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Drug and Medical Device Litigation Speakers

Anand Agneshwar
Partner
Arnold & Porter LLP (New York, NY)

Bridget M. Ahmann
Partner
Faegre & Benson LLP (Minneapolis, MN)

J. Christopher Allen, Jr.
Attorney
Nixon Peabody LLP (Boston, MA)

Keri L. Arnold
Partner
Arnold & Porter LLP (New York, NY)

Mary-Alice Barrett
Senior Counsel
Roche (Nutley, NJ)

Andrew T. Bayman
Partner
King & Spalding (Atlanta, GA)

Paul E. Benson
Partner
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP (Milwaukee, WI)

The Honorable Mark I. Bernstein
Judge
Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia, PA)

Barbara R. Binis
Partner
Reed Smith LLP (Philadelphia, PA)

Albert G. Bixler
Member
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC (Philadelphia, PA)

Vijay V. Bondada
Senior Corporate Counsel, Litigation
Pfizer Inc (New York, NY)

Christian Bouckaert
Partner
Bouckaert Ormen Passemard Sportes (Paris, France)

Jerry G. Bradford
Associate General Counsel
Alcon Laboratories, Inc. (Forth Worth, TX)

Lanny A. Breuer
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)

Ingrid A. Briant
Partner
Arnold & Porter LLP (Denver, CO)

Michael K. Brown
Partner
Reed Smith LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

Simon J. Castley
Partner
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (London, England)

Jonathan M. Cohen
Partner
Gilbert Randolph LLP (Washington, DC)

Lori G. Cohen
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Atlanta, GA)

Julie Coletti
Director and Senior Counsel
Bayer Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA)

William E. Craco
Senior Counsel
Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, NJ)

Howard M. Cyr, III
Senior Corporate Counsel-Litigation
Wyeth (Collegeville, PA)

John Delli Venneri
Partner
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP (Voorhees, NJ)

Howard L. Dorfman
Counsel
Ropes & Gray LLP (New York, NY)

Jennifer E. Dubas
Senior Attorney - Litigation
Wyeth (Collegeville, PA)

Eric A. Dubelier
Partner
Reed Smith LLP (Washington, DC)

Brian Eckman
Litigation Counsel
Bausch & Lomb Incorporated (Rochester, NY)

Howard M. Erichson
Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law (New York, NY)

The Honorable Donovan W. Frank
United States District Judge
United States District Court for the District of Minnesota (St. Paul, MN)

The Honorable Mark E. Fuller
Chief Judge
United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (Montgomery, AL)

Edward Hanover
Corporate Counsel
Novo Nordisk Inc. (Princeton, NJ)

Reiko Hasuike, Ph.D.
Partner
R&D Strategic Solutions (Manhattan Beach, CA)

John E. Heintz
Partner
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP (Washington, DC)

Mark Herrmann
Partner
Jones Day (Chicago, IL)

Wendy Hufford
Executive Vice President & Chief Litigation Counsel
Cardinal Health, Inc. (Dublin, OH)

Michael X. Imbroscio
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)

The Honorable Janis Graham Jack
United States District Judge
United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Corpus Christi, TX)

Ronn B. Kreps
Partner
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. (Minneapolis, MN)

The Honorable Marcia S. Krieger
United States District Judge
United States District Court for the District of Colorado

James W.A. Ladner
Associate General Counsel
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (St. Paul, MN)

John P. Lavelle, Jr.
Partner
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP (Philadelphia, PA)

Joseph J. Leghorn
Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP (Boston, MA)

George A. Lehner
Partner
Pepper Hamilton LLP (Washington, DC)

The Honorable Harry D. Leinenweber
Senior United States District Judge
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago, IL)

Deborah E. Lewis
Special Counsel
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP (Dallas, TX)

Diane E. Lifton
Partner
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (New York, NY)

David G. Martin
Vice President and Senior Counsel, Litigation
Medtronic, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)

Gerald Masoudi
FDA Chief Counsel
Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, MD)

Theodore V.H. Mayer
Partner
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (New York, NY)

Madeleine M. McDonough
Partner
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (Kansas City, MO)

S. Gordon McKee
Partner
Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP (Toronto, ON)

Joseph J. Ortego
Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP (New York, NY)

Jeffrey F. Peck
Partner
Ulmer & Berne LLP (Cincinnati, OH)

Timothy Pratt
Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
Boston Scientific Corporation (Natick, MA)

Vivian M. Quinn
Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP (Buffalo, NY)

Andrea Roberts
Partner
Baker & Daniels LLP (Indianapolis, IN)

Ellen Rosenberg
Vice President and Senior Counsel
Shire Pharmaceuticals (Wayne, PA)

Peter Rother
Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
AGA Medical Corporation (Plymouth, MN)

William J. Ruane
Vice President and Associate General Counsel - Litigation
Wyeth (Madison, NJ)

William Scarff, Jr.
Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Chief Litigation Counsel
Allergan, Inc. (Irvine, CA)

Paul Schmidt
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)

Madeline M. Sherry
Director
GIBBONS P.C.

Devin Smith
Associate General Counsel
EMD Serono, Inc. (Rockland, MA)

Steven Sokolow
Vice President & Associate General Counsel
Novartis Corporation (New York, NY)

Thomas H. Suddath, Jr.
Partner
Reed Smith LLP (Philadelphia, PA)

Diane P. Sullivan
Partner
Dechert LLP (Princeton, NJ)

Bernard Taylor, Sr.
Partner
Alston & Bird LLP (Atlanta, GA)

Jane F. Thorpe
Partner
Alston & Bird LLP (Atlanta, GA)

The Honorable John R. Tunheim
United States District Judge
United States District Court for the District of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)

Elpidio "PD" Villarreal
Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Litigation & Conflict Management
Schering-Plough Corporation (Kenilworth, NJ)

Tracey Garland Vinson
Counsel
Bayer Corporation

Erica Visokey
Assistant Counsel
Stryker Corporation (Mahwah, NJ)

Jill Wadlund
President
Berkley Life Sciences, LLC (Ewing, NJ)

Sean P. Wajert
Partner
Dechert LLP (Philadelphia, PA)

The Honorable Charles R. Wolle
Senior United States District Judge
United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa (Des Moines, IA)

Stephen A. Wood
Partner
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP (Chicago, IL)