Poorad Razavi, a partner in Cohen Milstein’s Complex Tort Litigation practice, has been invited to speak on a panel at the ABA’s 2025 Environmental & Energy, Mass Torts, and Products Liability Litigation Committees’ Joint Regional CLE Program on January 23, 2025.
The panel will discuss the use of product data in product liability lawsuits. The discussion will include representatives from the plaintiff and defense sides to talk about how historical data (product development, testing, warranty claims, etc.) has been used to each side’s advantage and disadvantage in product liability litigation.
The program will be held on January 22-24, 2025 at the Viewline Resort Snowmass, Autograph Collection Snowmass Village, CO.
The PLUS D&O Symposium is a 2-day annual event geared for professionals who work in the professional liability industry focusing on Directors and Officers (D&O) insurance. The symposium will take place at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City.
Julie’s panel, AI and the D&O Risks, will be held on March 5 at 1:45 p.m.
Panelists will discuss directors and officers maneuver through a complex landscape of regulatory and legal risks as AI evolves. Implementing best practices around the use of AI and robust governance-focused risk mitigation can help manage exposures.
The panelists include:
- Claire Davey, Relm Insurance Ltd
- Julie Reiser, Cohen Milstein
- Renny Hwang, OpenAI
- Boris Feldman, Freshfields US LLP
- Nick Reider, Aon
Benjamin Jackson, a partner in Cohen Milstein’s Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice has been invited to speak at the Investor Protection Summit in the Age of Crypto, Artificial Intelligence & Beyond, on February 7, 2025 at Santa Clara University School of Law | Charney Hall in Santa Clara, CA.
The Investor Protection Summit, jointly hosted by Santa Clara University School of Law & Loyola University Chicago’s Institute for Investor Protection, brings together preeminent judges, regulators, scholars, legal professionals, ethicists, and tech industry leaders. Speakers will share their insights on future of financial regulation and investor protection in an era of rapid change.
Ben’s panel, AI and the Litigation Terrain: Liabilities, Social Media, Memes, Risks, and Price Movement is scheduled for 2:50 p.m. The panelists include:
- Hon. Sara L. Ellis, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- David G. Yosifon, Professor of Law, Santa Clara Law
- Benjamin Jackson, Partner, Securities Litigation and Investor Protection, Cohen Milstein
- Sue Guan, Albert J. Ruffo Assistant Professor of Law, Santa Clara Law
Rebecca Ojserkis, an associate in our Civil Rights & Employment practice, will speak on the panel, “Discovery Issues in Arbitration” on Saturday, November 16.
Panelists will review how parties obtain discovery in arbitration, including the scope of discovery, available forms, impact of different statutory and arbitration tribunal rules, including mandatory disclosures and differences between labor and employment arbitrations. The panel will also consider an arbitrator’s authority to issue third-party subpoenas or order depositions where the governing contract or agreement doesn’t provide for it and enforcement of subpoenas.
PANELISTS:
- Paul E. Garrison, JAMS, Oakland, CA
- Vanessa Kelly, Clark Hill, Princeton, NJ
- Wesley Kennedy, Allison, Slutsky & Kennedy, P.C., Chicago, IL
- Rebecca Ojserkis, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC
- Lauren Polk, Oracle, Denver, CO
The conference will be held on November 13–16, 2024 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
Harini Srinivasan, an associate in our Civil Rights & Employment practice, is a co-chair for the ABA’s 18th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference Track.
Harini will also speak on the panel, “The Care and Feeding of Experts: A Practical Perspective” on Thursday, November 14.
This panel will provide practical tips on how to select and work with experts (including considerations of privilege, document production, timing, feedback on drafts) to develop solid expert reports that will withstand Daubert challenges. The panel will also look at current trends on the use of experts in employment lawsuits, including not only statisticians, labor economists, HR consultants, I/O and clinical psychologists, and OSHA/OT experts.
PANELISTS:
- Eve Cervantez, Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, CA
- Kimberly A. Cruz, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New York, NY
- Kathleen K. Lundquist, Ph.D., APT Metrics, Norwalk, CT
- Kathryn G. Mantoan, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Portland, OR
- Harini Srinivasan, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, Washington, DC
The conference will be held on November 13–16, 2024 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
Christine Webber, co-chair of our Civil Rights & Employment practice is a vice chair of the ABA’s 18th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference Planning Committee.
Christine will also speak on the panel, “Intelligent” Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Employment Law, on Saturday, November 16.
The panel will examine the rapidly developing area of AI in employment law and mitigating against the potential exposure regarding discrimination and retaliation.
PANELISTS:
- Willie Burden, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Washington, DC
- Charlotte Lewis Jones, Five9, Washington, DC
- Rachel See, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Washington, DC
- Miles Shultz, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC
- Christine Webber, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, Washington, DC
The ABA’s 18th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference will be held on November 13–16, 2024 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
Molly Bowen, a partner in our Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice has been invited to speak at the University of Virginia Law Women event on Tuesday, October 22, 2024. The program will be hosted from 12-1 pm in the Purcell Reading Room.
The panelists include:
- Molly Bowen, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
- Melinda Coolidge, Hausfeld LLP
- Asia Cadet, Latham & Watkins LLP
- Lise Adams, Sidley Austin LLP
Harini Srinivasan will speak on the panel “Technological Surveillance in the Workplace: Balancing Privacy and Security,” part of the DC Bar’s Changing Currents in Employment Law CLE course. The panel will explore the rights of employers and employees in the era of remote work and technological surveillance.
Changing Currents in Employment Law is an annual CLE event that covers cutting-edge topics in employment law. This year’s event will be held in-person at the DC Bar at 6:00 p.m. on October 29. Visit the registration page to learn more.
Brian Corman, a partner in our Civil Rights & Employment practice, will participate as a speaker in the 2024 Consumer Rights Litigation Conference & Class Action Symposium, October 24 – 27, 2024, at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista, FL.
Brian’s program, Insurance Redlining and Other Abusive Practices, will be hosted on October at 4:00 p.m. Brian will co-present with Tara Ramchandani, Relman Colfax, PLLC.
The program will focus on consumers’ access to insurance. This includes a general discussion of the home insurance industry, including the steep increase in costs, redlining of certain communities, withdrawing from localities that suffered a disaster, and refusing to renew consumers. The discussion will also focus on how advocates can spot insurance-related issues in their clients’ cases.
Laura Posner, a partner in our Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice, will participate as a panelist in the Women in Securities Litigation Network Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Panel program on October 8, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. at Paul Hastings LLP’s New York City office.
The panel discussion will feature three prominent female securities plaintiffs’ lawyers, who will discuss important developments in securities litigation from the plaintiffs’ perspective.
Moderator
- Jennifer L. Conn, Paul Hastings LLP
Panelists
- Lauren A. Ormsbee, Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP
- Laura H. Posner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
- Katherine M. Sinderson, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP