consumers?
• Potential Recovery with Parens Patriae Cases
• Consumer Protection Claims
• Damages and Penalties
W. Daniel Miles III, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Montgomery, AL
Wendy R. Fleishman, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York
3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Specific Causation
• How Plaintiffs Prove:
- Epidemiology
- Differential Diagnosis
- Pathology
• What Defendants Do to Combat Specific Causation
David P. Dearing, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Montgomery, AL
Patrick Case Malouf, Porter & Malouf, P.A., Ridgeland, MS