Products Liability Committee

Mission

Welcome to the Products Liability website! We are an open, friendly and diverse Committee, combining lawyers of all ages and backgrounds, who come from around the country and work in different practice settings. We are not so large that you will feel lost in the crowd; and large enough with enthusiasm to spare to mount significant CLE programs and other member benefits.

If you have an interest in national, regional or local program planning, publishing articles about the law, creating online columns or CLE, and would like to work with a highly collegial and diverse group of lawyers with interests in products liability law and practice, then you've come to the right Committee!

Announcements

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2012 ABA Section of Litigation Environmental, Mass Torts and Products Liability Litigation Committees’ Joint CLE Seminar, January 19–21, 2012, Hollywood, FL

New 50-State Survey Available

Plaintiff's Medical Care and Treatment—Discovery and Evidentiary Issues 50-State Survey

Seeking Contributors to Our Website and Publications

The Products Liability Committee is seeking contributors to its website and publications. We welcome any articles for the webpage or newsletter. This is a great way to get involved, network with some of the best litigators in the country, and contribute to building a valuable resource for products liability litigators. If you have cases of interest, articles, or other resources to add to our website or newsletter, please contact the editors listed below.

Message from the Chairs

January 2012

We write this message from the sunny beaches of Hollywood, Florida, having just ended another wonderful Joint CLE Seminar. The lack of snow out west, plus the 80 degree temperatures here in Florida, sure made our decision to “go warm” this year a pretty good one. For everyone who was able to join us, we hope you enjoyed the fabulous CLE programming and social events. We thank Seminar Chairs Sarah Cronan and Karen Woodward—as well as the entire planning committee, including Lara White on behalf of the Products Liability Committee—for their hard work in making this year’s program a success. For those of you who were not able to make it to Florida this year, we missed you! Mark your calendars now for next year’s event—January 31 through February 2, 2013 at the snowy—hopefully!—Sheraton Steamboat Resort in Steamboat Springs, CO.

For us, the best part of the Seminar was the energy evident during our Subcommittee Leadership and Open Subcommittee meetings. The Joint CLE meeting traditionally serves as our business kick-off for the year, and this year did not disappoint. Our new slate of subcommittee chairs are already well underway in planning this year’s activities. We are working hard to bring you new and exciting products this year, such as Sound Advice podcasts, teleconferences and webinars, and new “Non-CLE CLE” free programs. This is all in addition to our much-loved CLE Workshops—look for more information soon on the Food and Supplements CLE Workshop in June, our Chemical CLE Workshop in October, and the Pharmaceutical/Medical Device and Women in Products Liability Workshops in November.

We also hope to see you in Washington, DC this April at the Section of Litigation Annual Conference! In addition to the fabulous programming being offered by the Section, our Committee will be hosting a Dutch dinner during the SAC, and we look forward to catching up with you then. Be sure to stop by our Expo exhibit and learn more about upcoming Committee activities.

Thank you for your continued membership in the Committee. We hope you explore our website, read our newsletter, join one of our many subcommittees, and take advantage of all this Committee has to offer. Have other ideas? Comments or questions about the Committee? We are all here to listen and discuss any thoughts you may have.

Nathaniel Cade
Lori Leskin

D. Alan Rudlin
Chairs, Products Liability Committee