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Kate M. Baxter-Kauf
Partner Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP |
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Ms. Baxter-Kauf’s practice is concentrated in the firm’s data breach, antitrust law, business litigation, and securities litigation practice groups. She represents individuals, consumers, financial institutions and small businesses in litigation to protect their rights and, most often, the rights of the class members they seek to represent. Ms. Baxter-Kauf is a 2011 magna cum laude and Order of the Coif graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. In 2018, she was one of only five attorneys nationally named a Rising Star by Law360 in the area of Cybersecurity & Privacy, was recognized as an Up & Coming Attorney by Minnesota Lawyer magazine in 2016, and for each of 2015-2018, has been named one of Minnesota’s Rising Stars by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Baxter-Kauf clerked for the Honorable Alan C. Page, the Honorable Helen M. Meyer, and the Honorable Christopher J. Dietzen, Associate Justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Before law school, Ms. Baxter-Kauf was an award-winning coach of high school and college policy debate teams across the country and facilitated debate teams at Twin Cities urban middle and high schools. She coached the 2003 National Forensic League policy debate national champions.
Before law school, Ms. Baxter-Kauf was an award-winning coach of high school and college policy debate teams across the country and facilitated debate teams at Twin Cities urban middle and high schools. She coached the 2003 National Forensic League policy debate national champions.
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Justin Bernick
Partner Hogan Lovells US LLP |
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Justin Bernick defends clients in antitrust lawsuits in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He helps clients resolve the most challenging antitrust and competition issues, from large class actions to government investigations.
Justin focuses his practice on antitrust litigation, leveraging his knowledge of economics and the law to achieve early success for clients at the motion to dismiss, summary judgment, and class certification stages. He has won major victories at trial, including defeating the FTC in both 2020 and 2012 in healthcare merger challenges. The latter of which was named 2012 Litigation of the Year by Global Competition Review.
Justin litigates a wide range of antitrust issues, including mergers and acquisitions, price fixing, market allocation, vertical and horizontal agreements, and monopolization, as well as related contract, business tort, and intellectual property claims. He has litigated some of the largest class actions in the country, including litigation following criminal and civil government investigations.
Justin represents companies in DOJ, FTC, and state antitrust inquiries, including both merger and conduct investigations. He assists clients in responding to subpoenas, civil investigative demands, second requests, and other government requests for information.
Justin's expertise spans various industries, including pharmaceuticals, health care, financial services, food and agriculture, hospitality, and tech. He counsels clients regarding compliance with the antitrust laws, and is co-author of an Antitrust Compliance treatise published by Bloomberg BNA.
Dedicated to pro bono and public service, Justin led a team in 2018 that successfully restored asylum rights to a nationwide class of migrant children separated at the southern border.
Justin jumpstarted his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert G. Doumar of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Justin focuses his practice on antitrust litigation, leveraging his knowledge of economics and the law to achieve early success for clients at the motion to dismiss, summary judgment, and class certification stages. He has won major victories at trial, including defeating the FTC in both 2020 and 2012 in healthcare merger challenges. The latter of which was named 2012 Litigation of the Year by Global Competition Review.
Justin litigates a wide range of antitrust issues, including mergers and acquisitions, price fixing, market allocation, vertical and horizontal agreements, and monopolization, as well as related contract, business tort, and intellectual property claims. He has litigated some of the largest class actions in the country, including litigation following criminal and civil government investigations.
Justin represents companies in DOJ, FTC, and state antitrust inquiries, including both merger and conduct investigations. He assists clients in responding to subpoenas, civil investigative demands, second requests, and other government requests for information.
Justin's expertise spans various industries, including pharmaceuticals, health care, financial services, food and agriculture, hospitality, and tech. He counsels clients regarding compliance with the antitrust laws, and is co-author of an Antitrust Compliance treatise published by Bloomberg BNA.
Dedicated to pro bono and public service, Justin led a team in 2018 that successfully restored asylum rights to a nationwide class of migrant children separated at the southern border.
Justin jumpstarted his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert G. Doumar of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Kate Campbell
Environmental and Energy Litigation Attorney Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP |
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Kate Campbell is a litigation partner at Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, where she focuses her practice on environmental, toxic tort and class action litigation and Superfund and RCRA remediation matters. Since joining the firm in 2003, she has developed considerable experience in representing potentially responsible parties across the country in CERCLA and RCRA matters, in defending complex toxic tort claims for personal injury, wrongful death, medical monitoring and property damage, and in litigating federal, state and private enforcement actions under an array of environmental statutes.
Kate was been recognized by Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business listing (environmental law) in 2020 and has also been included in The Best Lawyers® in America listing (environmental litigation), since 2020-2021. She has been listed in Super Lawyers for environmental litigation and as a Rising Star since 2010.
Kate served as the firm's Hiring Partner for three years after chairing its Summer Associate Program for five years. Outside of the office, she teaches Toxic Tort Litigation as an adjunct professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
Kate was been recognized by Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business listing (environmental law) in 2020 and has also been included in The Best Lawyers® in America listing (environmental litigation), since 2020-2021. She has been listed in Super Lawyers for environmental litigation and as a Rising Star since 2010.
Kate served as the firm's Hiring Partner for three years after chairing its Summer Associate Program for five years. Outside of the office, she teaches Toxic Tort Litigation as an adjunct professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
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Robin Cantor
Managing Director Berkeley Research Group, LLC |
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Robin Ann Cantor has more than thirty years of experience in the areas of environmental, health, and energy economics, applied economics, statistics, risk management, and insurance claims analysis. She received a PhD in economics from Duke University and a BS in mathematics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Before joining BRG, Dr. Cantor led practice groups at national consulting firms and conducted analysis for companies and financial institutions to better understand environmental, health, and other product liability exposures. Other positions she has held include principal and managing director of the Environmental and Insurance Claims practice at a global consultancy; program director for Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences, a research program of the National Science Foundation; and senior research appointments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Dr. Cantor has a faculty appointment in the graduate part-time program in engineering of the Johns Hopkins University. She was president of the Society for Risk Analysis in 2002, and from 2001 to 2003 served as an appointed member of the Research Strategies Advisory Committee of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board.
Dr. Cantor is a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and president for the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment. She also serves or has served on science review and advisory boards for the Climate and Decision Making Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University's graduate part-time program in Environmental Engineering, Science and Management, the National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network.
