List of Confirmed Witnesses for the Public Hearing on Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Washington, D.C.

Back in July I posted on the "Duke Rules" package of federal rule amendments dealing with discovery, and noted that the first of the public hearings would be in DC in November. Well, that day is today, and here's the lineup of who's testiying regarding the proposed rules.  

Again, these are proposed changes to discovery in federal courts being considered through the rulemaking process - as opposed to, for example, Congressional legislation or judicially-developed caselaw, both of which I've posted, updated, and tweeted about in the last week.  Appears to be a hot topic.

List of Confirmed Witnesses for the Public Hearing on Proposed Amendments to the

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules 

Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building - Washington, D.C.

November 7, 2013 - 9:00 A.M.

Testimony Beginning at 9:00 A.M.

1.         Jack B. McCowan, Jr., Gordon & Rees LLP

2          Jeana M. Littrell, FedEx Express

[Time Slot Available]

3.         John C. S. Pierce, Butler Pappas Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

4.         Altom M. Maglio, Maglio Christopher & Toale

5.         David R. Cohen, Reed Smith LLP

6.         Cory L. Andrews, Washington Legal Foundation

7.         Mary Massaron Ross, Plunkett & Cooney

8.         Paul D. Carrington, Duke University School of Law

 

Testimony Beginning at 10:50 A.M.

 9.         Jonathan M. Redgrave, Redgrave LLP

10.       Paul J. Stancil, University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign

11.       Thomas Y. Allman

12.       Daniel C. Hedlund, Committee to Support Antitrust Laws

13.       Anna Benvenutti Hoffman, Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP

14.       Peter E. Strand, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

15.       Dan Troy, GlaxoSmithKline

 

Testimony Beginning at 1:00 P.M.

 16.       Burton LeBlanc, American Association for Justice

17.       [Time Slot Available]

18.       Wayne B. Mason, Sedgwick LLP     

19.       Darpana M. Sheth, Institute for Justice

20.       Robert L. Levy, Exxon Mobil Corporation

21.       Michelle D. Schwartz, Alliance for Justice

22.       Andrea Vaughn, Public Justice Center, Inc.

23.       Barry H. Dyller, Dyller Law Firm

24.       Alexander R. Dahl, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

25.       Lily Claffee, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Testimony Beginning at 3:00 P.M.

26.       John F. Karl, Jr., McDonald & Karl

27.       Stephen Z. Chertkof, Heller, Huron, Chertkof & Salzman, PLLC

28.       Jennifer I. Klar, Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC

29.       Nicholas Woodfield, The Employment Law Group

30.       Robert C. Seldon, Seldon Bofinger & Associates, P.C.

31.       Marc E. Williams, Lawyers for Civil Justice           

32.       John P. Relman, Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC

33.       Malini Moorthy, Pfizer Inc.

34.       Johnathan Smith, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.

35.       Wendy R. Fleishman, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein

36.       Patrick M. Regan, Regan Zambri Long & Bertram

37.       Michael C. Rakower, New York State Bar Association

38.       Wade Henderson, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

39.       Jane Dolkart, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

40.       Frank L. Steeves, Emerson

41.       Joseph M. Sellers, Cohen Milstein