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<font size ="3">Wednesday, October 15, 2003</font>
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Landscape of the Litigation - What Starts Mass Torts Rolling
Paul Rheingold, Rheingold Valet Rheingold Shkolnik & McCartney
George Frazza, Of Counsel, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
10:00 Looking at the Details of the Litigation
Plaintiff: Michael Williams, Williams Dailey O'Leary Craine & Love
Defense: Richard Honeyman, Hite Fanning & Honeyman
11:00 Morning Break
11:15 Impact of the Means of Coordinating Cases
Arnold Levin, Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman
Ralph Ferrara, Debevoise & Plimpton
12:00 Luncheon and Keynote Address
Honorable Alfred Wolin, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Newark Division
1:30 Bankruptcy, Companies at Risk and the Financial Impact of Large-scale Litigation on the Industry
Sara Turnipseed, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Wilbur Ross, WL Ross & Co.
Additional speaker to be announced
2:30 Insurance Coverage Issues
Jerold Oshinsky, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky
Thomas Brunner, Wiley Rein & Fielding
3:15 Afternoon Break
3:30 Reflections on Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation
MODERATOR: Arthur Miller, Bruce Bromley Professor of Law, Harvard University School of Law
Hon. Stanley Sporkin, Weil Gotshal & Manges and former U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia
Brad Friedman, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach
Sidney Wolfe, MD, Director, Public Citizen's Health Research Group
Additional speakers to be announced
4:30 Attorneys Who Advise the Industry
David Bernick, Kirkland & Ellis
Sheila Birnbaum, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
5:30 Networking Reception
* invited
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