Dr. Cantor's consulting practice focuses on economics at the interface of science and technology. Many of her projects involve science-based economic analysis used in litigation support, expert testimony, risk assessment, and other advisory services addressing energy, environmental, and health issues. Dr. Cantor's testimonial experience includes analysis of market share theories of product liability, fair market compensation in eminent domain matters, healthcare reimbursement, economic damages, product liability estimation in bankruptcy matters and insurance disputes, asbestos settlements, premises and product claims, cost contribution allocation in Superfund disputes, derailment risks, reliability of statistical models and estimation methods, and class certification issues.
Dr. Cantor has prepared expert reports that address economic issues in healthcare and energy markets, antitrust, commercial practices and contracts, intellectual property, employment discrimination, false advertising, regulation, and other areas of product and market analysis. She has submitted analysis, testimony, and affidavits in federal arbitration, regulatory and Congressional proceedings, and state and federal courts. Her publications include refereed journal articles, book chapters, expert reports, reports for federal sponsors, a book on economic exchange under alternative institutional and resource conditions, and an edited book on product liability published by the American Bar Association. Dr. Cantor was recognized as a top insurance and reinsurance expert witness by Who’s Who Legal, which stated that she “offers clean and concise judgements on complex matters.”
Before joining BRG, Dr. Cantor led practice groups at national consulting firms and conducted analysis for companies and financial institutions to better understand environmental, health, and other product liability exposures. Other positions she has held include principal and managing director of the Environmental and Insurance Claims practice at a global consultancy; program director for Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences, a research program of the National Science Foundation; and senior research appointments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Dr. Cantor has a faculty appointment in the graduate part-time program in engineering of the Johns Hopkins University. She was president of the Society for Risk Analysis in 2002, and from 2001 to 2003 served as an appointed member of the Research Strategies Advisory Committee of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board.
Dr. Cantor is a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and president for the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment. She also serves or has served on science review and advisory boards for the Climate and Decision Making Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University's graduate part-time program in Environmental Engineering, Science and Management, the National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network.
Dr. Cantor's consulting practice focuses on economics at the interface of science and technology. Many of her projects involve science-based economic analysis used in litigation support, expert testimony, risk assessment, and other advisory services addressing energy, environmental, and health issues. Dr. Cantor's testimonial experience includes analysis of market share theories of product liability, fair market compensation in eminent domain matters, healthcare reimbursement, economic damages, product liability estimation in bankruptcy matters and insurance disputes, asbestos settlements, premises and product claims, cost contribution allocation in Superfund disputes, derailment risks, reliability of statistical models and estimation methods, and class certification issues.
Dr. Cantor has prepared expert reports that address economic issues in healthcare and energy markets, antitrust, commercial practices and contracts, intellectual property, employment discrimination, false advertising, regulation, and other areas of product and market analysis. She has submitted analysis, testimony, and affidavits in federal arbitration, regulatory and Congressional proceedings, and state and federal courts. Her publications include refereed journal articles, book chapters, expert reports, reports for federal sponsors, a book on economic exchange under alternative institutional and resource conditions, and an edited book on product liability published by the American Bar Association. Dr. Cantor was recognized as a top insurance and reinsurance expert witness by Who’s Who Legal, which stated that she “offers clean and concise judgements on complex matters.”
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Bonnie Castrey
Expert in Dispute Resolution and Vice President of the Board of Trustees Huntington Beach Union High School District |
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Ms. Castrey received her Juris Doctorate Degree at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, CA in 1992. She attained her B.S.in Nursing, Magna Cum Laude, at California State University Long Beach, CA, 1972 and her R.N. at Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Buffalo, NY, 1964.
Ms. Castrey is an internationally recognized specialist in dispute resolution. She has assisted parties in reaching agreements through mediation in diverse industries from auto parts and construction to theme parks and transportation. She helped the parties resolve the 1984 Disneyland/Master Services 22 day strike. After a decade of distinguished service as a Commissioner with the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service (FMCS), she began a private practice and expanded her dispute resolution practice to include facilitation, training, factfinding, arbitration and systems design.
In 1995 the President appointed Bonnie to a five year term as a Member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP). In 2000, the President reappointed her as Chair of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP) where she served until January of 2002. The Panel provides assistance in resolving impediments in negotiations between Federal agencies and unions representing Federal employees. After investigating a situation, the Panel may recommend various dispute resolution procedures. The Panel also provides direct assistance such as fact finding, mediation, arbitration and/or written submissions. Final action, such as an arbitration award or a Decision and Order of the Panel, is binding on the parties involved. The Panel also has jurisdiction to resolve disputes under the Compressed Work Schedules Act of 1982.
She specializes in employment and labor/management issues. In her more than four decades of neutral practice, Ms. Castrey has assisted parties in over 3000 disputes. Ms. Castrey maintains a full-time private practice in dispute resolution. Over these decades, she has remained very active in her professional associations serving on the Board of directors of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution and was the International President in 1990 and the Labor Employment Relations Association (LERA, formerly IRRA). She served as national President of LERA 2015-16. She continues to serve on LERA committees and the OCLERA committees.
Bonnie has taught extensively part time at Western State College of Law and several community colleges. She was also a Visiting Scholar at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia and at Cornell’s School of Labor Relations in 2015-16 in the Jean McKelvey Scholar Chair.
Since 1985, she has served her community as an elected Trustee of the Huntington Beach Union High School District. The District encompasses 3 cities and portions of 2 others, and has 6 comprehensive high schools, 1 continuation school, alternative education programs and adult education programs serving over 16,000 students. She has served nine terms as President of the Board. Bonnie has also served on the Board and as President of the Orange County School Boards Association and is currently a member of the California School Board Association's Delegate Assembly serving continuously since 1987. As a result of her work in the educational system organizations, she devotes considerable time to numerous committees for the enhancement and support of public education.
Bonnie is the recipient of many recognition awards including the prestigious OCSBA Marian Bergeson Leadership Award; LERA Life Time Achievement Award in 2009 and she is an inaugural LERA Practitioner Fellow.
Ms. Castrey is an internationally recognized specialist in dispute resolution. She has assisted parties in reaching agreements through mediation in diverse industries from auto parts and construction to theme parks and transportation. She helped the parties resolve the 1984 Disneyland/Master Services 22 day strike. After a decade of distinguished service as a Commissioner with the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service (FMCS), she began a private practice and expanded her dispute resolution practice to include facilitation, training, factfinding, arbitration and systems design.
