FDCC 2005 Annual Meeting
La Costa Resort & Spa
Carlsbad, California
July 17 - 24, 2005

Continuing Legal Education Program

International Forum: Maquiladora Employment Litigation-U.S. Citizens Working in Mexico, Suing in Mexico and Vice Versa Carlos Rincon; Delgado, Acosta, Braden & Jones, P.C., El Paso, TX Roberto J. Calvo; Renteria y Gonzalez, S.C., Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahau, Mexico

Plenary Session: Practical Considerations in Managing Communications Between Parent and Subsidiary Corporations: Don't Go Near the Water Piercing the Corporate Veil: The Unique Relationship of a Parent Corporation and a Maquiladora Under Texas Law Carlos Rincon; Delgado, Acosta, Braden & Jones, P.C., El Paso, Texas Roberto J. Calvo; Renteria y Gonzalez, S.C., Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahau, Mexico Separate Corporate Personality- Piercing the Corporate Veil Oscar Shub; Allens Arthur Robinson, Syndey, Australia Managing Communications and Other Factors Involving Parents and Subsidaries to Minimize the Risk That Corporate Separateness Will Be Disregarded Joseph C. Weinstein; Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, Cleveland, OH

Plenary Session: Bull Session with Big Daddy: Communication Dynamics in Major Litigation Between the Company, Carrier and Counsel Protecting Confidentiality in Communication With Excess Carriers Howard M. Merten and Michael W. Sweeney; Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP, Providence, RI Rights and Obligations of the Insured, Primary Insurer and Excess Insurers in Large Loss Cases Linda S. Woolf; Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann LLP, Baltimore, MD

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Appellate and Extra-Contractual Liability Sections Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Bad Faith, Shaping First Party Extra-Contractual Liability Bad Faith as a Continuum: From Claim to Trial Thomas F. Segalla; Segalla Goldberg LLP, Buffalo, NY Protection of Attorney Provided Claims Handling Advice to Insurers and Exercise of Privilege Jerry P. Green; Pierce, Couch, Hendrickson, Baysinger & Green LLP, Oklahoma City, OK

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Civil Rights and Public Entity Liability Section Responding to Administrative Subpoenas Susan Henricks; Hull Henricks & MacRae, LLP, Austin, TX The Envolving Due Process Rights of Individuals Designated as "Enemy Combatants" Dirk de Roos; Faegre & Benson LLP, Denver, CO Due Process for Incapacitated Adults: Deciding Who Makes the Decisions Dirk de Roos; Faegre & Benson LLP, Denver, CO

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Construction an Insurance Coverage Sections Recent Challenges to Insurance Coverage for Construction Defects Appendicies Marc A. Young; Cokinos Bosien & Young, Houston, TX

Substantive Law Section Meetings: Employment Practices and Workplace Liability and Healthcare Practices Sections You Know the Story, But How Do You Tell It? Dealing with Communication Problems in Litigation Audrey Nelson, Ph.D; Boulder, CO

Substantive Law Section Meetings: Products Liability and Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Sections Animation in the Courtroom Robert Kaplan; Eleventh Hour Animation, Skokie, IL Evidentiary Challanges to Admission of Computer-Generated Evidence John P. Craver; White and Steele, P.C., Denver, CO Jury Bias and the Corporate Client: How to Personalize the Impersonal George S. McCall; Kern & Wooley, LLP, Irving, TX Clarifying Insurance Coverage for Juries Bruce D. Celebrezze; Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP, San Francisco, CA Scientific Aspects of Welding Rod Cases Ralph A. Zappala; Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, San Francisco, CA

Substantive Law Section Meetings: Professional Liability and Surety and Public Contract Sections Hot Topics in D & O, Legal E & O and Architects and Engineers Karen Holmes; Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki; San Diego, CA Mickey Mouse and Beyond: Director and Officer Liability Cases in the Delaware Courts after Disney James W. Semple; Morris James Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, DE James Semple CV

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Trial Tactics, Practice and Procedure Section Spying on the Enemy-Recent Developments in Plaintiff's Trial Tactics Kile T. Turner; Norman Wood Kendrick & Turner, Birmingham, AL

Plenary Session: He Speaks, She Speaks: What Different Things They Say! Audrey Nelson, Ph.D; Boulder, CO

