MTMP Spring 2026 Seminar Agenda
* Agenda subject to change
ALL SESSION TIMES ARE IN LOCAL (LAS VEGAS) TIME
- April 15 Wednesday
- April 16 Thursday
- April 17 Friday
- All Dates
- Business of Law
- Nuts & Bolts of Mass Torts
- Trial Skills
- Paralegal College Skills
- Mass Tort Projects
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| 7:30 am |
Registration |
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| 7:30 am |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 7:30 am |
Buffet Breakfast |
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| 8:30 am |
Business of Law Track Begins |
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| 8:30 am |
AI Driven Solutions Part 1 |
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| 9:30 am |
Strategies for Building a National Referral Network |
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| 10:00 am |
Business of Law: Morning BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 10:15 am |
AI Driven Solutions Part 2Speaker TBD, Even Up; Speaker TBD, Tavrn.ai |
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| 11:00 am |
Cost Effective Financing Options to Grow Your Firm |
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| 11:15 am |
Digital Health Data: How to Properly and Ethically Obtain It |
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| 11:30 am |
Maximizing Mass Tort Investments: How To Choose The Right Marketing Vendor In Uncertain Times |
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| 11:45 am |
Show Me The Money |
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| 12:15 pm |
Buffet Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall |
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| 1:15 pm |
Fueling Growth: Intake and Lead Generation in Mass Tort CasesSpeaker TBD, Intake Desk |
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| 2:30 pm |
Real Voices, Real Issues: Peer Insights with Industry Leaders |
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| 3:00 pm |
Navigating Mass Tort Settlements: Strategies for Success |
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| 3:00 pm |
BREAKOUT SESSION: Welcome, Women & WealthCo-sponsored by Edward Jones Cosentino Wealth Management Team Building Financial Foundations for Retirement
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| 3:30 pm |
Business of Law: Afternoon BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 3:45 pm |
Settlement Administration Today: Challenges, Operational Realities, and Emerging Technology |
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| 4:00 pm |
From Intake to File-Ready: The New Standard for Mass Tort Cases
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| 4:00 pm |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 4:15 pm |
Business of Law Track Adjourns |
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| 4:15 pm |
Business of Law Happy Hour Headstart |
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| 5:00 pm |
Music, Mix and Mingle Reception Featuring Live Music by The DissentersCo-sponsored by Reciprocity Industries |
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| 6:00 pm |
Opening Night Gala at XS Nightclub featuring a Meet & Greet with Eli ManningCo-sponsored by EvenUp |
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| 8:15 pm |
The Opening Gala After Party: A Celebration of Unity and Diversity at MTMPKeep the night going at the XS After Party with live music, casino-style gaming including roulette and blackjack, handcrafted cocktails, and delicious hors d’oeuvres. |
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) | Location |
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| 7:30 am |
Registration |
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| 7:30 am |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 7:30 am |
Buffet Breakfast |
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| 8:30 am |
Nuts & Bolts Track BeginsCo-sponsored by Grant & Eisenhofer |
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| 8:30 am |
Welcome Remarks |
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| 8:45 am |
Single Filing, State Court Filing, or Federal Filing: The Path Forward for Your Cases |
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| 9:15 am |
Preparing Your Experts to Defend Against a Daubert Motion |
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| 10:00 am |
Nuts and Bolts: Morning BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 10:15 am |
Explaining Settlement Matrix – Global Settlement, Maximizing Points for Your Client, Settlement Administration |
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| 10:45 am |
Discovery Traps: Confidentiality, 30b6 Depositions, Lack of Candor from Defense |
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| 11:30 am |
It's 2026 - Time to Try New Marketing Strategies in Mass Torts |
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| 12:15 pm |
The Future of Preemption: The Ins & Outs |
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| 12:45 pm |
Nuts & Bolts Track Adjourns |
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| 12:45 pm |
Buffet Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:00 pm |
BREAKOUT SESSION: Welcome, Women & WealthCo-sponsored by Edward Jones Cosentino Wealth Management Team Building Financial Foundations for Retirement
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| 4:00 pm |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 5:00 pm |
Music, Mix and Mingle Reception Featuring Live Music by The DissentersCo-sponsored by Reciprocity Industries |
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| 6:00 pm |
