CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
W. Mark Lanier, Esq., Co-Chair
The Lanier Law Firm
Ginger Susman, Esq., Co-Chair
ARCHER
Ginger Susman is a Co-Executive Chairman of ARCHER Systems, LLC. Prior to ARCHER, Ms. Susman was Founder and President of Providio MediSolutions, LLC which focused primarily on lien resolution and QSF administration. Ms. Susman has been involved in the mass tort market for over 10 years and, in that time, has become widely recognized as a leading authority on settlement administration. In addition to helping drive ARCHER’s strategic vision and overall success, Ms. Susman frequently speaks at conferences and works behind the scenes with litigation stakeholders at the highest levels on strategic settlement resolution and administration issues.
FACULTY
Mike Arias, Esq.
Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos LLP
Mike Arias is the founding and managing partner of Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos LLP. He is the 2019 President of Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) and Immediate Past-President of Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA). In September of 2019, the Daily Journal named Mr. Arias one of the Top 100 Attorneys in California. Earlier in 2019, the Daily Journal named him one of the Top 30 Plaintiff Attorneys in California for the second year in a row. Mr. Arias is also a Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)...
Richard J. Arsenault, Esq., Co-Chair
Neblett, Beard & Arsenault
Steven C. Babin, Jr., Esq.
Babin Law
Steven loves being a lawyer. It gives him the opportunity to help real people. He considers it a privilege to fight for the rights of individuals that have been harmed by the negligence and maleficence of large corporations. Steven also loves to win. He helps lead the charge for complex mass tort and class action matters throughout the country....
Timothy Clark, Esq.
The Sanders Firm
Erin Copeland, Esq.
Fibich Leebron Copeland Briggs Josephson
Henry G. Garrard, III, Esq.
Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Ashley P.C.
Judge David R. Herndon
United States District Judge
Robert C. Hilliard, Esq.
Hilliard Martinez Gonzales
Kristine Kraft, Esq.
Schlichter Bogard and Denton
Danielle Ward Mason, Esq.
Sanders Phillips Grossman
Richard R. Meadow, Esq.
The Lanier Law Firm
Lee Melchionni, Esq.
Integrated Financial Settlements
Mike Morgan, Esq.
Morgan and Morgan
Majed Nachawati, Esq.
Fears Nachawati
Steve Nober
Consumer Attorney Marketing Group
Neil D. Overholtz, Esq.
Partner, Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz
Adam Pulaski, Esq.
Pulaski Law Firm
In 2005, Adam was successful in negotiating one of the first nationwide round II opt-out settlements for the Fen-Phen Diet Drug Litigation. In addition, he is currently representing thousands of clients in Zyprexa, Vioxx, Guidant Defibrilator and other mass tort litigation. Recently, he was one of the first to file a lawsuit for the Guidant Defibrilator litigation in the State of Texas. Hard work, determination and personal attention are things that you can expect when being represented by Adam and the firm of Pulaski & Law Firm...
Jack Rutherford, Esq.
Rutherford Law
Jack Rutherford founded Rutherford with the idea that a law firm could help people with a broad range of issues through leveraging successes holding corporations accountable in support of the firm's criminal justice and civil rights work. Always favoring the underdog and never one to back down from a bully, Jack has been leading the charge against Gilead Sciences, Inc. for withholding a safer version of their cornerstone HIV prevention and treatment medication Truvada in order to extend patent exclusivity periods and nearly triple their already already blockbuster profits...
Hunter J. Shkolnik, Esq.
Napoli Shkolnik PLLC
R. Brent Wisner, Esq.
Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman
Genevieve Zimmerman, Esq.
Meshbesher & Spence