In 1995 the President appointed Bonnie to a five year term as a Member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP). In 2000, the President reappointed her as Chair of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP) where she served until January of 2002. The Panel provides assistance in resolving impediments in negotiations between Federal agencies and unions representing Federal employees. After investigating a situation, the Panel may recommend various dispute resolution procedures. The Panel also provides direct assistance such as fact finding, mediation, arbitration and/or written submissions. Final action, such as an arbitration award or a Decision and Order of the Panel, is binding on the parties involved. The Panel also has jurisdiction to resolve disputes under the Compressed Work Schedules Act of 1982.
She specializes in employment and labor/management issues. In her more than four decades of neutral practice, Ms. Castrey has assisted parties in over 3000 disputes. Ms. Castrey maintains a full-time private practice in dispute resolution. Over these decades, she has remained very active in her professional associations serving on the Board of directors of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution and was the International President in 1990 and the Labor Employment Relations Association (LERA, formerly IRRA). She served as national President of LERA 2015-16. She continues to serve on LERA committees and the OCLERA committees.
Bonnie has taught extensively part time at Western State College of Law and several community colleges. She was also a Visiting Scholar at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia and at Cornell’s School of Labor Relations in 2015-16 in the Jean McKelvey Scholar Chair.
Since 1985, she has served her community as an elected Trustee of the Huntington Beach Union High School District. The District encompasses 3 cities and portions of 2 others, and has 6 comprehensive high schools, 1 continuation school, alternative education programs and adult education programs serving over 16,000 students. She has served nine terms as President of the Board. Bonnie has also served on the Board and as President of the Orange County School Boards Association and is currently a member of the California School Board Association's Delegate Assembly serving continuously since 1987. As a result of her work in the educational system organizations, she devotes considerable time to numerous committees for the enhancement and support of public education.
Bonnie is the recipient of many recognition awards including the prestigious OCSBA Marian Bergeson Leadership Award; LERA Life Time Achievement Award in 2009 and she is an inaugural LERA Practitioner Fellow.
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Nicola Chesaites
Partner Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP |
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Nicola Chesaites is a barrister and advocaat (Belgium), practising in competition and complex EU litigation in Quinn Emanuel's London and Brussels offices. Nicola was ranked by Who’s Who Legal as a Thought Leader in the field of competition law in 2020, and as one the world’s Leading Competition Plaintiff Lawyers for four years in a row, in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. She is described in UK Legal 500 (2019) as a “key practitioner” in the area of competition litigation, having “played a leading role in a number of significant matters”, “a top-flight practitioner for EU competition disputes” by Who’s Who Legal: Competition Plaintiff (2020), and was recognised in UK Legal 500 (2018) for competition litigation. Nicola was also selected by The Lawyer in their 2017 Hot 100 list of lawyers in the category of litigation - a prestigious recognition for lawyers in England.
Nicola has extensive experience of competition damages litigation before UK courts, having represented claimants and defendants before the English High Court and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, including applications for collective proceedings orders under the UK’s new competition class-action regime. Nicola also has significant experience in challenging and defending EU institutions in complex EU law matters, having represented clients in EU trade, banking, sanctions, customs, pharmaceutical and competition law disputes. She has appeared before the EU General Court and Court of Justice in Luxembourg in over 25 cases, including representing the European Union in trade disputes. Nicola’s experience acting for both claimants and defendants, as well as her extensive experience of complex EU litigation provides her with an extremely valuable perspective for claimants and defendants involved in multi-jurisdictional claims, especially concerning matters of competition and EU law, before national courts and the EU courts in Luxembourg.
Nicola was formerly Référendaire at the General Court of the EU, and before that was Senior Associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Brussels, following pupillage at one of the leading commercial chambers in London.
Nicola has extensive experience of competition damages litigation before UK courts, having represented claimants and defendants before the English High Court and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, including applications for collective proceedings orders under the UK’s new competition class-action regime. Nicola also has significant experience in challenging and defending EU institutions in complex EU law matters, having represented clients in EU trade, banking, sanctions, customs, pharmaceutical and competition law disputes. She has appeared before the EU General Court and Court of Justice in Luxembourg in over 25 cases, including representing the European Union in trade disputes. Nicola’s experience acting for both claimants and defendants, as well as her extensive experience of complex EU litigation provides her with an extremely valuable perspective for claimants and defendants involved in multi-jurisdictional claims, especially concerning matters of competition and EU law, before national courts and the EU courts in Luxembourg.
Nicola was formerly Référendaire at the General Court of the EU, and before that was Senior Associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Brussels, following pupillage at one of the leading commercial chambers in London.
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Peggy Daley
Managing Director Berkeley Research Group, LLC |
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Ms. Daley specializes in conducting complex investigations on behalf of boards of directors, senior management, outside counsel and regulators. Ms. Daley’s work includes high profile investigations and compliance initiatives on behalf of financial institutions, healthcare providers and higher education institutions. Ms. Daley has testified at regulatory and sanctions hearings and also serves as an expert witness in matters relating to fraud, data privacy, data analytics, TCPA and consumer fraud, compliance and data security.
Ms. Daley’s investigative team has been named “Best of Chicago for Global Risk & Investigations” by the National Law Journal. Who’s Who Legal has named her as one of limited group of Forensic Investigations Experts every year since 2014. She is a licensed attorney and private investigator, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. Ms. Daley previously served as Chairman of the Cook County Board of Ethics, which oversees the governance of the Cook County Ethics ordinance over the 22,000 Cook county employees and officeholders. She currently serves on the Illinois state board overseeing the licensing of private detectives and security professionals.
Ms. Daley’s investigative team has been named “Best of Chicago for Global Risk & Investigations” by the National Law Journal. Who’s Who Legal has named her as one of limited group of Forensic Investigations Experts every year since 2014. She is a licensed attorney and private investigator, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. Ms. Daley previously served as Chairman of the Cook County Board of Ethics, which oversees the governance of the Cook County Ethics ordinance over the 22,000 Cook county employees and officeholders. She currently serves on the Illinois state board overseeing the licensing of private detectives and security professionals.
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Alexandra Dapolito Dunn
Partner Baker Botts |
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With over 25 years of practice at the local, state, and federal levels of government, Alexandra Dunn brings to clients an extensive institutional knowledge and keen ability to help solve regulatory problems companies may face. Her deep relationships across the nation and reputation for transparency, fairness, and equity, make her a forceful presence in the most difficult of settings.
Alexandra previously served as the Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, in which she led the Agency in the creation of national policies implementing federal laws governing chemicals, pesticides, and pollution prevention. Prior to that, she was the EPA Administrator for New England (Region 1).
Drawing upon her agency background, Alexandra provides clients with an "EPA insider" perspective on regulations and management of emerging contaminants, particularly integrated per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFOS/PFAS), and has decades of risk communication and risk management experience to offer clients on chemicals of concern.
