China Products Liability Conference: Washington DC, December 10 and 11

I am scheduled to speak on Monday in Washington DC regarding what companies outsourcing their product manufacturing must do to protect themselves from bad/dangerous China product. The conference is being put on by Lexis/Nexis and based on the people speaking (present company excluded, of course), I am confident it will be a great conference. The website lists the following benefits, among others, from attending:

� Learn how to write arbitration clauses that stand up in China and other foreign countries
� Get the inside story on the current products recalled�who is being sued and who is at risk
� Receive a briefing on how to properly handle a product recall from the media to suppliers
� Examine recent foreign arbitration awards and how to get them enforced
� Find out how lead exposure affects children from a leading toxicologist
� Listen in on a roundtable by counsel doing business in foreign jurisdictions
� Discover how arbitration works in the International Centre for Dispute Resolution in Hong Kong
� Hear from insurance coverage attorneys on issues like business interruption
� Discuss the current regulatory situation and the status of reform efforts

Paul Hinton, NERA Economic Consulting and Bradley Remick, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner Coleman & Goggin will be the chairs.

Lucy Allen, NERA Economic Consulting, and Hillel Parness from Lovells LLP, will start it off discussing the current status of China product issues.

Joseph Guglielmo, Whatley Drake & Kallas, and Katherine Cahill, Marsh USA, Inc., will discuss what to do when a China product is recalled.

Jeannie Perron, Covington & Burling LLP, Francis Citera, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Kenneth Wexler, Wexler Toriseva Wallace LLP, and Mitchell Breit, Whatley Drake & Kallas LLC, will give a litigation update regarding recently recalled China products.

Jack Snyder, Toxicologist, and Michael Filla, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, will talk about “Lead Exposure in Children and Medical Monitoring.”

Brenda Jacobs, Sidley Austin LLP, will speak on the regulatory efforts relating to unsafe products from China.

Thomas Klitgaard, Dillingham & Murphy, LLP, will be speaking on China litigation and arbitration and I will be speaking on setting up your manufacturing in China so as to avoid litigation or arbitration.

Thomas Klitgaard, Dillingham & Murphy, LLP, Baiju Vasani, Crowell & Moring LLP,and Phoebe Wilkinson, Chadbourne & Park LLP, will be speaking on arbitration and other contractual issues relating to China product.

Shelley Leinicke, Wicker, Smith, O�Hara, McCoy & Ford, and Bradley Remick, Marshall, will be speaking on “How to Get the Foreign Supplier Involved in Defending Against Claims of Product Defects.”

Marialuisa Gallozzi, Covington & Burling LLP, Joseph Bermudez, Cozen O’Conner, and Brad Murlick, Navigant Consulting, will speak on “Business Interruption and Insurance Coverage” as they relate to China products.

For more on this conference, go here.

Source: China Law Blog

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