HB Litigation Conferences Presents Orthopedic Litigation Conference DePuy and Zimmer Implant Updates Plaintiffs Only.

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1 HB Litigation Conferences Presents Orthopedic Litigation Conference DePuy and Zimmer Implant Updates Plaintiffs Only January 19, 2011 Conference Chairs Robert Brown joined Baron & Budd as a shareholder from Florida-based Alters, Boldt, Brown, Rash & Culmo, where he was a founding equity partner. Bob works in litigation of significance to Florida and the Gulf Coast, such as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Chinese drywall litigation. A member of the Florida Bar since 1986, Bob s decades of experience in mass tort litigation, product liability and commercial litigation make him a valuable addition to Baron & Budd s diverse practice. He has tried more than 50 cases to verdict, and he is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh District and all federal district courts in Florida. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. One of the cases that inspired Bob as an advocate involved a loving, married couple who had fostered over 250 children with mental and/or physical disabilities. The husband was in a fatal car accident. Bob settled a lawsuit against the insurer of the other driver involved in the accident for 100 times the policy limits because of the insurer s bad faith. Although no amount will bring back the huge loss this family has had, Mr. Brown certainly helped his surviving wife and children to live a normal life. Making this kind of difference in the lives of everyday people motivates Bob as an attorney. In addition to his participation in the American Association for Justice s Leaders Forum and National Finance Committee, Mr. Brown serves on the Board of Directors of the Miami-Dade Justice Association and is President elect of the American Board of Trial Advocates Miami Chapter. Ben Gordon works in an Of Counsel capacity to the Levin Papantonio law firm in its Mass Tort Department. Mr. Gordon joined the Levin Papantonio law firm in its Mass Tort Department in 1993, and tried a number of mass tort cases with Mike Papantonio. Mr. Gordon became a partner in While continuing to consult with Levin Papantonio, Ben opened his own law firm in 1999, and has continued to limit his practice to the representation of plaintiffs, primarily those injured by defective devices or drugs. Mr. Gordon is the author of several published articles concerning medical and legal aspects of failed products such as Silicone Gel Breast Implants and dangerous drugs like fen-phen. He has worked on a variety of other mass tort projects including Rezulin, Ephedra, Sulzer Implants, Renu Contact Lens, and Avandia litigation. Mr. Gordon received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of West Florida in 1988, and his law degree from Cumberland School of Law, with honors, in As an Associate Editor of the Law Review, Ben authored a case note that was published by the Cumberland Law Review. As a member of Cumberland's Trial Advocacy Board, he was appointed as Director of the Senior Trial Competition for Cumberland. He served as a student class representative as a 1L and 2L, and was awarded a Cordell Hull Teaching Fellowship as a 2L and a 3L to train new law students in Legal Research and Writing. Mr. Gordon is licensed to practice law before all state and federal courts in Alabama and Florida, and also the United States Court of Military Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He served as Staff Attorney for the Eleventh Circuit where he was appointed to the Honorable Judge Joel F. Dubina. He has also worked as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Georgia, and was appointed as a First Lieutenant in the Army JAGS CORPS (Reserves) after completing law school.