Opening Night Gala at XS Nightclub featuring a Meet & Greet with Eli ManningCo-sponsored by EvenUp |
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| 8:15 pm |
The Opening Gala After Party: A Celebration of Unity and Diversity at MTMPKeep the night going at the XS After Party with live music, casino-style gaming including roulette and blackjack, handcrafted cocktails, and delicious hors d’oeuvres. |
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) | Location |
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| 7:30 am |
Registration |
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| 7:30 am |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 7:30 am |
Buffet Breakfast |
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| 8:30 am |
Trial Skills Track BeginsCo-sponsored by Filevine |
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| 8:30 am |
Welcome Remarks |
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| 8:45 am |
Wired to Win: The Neuroscience of Storytelling at Trial |
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| 9:30 am |
Re-Evaluate Your Cross-Examination Strategy |
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| 10:30 am |
Trial Skills: Morning BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 11:00 am |
The Future of Deposition Records: From Transcript to Searchable IntelligenceMass tort teams are drowning in deposition transcripts, exhibits, and PDFs—yet critical testimony often remains locked in static documents that are difficult to search, compare, and reuse across a docket. Disorganized exhibits and incomplete testimony tracking can also increase defensibility challenges, discovery disputes, and even sanctions exposure in high-stakes cases. This session explores how leading firms are modernizing deposition record management by moving from document storage to structured, searchable deposition knowledge. Attendees will learn emerging best practices for building depo libraries, organizing testimony by issue and theme, and using new approaches—including AI—to scale speed, consistency, and risk reduction across high-volume litigation. |
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| 11:15 am |
Lessons from the Recent Talc $20M Verdict in Florida |
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| 12:00 pm |
Buffet Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall |
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| 1:15 pm |
Preparing Your Experts for Trial |
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| 2:00 pm |
Learning and Credibility |
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| 3:00 pm |
Trial Skills: Afternoon BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 3:00 pm |
BREAKOUT SESSION: Welcome, Women & WealthCo-sponsored by Edward Jones Cosentino Wealth Management Team Building Financial Foundations for Retirement
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| 3:15 pm |
Session TBDFraming Cases for Monumental Verdicts |
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| 4:00 pm |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 4:15 pm |
Visuals in Voir Dire, Argument & Evidence; Building Your Closing Throughout the Case with Visuals |
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| 4:45 pm |
Trial Skills Track Adjourns |
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| 5:00 pm |
Music, Mix and Mingle Reception Featuring Live Music by The DissentersCo-sponsored by Reciprocity Industries |
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| 6:00 pm |
Opening Night Gala at XS Nightclub featuring a Meet & Greet with Eli ManningCo-sponsored by EvenUp |
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| 8:15 pm |
The Opening Gala After Party: A Celebration of Unity and Diversity at MTMPKeep the night going at the XS After Party with live music, casino-style gaming including roulette and blackjack, handcrafted cocktails, and delicious hors d’oeuvres. |
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) | Location |
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| 7:30 am |
Registration |
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| 7:30 am |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 7:30 am |
Buffet Breakfast |
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| 8:45 am |
Paralegal Skills Track BeginsCo-sponsored by Supio |
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| 9:00 am |
MASS TORTS 101 – A Primer on Active Mass Tort CasesAttorney Sheryl Berkowitz and Paralegal Carol Moore will be kicking off the MTMP Paralegal College at the Spring MTMP with a presentation on the Active Mass Tort Cases that are being litigated across the United States. The presentation will include discussions regarding the elements of liability, causation, injury, and other key elements of each mass tort. The presentation will include the court venue, the status of the cases and identify the Plaintiff’s MDL Leadership Team. |
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| 9:45 am |
How Does Client Specific eDiscovery Work? – Collection to Production |
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| 10:30 am |
Paralegal College Skills: Morning BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 10:45 am |
Session TBD |
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| 11:00 am |
How to Find a Client: Practical Strategies for Tracking Down Hard-to-Reach ClientsSpecifically focusing on clients who go AWOL, can’t be reached, or have inconsistent contact information, and the practical techniques paralegals use to track them down across multiple platforms and data sources. It’s something every case type struggles with, and it’s very skill-based, which tends to resonate well with attendees. |
