Law Review Symposium 2013 Videos

Law Review Symposium – 3/22/2013 – Part 1 – Opening Remarks and Introduction to Multidistrict Litigation
Remarks: Chancellor Jack Weiss and Professor Margaret Thomas
Moderator: Professor Margaret Thomas
The Honorable Eldon Fallon
The Honorable Kurt D. Englehardt
The Honorable Stanwood Duval


Law Review Symposium – 3/22/2013 – Part 2 – Selection of Lead Counsel
Moderator: The Honorable Lee Rosenthal
The Honorable Stanwood Duval
The Honorable Kurt D. Englehardt
Elizabeth Cabraser
Professor Francis McGovern


Law Review Symposium – 3/22/2013 – Part 3 – Settlements and Attorney’s Fees
Moderator: Professor Francis McGovern
Elizabeth Cabraser
Calvin Fayard
Patrick Juneau
Professor Samuel Issacharoff
Teddy Rave


Law Review Symposium – 3/22/2013 – Part 4 – Compensating the Victims After the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Professor Samuel Issacharoff
Teddy Rave


Law Review Symposium – 3/22/2013 – Part 5 – Reporting Time and Expense
Moderator: Professor Francis McGovern
Leonard Davis
Phillip Garrett


Law Review Symposium – 3/22/2013 – Part 6 – Common Benefit Fund and Closing Remarks
Moderator: Professor Francis McGovern
The Honorable Eldon Fallon
Jeremy Grabill
Allan Kanner

The Rest of the Story: Resolving the Cases Remanded by the MDL

The Louisiana Law Review‘s 2014 symposium, entitled The Rest of the Story: Resolving the Cases Remanded by the MDL, will be held on Friday, March 7, 2014, beginning at 8:25 a.m. in the McKernan Auditorium at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Admission is free. One hour of Louisiana CLE credit will be available for each of the six panels held throughout the day. If you have any questions, please contact Dani Borel or Martha Thibaut.

After a long period of increasing aggregation in federal multidistrict litigation, aggregation has come under increasing criticism. Some scholars and judges have observed increasing pressure to disaggregate cases and parties. When should cases be treated separately? When should parties within the same case litigate independently? How does well-targeted disaggregation lead to better decision-making? What are the problems associated with disaggregation for courts and parties? The Louisiana Law Review is proud to bring together leading federal judges, attorneys, and scholars to explore these questions.

Presenters include the following: Judge Lee Rosenthal, Judge Eldon Fallon, Professor Elizabeth Burch, Professor Lonny Hoffman, Professor Frances McGovern, Mark Lanier, Richard Arsenault, Alistair Dawson, Emery G. Lee III, Margaret S. Williams, Catherine R. Borden. Additional panelists will be announced.