2 8:45 Case Assessment, Client Screening and Early Case Acrobatics Seth A. Katz joined Burg Simpson in September 2005 after six years with the New York law firm of Seeger Weiss LLP, in which he was a partner. Mr. Katz focuses his practice primarily in the areas of complex, pharmaceutical mass tort, and class action litigation including consumer protection, securities fraud, products liability and commercial litigation. In addition to his varied professional experience, Mr. Katz is a frequent speaker on electronic discovery and pharmaceutical litigation. Additionally, Mr. Katz has spoken on New York state franchise law and class action litigation at the invitation of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association. Mr. Katz's current practice involves primarily complex and class action litigation on behalf of aggrieved consumers, corporate shareholders, and property owners, and pharmaceutical mass tort litigation on behalf of those injured as a result of their ingestion of prescription medications and the implantation of medical devices. Mr. Katz was one of the lead attorneys who prosecuted the In re Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 1956) that resulted in a $700 million settlement, where he not only held a leadership role in conducting discovery but he also served as chair of the law and briefing committee. Mr. Katz is currently one of the co-chairs of the Discovery Committee in the YAZ/Yasmin (Drospirenone) Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation (MDL 2100) pending in the Southern District of Illinois, before the Honorable David R. Herndon. Mr. Katz is also serving as on of the co-chairs of the Discovery Committee in the In re: Gadolinium Based Contrast Agent MDL (MDL 1909), pending in the Northern District of Ohio. Mr. Katz was appointed to the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee by Justice Helen Freedman for the ReNu with MoistureLoc litigation pending in New York State Supreme Court. Mr. Katz was also one of the lead attorneys prosecuting the In re Ortho Evra Products Liability Litigation (MDL 1742) on behalf of women who suffered serious adverse events as a result of the use of the Patch, where he held a leadership role in conducting discovery. At the 2006 AAJ Annual Convention in Seattle, Mr. Katz was elected as Co-Chair of the Ortho Evra AAJ Litigation Group. While Mr. Katz was at Seeger Weiss, he served as co-chair of the law and briefing committee in the In re Neurontin Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation (MDL No. 1629), pending before the Hon. Patti Saris, in the District of Massachusetts. Mr. Katz represents or has represented those injured by the DePuy ASR artificial hip, Gadolinium Based Contrast Agents, YAZ/Yasmin/Ocella birth control pill, Zimmer Durom Cup artificial hip, Vioxx, Zyprexa, the Ortho Evra birth control patch, Bausch & Lomb's ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution, AMO's Complete Multi-Purpose contact lens solution, Zicam nasal gel, Bextra, Celebrex, Propulsid, Rezulin, Baycol, PPA, Ephedra, Trileptal and Guidant and Medtronic defibrillators as well as other drugs and devices. Mr. Katz was born in New York, New York. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, from the University of Michigan in 1990 and earned his law degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Law in Peter J. ( Pete ) Flowers is Managing Partner of the firm Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers of Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Flowers concentrates his practice to medical device and medical malpractice litigation, and throughout his career he has been a formidable advocate for victims of faulty medical devices and of medical negligence. On their behalf, he has won favorable verdicts and recovered multi-million dollar settlements. For much of the last five years, Mr. Flowers has been involved in litigation against Johnson and Johnson subsidiary, DePuy Spine concerning their defective Charite Artificial Disc. He represents over four hundred plaintiffs, many of whom have suffered serious complications and require corrective surgery. In this litigation, Mr. Flowers has deposed close to one hundred high and mid-level DePuy and Johnson and Johnson employees, distributors, and consultants. Mr. Flowers was the President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association from 2009 to 2010, and is currently active on the organization s Executive Committee. He has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer in the area of medical malpractice, and recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Illinois by his peers, a distinction earned by only 5% of the state s lawyers. He is a member of both the Million Dollar Advocate Forum for resolving many cases in excess of $1 million, and the elite Verdict Club society which includes top attorneys from around the United States.

3 9:45 Analysis of the DePuy Hip Implant Update on Causation and Design Defect Daniel Nigh handles primarily ATV and Depuy cases in the Mass Torts Litigation Department at Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Rafferty & Proctor, PA. He has spoken at several conferences and coauthored a journal article regarding the Depuy ASR recall, the science behind the defect, and injuries/damages resulting from the defect. After graduating law school, Mr. Nigh devoted his work experience into gaining trial experience. He worked as an Assistant Public Defender for over a year and tried 10 jury trials, in addition, to numerous motion and VOP hearings. He followed up with working at GEICO as an attorney, handling primarily personal injury defense cases. He tried 5 jury trials during his 3 year tenure at GEICO. Mr. Nigh graduated from Stetson Law School cum laude in 2006, earning a Juris Doctorate Degree. While attending law school, he clerked at Brasfield, Fuller, Freeman & O Hern, a civil defense firm in Saint Petersburg, FL. Mr. Nigh graduated from Florida Southern College magna cum laude in 2003, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, a minor in Business Administration and a minor equivalency in mathematics. While attending college, he worked as a claims examiner at Auto Owners Insurance and later as a summer management intern and sales/underwriting associate at GEICO. He also served as the president of Psi C hi, treasurer of Phi Mu Alpha, and member of Kappa Alpha Order. He received the Academic Merit Full Tuition and Board Scholarship to attend Florida Southern College. Herbert O. Phillips IV, MD, JD, was an orthopaedic surgeon for 13 years before entering the legal profession. Dr. Phillips focuses his law practice on complex medico-legal issues, medical malpractice, and medical device product liability. Dr. Phillips has served in a number of administrative and leadership roles in the medical and legal communities. As a physician, he served as Chief of Surgery (1995) at St. Joseph s Hospital in Asheville, Chairman of the Orthopaedic division ( ), St. Joseph s Hospital, and was Chief of Staff Elect (1992) at CJ Harris Hospital in Sylva, NC. He has written and spoken extensively on timely topics in health law including Medical Malpractice, Medical Device Product Liability, Surgical Procedure Patents, The Medical Expert Witness Programs, Tort Reform, False Claim Qui Tam Actions, Outcome Studies, and Evidence Based Medicine. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law (J.D., 2005), the University of North Carolina School of Medicine (M.D. with Honors, Alpha Omega Alpha 1981), and Davidson College (B.S., Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa 1977). Daniel K. Bryson A founding partner with the law firm of Lewis & Roberts, PLLC, Mr. Bryson is one of the nation's most respected and experienced attorneys in the areas of mass torts and class actions. The firm has successfully handled cases against some of the largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies in the world. The firm has a core group of experienced attorneys, paralegals and nurse to successfully handle each case. For over twenty years, Mr. Bryson has focused his practice on complex civil litigation. Mr. Bryson frequently collaborates with other attorneys in order to assemble the most effective team possible. He is a frequent lecturer on a variety of consumer mass tort related disputes. Mr. Bryson has been quoted by a variety of media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times. Mr. Bryson graduated with honors from Wake Forest University School of Law in He has been named as a member of the Legal Elite and Super Lawyers in North Carolina on numerous occasions. Most recently, Mr. Bryson was on the trial team for a series of trials in Federal Court in Louisiana involving defective Chinese Drywall.

4 11:00 Client Injuries Pre and Post Implant Revision John Restaino, Jr., D.P.M., J.D., MPH (Epi), of the Restaino Law Firm, Denver, Colorado, practiced surgery of the foot and ankle from 1980 to 1990 and law since Dr. Restaino also has a MPH in Epidemiology form the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He brings a unique medical, surgical, and epidemiological approach to each mass tort litigation. He has been the chair or co-chair of the Expert & Science Committees of the Diet Pill, Rezulin, PPA, Propulsid, Zyprexa, Ortho Evra, Yaz/Yasmin and Gadolinium Contrast Agents MDLs. He has assisted in the development the science and experts from across the world in each of those MDLs. In addition, he has successfully defended experts under Daubert challenged while successfully challenging defense experts. Dr. Restaino has been involved in multiple mass tort trials including those involving Rezulin, PPA and Vioxx. He is asked to lecture across the country at both medical and legal programs. Dr. Restaino has also been a guest lecturer at both law schools and Johns Hopkins and he has recently been invited to join the adjunct faculty at the University of South Carolina Medical Center. Dr. Restaino has published peer-reviewed medical articles in addition to legal articles and written chapters in pharmaceutical law textbooks. His efforts within the Diet Pill MDL resulted in a chapter in a novel being written about him and his work in cardiopathology. Christopher L. Coffin, J.D., B.S.N, R.N., is a partner with Pendley, Baudin & Coffin, L.L.P., located in Plaquemine, Louisiana. He has years of experience and background in litigating complex cases involving defective pharmaceuticals and medical devices, environmental contamination, product liability, toxic torts and consumer fraud claims. He has been heavily involved in multiple class action and mass tort cases throughout the United States and has served as a leader in many national lawsuits representing thousands of individuals. Mr. Coffin has prosecuted cases against pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers for over nine (9) years and has been licensed as a registered nurse for approximately fifteen (15) years. He has been appointed as Co-Lead Counsel in two separate MDL actions: In re: Celexa and Lexapro Products Liability Litigation, in the Eastern District of Missouri, and In re: Celexa and Lexapro Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, in the District of Massachusetts. In addition, Mr. Coffin was a member of the PSC in the In re: Paxil Products Liability Litigation, in the Central District of California, and has served on various committees in multiple other MDL cases. 11:45 DePuy Litigation Update Christopher Seeger is co-founder of Seeger Weiss LLP and is one of the nation s most versatile, respected and accomplished attorneys in the area of complex and mass tort actions. Mr. Seeger has served as lead attorney and in other significant leadership roles in many of the country s most newsworthy and groundbreaking federal and state actions involving consumer fraud and negligence. With a particular expertise in pharmaceutical cases including Vioxx, Zyprexa, Rezulin, PPA and Ephedra, Mr. Seeger is regularly quoted in the press discussing these and other topics. In addition to representing large classes of plaintiffs who collectively seek damages from major pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and other corporations for consumer fraud and negligence, Mr. Seeger also represents individuals who have suffered injuries as the result of negligence or malfeasance. His successes have been lauded in the 2007 Top 20 Personal Injury Awards of the Year published by the New Jersey Law Journal, in Law Dragon 500 in 2007 and 2008, and in the National Law Journal's prestigious Plaintiffs' Hot List in 2007, 2008 and He also has been honored with entrance into the Hunter College Hall of Fame in 2007, and was named Cardozo Law School s Alumnus of the Year in Growing up with a father who was a union carpenter, Mr. Seeger witnessed the struggle between injured individuals and the big businesses that had wronged them. He himself, prior to attending college, worked as a carpenter, where he learned firsthand the value of physical labor and craftsmanship. On the side, Mr. Seeger showed his strategic and athletic abilities as an amateur boxer, where he honed his focus and aggressiveness - skills that stand him in good stead today in the courtroom.

