Know Thy Enemy - How Plaintiff's Lawyers Find and Finance Cases

Why Should You Attend:

Where do lawsuits come from? How does your company become a target for a major class action or products liability lawsuit? How do plaintiff’s lawyers find cases and clients, and are there steps that can be taken to make your company less of target?

An army of extremely well funded plaintiff’s lawyers is sifting through regulatory filings and social media, looking for the next multi-million dollar payday. The lawsuits they file can be career, and sometimes enterprise, threatening, with reputation and millions of dollars at stake. The only way to defeat this formidable enemy is to understand them.

This webinar provides a behind-the-scenes look at how trial lawyers think and operate. You will get answers to the above questions and more in this one-of-a-kind presentation, which is based on personal interviews with dozens of the some of the country’s most successful class action and mass tort lawyers. At the end of this session, you will have gained the understanding necessary to take steps to counter the tactics of trial lawyers and also keep your business off the trial lawyers’ radar.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• The plaintiff's bar – who are they and what cases do they file?
• The financial impact of mass tort litigation.
• How plaintiff's lawyers find clients and cases.
• How plaintiff's lawyers finance their cases.
• High-light areas for class actions and mass tort lawsuits.
• Steps your company can take to become less of a target.

Who Will Benefit:

• Business executives from all sectors of the company
• Financial Officers
• Risk Officers
• In-house Counsel
• Internal Auditors
• Operational Risk Managers
• Staff with roles and responsibilities in risk management departments, legal, businesses and central departments.

Instructor Profile:

Rob Herrington, is a consumer products defense lawyer. He chairs the Products Liability and Mass Torts practice at the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, where he focuses on defending consumer products and consumer financial services companies in class actions, products liability lawsuits and other complex litigation. Rob is the author of the best-selling book “Verdict for the Defense” (Sutton Hart Press 2011), which provides a blueprint for business leaders to prevent and defend against class action and mass tort litigation. Rob’s upcoming book “Threats of Injustice” (Sutton Hart Press, Winter 2012), highlights emerging business and legal trends, the litigation risks they create, and what business leaders can do now to protect their companies.

Topic Background:

The American tort system is one of the dangerous and expensive in the world, with an estimated cost of $248.1 billion in 2009 alone (the last year studied). Class actions. Mass-tort lawsuits. Products liability litigation. Plaintiff’s lawyers file these cases in the hopes of putting enough pressure on a company and its insurers that they will buckle and pay millions in attorneys’ fees just to bring the litigation to an end. New product lines and once-promising careers often drown in the wake.

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