"She is described by environmental leaders, ‘as “empathetic,” “apolitical,” and “smart,” and an advocate for science-based environmental policies" The Boston Globe August 29, 2018.
Previously, Alexandra served as Executive Director and General Counsel of the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), the national non- profit, non-partisan association of U.S. state and territorial environmental commissioners from 2014-2018.
Alexandra is a recognized scholar of environmental law as well, having served as Dean of Environmental Law Programs and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where she taught courses in Environmental Justice and led efforts to create the nation's first L.L.M. in Environmental Law focused on climate change. Alexandra also taught Environmental Justice courses as a Lecturer in Law, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America and as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law.
Alexandra previously served as the Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, in which she led the Agency in the creation of national policies implementing federal laws governing chemicals, pesticides, and pollution prevention. Prior to that, she was the EPA Administrator for New England (Region 1).
Drawing upon her agency background, Alexandra provides clients with an "EPA insider" perspective on regulations and management of emerging contaminants, particularly integrated per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFOS/PFAS), and has decades of risk communication and risk management experience to offer clients on chemicals of concern.
"She is described by environmental leaders, ‘as “empathetic,” “apolitical,” and “smart,” and an advocate for science-based environmental policies" The Boston Globe August 29, 2018.
Previously, Alexandra served as Executive Director and General Counsel of the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), the national non- profit, non-partisan association of U.S. state and territorial environmental commissioners from 2014-2018.
Alexandra is a recognized scholar of environmental law as well, having served as Dean of Environmental Law Programs and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where she taught courses in Environmental Justice and led efforts to create the nation's first L.L.M. in Environmental Law focused on climate change. Alexandra also taught Environmental Justice courses as a Lecturer in Law, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America and as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law.
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Dai Wai Chin Feman
Director of Commercial Litigation Strategies and Corporate Counsel Parabellum Capital |
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Dai Wai Chin Feman is a director and corporate counsel at Parabellum Capital, a litigation finance firm in New York. Dai Wai leads Parabellum’s commercial litigation vertical, with emphases on sourcing and structuring single-case and portfolio transactions.
Recognized as one of 100 global leaders in legal finance by Lawdragon, Dai Wai is a frequent speaker and commentator on cutting-edge issues in the litigation finance industry, including ethics, disclosure, and best practices. He is a member of the International Legal Finance Association’s US Regional Committee and the New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee. Previously, he served on the New York City Bar Association’s Litigation Funding Working Group and participated in the Uniform Law Commission's Third-Party Funding of Litigation Study Committee.
Before joining Parabellum, Dai Wai was a litigator at Dorsey & Whitney and Satterlee Stephens. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law. He is active in the Asian American Bar Association of New York, where he is a board member, co-chair of the Judiciary Committee, and former co-chair of the Litigation Committee.
Recognized as one of 100 global leaders in legal finance by Lawdragon, Dai Wai is a frequent speaker and commentator on cutting-edge issues in the litigation finance industry, including ethics, disclosure, and best practices. He is a member of the International Legal Finance Association’s US Regional Committee and the New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee. Previously, he served on the New York City Bar Association’s Litigation Funding Working Group and participated in the Uniform Law Commission's Third-Party Funding of Litigation Study Committee.
Before joining Parabellum, Dai Wai was a litigator at Dorsey & Whitney and Satterlee Stephens. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law. He is active in the Asian American Bar Association of New York, where he is a board member, co-chair of the Judiciary Committee, and former co-chair of the Litigation Committee.
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Robyn Griffin
Senior Managing Director The Huntington National Bank |
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Robyn is a Senior Managing Director at Huntington National Bank. She has almost 25 years of experience in the financial industry holding officer positions at TD Bank, Citizens Bank and Merrill Lynch. Robyn holds an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business, New York University and B.A. in economics from Rutgers University. She served as Executive Director of the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys (NASCAT) and Membership Director for Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (COSAL).
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Scott Grzenczyk
Partner Girard Sharp LLP |
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Scott Grzenczyk dedicates his practice to representing plaintiffs in antitrust and consumer protection matters. He has wide-ranging experience in all aspects of complex litigation and has served as a member of leadership teams that have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for the firm’s clients. Scott brings a tireless work ethic and a practical, results-oriented approach to his cases.
For several years, Scott has represented union health and welfare funds in cases alleging that large, multinational drug companies illegally inflated the price of prescription drugs. He has an in-depth knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and the unique challenges that come with prosecuting antitrust claims against drug companies. Scott has applied this knowledge to achieve precedent-setting recoveries, including a $104.75 million settlement shortly before trial in a case concerning the prescription drug Lidoderm. He also plays a key role in the firm’s work in the In re Restasis Antitrust Litigation and In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Antitrust Litigation cases.
Scott leads the firm’s litigation efforts in a class action filed by native inhabitants of Guam bringing due process and equal protection claims against the government of Guam. He also has a track record of successfully representing consumers, including car and cell phone purchasers, in cases involving fraud and unfair business practices. During law school, Scott successfully argued a precedent-setting immigration case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
For several years, Scott has represented union health and welfare funds in cases alleging that large, multinational drug companies illegally inflated the price of prescription drugs. He has an in-depth knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and the unique challenges that come with prosecuting antitrust claims against drug companies. Scott has applied this knowledge to achieve precedent-setting recoveries, including a $104.75 million settlement shortly before trial in a case concerning the prescription drug Lidoderm. He also plays a key role in the firm’s work in the In re Restasis Antitrust Litigation and In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Antitrust Litigation cases.
Scott leads the firm’s litigation efforts in a class action filed by native inhabitants of Guam bringing due process and equal protection claims against the government of Guam. He also has a track record of successfully representing consumers, including car and cell phone purchasers, in cases involving fraud and unfair business practices. During law school, Scott successfully argued a precedent-setting immigration case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Karen Hanson Riebel
Partner Lockridge Grindal Nauen |
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Karen Hanson Riebel concentrates her practice in the areas of data breach, antitrust, and securities litigation. She has litigated a number of complex class action matters and represented numerous pension funds and other institutional investors in cases involving corporate fraud. Recently, she has been on the forefront of international data breach litigation, representing financial institutions against such retailers as Target and Home Depot.
Ms. Riebel began her career by spending seven months in Anchorage, Alaska as a member of the trial team that secured a jury verdict for punitive damages in the amount of $5 billion for a mandatory punitive damages class in In re The Exxon Valdez, Case No. A89-0095-CV (D. Alaska). For their efforts, Ms. Riebel and the other members of the trial team were awarded the Trial Lawyers’ For Public Justice Trial Lawyers of the Year award in 1994.
