IADC Midyear Meeting 2020 | International Association of Defense Counsel | 22 February 2020 | The Inn at Spanish Bay, 2700 17 Mile Dr, Pebble Beach, CA 93953, USA

Highlights:
• On the border: The Asylum Process
• How to win your case through visual storytelling
• Weathering the Bellweathers: opioid litigation and beyond
• Workplace violence and the active shooter: prevention, identification, and response
• Tangible diversity and inclusion results are positive profit drivers

2020 Speakers

MODERATOR:

M. Patrick McDowell
Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, MS USA

Robert V. Fitzsimmons
Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, Miami, FL USA

Alexandra Simotta
SIX Payment Services, (Europe) S.A., Vienna, Austria

Kathryn S. Lehman
King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA USA

Mary-Christine Sungaila
Haynes and Boone, LLP, Costa Mesa, CA USA

Mark A. Prost
Sandberg, Phoenix & Von Gontard, P.C., Saint Louis, MO USA

Jodi D. Oley
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC, Philadelphia, PA USA

R. Matthew Cairns
Textron Inc., Providence, RI USA

Antoine Bigenwald
Langlois Lawyers, Montreal, QC Canada

John T. Harding
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Boston, MA USA

Mary-Christine Sungaila
Haynes and Boone, LLP, Costa Mesa, CA USA

Hiroyuki Tezuka
Nishimura & Asahi, Tokyo, Japan

Stacy L. Douglas
Collinson, Daehnke, Inlow & Greco, Torrance, CA USA

Frank A. Lattal
New Hope, PA USA

Janelle L. Davis
Thompson & Knight, Dallas, TX USA

Cecilia Lahaye
Bird & Bird LLP, Brussels, Belgium

William S.W. Chang
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC USA

Scott K.G. Kozak
Armstrong Teasdale LLP, Saint Louis, MO USA

Kurt B. Gerstner
Lee International IP & Law Group, Seoul, Korea

SPEAKERS:

Mary Robinson
Former President, Ireland/Chair, The Elders & UN Special Envoy on Climate Change

Mark Hansen
Committee Chair

Mark S. Cheffo
Dechert LLP, New York, NY USA

Kaspar Stoffelmayr
Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, Chicago, IL USA

Sylvie Gallage-Alwis
Signature Litigation AARPI, Paris, France

Ben Nolan
Berkeley Research Group, LLC, Gulf Breeze, FL USA

Dixie T. Wells
Ellis & Winters LLP, Greensboro, NC USA

Sandra J. Wunderlich
Tucker Ellis LLP, Saint, Louis, MO USA

Scott Edson
King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC USA

Orlando R. Richmond, Sr.
Butler Snow LLP, Ridgeland, MS USA

Kari L. Sutherland
Butler Snow LLP, Oxford, MS USA

Donna L. Burden
Burden, Hafner & Hansen, LLC, Buffalo, NY USA

Peter J. Pliszka
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Toronto, ON Canada

Sitpah Selvaratnam,
Tommy Thomas Advocates and Solicitors, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Alexander Geisler
Duane Morris, London, England

Lisa A. Armstrong
Striberger Brown Armstrong LLP, Toronto, ON Canada

Ronald A. Mazariegos
Arrowpoint Capital, Charlotte, NC USA

Professor Brenda P. Wells
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA

William L. Anderson
Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC USA

Molly Jones
Bayer U.S., Saint Louis, MO USA

Michael R. Klatt
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP, Austin, TX USA

Jeffrey A. Curran
GableGotwals, Oklahoma City, OK USA

Heather Russell Fine
Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, PA USA

Michael Wernke
SEA, Ltd., Columbus, OH USA

Sarah T. Eibling
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Columbia, SC USA

Paul V. Kelly
Jackson Lewis P.C, Boston, MA USA

Ronald Schouten, MD,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA

Robert M. Craig, III
Berkeley Research Group, LLC, Houston, TX USA

Glenn Dienstag
Vela Insurance Services, New York, NY USA

Philippa V. Ellis
The Home Depot, U.S.A., Inc., Atlanta, GA USA

Rouven F. Bodenheimer
Bodenheimer Herzberg, Cologne, Germany

Scott H. Sirich
Plunkett Cooney, Bloomfield Hills, MI USA

Lisa Frydman
KIND, San Francisco, CA USA

Professor Stephen Lee
The University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA USA

Cecilia Flores Rueda
Flores Rueda Abogados, Mexico City, Mexico

Honorable Polly Webber
Roundtable of Former Immigration Judges, San Francisco, CA USA

J. David Duffy
Thompson Coburn LLP, Chicago, IL USA

Monique Ferraro
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance, Hartford, CT USA

Alexander G. Henlin
Sulloway & Hollis PLLC, Concord, NH USA

Robert A. Brundage
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, San Francisco, CA USA

Glenn M. Zakaib
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Toronto, ON Canada

Luis M. Martinez
AAA-ICDR, New York, NY USA

Tom Sikora
Exxon Mobil Corporation, Spring, TX USA

Yoshihiro Takatori
Orrick Tokyo Law Offices, Tokyo, Japan

Ovie Carroll
United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC USA

Heather C. Devine
Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP, Toronto, ON Canada

Chris Howell, Wickr
New York, NY USA

Peter J. Pizzi
Walsh Pizzi O’Reilly Falanga LLP, Newark, NJ USA

William Garcia
Liberty Mutual, Seattle, WA USA

Madeleine M. McDonough
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Washington, DC USA

Michael J. Baumel
Axis Insurance, Chicago, IL USA

Michael W. Smith
Global Claims Officer, Chubb, New York, NY USA

Michael Taylor
Chief Claims Officer, PURE, White Plains, NY USA

Anthony J. Fernandez
Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A, Phoenix, AZ USA

Jessalyn H. Zeigler
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, Nashville, TN USA

Shari Aberle
Optum Litigation, Edina, MN USA

Stephen J. Cox
Department of Justice, Washington, DC USA

Wendy West Feinstein
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Pittsburgh, PA USA

Lisa M. Floro
Coloplast Corporation, Minneapolis, MN USA

James Middleton
AIG, London, England

Manuel Moctezuma
Moctezuma Castro S.C., Mexico City, Mexico

Kathleen S. Phang
Berger Singerman LLP, Miami, FL USA

Steven M. Sitek
Bassford Remele PA, Minneapolis, MN USA

Mary E. Bartkus
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY USA

Larry D. Ottaway
Foliart, Huff, Ottaway & Bottom, Oklahoma City, OK USA

Zane C. Riester
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ USA

Robert A. Campbell, Jr.
InCourt Technologies, Santa Rosa Beach, FL USA

Bonnie Mayfield
Dykema Gossett PLLC, Bloomfield Hills, MI USA

Edward S. Sledge, IV
Bradley LLP, Birmingham, AL USA

Johner T. Wilson, III
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Chicago, IL USA

2020 Sponsors

• SEA, Ltd.
• Exponent
• MRC
• Berkeley Research Group, LLC
• Baker Tilly