Plenary Session: The Vanishing JuryTrial (Still I Dream Of It) Can It Be Saved? Building on Bedrock: The Continued Evolution of Jury Reform G. Thomas Munsterman; Director of the Center for Jury Studies; National Center for State Courts, Arlington, VA Appellate Courts and Civil Juries Stephan Landsman Juries, Judges, and Punitive Damages: Empirical Analyses Using the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts 1992, 1996, and 2001 Data Theodore Eisenberg, Paula L. Hannaford-Agor, Michael Heise, Neil LaFountain, G.Thomas Munsterman, Brian Ostrom and Martin T. Wells What's a Jury Good For? John T. Nockleby The Idea of the American Jury is the Purest Example of Democracy in Action. Too Bad It's Dying. William G. Young Jury Service: Is Fulfilling Your Civic Duty a Trial? Harris Interactive Report to the House of Delegates-Recommendation American Bar Association, Amercican Jury Project Jury Trial Innovations: Charting a Rising Tide Gregory E. Mize and Christopher J. Connelly A National Program to Increase Citizen Participation in Jury Service Through Jury Innovations National Center for State Courts On Better Jury Selection: Spotting UFO Jurors Before They Enter the Jury Room Gregory E. Mize Be Cautious of the Quiet Ones- Jurors who are initially silent during jury selection could be detrimental to your case. A judge underlines the importance of pursuing a careful, infomation-oriented jury selection process Gregory E. Mize Juror and Prosepective Juror Education Efforts-An Abbreviated Resource List David McCord, Director, National Jury Center of the American Judicature Society

Corporate Members Forum: Current Issues in Civil Justice Reform The New Litigation Management Arena Michael R. Boutot, President; International Litigation Management Association, Tupelo, MS 2004-2005: The Biggest Year in History for American Tort Reform Michael J. Brady; Ropers Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, Redwood City, CA An Introduction to LCJ and its Civil Justice Reform Efforts William C. Roedder, Jr., President-Elect LCJ; McDowell Knight Roedder & Sledge, LLC, Mobile, AL Attachments Biographical Info for William C. Roedder, Jr.-

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Alternative Dispute Resoulution Section Use of Arbitration and Mediation by Corporations to Resolve Tort, Insurance and Business Disputes Alternative Dispute Resolution Options for Class Actions and Mass Torts Sheila Carmody; Snell & Wilmer, Phoenix, AZ Biographical Info for Sheila Carmody Use of Arbitration and Mediation by Corporations to Resolve Tort, Insurance and Business Disputes Robert S. Dampf; Stockwell Sievert Viccellio Clements & Shaddock LLP, Lake Charles, LA Biographical Info for Robert Dampf Alternative Dispute Resolution-Through alternative dispute resolution can be a negative term to many trial attorneys, lawyers are seeing an increased use of arbitration and mediation to avoid litigation. Here's what you need to know about new trends in ADR Document 1    Document 2   Document 3 Merten E. Marks; Merton E. Marks, PC, Scottsdale, AZ Biographical Info for Merten Marks Mediating the Insurance Bad Faith Claims While Avoiding Claims of Ongoing Bad Faith Carl F. Mariano; Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, Phoenix, AZ Biographical Info for Carl Mariano

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Commercial Litigation Section Creditors' Protection Against Fraud: The Uniform Fradulent Transfer Act Seth G. Gausnell; Rabbitt, Pitzer Snodgrass, St.Louis, MO The Investigation and Prosecution of Disloyal Employees William E. Vita; Gallagher Gosseen Faller & Crowley, Garden City, NY Non-Compete Agreements C. Richard Fulmer Jr.; George, Hartz, Lundeen Fulmer Johnstone King & Stevens, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Biographical Info for C.Richard Fulmer

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Corporate Counsel Section Opinion is Power Robert H. Bork, Jr.; Bork Communication Group, LLC, McLean, VA

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Drug Device and Biotechnology Section Litigating on the New Frontier: Plaintiffs are Making Inroads on the Duties of Sponsors and Investigators in Clinical Trials Roxanne M. Wilson; Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Intellectual Property, Management Economics and Technology of Practice, and, Technology and E-Commerce Sections MGM vs Grokster: What is "Grokster" and why has my teenager been sued? James A. Gallagher, Jr.; Gallagher Gosseen Faller and Crowley, Garden City, NY Appendix

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Property Insurance Section 2004 Atlantic Hurrican Season: Implications for Insurers in Florida and Elsewhere Susan Harwood; Boehm, Brown, Fischer, Harwood, Kelly and Scheihing PA, Orlando, FL Rebecca Levy-Sachs; Robinson & Cole, Sarasota, FL

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Reinsurance and Excess Surplus Lines Section Making Litigation Plans and Budgets Work for You Tim F. Hughes, Vice President; Essex Insurance Company, Glen Allen, VA Earl C. Davis, Senior Vice President; Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Novato, CA

Substantive Law Section Meeting: Transportation Section and International Law and Practice Sections Mobile Communication Systems and Electronic Data David Arnold, Senior Legal Counsel; QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions, San Diego, CA Are We Safe Yet? Recent Developments in Federal Regulation of Hazardous Materials and Related Labor and Employment Issues Robert T. Franklin; Franklin & Prokopik, Baltimore, MD Biographical Info for Robert Franklin

Plenary Session: Confronting Criminal Liabilty in a Post-Canary Environment Robert J. Fettweis; Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Newark, NJ Exhibits

Plenary Session: Ethics Beyond Complaince: Creating a More Ethical Culture Michael Josephson, President & Founder, The Josephson Institute of Ethics; Los Angeles, CA