Ms. Riebel began her career by spending seven months in Anchorage, Alaska as a member of the trial team that secured a jury verdict for punitive damages in the amount of $5 billion for a mandatory punitive damages class in In re The Exxon Valdez, Case No. A89-0095-CV (D. Alaska). For their efforts, Ms. Riebel and the other members of the trial team were awarded the Trial Lawyers’ For Public Justice Trial Lawyers of the Year award in 1994.
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Lucy Rigby
Partner Hausfeld |
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Lucy specialises in large-scale collective redress. She has particular expertise in opt-out collective actions brought before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and opt-in claims via a GLO.
Lucy started her career in the competition group at Slaughter and May, following which she moved to the Office of Fair Trading (now the Competition and Markets Authority) and then to Which?, where she advised on competition and consumer law matters. Lucy joined Hausfeld in 2017 and her expertise has proven invaluable in its filing of two opt-out collective actions under the UK’s class actions regime introduced by the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Notably, Lucy was part of the team which filed the country’s first standalone opt-out claims on behalf of rail passengers in 2019 and that which represented the Consumers’ Association (Which?) in its intervention in Mastercard v Merricks before the Supreme Court in 2020.
Lucy has experience of conducting litigation before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. She has worked on European and domestic antitrust investigations for public and private companies, as well as for the regulator, and has experience of working on high-profile merger transactions. Most recently, Lucy worked for client Privacy International in its intervention in the European Commission’s review of Google’s acquisition of Fitbit.
Lucy has worked on numerous pieces of highly complex, multi-jurisdictional litigation across a variety of sectors. Notable representations at Hausfeld include acting on behalf of 100+ corporate groups against British Airways in the Air Cargo litigation, for proposed class representative Justin Gutmann against train operating companies in the first standalone class actions to be filed in the UK and for the Consumers’ Association (Which?) in its intervention in Mastercard v Merricks before the Supreme Court.
Passionate about achieving justice, including for those who cannot afford legal representation, Lucy has been involved in the running of a number of community law centres.
Lucy started her career in the competition group at Slaughter and May, following which she moved to the Office of Fair Trading (now the Competition and Markets Authority) and then to Which?, where she advised on competition and consumer law matters. Lucy joined Hausfeld in 2017 and her expertise has proven invaluable in its filing of two opt-out collective actions under the UK’s class actions regime introduced by the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Notably, Lucy was part of the team which filed the country’s first standalone opt-out claims on behalf of rail passengers in 2019 and that which represented the Consumers’ Association (Which?) in its intervention in Mastercard v Merricks before the Supreme Court in 2020.
Lucy has experience of conducting litigation before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. She has worked on European and domestic antitrust investigations for public and private companies, as well as for the regulator, and has experience of working on high-profile merger transactions. Most recently, Lucy worked for client Privacy International in its intervention in the European Commission’s review of Google’s acquisition of Fitbit.
Lucy has worked on numerous pieces of highly complex, multi-jurisdictional litigation across a variety of sectors. Notable representations at Hausfeld include acting on behalf of 100+ corporate groups against British Airways in the Air Cargo litigation, for proposed class representative Justin Gutmann against train operating companies in the first standalone class actions to be filed in the UK and for the Consumers’ Association (Which?) in its intervention in Mastercard v Merricks before the Supreme Court.
Passionate about achieving justice, including for those who cannot afford legal representation, Lucy has been involved in the running of a number of community law centres.
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David Kaplan
Executive Director & Vice Chairman Berkeley Research Group |
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Mr. Kaplan is an Executive Director, at the Berkeley Research Group. He served as Vice Chairman of the company between 2011 and 2021. He specializes in antitrust economics (including matters related to claimed price fixing and monopolization by way of example). He is experienced in analyzing economic issues in matters involving possible class certification, having submitted expert reports in more than 20 such matters (including over 15 related to antitrust issues). Mr. Kaplan has testified as an economic expert in federal and state courts in a meaningful number of matters (including many hearings related to possible class certification), before arbitration panels, and before regulatory agencies. He also has served as an economic expert on antitrust matters in the United Kingdom. He has also testified before the International Trade Commission and Congress on antitrust and competitive policy issues. Mr. Kaplan has served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics, the Department of Justice, and the Senate Judiciary Committee. He has published in the field of economics (including a book and a number of articles) and has taught Business Statistics in the MBA program at Johns Hopkins University for 10 years and served as a lecturer in Economics at George Mason University again for 10 years (including the study of market competition). He also has lectured at Columbia University, the University of Utah, and George Washington University. Mr. Kaplan also has taught CLE courses on economic issues related to damages and class actions.
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Jeffrey Klenk
Director Berkeley Research Group |
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Jeffrey Klenk focuses his practice on the application of economic theory to issues of antitrust, as well as to the analysis of damages stemming from commercial litigation matters. Examples of antitrust work undertaken by Mr. Klenk include analysis of alleged price-fixing, tying and bundling arrangements, the use of conditional rebates, and resale price maintenance. In the context of damages, he has analyzed reasonable royalties and lost profits in patent infringement matters, lost wages in employment disputes such as wrongful terminations, and public interest and remedy issues in Section 337 cases. He also has significant experience analyzing issues associated with class certification, particularly in the context of alleged price-fixing.
Mr. Klenk has offered expert analysis in forums including district courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Examples of the expert work undertaken by Mr. Klenk include analysis of damages stemming from an alleged breach of an express warranty, analysis of lost wages stemming from a constructive discharge, analysis of incentives created by civil forfeiture laws, and analysis of the effects of certificate of need laws on the purchase of medical devices. In many of these matters, he developed economic models, including the use of econometrics, to isolate the possible effects of the conduct at issue.
In addition to economic consulting, Mr. Klenk has extensive teaching experience, having taught dozens of online classes for Penn State University's World Campus. These classes have included micro and macroeconomics, labor economics, and econometrics. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University and Catholic University. He has written about both antitrust and damages issues in journals and in trade press. He has also spoken on these issues at a number of national panels.
Mr. Klenk has offered expert analysis in forums including district courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Examples of the expert work undertaken by Mr. Klenk include analysis of damages stemming from an alleged breach of an express warranty, analysis of lost wages stemming from a constructive discharge, analysis of incentives created by civil forfeiture laws, and analysis of the effects of certificate of need laws on the purchase of medical devices. In many of these matters, he developed economic models, including the use of econometrics, to isolate the possible effects of the conduct at issue.
