Jessica Riggin to Moderate Keynote Address and Judges’ Panel at Inaugural Litigation Summit
The State Bar of California’s Litigation Section will hold its full-day Inaugural Litigation Summit on Friday, October 13, 2017, at the Marriott Union Square in San Francisco. Jessica Riggin and Litigation Section Chair Megan Rowe will moderate the Keynote Address with Chief Justice of California Tani Cantil-Sakauye, and Jessica Riggin and Terrance Evans will moderate the Judges’ Panel, featuring Hon. Laurel D. Beeler (Magistrate Judge, N.D. Cal.), Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam (U.S. District Judge, N.D. Cal.), and Hon. Edward A. Torpoco (Judge of the Superior Court, San Francisco). Other panels include:
- Litigators’ Update (George Wailes, Hon. Jon Streeter, James M. Wagstaffe, and Melinda S. Riechert)
- New Discovery Rules 18 Months Later: New Developments and Best Practices (Tim Sullivan, Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Prof. Richard L. Marcus, Hon. Donna M. Ryu)
- ADR: Hot Topics in Arbitration: New Opportunities, New Challenges (Ruth Glick, Paul Cane, Cliff Palefsky)
- General Counsel: Thinking Like a GC: Strategic Litigation Analysis and What GC’s Want from Their Litigators (Terrance Evans, Matthew H. Burrows, General Counsel, BART, Shay A. Gilmore, Senior Counsel, NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, Mike D. Moye, General Counsel, Alameda Health System, Juan D. Walker, Senior Corporate Counsel, Varian Medical Systems)
- Practice Essentials: Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame Members Morgan Chu and e. bob wallach on Storytelling (Norm Rodich, Morgan Chu, e. bob wallach)
- Hot Trial of the Year — Oracle v. Google (Thomas Greene, Peter Bicks, Robert Van Nest)
- Practice Essentials: Closing Argument with Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame Inductee James Brosnahan (Norm Rodich, James Brosnahan)
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