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<font size = "3">Monday, October 13, 2003</font>
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Introduction and Opening Remarks
Lance Lubel, Heard Robins Cloud Lubel & Greenwood
Nathan Schachtman, McCarter & English
9:15 Medical Panel: Debate Over the Science and Medicine of Silica
Moderator: Barbara Barron, MehaffeyWeber
Gary Friedman, MD, Texas Occupational Medicine Institute
J. Bernard Gee, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
10:30 Morning Break
10:45 State of the Art Defense
Gerald Markowtiz, PhD, Professor of History, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Nathan Schachtman, McCarter & English
11:45 The Cutting Edge of Silica Litigation: The Mississippi Litigation and Statutory Reform Implications
Troy Chandler, Heard Robins Cloud Lubel & Greenwood
Ryan Beason, Spain Hastings Willingham Beason & Ward
12:45 Networking Luncheon
1:45 Ethics Session: Filing, Litigating and Settling Mass Tort Claims and Exhaustion of Insurance Coverage
Steven Smoot, Steven M. Smoot Attorney at Law
R. Nicholas Gimbel, McCarter & English
2:45 Afternoon Break
3:00 Plaintiff and Defense Break-Out Session
Meet with colleagues from your "side" of the litigation to discuss cases and/or important issues relating to your clients
PLAINTIFF MODERATOR: Lee Plotkin, Gertler Gertler Vincent & Plotkin
DEFENSE MODERATOR: Terence Murphy, Jones Day
3:30 Confronting an Opponent's Expert Witness for Discovery, Daubert and Trial - What the Lawyer Can Do With and Without Expert Assistance
David Schwartz, PhD, Innovative Science Solutions
4:00 Mock Daubert Hearing and Analysis on Silica Expert Admissibility: Strategies for Keeping Your Expert
In and Getting Your Opponent's Expert Out
PLAINTIFF ARGUMENT: Sharon McCally, Storey Moore & McCally
DEFENSE ARGUMENT: Additional speaker to be announced
5:15 Networking Reception
<font size = "3">Tuesday, October, 14, 2003</font>
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Update On Recent Events
Lance Lubel, Heard Robins Cloud Lubel & Greenwood
Nathan Schachtman, McCarter & English
9:15 Regulatory History and Structure
Bruce Bishop, Willcox & Savage
9:45 Panel Discussion On the Potential for Silica Defendant Bankruptcies
Sander Esserman, Stutzman Bromberg Esserman & Plifka
Additional speakers to be announced
10:30 Morning Break
10:45 Dealing with Punitive Damages After State Farm v. Campbell
Matthew Harman, King & Spalding
11:30 Failure To Warn: Human Factors Warnings
Jason Gibson, Smith *Gibson Law Firm
David Taylor, Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons
12:30 Adjourn
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