In addition to economic consulting, Mr. Klenk has extensive teaching experience, having taught dozens of online classes for Penn State University's World Campus. These classes have included micro and macroeconomics, labor economics, and econometrics. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University and Catholic University. He has written about both antitrust and damages issues in journals and in trade press. He has also spoken on these issues at a number of national panels.
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Rose Kohles
Vice President, National Settlement Team Huntington Bank |
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Rose is Vice President of Huntington Bank’s National Settlement Team. Rose began her professional career at PNC Bank as a Treasury Management Sales Officer after receiving her B.A. in Finance from Temple University. Rose serves as the Communications Director for the Committee to Support Antitrust Laws, a lobbying organization that seeks to protect the rights of small businesses and consumers in the marketplace. Rose also serves on the board of Girls First, a non-profit after school program for young girls in the Philadelphia area.
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Liz Lambert
Senior Managing Director, National Settlement Team Huntington Bank |
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Liz Lambert is a Senior Managing Director of Huntington Bank’s National Settlement Team. She began her professional career in fixed income sales at Salomon Brothers Inc. in 1986, after graduating with a B.A. in Business Administration and French from the State University of New York at Albany. She has 34 years of banking experience with officer positions held at National Westminster Bank, Mellon Bank, Comerica Bank/Progress Bank and Citizens Bank. Liz is an Associate Member of the American Bar and Philadelphia Bar Associations, and a Member of the American Constitution Society.
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Brent Landau
Global Managing Partner Hausfeld LLP |
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Brent Landau is the Global Managing Partner of Hausfeld, a claimants’ firm with over 140 attorneys and offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Brussels, Düsseldorf, London, Stockholm, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington. He has been recognized by Law360 as a “Titan of the Plaintiffs’ Bar” and by the National Law Journal as an “Antitrust Trailblazer and Pioneer.” Brent’s representation of class action plaintiffs includes In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation, where the class recovered over $1.2 billion in settlements; In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation, where the plaintiffs secured a $162 million judgment and later a 9-0 victory in the U.S. Supreme Court; and Kashef v. BNP Paribas, where Brent is the court-appointed co-lead counsel for a proposed class of Sudanese American victims of human rights abuses. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he teaches legal ethics.
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Lauren McGeever
Director Epiq Class Action and Mass Tort Solutions |
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Lauren McGeever is a New York based director for Epiq Class Action and Mass Tort Solutions for both US and UK based clients. Lauren is responsible for advising on and developing customized solutions for clients’ unique project demands. She provides consultative advice for all aspects of class action administration, from notice planning and implementation through disbursements.
In addition to many US class actions settlements over the last 15 years, Lauren also consulted on the Merricks v MasterCard collective action filed with Competition Appeals Tribunal in the United Kingdom as well as the representative action, Lloyd v Google, brought before the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England, pursuant to the Civil Procedure Rules rule 19.6. As a former paralegal at class action and mass tort firms, Lauren assisted litigation efforts on cases like the New York Diet Drug Litigation (Fen-Phen), and managed the administration of settlements in securities and consumer class actions and regulatory disbursement funds such as the SEC v Bank of America Fair Fund.
In addition to many US class actions settlements over the last 15 years, Lauren also consulted on the Merricks v MasterCard collective action filed with Competition Appeals Tribunal in the United Kingdom as well as the representative action, Lloyd v Google, brought before the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England, pursuant to the Civil Procedure Rules rule 19.6. As a former paralegal at class action and mass tort firms, Lauren assisted litigation efforts on cases like the New York Diet Drug Litigation (Fen-Phen), and managed the administration of settlements in securities and consumer class actions and regulatory disbursement funds such as the SEC v Bank of America Fair Fund.
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Shireen Meer
Director Berkeley Research Group |
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Shireen Meer is a testifying expert who specializes in the application of economic analysis to litigation and consulting matters. She received her PhD and MA in economics from Emory University. Her work has earned her recognition by Who’s Who Legal Competition for several years running, noting that Dr. Meer “is a widely respected name in applied economics relating to class actions, IP, and breach of contract claims.”
Dr. Meer has provided testimony at depositions and hearings, authored expert reports, and submitted analyses in federal and state court. Dr. Meer also has served on arbitration panels for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Dr. Meer has worked on a wide variety of matters, including antitrust, class actions, breach of contract, complex commercial disputes, intellectual property, and government investigations. She has published papers in academic journals and in professional publications. Her research in behavioral economics has received mention in press. Dr. Meer has taught undergraduate level courses in micro- and macroeconomics at Emory University.
Dr. Meer has provided testimony at depositions and hearings, authored expert reports, and submitted analyses in federal and state court. Dr. Meer also has served on arbitration panels for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Dr. Meer has worked on a wide variety of matters, including antitrust, class actions, breach of contract, complex commercial disputes, intellectual property, and government investigations. She has published papers in academic journals and in professional publications. Her research in behavioral economics has received mention in press. Dr. Meer has taught undergraduate level courses in micro- and macroeconomics at Emory University.
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John Rabiej
Partnering with the James F. Humphreys Complex Litigation Center George Washington University Law School |
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John K. Rabiej is partnering with the George Washington Complex Litigation Center. He served as the Deputy Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute for one year and the Director of the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies for seven years. He joined Duke Law in early 2011 after serving one year as the Executive Director/Director of Judicial Outreach for The Sedona Conference. As the Director of the Judicial Studies Center, Mr. Rabiej oversaw the running of the master’s program for judges, publication of Judicature for five years, and operation of EDRM for three years.
Previously, Mr. Rabiej was the Chief of the Rules Committee Support Office for twenty years, establishing and heading the office that staffed the six rules committees of the United States Judicial Conference. He has written extensively on ediscovery, including chapter 37A of Moore’s Federal Practice, chapters in Weinstein’s Federal Evidence Manual, co-authored with Judge Lee Rosenthal and Professor David Levi the Federal Civil Procedure Manual, Juris Publisher (2014), and co-authored with former Judge Alex Kozinski the Federal Appellate Procedure Manual, Juris Publisher (2014). He has written the “Director” columns in eight issues of Judicature (2015-2017) and more than 20 articles on ediscovery, which were published in the LexisNexis Emerging Issues series of expert commentaries (2008-2014). He has also written many articles on rules-related issues, including the meaning and purposes of rule amendments.
Mr. Rabiej was elected to the American Law Institute in 2005. He sits on the Chief Justice’s Rules Advisory Commission, North Carolina (term ending December 31, 2023).