5 Jamie L. Sheller handles and supervises medical device and drug product liability cases, breach and identity theft litigation, as well as consumer class actions, general personal injury and product liability cases. She works on all aspects of the litigation from initial client intake through trial and appeal. Ms. Sheller has extensive experience in organizing mass tort document production and use of databases. She is fully familiar with state-of-the-art computer technology and how to effectively use it for litigation. She has participated in national discovery efforts as well as serving on committees for drafting discovery and pleadings for both class action and multi-district litigation. She has been actively involved in interfacing with attorneys from all parts of the country on various steering committees, as well as the coordinating courts in order to organize and make decisions relating to complex litigation. She is a frequent lecturer for the American and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associations and American Bar Association. Ms. Sheller co-chaired a Pennsylvania Bar Association fund raising project for Habitat for Humanity which raised $50,000 and a rebuilt a house in North Philadelphia. She served as a pro bono attorney for the Disability Law Project -- representing numerous disabled children who had been denied insurance coverage for medically necessary care. Ms. Sheller has received several awards including: Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and One of Top 50 Women in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Special Achievement Award; Outstanding State New Lawyers Division Award; and she served as an advocate in the National College of Advocacy of the American Trial Lawyers Association. Ms. Sheller is admitted to the practice of law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Washington, DC. She holds a B.A. from New York University (1986) and J.D. from Villanova University School of Law (1989). 1:30 Evaluating your Case and Proving Damages W. Mark Lanier founded The Lanier Law Firm in Since then, Mr. Lanier has earned widespread recognition as one of the top trial lawyers in the United States. His work for clients across the country is supported by firm offices in Houston, New York, Los Angeles and Palo Alto, California. Mr. Lanier consistently is recognized among the country s leading legal minds by his peers and the media. The National Law Journal named him one of nation s Top 10 Trial Attorneys in 1998 and 2006, the same year the publication named Lanier as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. In 2010, The National Law Journal named Mark as one of the most Influential Attorneys of the Decade. He has earned similar honors from other publications, including The American Lawyer and Texas Monthly. He was further recognized by being included in Lawdragon s list of 500 Leading Lawyers in America for In its coverage of Mr. Lanier s stunning verdict in the nation s first Vioxx trial, The New York Times described him as one of the top civil trial lawyers in America... What the news clips can t measure or define is Mr. Lanier s commitment to his clients and the passion he brings to every case. Often motivated by injustice and a sense of fair play, he has helped even the score for individuals as well as large corporations. In addition to national recognition, Mr. Lanier also has earned accolades from his peers in Texas. In a statewide attorney survey published in Texas Monthly magazine, Mr. Lanier has earned selection to the Texas Super Lawyers list in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and In 2002, Texas Lawyer newspaper named Lanier as one of the Top 5 Go To Personal Injury Plaintiff Attorneys in Texas. The same publication named Lanier as its 2005 Impact Player of the Year and later recognized him as the Top Personal Injury Lawyer in Texas in Most recently they named Mr. Lanier as one of the Top 25 Attorneys of the Past Quarter Century. Dana Taschner is the Managing Attorney for The Lanier Law Firm in Los Angeles, and leads the firm's international practice group. Mr. Taschner has earned a national reputation as one of the leading plaintiff lawyers in the country due to his exceptional experience in coordinating nationwide, multidistrict, and international cases involving complex legal issues. He has been significantly involved in over a dozen cases before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, with aggregate settlements or verdicts exceeding $20Billion. Mr. Taschner's work in significant national and international litigation has been the subject of media coverage from such news outlets as CNN, 60 Minutes, MSNBC, CNBC, The New York

