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Class Actions/Aggregations in Magnet Courts; The Empirical Evidence
17
Monday
June
2002
| 8:15 to 8:30 A.M. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 to 8:45 A.M. | Welcoming Remarks JUDYTH PENDELL, Director, Center for Legal Policy at The Manhattan Institute JAMES WOOTTON, President, Institute for Legal Reform at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| 8:45 to 9:00 A.M. | State Class Actions: A State by State Report Card JAMES WOOTTON, President, Institute for Legal Reform at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| 9:00 to 9:30 A.M. | Justified Fear of County Courts? Class Actions and Mass Actions in Illinois and Mississippi (Preliminary Findings) JOHN H. BEISNER, O’Melveny & Myers LLP |
| 9:30 to 10:00 A.M. | Anatomy of a Madison County (IL) Class Action: A Study of Pathology LESTER BRICKMAN, Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law |
| 10:00 to 10:30 A.M. | Economic Impact of Class Actions GEORGE PRIEST, John M. Olin Professor of Law & Economics, Yale Law School |
| 10:30 to 11:00 A.M. | At What Point Does Aggregating Plaintiffs Outweigh Due Process? BERT REIN, Wiley Rein & Fielding |
| 11:00 to 11:15 A.M. | Break |
| 11:15 to 12:15 P.M. | Panel Response and Q & A (confirmed panelists to date) JEFFREY GREENBAUM, Sills Cummis Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross, American Bar Association CHARLES E.M. KOLB, President, Committee for Economic Development HON. STEPHEN MARKMAN, Justice, Michigan Supreme Court EDWARD PICKLE, Associate General Counsel of Government Affairs, Shell Oil Company |
| 12:30 to 2:00 P.M. | Lunch & Speaker (TBA) |
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