Mass Tort Litigation Seminar

Seminar

Friday, July 18, 2025

8:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Morning Session

Registration/Welcome Networking Breakfast

Continental Breakfast Available

Welcome and Speaker Introductions

AI-Powered Case Strategies

  • Artificial intelligence and predictive analytics
  • Legal tech for document review

Mentorship in Mass Torts

Trends in Mass Torts

Trends in mass tort litigation

A view from the bench by a former mass tort judge

Morning Break

California Wildfires

  • California lawyers’ strategies for the ongoing California wildfires

2025 Legislative and Regulatory Landscape

  • Legislation/proposed legislation
  • Regulatory changes with the new administration
  • Preemption, implications for ongoing litigation

Survivor-Centric Litigation

  • Enhancing approaches for cases involving:
  • Clergy abuse
  • “Troubled” teens and school cases
  • Trafficking
  • Uber

12:20 - 1:30 PM
Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:10
Afternoon Session

MDL Common Benefit Fees

  • Observations
  • Strategies
  • Lessons learned

Role of Epidemiology and Science in Mass Torts

  • How to approach causations (especially with cancers)
  • Defending Daubert with an epidemiological lens

Emerging Topics in Mass Torts

  • New mass torts
  • Depo Provera
  • Fertility Negligence
  • Hair Relaxer
  • Polychlorinated biphenyls
  • Ultra Processed Foods
  • Oxbryta

Adjourn