New York Law School Hosts Symposium on ‘The Plaintiffs’ Bar’

Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, to Keynote

 

DATE: Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1, 2006
DESCRIPTION:

New York Law School’s Center for Professional Values and Practice is presenting its 2006 spring symposium, The Plaintiffs’ Bar. Eminent speakers—practicing lawyers and leading scholars—will take on an array of timely topics including:

  • How can a plaintiffs’ lawyer do good and do well? Panelists will share their experiences in securities and business litigation, personal injury law, civil rights, and prison litigation.
  • When, how, and why did the plaintiffs’ bar make its transition from struggling individual lawyers into a powerful, wealthy, and politically salient institution?
  • Where is the defense bar headed?
  • What explains the intensified attacks on the plaintiffs’ bar in the last 20 years? How have plaintiffs’ lawyers been coping and with what results?
  • Which changes in procedural and financing rules are having the greatest effects on litigation?
  • What might the future hold for the plaintiffs’ bar?

The keynote speaker will be Kenneth Feinberg, managing partner, The Feinberg Group, LLP, and Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. For a detailed schedule and list of speakers, please visit the Plaintiffs Bar.
TIME: Friday, March 31: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 1: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
PRESENTED BY: New York Law School’s Center for Professional Values and Practice
ADDRESS/LOCATION: Wellington Conference Center, New York Law School, 47 Worth Street, New York, N.Y. 10013  (between Church Street and West Broadway)
DIRECTIONS:  Via Subway: 1 to Franklin Street; 2, 3, A, C to Chambers Street.
CONTACT: Edith Sachs, New York Law School, 212.431.2187 or esachs@nyls.edu

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