Publications and Speaking Engagements
19 October 2017 – Product Liability Advisory Council Fall Conference (Irving, Texas, USA) – Featured Speaker: “Managing Data Security & Privacy in Litigation”
18 November 2015 – British Institute of International & Comparative Law’s Product Liability Forum (London, England) – Featured Speaker: “Product Liability’s New Bedfellows – Prosecutors & Monitors”
09 December 2014 – British Institute of International & Comparative Law’s Symposium on Mass Claims in Environmental Cases (London, England) – Featured Speaker: “Overview of Climate Change Litigation in the United States”
04 March 2014 – Product Liability Advisory Council Spring Conference (Dallas, Texas, USA) – Featured Speaker: “Data Security & Product Liability Litigation in China”
02 December 2008 – 6th International Forum of Automotive Traffic Safety (Xiamen, China) – Featured Speaker: “Automotive Product Liability – Recent Cases from Around the Globe”
13 April 2008 – Product Liability Advisory Council Spring Conference (Orlando, Florida, USA) –Featured Panelist: “Crisis Management & Communication”
12 April 2008 – Product Liability Advisory Council Spring Conference (Orlando, Florida, USA) –Featured Speaker: “U.S. Exports & European Regulations”
10 February 2008 – American Bar Association Annual Conference (New York, New York) – Featured Speaker: “Structuring a Foreign Corporation to Limit Exposure to U.S. General Personal Jurisdiction”
15 January 2008 – e-Discovery Management Strategies Conference (London, England) – Author: “Building Electronic Document Management Systems: The Practical Application of Litigation Hold“
2000-2008 – 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Int’l Symposium on Sophisticated Car Occupant Safety Systems, Fraunhofer Institut Chemische Technologie (Karlsruhe, Germany) – Featured speaker and author: “International Product Liability Law: the Criminalization of Product Liability and Electronic Discovery“
August 2007 – The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2007, Global Legal Group (UK) – Co-author: “International Electronic Discovery“
June 2006 – The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2006, Global Legal Group (UK) – Co-author: “International Electronic Discovery“
26 January 2006 – The British Institute of International & Comparative Law’s Product Liability Forum (London, England) – Featured speaker and author: “A Comparison of Forum Issues in U.S., European and Asian Jurisdictions“
27 October 2005 – Product Liability Advisory Council Fall Conference (San Francisco, California, USA) – Featured speaker and author: “Product Liability Litigation in Europe and Coordination of Global Defenses and Discovery“
August 2005 – Submission to the European Union VERONICA Project – Co-author: “Event Data Recorders in Real World Litigation: Courtroom Use of a State- of the-Art Technology”
17 February 2005 – Defense Research Institute’s Product Liability Conference (Los Angeles, California, USA) – Featured speaker and author: “Burdens of Proof and other Myths in International Product Liability Law”
20 June 2001 – Corporate Legal Times’ Super Conference (Chicago, Illinois, USA) – Featured speaker: “Keeping Your CEO (and Yourself!) Out of Prison”
21-28 October 2000 – CEB Advanced Course of Study: Product Liability Litigation (San Francisco/Sacramento, California, USA) – Faculty instructor and author: “Getting Your High Tech Evidence Into Evidence – Evidentiary Issues re Accident Reconstruction“
05-06 June 2000 – Traffic Safety Research & Engineering AB’s Vehicle Rollover Reconstruction Seminar (Munich, Germany) – Instructor: “The European Automotive Engineer and U.S. Personal Injury Litigation”
19 May 2000 – California Judges Association Midyear Conference (Palm Springs, California, USA) – Co-author: “Major Evidentiary Issues re: Computer Animations“
24 April 1999 – California Judges Association Midyear Conference (Palm Springs, California, USA) – Featured speaker: “Recent Technological Developments in the Presentation of Courtroom Evidence”
Spring 1997 – Medical Trial Techniques Quarterly (CBC) – Co-author: “What is Expert Medical Opinion Testimony, Anyway? (And When Do You Have To Pay For It?)”
19 June 1996 – The Recorder – Co-author: “Healthy Disclosure: Violating Discovery Rules When Offering Medical Opinion Testimony Can Be Fatal – Don’t Sign Your Case’s Death Warrant”
12 July 1995 – International Society of Technology, Law and Insurance’s 5th International Conference on Structural Failure, Product Liability & Technical Insurance (Vienna, Austria) – Featured speaker: “Jury Research & Trial Consulting”
16 June 1995 – American Bar Association’s Product Liability Conference (Los Angeles, California, USA) – Co-author: “Limiting Junk Science In The Courtroom“
08 February 1995 – Res Ipsa – Co-author: “Protecting the Right of Financial Privacy in Civil Cases“ (selected as one of the “15 best practitioner columns appearing in the 1994-1995 California Daily Journal legal newspapers”)
21 September 1994 – California Daily Journal – Co-author: “Protecting Taxpayers’ Right of Financial Privacy in Civil Cases“
20 September 1994 – The Recorder – Co-author: “A Statute for Taxpayer Privacy“
02-03 November 1993 – California Daily Journal – Co-author: “Recovering Attorneys’ Fees in Real Estate Transaction Disputes“
September 1993 – California Real Estate Reporter – Co-author: “Recovering Attorneys’ Fees in Tort Actions Arising Out of Real Estate Purchase Contracts“
