Speaking Engagements

October 15, 2009, Florida International University College of Law, TBD

October 14, 2009, University of Miami Law School Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.”

October 13, 2009, Barry University School of Law Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.”

October 12, 2009, Stetson University Law School Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.”

September 19, 2009, ALEC Convention, St. Petersburg, FL, Consumer protection class actions

September 11, 2009, UC-Davis, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.”

September 10, 2009, Golden Gate University School of Law, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.”

September 9, 2009, Santa Clara University School of Law, Patent Reform Debate

September 8, 2009, Berkeley Law, “The Rule of Law and Wealth Creation: The Importance of Tort Reform”

August 5, 2009, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, “Hurting or Helping Consumers? Destroying Federal Preemption One Industry At A Time”

July 8, 2009, American Constitution Society/Center for American Progress, Washington, DC, “Narrowing the Justice Gap”

June 22, 2009, Federalist Society, Washington, DC, “Justice Delayed, Justice Denied”

January 27, 2009, George Washington University Law School Federalist Society, “The Rule of Law and Wealth Creation”

December 4, 2008, Institutional Investor Educational Foundation Global Shareholder Activism Conference, “Class Action Lawyers, Is the System Out of Control?”

October 23, 2008, Stetson University Law School Federalist Society, “The Supreme Court and Punitive Damages”

October 21, 2008, Florida State University College of Law Federalist Society, “Grand Theft Auto: Class Action”

October 16, 2008, Chicago-Kent College of Law Federalist Society, “Obesity Litigation”

October 16, 2008, University of Chicago Law School Federalist Society, “Grand Theft Auto: Class Action”

October 15, 2008, John Marshall Law School Federalist Society, “Obesity Litigation”

October 15, 2008, DePaul University College of Law Federalist Society, “Obesity Litigation”

July 29, 2008, Mayer Brown (Washington, DC) “Grand Theft Auto: Class Action”

June 14, 2008, American Constitution Society, “Guaranteeing Justice in the Civil Justice System”

May 28, 2008, AEI, “The Milberg Weiss Prosecution: No Harm, No Foul?”

May 21, 2008, AEI, “Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs: Medicine, Law and Policy”

April 22, 2008, New York City Bar Association, “Vioxx Settlement”

March 13, 2008, University of Alberta Faculty of Law, “Obesity Litigation”

March 13, 2008, University of Alberta Faculty of Law, “Vioxx Litigation”

February 21, 2008, Federalist Society, “Supreme Court Press Briefing”

February 21, 2008, AEI, “Federal Preemption and the Supreme Court”

January 7, 2008, AEI, “The Vioxx Settlement”

October 17, 2007, American Bar Association CLE, “Business and the Supreme Court”

October 5, 2007, AEI, “Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta”

September 28, 2007, AEI, “Annual Supreme Court Briefing”

September 25, 2007, AEI, “Biotechnology and the Patent System: The Economic Implications of the Proposed Patent Reform Act of 2007”

September 20, 2007, Federalist Society, Chicago, IL, “Class Action Settlements”

June 29, 2007, AEI, “Medical Malpractice Insurance Studies”

June 21, 2007, Federalist Society, Houston, TX, “Class Action Settlements”

June 20, 2007, Federalist Society, Austin, TX, “Class Action Settlements”

June 4, 2007, AEI, “Corporate Image Advertising and the Future of Free Enterprise”  

April 23, 2007, AEI, “Expert Witnesses, Adversarial Bias, and the (Partial) Failure of the Daubert Revolution”

February 14, 2007, Federalist Society, Washington, DC, “Class Action Fairness Act: Two Years Later”

January 25, 2007, Washington Legal Foundation, “Legal Reform 2007: The Ongoing Fight for Justice”

December 8, 2006, AEI, “Is There a Constitutional Right to Medical Self-Defense?”

December 4, 2006, Georgetown Law School, “Class Actions”

November 28, 2006, AEI, “Watters v. Wachovia Bank”

October 24, 2006, American Constitution Society, “Philip Morris USA v. Williams”

June 17, 2006, American Constitution Society, “Habeas Developments”

May 23, 2006, AEI, “Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity”

May 12, 2006, AEI, “Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial”

April 24, 2006, AEI, “The U.S. Senate Takes on Medical Malpractice Reform”

April 14, 2006, AEI, “The Cutter Incident”

April 5, 2006, AEI, “Medical Malpractice Liability and Physician Supply”

March 28, 2006, AEI, “Abortion Legalization and Crime Rates”

March 13, 2006, AEI, “Sarbanes-Oxley: What Have We Learned?”

February 11, 2006, CPAC, “Asbestos Reform”

January 19, 2006, AEI, “Will the FAIR Act Fix the Asbestos Mess?”

December 19, 2005, AEI, “The Medical Malpractice Myth?” 

October 12, 2005, AEI, “Can Tort Reform Save Lives?”

October 3, 2005, AEI, “Katrina’s Liability Implications”

September 27, 2005, AEI, “HR 2990: Improving the Credit Rating Industry”

September 7, 2005, AEI, “The $253 Million Vioxx Verdict: What Does It Mean?” 

April 18, 2005, Knight Center, “Law and the Courts: Tort Reform”

March 3, 2005, AEI, “Who Is to Blame for Obesity?”

 

Television Appearances

March 16, 2009, C-SPAN, “Legal System Reform”

June 7, 2008, Good Morning America, ABC, “How Bipartisan Is Obama?”

January 8, 2008, C-SPAN, “The Vioxx Settlement”

October 8, 2007, Politics and Money, Bloomberg TV (regarding Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta)

August 30, 2007, RNN-TV News (regarding Virginia Tech shootings)

November 28, 2006, C-SPAN, “Federal Regulatory Actions”

April 14, 2006, C-SPAN, “The Cutter Incident”

February 28, 2006, The Neil Cavuto Show, Fox News (regarding tobacco litigation)

January 23, 2006, C-SPAN, “The Medical Malpractice Myth”

October 3, 2005, C-SPAN, “Katrina’s Liability Implications”

July 20, 2005, The World, BBC4 (regarding John Roberts Supreme Court nomination)

July 19, 2005, ABC News Now (regarding Supreme Court nominations process)

 

Radio Appearances

September 30, 2009, KOGO (San Diego, CA) (class actions)

June 3, 2009, WOR (New York, NY) (costs of tort system)

June 1, 2009, WEBY (Florida) (class actions)

November 21, 2008, WMBI (Chicago, IL) (eHarmony discrimination settlement)

October 6, 2008, Marketplace (national) (opening of Supreme Court term)

November 5, 2007, KPFA Talk Radio (San Francisco, CA Pacifica) (Mukasey nomination)

October 9, 2007, Heading Right Radio (national) (Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta, Sarbanes-Oxley)

October 1, 2007, Hugh Hewitt Show (national) (Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta, tort reform)

October 9, 2006, The Buzz, WBAL (Baltimore, MD) (punitive damages)

August 19, 2006, BBC World Service (international) (midterm elections)

January 5, 2006, NPR (national) (Judge Alito)

November 4, 2005, Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe (national) (Judge Alito nomination)

October 31, 2005, Dennis Prager Show (national) (Judge Alito nomination)

July 20, 2005, AirTalk, KPCC (Los Angeles, CA) (Supreme Court nomination)

March 16, 2004, WIBA Talk Radio (Madison, WI) (tort reform)