Conference Agenda
Day 1, Friday, November 30, 2018
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome by Co-Chairs
Howard E. Jarvis, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, Knoxville, TN
Eric Williams, Williams Law Office LLC, Metairie, LA
8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
In-House Perspectives: Managing the Solvents Docket and Meeting the Challenges of the Discovery Process and its Abuse
Larry J. Chilton, Chilton Yambert Porter LLP, Chicago
Holly Harris, Chevron Products Company, San Ramon, CA
Kevin Dunleavy, Sunoco, Philadelphia
Tracey Rogers, Senior Attorney, BP America Inc., Houston
9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Jurisdictional Challenges: New Theories and New Law
Stan Perry, Reed Smith LLP, Houston
R. Dean Hartley, Hartley Law Group, PLLC, Wheeling, WV
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Population Wide Genome Analysis and the Drivers of the Onset of Cancer
Len van Zyl, Ph.D. , CEO and CSO, ArrayXpress, Inc., Raleigh, NC
Shounak "Ruku" K. Sarkar, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Wilmington, DE
Michael Zapata III, Executive Chairman, ArrayXpress, Inc., Raleigh, NC
Emanuel Rubin, M.D., Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Pathology, Anatomy, & Cell Biology, Philadelphia
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Premises, Products and Problems with Discovery
Keith Patton, Patton Law, P.C., Albuquerque, NM
John McDermott, Archer, Philadelphia
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
The Simmons Trial
Matt Cairone, The Cairone Law Firm PLLC, Canonsburg, PA
Stephen M. Capriotti Jr., Kelley Jasons McGowan Spinelli Hanna & Reber LLP, Philadelphia
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Ethical Issues in Solvent Litigation
Tanya Tyer Smitherman, Henry, Oddo, Austin & Fletcher, P.C., Dallas
Chad D. Mountain, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Philadelphia
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Refreshment Break
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
IARC 2017 Benzene Update
• How Will This Affect Your Case?
Eric Williams, Williams Law Office, LLC, Metairie, LA
Howard E. Jarvis, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, Knoxville, TN
3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Low Dose Exposure to Benzene and Causation
Andrew J. DuPont, Locks Law Firm, Philadelphia
James B. Galbraith, McLeod, Alexander, Powel & Apffel, P.C., Galveston, TX
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Relevance and Use of Odor in Calculating Exposure
Larry R. Cohan, Anapol Weiss, Philadelphia