6 Times, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Taschner maintains the highest professional rating (AV) based on ability and ethics in the esteemed Martindale-Hubbell listing of the nation's top lawyers. He is a recipient of the American Bar Association s Sole Practitioner of the Year Award, selected from a field of over 400,000 lawyers in North American. 2:30 Zimmer Knee Implant Where is this Litigation Going Timothy J. Becker has protected the rights of clients injured by defective drugs, medical devices and products for nearly two decades. As a partner at Zimmerman Reed, Mr. Becker plays a pivotal role in the firm s commitment to successfully representing clients by exclusively dedicating his practice to representing the rights of those injured by dangerous and defective drugs or medical devices. He is actively involved in prosecuting claims on behalf of his clients who suffered injuries ranging from defective knee and hip implants, to catastrophic organ failure stemming from the use of over the counter herbal supplements. During the course of his career, Tim has developed an extensive background as a trial lawyer willing to vigorously prosecute claims on his client s behalf. Not limited to his court room trial experience alone, to date, Mr. Becker has been admitted to practice before the First, Fourth, Sixth, Eight, Ninth and Tenth United States Court of Appeals where he acted as the primary author of several appellate briefs. This combination of court room trial experience and appellate advocacy provides a unique perspective in effectively representing his clients interests. Stacy K. Hauer is a partner at Zimmerman Reed in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She represents clients who have been injured as a result of defective drugs or faulty medical devices. For the past several years, she has focused much of her practice in this area on cases including Baycol, Zyprexa, Medtronic Defibrillators, Guidant Defibrillators and Levaquin. Ms. Hauer graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School. She also received a Masters Degree from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Hauer s extensive background in biochemistry and pharmaceuticals make her uniquely qualified for drug and device litigation. Additionally, Stacy also has a background working in the health care industry which has given her a compassionate perspective in advocating for clients who have been injured by defective drugs and medical devices. 3:30 Medical Analysis of the Zimmer Marc D. Grossman is a Founding Partner of Sanders and Grossman P.C., and Baker Sanders Barshay Grossman Fass Muhlstock & Neuwirth, LLC, and a Senior Partner at Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman, P.C. and Sanders Viener Grossman LLP. Since beginning his law career in 1993, Mr. Grossman has focused primarily on representing large groups of plaintiffs against common defendants. After six years of practicing plaintiff's personal injury in State and Federal Courts in New York and New Jersey, Mr. Grossman founded the law firm of Sanders and Grossman, P.C. in 1999 specifically to pursue claims for medical providers. This firm, and its successors, grew dramatically under his leadership, and now represent thousands of medical providers litigating claims against insurance companies, and thousands of injury victims, and now employs over fifty attorneys and one hundred support staff. Most recently, Mr. Grossman has represented hundreds of injured clients in lead paint litigations, asbestos litigations, mold litigations, and victims of defective drugs and products. Mr. Grossman received tremendous recognition by counsel on both sides of the Bar litigating Vioxx cases in New Jersey Superior Court where he served as a liaison to the media as a member of the Vioxx PSC's Public Relations Committee, and as a liaison for the Committee to many financial institutions and governmental agencies, offering a common voice for the hundreds of attorneys handling such cases and the tens of thousands of victims they represent. These efforts and the hard work of many other relentless attorneys ultimately led Merck to agree to one of the largest Civil Settlements in American History for $4.95 Billion. Mr.