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| 11:45 am |
Buffet Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall |
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| 1:00 pm |
Exhibit Management for Complex Litigation & Authenticating Documents for TrialTrial and Deposition Exhibit Management in complex cases / Authenticating Documents for Admission at Trial. |
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| 1:45 pm |
Case Updates: Depo Provera, Talc Litigation, and Chemical Hair Relaxer |
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| 2:30 pm |
Mass Tort Settlements: The Good, Bad, and Everything in Between
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| 3:00 pm |
BREAKOUT SESSION: Welcome, Women & WealthCo-sponsored by Edward Jones Cosentino Wealth Management Team Building Financial Foundations for Retirement
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| 3:15 pm |
Paralegal College Skills: Afternoon BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 3:30 pm |
How Paralegals Build the Relationships that Win Cases |
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| 4:00 pm |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 4:15 pm |
Mass Torts Paralegal Certification Program Overview |
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| 4:45 pm |
Paralegal Skills Track Adjourns |
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| 5:00 pm |
Music, Mix and Mingle Reception Featuring Live Music by The DissentersCo-sponsored by Reciprocity Industries |
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| 6:00 pm |
Opening Night Gala at XS Nightclub featuring a Meet & Greet with Eli ManningCo-sponsored by EvenUp |
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| 8:15 pm |
The Opening Gala After Party: A Celebration of Unity and Diversity at MTMPKeep the night going at the XS After Party with live music, casino-style gaming including roulette and blackjack, handcrafted cocktails, and delicious hors d’oeuvres. |
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 am |
Registration |
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| 7:30 am |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 7:30 am |
Buffet Breakfast |
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| 9:00 am |
Paralegal Skills Track BeginsCo-sponsored by Supio |
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| 9:00 am |
MTMP Opening Session |
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| 10:00 am |
Morning Break: Paralegal College SkillsCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 10:30 am |
Mastering Plaintiff Fact Sheets |
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| 11:15 am |
Keeping Clients Informed: Criteria Requirements & Communication Best PracticesKeeping up with criteria / client communication approach |
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| 12:00 pm |
Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon Featuring Oz PearlmanCo-sponsored by Broughton Partners and Business Funding Group |
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| 2:00 pm |
Preventing Burnout: Stress Management for Paralegals |
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| 3:00 pm |
Paralegal College Skills: Afternoon BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 3:30 pm |
Conducting Prelitigation Investigation and Science Vetting of Potential Cases |
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| 4:00 pm |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 4:15 pm |
Creating Powerful Trial Presentations |
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| 5:00 pm |
Not Keeping the Case? Working with Referral Firms and Building Relationships |
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| 5:30 pm |
Paralegal Skills Track Adjourns |
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| 5:30 pm |
Networking Cocktail Reception in the Exhibit HallCo-sponsored by Lexitas Legal |
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| 6:45 pm |
Evening Entertainment with Leanne MorganCo-sponsored by Eve |
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) | Location |
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| 7:30 am |
Registration |
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| 7:30 am |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 7:30 am |
Buffet Breakfast |
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| 8:30 am |
Mass Tort Projects Track Begins |
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| 8:30 am |
Depo Provera Litigation UpdateDepo-Provera Moving At Lightning Speed: Between the FDA’s approval of Pfizer’s second request for a warning label, a significant increase in filings, trial settings, and coordinations between the MDL in the Northern District of Florida and multiple litigations across the country, Depo-Provera is moving rapidly. Come and hear the details about the Depo-Provera events that could impact your practice. |
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| 9:00 am |
MTMP Opening Session |
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| 10:00 am |
Mass Tort Projects: Morning BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 10:30 am |
Mass Tort Perspectives from the Bench
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| 11:30 am |
Talc Litigation Update |
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| 12:15 pm |
Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon Featuring Oz PearlmanCo-sponsored by Broughton Partners and Business Funding Group |
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| 2:15 pm |
