Legal Reform Summit

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, Lisa A. Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, delivered these opening remarks.

This panel at the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit addressed the dramatic rise in lawsuits relating to mergers and acquisitions, suggest reforms, as well as discuss other key issues in securities litigation.

This panel at the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit examined third-party litigation financing, an example of the growing trend in the United States of litigation as profit machine.

This panel at the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit addressed issues of import to state attorneys general and the business community, such as privacy in the digital age, transparency in private attorney contracting, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as well as recent regulatory actions by the Environmental Protection Agency, National Labor Relations Board and other federal agencies impacting the states.

At the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit on October 24, 2011, Thomas J. Donohue, President and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, delivered these special remarks.  He was introduced by Lisa A. Rickard, President of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform.