Speaking Engagements January 21, 2014, Tulane Law School Federalist Society (“The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls”) November 21, 2013, New Jersey Lawsuit Reform Alliance, Newark, NJ, “The Future of Class Actions” November 20, 2013, High Stakes Litigation Business Management Conference, New York, NY (class action settlement panel) October 23, 2013, The 17th Annual National Institute on Class Actions (ABA), Boston, MA (cy pres and class action attorneys’ fees) October 22, 2013, Harvard Law School Federalist Society (class action settlements) October 15, 2013, University of Chicago Law School Federalist Society (class action settlements) May 1, 2013, Federalist Society, Los Angeles, CA (class action settlements) April 17, 2012, Irell & Manella, Los Angeles, CA (class action settlements) March 20, 2012, ATRA, Washington, DC (class action settlements) January 19, 2012, DRI Corporate Counsel Roundtable, New York, NY (Supreme Court and class actions) November 30, 2011, Villanova Law School Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.” November 29, 2011, Temple University School of Law Federalist Society, “Grand Theft Auto: Class Action” November 28, 2011, Federalist Society Widener Delaware, “Grand Theft Auto: Class Action” November 10, 2011, Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention, Washington, DC, “Attorneys’ Fees in Class Actions” November 3, 2011, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, “The Great Debate: Does America Need More Trial Lawyers?” November 3, 2011, University of Chicago Law School Federalist Society, “Grand Theft Auto: Class Action” October 14, 2011, The 15th Annual National Institute on Class Actions (ABA), New York, NY October 4, 2011, University of Idaho Law School Federalist Society (debate on role of regulation) October 4, 2011, Gonzaga University Law School Federalist Society, “Grand Theft Auto: Class Action” April 1, 2011, 2011 University of Cincinnati Law School Corporate Law Symposium February 22, 2011, Vanderbilt University, tort reform panel January 25, 2011, University of Chicago Law School Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.” January 24, 2011, Northwestern University Law School Federalist Society, “Obesity Litigation” December 6, 2010, Fifth Annual Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues, Fairfax, VA, “Protecting the Public Health: Litigation and Obesity” November 10, 2010, University of Toledo Law School Federalist Society, “Obesity Litigation” November 9, 2010, Ohio State University Law School, Obesity litigation and public policy debate October 7, 2010, St. Mary's Law School Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.” October 6, 2010, Texas Wesleyan Law School Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.” September 16, 2010, Columbia University Law School Federalist Society, “Grand Theft Auto: Class Action” September 15, 2010, New York University Law School Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.” September 9, 2010, Louisiana State University Law School Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.” April 15, 2010, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico Federalist Society (medical malpractice debate) April 12, 2010, University of Chicago Law School Federalist Society, “Did the Right Make America a Lawsuit Nation? A Templeton Debate on Tort Reform.” March 22, 2010, Duke University Law School Federalist Society, “Grand Theft Auto: Class Action” January 21, 2010, New York University Law School American Constitution Society, “Class Action Restrictions and Other Limitations” January 8, 2010, 12th Annual Faculty Conference, Federalisty Society Faculty Division, “Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations” November 10, 2009, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Law School (tort reform debate) October 15, 2009, Florida International University College of Law Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.” 