Issue Resource

At the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit on October 24, 2012, we pulled aside George J. Terwilliger, III, Senior Partner, White & Case LLP, and Matthew Miner, Partner, White & Case LLP, to discuss a new paper entitled, "Legal Limbo: Seeking Clarity in How and When the Department of Justice Declines to Prosecute."

At the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit on October 24, 2012, we pulled aside John B. Bellinger, III, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP , to discuss a the panel he moderated on the topic of trends in use of the U.S. courts by non-U.S. citizens and residents, as exemplified by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and the Ecuadorian litigation against Chevron Corporation.  This panel also addressed the flip side of the coin:  the spread in Europe and elsewhere of US-style litigation, especially class actions, against multinational companies. 

At the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit on October 24, 2012, we pulled aside David W. Ogden, Partner, Co-Chair, Government and Regulatory Litigation Practice Group, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, to discuss a new paper entitled, "The Exclusion Illusion: Fixing a Flawed Health Care Fraud Enforcement System."

At the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit on October 24, 2012, we pulled aside John H. Beisner, Partner, Co-Head, Mass Torts and Insurance Litigation Group, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, to discuss a new paper, entitled, "Stopping the Sale on Lawsuits: A Proposal to Regulate Third-Party Investments in Litigation."

At the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit on October 24, 2012, we pulled aside Andrew J. Pincus, Partner, Mayer Brown, to discuss a new paper, entitled, "The Trial Lawyers' New Merger Tax: Corporate Mergers and the Mega Million-Dollar Litigation Toll on Our Economy."

ILR President Lisa A. Rickard explains the dangers of third-party litigation financing in this 2012 Noreen E. McNamara Memorial Lecture delivered at Fordham Law School on February 28, 2012.