GLP 1-RA/Ozempic: NEW NAION INJURY MDL - GI MDL & State Court Track Updates
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| 2:45 pm |
Holding Roblox Accountable for Enabling Child Sexual PredationThis session will examine emerging litigation focused on holding online platforms accountable for their role in enabling child sexual predation. |
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| 3:15 pm |
Sports Betting Apps: Addiction and Crisis for Young Adults |
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| 3:45 pm |
Mass Tort Projects: Afternoon BreakCo-sponsored by National Record Retrieval |
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| 4:00 pm |
PFAS Personal Injury Litigation |
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| 4:00 pm |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 4:30 pm |
New Emerging Drinking Water Contaminant 1,4-Dioxane |
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| 4:45 pm |
Camp Lejeune Update |
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| 5:15 pm |
Dupixent – A Burgeoning Pharmaceutical Litigation |
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| 5:30 pm |
Networking Cocktail Reception in the Exhibit HallCo-sponsored by Lexitas Legal |
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| 5:45 pm |
Mass Tort Projects Track Adjourns |
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| 6:45 pm |
Evening Entertainment with Leanne MorganCo-sponsored by Eve |
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) | Location |
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| 7:30 am |
Registration |
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| 7:30 am |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 7:30 am |
Buffet Breakfast |
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| 8:30 am |
Women in Legal Leadership BreakfastCo-sponsored by A Case for Women |
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| 9:45 am |
Paralegal Skills Track BeginsCo-sponsored by Supio |
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| 9:45 am |
Trial-Ready Paralegals: Task Checklists & Avoiding Pitfalls |
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| 10:30 am |
Morning Break: Bloody Mary & Mimosa BarCo-sponsored by Tavrn.ai |
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| 10:45 am |
Working Effectively with Court Reporters and Trial Technicians |
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| 11:15 am |
Client Communication: Addressing Specific Injuries & Supporting Non-English-Speaking Clients |
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| 12:00 pm |
Working Lunch — Boxed Lunches ProvidedCo-sponsored by Business Funding Group |
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| 12:00 pm |
Public Clients, Private Counsel: Strategy and Structure for Government Representation in Mass Torts |
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| 12:30 pm |
10 Tips to Help Paralegals Achieve Long-Term Success: A Roundtable DiscussionSpeakers: Paralegal College Faculty |
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| 2:15 pm |
Conference Adjourns |
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) | Location |
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| 7:30 am |
Registration |
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| 7:30 am |
Friends of Bill W. Meeting |
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| 7:30 am |
Buffet Breakfast |
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| 8:30 am |
Women in Legal Leadership BreakfastCo-sponsored by A Case for Women |
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| 8:30 am |
Mass Tort Projects Track Begins |
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| 8:30 am |
Suboxone Project Update |
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| 9:00 am |
Ethics CLE -- Beyond Just Robocalls: AI, Revocation Rules, and Protecting Your Firm From Next Wave of Caller LawsuitsSponsored by the National Legal Vendors Assn. (NLVA) |
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| 10:00 am |
Morning Break: Bloody Mary & Mimosa BarCo-sponsored by Tavrn.ai |
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| 10:15 am |
BREAKOUT SESSION: Uber/LyftThis panel will discuss the latest developments in the Uber/Lyft sexual assault litigation, including details on the incredible $8.5 million verdict they just received in Arizona. They will explore emerging and ongoing litigation involving rideshare companies, including accountability, evolving legal theories, and the challenges of litigating against powerful platform-based corporations. |
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| 10:15 am |
Social Media Addiction Litigation Update |
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| 10:45 am |
Video Game Addiction Case Developments |
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| 11:15 am |
Sex Assault Cases Nationwide: An Update from Coast to Coast |
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| 11:45 am |
Deaths Linked to AI Chatbots |
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| 12:00 pm |
Working Lunch — Boxed Lunches ProvidedCo-sponsored by Business Funding Group |
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| 12:15 pm |
Ultra Processed Foods Litigation Status |
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| 12:45 pm |
Chemical Hair Relaxer Case UpdatePanelists will give a comprehensive recap of science day and discuss important discovery updates |
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| 1:15 pm |
Mass Tort Rundown – Latest Developments on Key Cases
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| 2:15 pm |
Conference Adjourns |