Butler Snow Attorney Featured Speaker At CBI Forum in March

February 6, 2007 – Butler Snow Attorney Carter Thompson is a scheduled speaker at the Center for Business Intelligence (CBI) Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Device Product Litigation Forum March 12-13, 2007. The conference, to be held in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, will feature some of the top industry experts in the areas of product liability and litigation.

Topics for the Forum include:

• Assessing and understanding local, national and international regulations in order to minimize product liability
• Creating a strategy of dealing with FDA to maximize chances of winning with a preemption defense
• Identifying and minimizing litigation risks of clinical trial data and post-market adverse event reporting
• Organizing defense team to address litigation on multiple fronts in multiple venues while, at the same time, maintaining consistent themes and strategies
• Addressing issues ranging from local coordination with parallel federal court proceedings, inter- and intra-state case coordination and consolidation and the strategic timelines and case management orders necessary for successful resolution
• Developing best practices for tort related defense strategies

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