The DRI’s Products Liability Committee will host a business meeting and substantive CLE program, which is scheduled for Friday, October 28th, from 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.  The CLE will address strategies for handling the defense of aggregate consumer fraud claims, particularly the requirement that each plaintiff establish individual causation, a traditional rule that some courts have not applied in such suits.  Our own Stephanie Flynn, as the Annual Meeting Liason for the Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Committee (TTEL) will cover the business meeting and introduce the CLE presentations given by the TTEL.  Alas, the TTEL is scheduled at the very same time as the Products Liability Committee’s presentations, so Stephanie won’t be able to make it to both.  Other blockbuster presentations include such topics as the over-criminalization of business conduct by the government (something felt broadly across the business spectrum and in a wide array of industries), technological changes in jury trials in the 21st century; and, most intriguing, the implications of genetic mapping to determine individual susceptibilities of exposure to products or toxic substances.  These events will be followed by multiple networking opportunities, including a networking reception at the Newseum, the world’s most interactive museum!

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