7 Grossman graduated from The University of Michigan in 1989 and completed the J.D./M.B.A. program at Brooklyn Law School and Baruch Business School'. Thomas Anapol, a Shareholder of Anapol Schwartz, concentrates his practice in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, Asbestos - Mesothelioma and other catastrophic injury related civil litigation. He co-chairs the firms Mass Tort Department. Mr. Anapol currently serves and has served in various positions for the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ) as a Board of Governor for the Association since 2005 and is its current chair of its Business Partners Committee. He is also a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and American Association for Justice (AAJ). He was recently appointed co-chair of AAJ s DePuy Metal on Metal Litigation Group and formerly served as co-chair of AAJ s Hydroxycut Litigation Group. Among other litigations, Mr. Anapol also served on the plaintiff s steering committee in the Guidant and Medtronic Defibrillator litigations. He periodically writes for the Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia and often lectures at various legal seminars. In 1988, Mr. Anapol received his Bachelor s degree from Boston University, and earned his law degree from Widener University School of Law in He is admitted to practice and actively practices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and various Federal Courts. Meryl Sanders Viener is a founding Member of Sanders Viener Grossman L.L.P. She has lectured extensively on Mass Torts and Lead Poisoning to the American Association for Justice, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Queens County Bar Association. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Fosamax Litigation Group for the American Association for Justice and has been invited to lecture at its Winter and Summer Conventions regarding the Fosamax Litigation. Ms. Viener is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and obtained her Juris Doctor at Brooklyn Law School. She has represented a multitude of children suffering from lead poisoning in claims against landlords. She successfully obtained over 30 million dollars for lead poisoned clients. She is currently a managing attorney of the firm s Mass Torts Litigation group. 4:30 Other Emerging Orthopedic Devices Michael Goetz is a partner in the Consumer Class Action and Mass Tort Department of Morgan & Morgan, P.A., the largest plaintiffs firm in the State of Florida and one of the largest in the nation. Mr. Goetz represents clients in mass tort matters throughout the United States, including clients with filed cases in nearly all of the currently active pharmaceutical and medical device MDLs. He was appointed to the Plaintiffs Steering Committee in the Total Body Formula litigation (MDL No. 2051) and he currently holds PSC subcommittee positions in a number of pending product liability MDLs, including Chinese Drywall (MDL No. 2047), Yaz/Yasmin (MDL No. 2100), and Denture Cream (MDL No. 2051). Mr. Goetz has prior experience defending medical device claims in the Orthopedic Bone Screw litigation (MDL No. 1014), as well as significant experience representing hundreds of heart device claimants in Guidant (MDL No. 1708), Medtronic I (MDL No. 1726), and Medtronic- Sprint Fidelis (MDL No. 1905). After earning his B.A. degree magna cum laude from Emory University in 1989, Mr. Goetz attended the University of Florida College of Law where he graduated with honors in He thereafter joined the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP where his practice focused on the defense of claims involving product liability, medical negligence, and general liability, as well as complex commercial litigation matters. In 2002, Mr. Goetz joined Morgan & Morgan, P.A. and shifted his practice to the prosecution of personal injury and wrongful death claims on behalf of individuals. He is "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Additionally, Mr. Goetz was designated in successive years by Florida Trend's Magazine as a Florida Legal Elite in the field of Civil Trial, and by Law & Politics Magazine as a Florida Super Lawyer in the field of Class Action/Mass Torts.

8 Daniel S. Robinson is a partner in the Newport Beach office of Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson, specializing in civil litigation. Mr. Robinson is admitted to practice law in New York and California. He is currently involved in several product liability litigations, including Hip Replacement, Yaz/Yasmin/Ocella, Heparin, Fosamax, Fentanyl, SSRI birth defects, Toyota acceleration and others. Mr. Robinson was appointed by the Honorable James G. Carr, Chief Judge of the Northern District of Ohio, to the Plaintiffs Executive Committee for the federal multidistrict proceeding for the Contaminated Heparin Litigation, MDL Mr. Robinson also handles several of the firm s cases involving significant privacy violations, personal injury claims, unfair business practices and general business litigation. Mr. Robinson has conducted several trials to date, including a November day MVA/bad faith trial where the jury, after 8 hours of deliberation, returned a verdict in favor of Plaintiff for the sum of $14,548, Mr. Robinson received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Williams College in Williamstown, MA. He received his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, CA where he was awarded both the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award and the Hon. William M. Byrne, Sr. Award. Mr. Robinson earned American Jurisprudence and First Honors Awards in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Marital Property, Mass Tort Litigation and Property II: Future Possessory Interests. 5:30 Important Considerations for Settlement B.J. Etscheid is President of Brook Hollow Financial, and Co Principal of Waterville Advisors. He is a frequent speaker on such topics as Deferred Attorney Fees, 468B Qualified Settlement Funds, and Structured Settlements. Mr. Etscheid specializes in advising Mass Tort firms on how to make the after settlement process easier for the firm and their clients. Mr. Etscheid received his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Christopher J. Princis is Senior Vice President of Brook Hollow Financial. In addition to working with plaintiff attorneys and their clients, he is a licensed CE instructor who trains real estate professionals, attorneys, tax advisors, and certified financial planners. He was one of the first resources to bring the Tenancy In Common investment strategy to the Midwest and works nationally in assisting clients with their tax deferral goals. Mr. Princis received his Bachelor of Science from Northern Illinois University, and his Masters from DePaul University.