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2012 Section of Litigation Annual CLE Conference (Washington, DC)

Top 5 Traps to Avoid in Preparing and Examining Expert Witnesses

• » A Pragmatic Approach to Retaining Presenting Expert Witnesses

Two Decades of Daubert: Junk Science Replaced by Junk Rulings

• » Daubert and Other Gatekeeping Challenges with appendix_Antitrust
• » Daubert Turning 20 Updated

View from the Bench: Why Bad Things Happen to Good Litigators

• » From the Bench, The Ten Most Common Errors in Trial Practice

On Your Feet! Taking Oral Advocacy to the Next Level

• » Tongue-Tied America
• » Verbal Persuasion

 

2012 Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar (Carlsbad, CA)

• » Enforceability of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer Contracts
• » Expert Witnesses in EEO Class Actions: What Does Wal-Mart v Dukes Mean for Future Cases?
• » The Legal Implications of Social Media
• » Litigating Class Actions Post-Concepcion
• » When Can a Breach of Contract Be a Tort and What Difference Does it Make?

 

2011 Section of Litigation and Criminal Justice Section CLE Conference (Miami, FL)

Keep the Other Shoe From Dropping: Litigation Holds & Evidence Management

• » Hold It! Avoiding an Electronic Discovery Disaster with Effective Litigation Holds

Conducting the Internal Investigation While the Rest of the World Watches

• » Conducting the Internal Investigation While the Rest of the World Watches
• » Guidelines for Conducting Internal Investigations in High-Profile Public Matters
• » Britain's Fight Against the 'Silver Lance': A Radical Overhaul of the U.K.'s Bribery Laws

Judicial Elections: A Threat to Independence & Impartiality?

• » What's More Important: Electing Judges or Judicial Independence? It's Time for Pennsylvania to Choose Judicial Independence

 

2011 Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar (Naples, FL)

• » A Financial Expert's Assessment of Litigation Cost Containment: Three General Rules Can Help Control Litigation Costs
• » Making Experts Work For You
• » Winning the "Battle of the Experts" While Keeping Expert Witness Fees Under Control

 

2008 ABA Annual Meeting (New York, NY)

• » The All New 2008 Litigation Quiz Show: Still Living in the World of Dilemmas
• » Technology in Your Trial Plan: Siren Songs or Clever Calls?

 

2008 ABA Annual Meeting (New York, NY)

• » Nontraditional Mortgage Products – The New Enforcement, Regulatory, and Litigation Frontier
• » Weathering the Subprime Storm
• » The “Litigation Hold” and Other ESI Moves: What You and Your Client Need to Know Before Stepping Into the Ring

 

2008 Committee on Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar (Scottsdale, AZ)

• » S&L to Dot.Com to Mortgage Crisis: Are You Ready Yet to Protect Your Company against Corporate Fraud?
• » Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organization – Part 1
• » Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organization – Part 2
• » Corporation Memorandum
• » United States v. Gregory L. Reyes
• » Chapter Eight – Sentencing of Organizations
• » Tsunami Litigation: Four Perspectives
• » Launching Corporate Investigations with Intelligence
• » Litigation Communications in a High Publicity Environment
• » The Attorney-Client Privilege and PR Consultants
• » Electronically Stored Information: Are You Ready?
• » Perry Mason, Arnie Becker or Denny Crane: To What Generational Beat Do You March and Does it Make a Difference in Your Legal Practice
• » Communicating to Gen X and Net Gen Jurors, Part II
• » The Changing Face Juries
• » Judicial Protection of IPR in China – Patents
• » Judicial Protection of IPR in China – Trademark
• » Judicial Protection of IPR in China – Criminal
• » IP Rights Available in China
• » Experience with IP Enforcement in China

 

2007 ABA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)

• » Hiding the Ball: Preparing Experts’ Reports
• » Deepening Insolvency and Lender Liability
• » The Theory of Deepening Insolvency
• » Opening Brief of Appellants Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Willams and the San Francisco Chronicle
• » Order Denying Chronicle’s Motion to Quash Subpoenas
• » Article: Track Star’s Testimony Link Bonds to Steroid Use; Montgomery Said BALCO Owner Named Slugger (June 2004)
• » Article: Giambi Admitted Taking Steroids (December 2004)
• » Article: Slugger Testified Bonds Told Him to Use ‘the Cream’ and ‘the Clear,’ Saying, ‘Don’t Ask Any Questions, Just Trust Me’ (December 2004)
• » Article: What Bonds Told BALCO Grand Jury (December 2004)
• » How to Accurately Determine and Demonstrate the Reasonable Settlement Value of Your Case
• » Robert E. Schaberg Litigation Budget Template
• » Dealing With Dilemmas
• » Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
• » Cowboy Ethics on the Main Line
• » Officer of the Court
• » The Trial Lawyer – What it Takes to Win