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, University of California-Davis Federalist Society, “The Law of McDonald’s: Hot Coffee, Obesity, and Prank Phone Calls.” September 9, 2009, Santa Clara University School of Law Federalist Society, Patent Reform DebateSeptember 8, 2009, Berkeley Law Federalist Society, “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?” December 2, 2008, Manhattan Institute, “Greater Justice, Lower Cost: How a Loser Pays Rule Would Improve the American Legal System” 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 July 13, 2011, In Session, TruTV (Caylee's Law) September 23, 2010, Stossel, Fox Business News, “When Lawyers Win, You Lose” June 11, 2010, Power Lunch, CNBC, “BP Liability Showdown” 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 3, 2013, America's Radio News Network (nationally syndicated) (New Jersey texting case) June 25, 2013, News Now, WBAL (Baltimore, MD) (Aaron Hernandez case) March 25, 2013, The Takeaway, WNYC (New York, NY) (Supreme Court line-sitters) October 31, 2012, The Dom Giordano Program, WPHT (Philadelphia, PA) (2012 election) July 23, 2012, Airtalk, KPCC (Los Angeles, CA) (2012 election) February 14, 2012, Happenings Q&A, WLIP (Wisconsin) (legal and political commentary) February 6, 2012, Patt Morrison Show, KPCC (Los Angeles, CA) (foreclosure litigation) February 3, 2012, Talkback with Chuck Wilder (Cable Radio Network) (SOPA) January 31, 2012, The Lars Larson Show (nationally syndicated) (SOPA) January 30, 2012, Patt Morrison Show, KPCC (Los Angeles, CA) (Freddie Mac) October 5, 2011, Newstalk 1240 (Altoona, PA) (Gibson Guitars case) October 1, 2011, Randy Tobler Show, FM NewsTalk 97.1 (St. Louis) (PPACA litigation) September 27, 2011, Upfront with Vicki McKenna, WISN (Milwaukee, WI) and WIBA (Madison, WI) (PPACA litigation) September 26, 2011, KPCC (Los Angeles, CA) (foreclosure litigation) September 19, 2011, America's Radio News Network (national) (overcriminalization) September 19, 2011, WTVN (Columbus, OH) (overcriminalization) September 17, 2011, Drew Mariani Show (Relevant Radio) (overcriminalization, McDonald's coffee) September 6, 2011, Talkback with Chuck Wilder (Cable Radio Network) (Gibson Guitars case) September 1, 2011, WHIS (Bluefield, WV) and WTZE (Tazewell County, VA) (Gibson Guitars case) August 31, 2011, Morning Magazine, KRMS (Osage Beach, MO) (Gibson Guitars case) August 31, 2011, Bill Meyer, KMED (Oregon) (Gibson Guitars case) August 31, 2011, G. Gordon Liddy Show (national) (Gibson Guitars case) August 30, 2011, Mark Skoda Show, WMPS (Memphis) (Gibson Guitars case) August 30, 2011, Phil Valentine Show (national) (Gibson Guitars case) August 24, 2011, Mike McConnell, WGN (Chicago) (overcriminalization) August 1, 2011, Bill Meyer, KMED (Oregon) (overcriminalization) July 31, 2011, Straight Talk with Beatrice Thompson, WBAV (North Carolina) (Caylee's Law) July 31, 2011, Power in the Community, WPEG (North Carolina) (Caylee's Law) July 29, 2011, Mike McConnell, WGN (Chicago) (overcriminalization) July 29, 2011, Friday Morning Express, WHIS (Bluefield, WV) and WTZE (Tazewell County, VA) (overcriminalization) July 28, 2011, Upfront with Vicki McKenna, WISN (Milwaukee, WI) and WIBA (Madison, WI) (overcriminalization) July 27, 2011, Zeb Bell, KBAR (Idaho) (overcriminalization) July 26, 2011, Rick and Donna, WPTF (Raleigh, NC) (Caylee's Law) July 25, 2011, LaDona Harvey, KOGO (San Diego, CA) (Weeks v. Kellogg and other class actions) July 15, 2011, Jack Riccardi Show, KTSA (San Antonio, TX) (Caylee's Law) July 14, 2011, The Georgene Rice Show, KPDQ (Portland, OR) (Caylee's Law) July 29, 2010, various local stations (United States v. Arizona) KOA, "Colorado's Morning News" July 23, 2010, various local stations (United States v. Arizona) WREC, "Memphis Morning News" March 16, 2010, KOGO (San Diego, CA) (sudden acceleration) March 12, 2010, KTTH (Seattle, WA) (sudden acceleration) March 2, 2010, KOGO (San Diego, CA) (class actions) 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) |
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