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<font size = "3">Monday, April 26, 2004</font>
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Introduction and Opening Remarks
Ross W. Feinberg, Feinberg Grant Mayfield Kaneda & Litt, LLP, Newport Beach, CA
Bruce C. Smith, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, Atlanta
9:15 Overview Of the Construction Defect/Mold Problem and Mold Litigation
Heidi B. Goldstein, Thompson Hine LLP, Cleveland, OH
Mark A.W. Smith, President, Mark A.W. Smith & Company, Tuscan, AZ
10:00 Morning Break
10:15 The Science of Mold
Tim Varney, PhD, MPH, Director of Health and Risk Assessment,
Chastain-Skillman, Inc., Tampa, FL
Ben Kollmeyer, CIH, MPH, Corporate Director of Environmental Services
Division, Forensic Analytica, Rancho Dominguez, CA
A. Raymond Hamrick, III, Hamrick & Evans, Universal City, CA
B.
11:15 Medical Overview of Mold - The Debate Continues
Edward D. Martinet, AIC, CPC, Principal, MC Consultants, Carlsbad, CA
James R. Bonner, M.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
Additional speakers to be announced
12:30 Lunch Break (On Your Own)
1:45 Settling the Mold Claim Through Mediation
Moderator: Diane O. Palumbo, Palumbo Bergstrom LLP, Irvine, CA
David Stern, Vice President, West Coast Casualty Service, Inc., Agoura Hills, CA
Additional speaker to be announced
2:30 Afternoon Break
2:45 Strategies and Techniques For Prosecuting and Defending a Construction Defect/Mold Claim: A Point-Counter Point Debate
Stephen J. Henning, Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman, LLP, Los Angeles
Charles M. Litt, Feinberg Grant Mayfield Kaneda & Litt, LLP, Newport Beach, CA
Jan Brussel, President, Brussel Consulting & Construction Management, Inc.,
Costa Mesa, CA
Ira D. Lebovic, General Counsel, Capital Pacific Holdings, Inc., Newport Beach, CA
4:15 Survey of the Current Case Law and Mold Litigation
Robert P. Alpert, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, Atlanta
John A. O'Hara, Newmeyer & Dillion LLP, Newport Beach, CA
5:15 Adjourn For the Day
<font size = "3">Tuesday, April 27, 2004</font>
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Judicial Perspective on Construction Defect and Mold Litigation
Moderator: Theodore C. Edwards, II, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Raleigh, NC
Hon. Michael A. Cherry, Eighth Judicial District Court, Las Vegas
Additional speakers to be announced
10:00 Morning Break
10:15 Ethical Issues In Construction Defect Litigation
William J. Sheppard, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, Atlanta
Philip M. Woog, Cooksey, Toolen, Gage, Duffy & Woog, Costa Mesa, CA
11:15 Insurance Coverage and Its Role in Mold Litigation
James P. Magee, Baldwin & Haspell, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA
Ken Burrell, Regional Manager, AIG Environmental, Atlanta
Charles H. Numbers, Meredith, Weinstein & Numbers, Larkspur, CA
12:15 Adjourn
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