2007 Committee on Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar (Amelia Island, FL)

• » The Theory of Deepening Insolvency
• » Practical Strategies For Satisfying Preservation Obligations — Part I
• » Practical Strategies For Satisfying Preservation Obligations — Part II
• » Automated Document Review Proves Its Reliability
• » E-Discovery Rules with Comments
• » Judicial Conference Report (Sept. 2005)
• » Trade Secret Materials
• » Prevention and Detection of Trade Secret Theft
• » Table of Contents
• » Acknowledgements
• » Relevant Raiding Case Summaries
• » Calculating Damages in Broker Raiding Case
• » Red Rover, Red Rover - Let My Competitor's Employees Come Over: Is Employee "Raiding" Its Own Cause of Action?
• » Protocol For Broker Recruiting
• » Points on Securities Litigation Class Action Defense
• » Defeating Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Consumer Fraud Class Action
• » Between The Lines Of Rule 23: Classwide Proof And Administrative Deference
• » Federal and State Regulation of Data Security
• » Common Law Theories for the Imposition of Delictual Liability for Data Security Breaches

 

 

Section Annual Conference: April 2007, San Antonio

• » Government v. Attorney-Client Privilege: Putting the Squeeze Play on the Corporate Counsel
• » The Paper Lawyer’s Guide to Electronic Discovery
• » When a Key Player Defects: Strategies for Winning the Trade Secret/Non-Compete Case

2006 ABA Annual Meeting (Honolulu, HI)

 

• » Using Themes and Analogies to Persuade in a Personal Injury Trial
• » Defining the Case: Making the Most of Focus Group and Mock Trial Research
• » Due Diligence: Mock trials and pretrial research can save time down the road
• » Test-Driving Your Trial Strategy: Crossing the Finish Line First
• » Case Hypothetical
• » Expanded 30(b)(6) Deposition Outline Custodian of Electronic Records (With Annotations)
• » Notice of Videotaped Deposition Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6)
• » Defendant Major Network Corporation’s Objection to Plaintiff’s Notice of Videotaped Deposition Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(c)
• » The Proposed Federal E-Discovery Rules

2006 Section Annual Conference (Los Angeles, CA)

• » Preparing Witnesses – A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Their Clients
• » Help Is On The Way… Sort Of: How the Civil Rules Advisory Committee Hopes to Fill the E-Discovery Void
• » Cross-Examining an Expert Witness: What To Do, What Not To Do
• » Nine Clues to Effective Opening Statements
• » The Advocate’s Art: Closing Argument

 

2006 Committee on Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar (Carlsbad, CA)

• » Corporate Strategies That Win Trials
• » 2005 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey
• » Electronic Discovery Overview
• » Smoothing the E-Discovery Path

2005 Section of Litigation Annual Conference (New York, NY)

• » The Brave New World of Electronic Discovery Revisited
• » Fraud Principles Are Never Gone With The Wind
• » Legal Ethics Challenges for the Mass Disaster Plaintiff’s Lawyer
• » Planning For Reconstituting A Law Office After A Disaster
• » Some Off-The-Cuff Remarks About Lawyers As Storytellers
• » Fifty-State and Federal Court Survey of the Standards Governing the Admissibility of Expert Testimony
• » Factors to Consider When Presenting Expert Testimony
• » Tips For Making Damages Testimony Come Alive
• » Noncompetes and Trade Secrets in a High-Tech E-World
• » Litigating In the Big Leagues: An Examination of Recent Sports-Related Litigation

2005 Committee on Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar (Orlando, FL)

• » Why and How to Create a Business Court
• » Letter to Judges
• » Chief Justice’s Commission on the Future of the North Carolina Business Court Final Report and Recommendation
• » A Brief History of the Creation and Juristiction of Business Courts in the Last Decade
• » E-Discovery, Document Retention and the Role of the In-House Lawyer
• » Hypothetical Set Of Facts: Sherman v. Global Gas et al
• » Litigation Risk Assessments – A Process To Help Bridge Evaluative Gaps

ABA Annual Meeting: August 2005, Chicago

• » Negotiation Strategy
  Thomas A. Dye
• » Factors to Consider When Presenting Expert Testimony
  Merrick L. Gross
• » Fifty-State and Federal Court Survey of the Standards Governing the Admissibility of Expert Testimony
  Merrick L. Gross and Jason Kellogg
• » Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Basic Principles and Recent Applications (Presentation)
  John M. Johnson
• » Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals: An Overview of its Basic Principles and a Sample of Its Recent Applications
  John M. Johnson