Previously, Mr. Rabiej was the Chief of the Rules Committee Support Office for twenty years, establishing and heading the office that staffed the six rules committees of the United States Judicial Conference. He has written extensively on ediscovery, including chapter 37A of Moore’s Federal Practice, chapters in Weinstein’s Federal Evidence Manual, co-authored with Judge Lee Rosenthal and Professor David Levi the Federal Civil Procedure Manual, Juris Publisher (2014), and co-authored with former Judge Alex Kozinski the Federal Appellate Procedure Manual, Juris Publisher (2014). He has written the “Director” columns in eight issues of Judicature (2015-2017) and more than 20 articles on ediscovery, which were published in the LexisNexis Emerging Issues series of expert commentaries (2008-2014). He has also written many articles on rules-related issues, including the meaning and purposes of rule amendments.
Mr. Rabiej was elected to the American Law Institute in 2005. He sits on the Chief Justice’s Rules Advisory Commission, North Carolina (term ending December 31, 2023).
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Ellen Relkin
Practice Group Chair Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. |
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Ms. Relkin, whose practice focuses on medical device and pharmaceutical product liability, as well as toxic tort matters, has represented thousands of plaintiffs injured by defective medical products with a recent focus on the generation of failed metal-on-metal and modular hip implants.
She serves in leadership capacities appointed by courts as the Co-Lead Counsel of the In Re: DePuy ASR Multi-District Litigation (MDL) and the Lead and Liaison Counsel for the New Jersey In Re: Stryker Rejuvenate & ABG II Modular Hip Implant Litigation as well as a member of the Plaintiff Steering Committee in the In Re: Xarelto Product Liability Litigation and the Executive Committee of In Re: Invokana (Canagliflozin) Products Liability Litigation.
She had served on the court-appointed Executive Committee of the MDL involving the birth control patch Ortho Evra, and as the Plaintiffs’ Liaison counsel in the New Jersey consolidated litigation involving the oral contraceptives Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella, as well as on the Court Appointed Plainitffs’ Steering Committee of the In Re: Biomet Hip Implant Litigation.
In April 2006, she was part of the trial team that secured a $13.5 million verdict in McDarby v. Merckin a failure-to-warn case involving the medication Vioxx and the risk for heart attack, and she successfully defended the compensatory damage verdict on appeal.
Ms. Relkin, who is Certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney, is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as the Summit Council. She is an active member of the American Association for Justice (past chair of its Toxic, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Torts section); the New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association, where she serves on the Board of Governors; the New Jersey and New York Bar Associations and the American Bar Association, where she was co-chair of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Subcommittee of the ABA Section of Litigation Mass Torts Committee. She is also President of the Roscoe Pound Civil Justice Institute and serves on the Board of Visitors of the University of California at Irvine. She is a frequent lecturer nationally at continuing legal education programs.
She has published law review articles in the Cardozo Law Review and the Dickinson Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, the Chapter on Failure to Warn in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Mass Tort Litigation in the treatise New Jersey Mass Torts and Class Action (2015) published by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and numerous other legal publications. In addition, Ms. Relkin serves on the board of advisors for the BNA Product Safety and Liability Reporter, The Toxics Law Reporter, and the MDEX Daubert Reporter.
She has been consistently named as a ”Super Lawyer” in both New York and New Jersey for the past several years and has been AV rated by Martindale Hubble for more than two decades.
Her litigation areas include: metal-on-metal and modular hips including Stryker Rejuvenate and AGB II modular stems, the Stryker Accolade, Citation and Meridian stems, DePuy ASR and Pinnacle, Wright Conserve metal-on-metal hips, and the Wright ProFemur modular hip. She also represents women injured by the medications Xarelto, Invokana, as well as women who had Power Morcellators used during laparoscopic hysterectomies.
She serves in leadership capacities appointed by courts as the Co-Lead Counsel of the In Re: DePuy ASR Multi-District Litigation (MDL) and the Lead and Liaison Counsel for the New Jersey In Re: Stryker Rejuvenate & ABG II Modular Hip Implant Litigation as well as a member of the Plaintiff Steering Committee in the In Re: Xarelto Product Liability Litigation and the Executive Committee of In Re: Invokana (Canagliflozin) Products Liability Litigation.
She had served on the court-appointed Executive Committee of the MDL involving the birth control patch Ortho Evra, and as the Plaintiffs’ Liaison counsel in the New Jersey consolidated litigation involving the oral contraceptives Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella, as well as on the Court Appointed Plainitffs’ Steering Committee of the In Re: Biomet Hip Implant Litigation.
In April 2006, she was part of the trial team that secured a $13.5 million verdict in McDarby v. Merckin a failure-to-warn case involving the medication Vioxx and the risk for heart attack, and she successfully defended the compensatory damage verdict on appeal.
Ms. Relkin, who is Certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney, is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as the Summit Council. She is an active member of the American Association for Justice (past chair of its Toxic, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Torts section); the New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association, where she serves on the Board of Governors; the New Jersey and New York Bar Associations and the American Bar Association, where she was co-chair of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Subcommittee of the ABA Section of Litigation Mass Torts Committee. She is also President of the Roscoe Pound Civil Justice Institute and serves on the Board of Visitors of the University of California at Irvine. She is a frequent lecturer nationally at continuing legal education programs.
She has published law review articles in the Cardozo Law Review and the Dickinson Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, the Chapter on Failure to Warn in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Mass Tort Litigation in the treatise New Jersey Mass Torts and Class Action (2015) published by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and numerous other legal publications. In addition, Ms. Relkin serves on the board of advisors for the BNA Product Safety and Liability Reporter, The Toxics Law Reporter, and the MDEX Daubert Reporter.
She has been consistently named as a ”Super Lawyer” in both New York and New Jersey for the past several years and has been AV rated by Martindale Hubble for more than two decades.
Her litigation areas include: metal-on-metal and modular hips including Stryker Rejuvenate and AGB II modular stems, the Stryker Accolade, Citation and Meridian stems, DePuy ASR and Pinnacle, Wright Conserve metal-on-metal hips, and the Wright ProFemur modular hip. She also represents women injured by the medications Xarelto, Invokana, as well as women who had Power Morcellators used during laparoscopic hysterectomies.
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Christopher Ritchie
Executive Managing Director The Huntington National Bank |
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Chris is an Executive Managing Director of Huntington Bank’s National Settlement Team. He brings over 30 years of banking experience, with 11 years at Huntington, and past positions at Citizens Bank and JPMorgan Chase. Chris has an M.B.A. from Fordham University and a B.A. from Fairfield University. He is a Vice President of the Institute for Law & Economic Policy (ILEP). He served on the boards of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and the Special Olympics of Pennsylvania. He also served as Conference Co-Chair, Distribution of Securities Litigation Settlements in San Francisco (February 2008) and in New York (September 2008 and March 2010).
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Rosemary Rivas
Partner Gibbs Law Group LLP |
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Rosemary has dedicated her legal career to representing consumers in complex class action litigation involving a wide variety of claims, from false advertising and defective products to privacy violations. She is committed to obtaining justice for consumers and has recovered billions of dollars for her clients and the classes they represent.
Rosemary serves in leadership positions in a number of large-scale complex class action cases and multi-district litigation. She was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the Volkswagen Clean Diesel Litigation, which resulted in a record-breaking settlement totaling more than $14 billion. For her work in the Volkswagen case, Rosemary received the 2018 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award, which is given to outstanding California lawyers “whose extraordinary work and cases had a major impact on the law.”
She has received numerous awards and honors for the quality of her legal work, including the Bay Area Legal Aid Guardian of Justice Award for her achievements in the law and her role in helping direct cy pres (remaining settlement) funds to promote equal access to the legal system. She was also recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer and previously was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine.
Rosemary is a fluent Spanish-speaker and previous served on the Board and as Diversity Director of the Barristers Club of the San Francisco Bar Association. She frequently presents at legal and industry-group conferences on developments in consumer protection and class action litigation.
Rosemary serves in leadership positions in a number of large-scale complex class action cases and multi-district litigation. She was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the Volkswagen Clean Diesel Litigation, which resulted in a record-breaking settlement totaling more than $14 billion. For her work in the Volkswagen case, Rosemary received the 2018 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award, which is given to outstanding California lawyers “whose extraordinary work and cases had a major impact on the law.”
She has received numerous awards and honors for the quality of her legal work, including the Bay Area Legal Aid Guardian of Justice Award for her achievements in the law and her role in helping direct cy pres (remaining settlement) funds to promote equal access to the legal system. She was also recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer and previously was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine.
Rosemary is a fluent Spanish-speaker and previous served on the Board and as Diversity Director of the Barristers Club of the San Francisco Bar Association. She frequently presents at legal and industry-group conferences on developments in consumer protection and class action litigation.
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Scott Summy
Shareholder Baron & Budd, P.C. |
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Leader of the Environmental Litigation Group (ELG) at Baron & Budd. ELG was started by Mr. Summy in 2002 and is comprised of 30 attorneys and support professionals who concentrate in large environmental litigation across the country. In 2020, Law360 recognized ELG as one of its highly prestigious Practice Groups of the Year awards for the United States in the category of Environmental Law.
Mr. Summy has served both in court-appointed leadership positions and directly represented clients in some of the country’s largest environmental cases with national significance. It all began with a single phone call in August 1995 when Mr. Summy was a new lawyer. He received a call from a prospective client in North Carolina who had learned that he and his neighbors had been ingesting the chemical MTBE in their drinking water wells for years. Mr. Summy took the case, and after years of fighting for the residents’ rights and going to trial, the case resulted in a record settlement.
Mr. Summy soon learned that MTBE was contaminating drinking water wells all over America. That case proved to be only the first of many to come. Mr. Summy was hired by public water providers all over the country whose residents had contaminated wells. He became the “go to” lawyer for public entities facing environmental contamination which impacted their public resources. Mr. Summy has represented public entities from the east coast to the west coast and all across middle America. He and his ELG Team have recovered billions of dollars on behalf of their clients in environmental litigation.
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Mr. Summy has served both in court-appointed leadership positions and directly represented clients in some of the country’s largest environmental cases with national significance. It all began with a single phone call in August 1995 when Mr. Summy was a new lawyer. He received a call from a prospective client in North Carolina who had learned that he and his neighbors had been ingesting the chemical MTBE in their drinking water wells for years. Mr. Summy took the case, and after years of fighting for the residents’ rights and going to trial, the case resulted in a record settlement.
Mr. Summy soon learned that MTBE was contaminating drinking water wells all over America. That case proved to be only the first of many to come. Mr. Summy was hired by public water providers all over the country whose residents had contaminated wells. He became the “go to” lawyer for public entities facing environmental contamination which impacted their public resources. Mr. Summy has represented public entities from the east coast to the west coast and all across middle America. He and his ELG Team have recovered billions of dollars on behalf of their clients in environmental litigation.
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Honorable Ann A. Scott Timmer
Vice Chief Justice Arizona Supreme Court |
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Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2012 by Governor Janice K. Brewer. Prior to her appointment to the Arizona Supreme Court, Justice Timmer was a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals from 2000 to 2012, serving three years as Chief Judge. Notably, she chaired the Court’s Legal Services Task Force, which recently recommended removing barriers for lawyers and non-lawyers to share fees. She currently chairs the Court’s Attorney Regulation Advisory Committee, is a member of the National Conference of Bar Examiners Board of Trustees and has been elected as a member of The American Law Institute. Recently, she was appointed to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Appellate Judges Education Institute. Justice Timmer earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, a J.D. magna cum laude, from Arizona State University, and a Masters in Judicial Studies from Duke University Law School.
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Dubravka Tosic
Director BRG LLC |
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Dubravka Tosic is an economist who provides expert witness consulting in labor and employment disputes, litigation and arbitration matters, and regulatory audits, and in connection with proactive company reviews.
She has experience in preparing statistical analyses and damage calculations in connection with allegations of employment discrimination with respect to various employer actions (e.g., hiring, promotion, termination, and compensation), executive compensation, breach of employment contract, personal injury and wrongful death, and wage and hour issues.
Dr. Tosic also has experience in advising on commercial litigation matters involving allegations of breach of contract and lost profits, and management consulting projects requiring analyses of complex information and data.
She is a frequent presenter to professional organizations on economic, financial, and statistical analyses.
She has experience in preparing statistical analyses and damage calculations in connection with allegations of employment discrimination with respect to various employer actions (e.g., hiring, promotion, termination, and compensation), executive compensation, breach of employment contract, personal injury and wrongful death, and wage and hour issues.
Dr. Tosic also has experience in advising on commercial litigation matters involving allegations of breach of contract and lost profits, and management consulting projects requiring analyses of complex information and data.
She is a frequent presenter to professional organizations on economic, financial, and statistical analyses.
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Eric Troutman
Partner Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP |