Kassim Al-Khatib, Ph.D. is a professor of plant sciences and cooperative extension specialist at the University of California, Davis, and was Director of the University of California's Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program. A Fulbright scholar, he is a fellow and/or president of numerous weed science organizations. Dr. Al-Khatib's multi-faceted research focuses on various plant/herbicide/ environment interactions, and in particular off-target pesticide movement. Dr. Al-Khatib is a world authority on herbicide drift damage on nontarget crops.

Joseph R. Alberts is Senior Counsel for Dow AgroSciences LLC, responsible for global litigation. He has handled legal matters in all 50 U.S. states and in more than 20 countries, and has extensive experience with GMO plant issues and herbicide crop damage/lost yield claims and litigation. Mr. Alberts has been recognized as an Indiana Super Lawyer, was an Indianapolis Business Journal "Forty Under 40" award recipient, has authored more than 30 legal publications and law review articles, and has presented more than 50 professional development seminars.

Christopher (Chris) Alviggi with Alliant Insurance Services Inc., brings over 20 years of accretive experience in many areas of corporate risk and insurance including assessing risks of loss arising from international energy and marine projects and operations. Chris is a highly-regarded international insurance professional with specialized knowledge of transactional and operational insurance including due diligence reviews (buy or sell). Chris has demonstrated success with structuring and implementing complicated international environmental insurance programs for international trading companies and implements layered insurance programs to provide maximum protection. Furthermore, Chris is well versed in all areas of commercial insurance and has the ability to coordinate /decipher attachable insurance coverage and convey his findings in a concise and simplified manner. Lastly, Chris is well versed in alternative risk transfer schemes including captives, fronting to ensure local compliance and reinsurance.

Steven J. Antunes joined AEGIS Insurance Services in July 1994 and is responsible for the timely and accurate coverage analysis, investigation, evaluation, negotiation and resolution of environmental claims and litigation. He manages and directs national coverage counsel in declaratory judgment environmental actions including Manufactured Gas Plants, Superfund Sites, Generation Outage, Global Warming/Climate Change Litigation, Clean Air Act Litigation, Toxic Tort Litigation, Asbestos Litigation, Ash Ponds Litigation, Electromagnetic Field Litigation and Hydraulic Fracturing Litigation.

Lynn L. Bergeson is the owner and Managing Partner of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. Ms. Bergeson has earned an international reputation for her deep and expansive understanding of TSCA, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the European Union's Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation, and especially how these regulatory programs pertain to nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other emerging transformative technologies. Her knowledge of and involvement in the policy process allows her to develop client-focused strategies whether advocating before Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), or other governance and standard-setting bodies.

James C. Burrows is experienced in a wide variety of valuation, antitrust, international trade, and transfer pricing issues He has testified or consulted to counsel in litigation involving various industries, including environmental economics. He has also assisted several clients in presentations before the Federal Trade Commission. Dr. Burrows is a frequent publisher of books and articles on issues involving natural resource economics, having recently published chapters in Contingent Valuation of Environmental Goods, Elgar, 2017.

Edward K. Cheng is FedEx Research Professor and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School. His scholarship focuses on expert evidence and the interaction between law and statistics. He is co-author of the five-volume treatise Modern Scientific Evidence, and is a six-time winner of the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award at Vanderbilt. Cheng is a former chair of the AALS Section on Evidence, and is the host of Excited Utterance, a podcast on scholarship in evidence and proof.

David Y. Chung is a partner in Crowell & Moring's Environment & Natural Resources Group in Washington, DC. His practice focuses on litigation, enforcement defense, and regulatory counseling arising under a broad range of federal environmental and land use statutes, such as the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, CERCLA, and NEPA. David represents clients in numerous industries including agriculture, mining, oil and gas, forestry, and electric utilities.

Kevin E. Clark is a partner with the law firm of Lightfoot Franklin & White, LLC, in Birmingham, Alabama. His practice consists of general civil defense litigation, with an emphasis on product liability, personal injury, and toxic torts. He has served as Committee Chair of the Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Committee and Program Chair of the DRI TTEL Seminar. Kevin also has served as Program Chair of the DRI Diversity for Success Seminar and has spoken on diversity at several DRI seminars.

Kimberly A. Connick is a member of the Harris Beach Mass Torts and Industry-Wide Litigation Practice Group. Ms. Connick focuses her practice in the areas of complex litigation including toxic torts, products liability, catastrophic injury, and general liability defense. Ms. Connick served as a senior member of the defense team for the World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation and subsequently led a team that coordinated the settlements between approximately 1,200 plaintiffs and 400 defendants in the litigation.

John C. Cruden is a Principal in Beveridge and Diamond law firm and President of the American College of Environmental Lawyers after having served most recently as Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD), U.S. DOJ. He was confirmed by the Senate in December 2014 and served until January 2017. While at DOJ, Mr. Cruden personally led the settlement negotiation for BP/Deepwater Horizon and the Volkswagen litigation. Prior to that, he was the President of the Environmental Law Institute, the career Deputy Assistant Attorney General , the Chief of Environmental Enforcement Section of ENRD, and served in the military.

Mark M. Davidson, Ph.D. is a Senior Scientist with Geosyntec Consultants in Pasadena, obtained his Ph.D. in geochemistry and microbial ecology from Princeton University. He assesses the fate and transport of a wide range of contaminants at industrial sites, designs remediation systems, and supports litigation matters related to a variety of recalcitrant and emerging contaminants. His specialty practice areas include the use of forensic approaches such as compound specific isotope analysis (CSIA), molecular biological tools (MBTs), statistical trend analyses, and chemical fingerprinting.

Brenda Washington Davis is an accomplished organization leader with over 20 years of management, strategy, and operational experience in the water industry. She uses innovative administration and legal tools to provide reliable access to water for multiple uses throughout California's Central Valley, advocating science based solutions on Bay/Delta and other issues; drove government agencies to reexamine operating rules for Central Valley Project and State Water Project management and fisheries protection under the federal Endangered Species Act and Californian water law.

Tonja D. De Sloover is Associate General Counsel, Head of Litigation for Energy Transfer. She manages litigation for Energy Transfer and all the subsidiaries and affiliates in the Energy Transfer family of companies. Tonja began her current role in January 2013. Previously, she was a litigation partner at Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP (now Norton Rose Fulbright) with a practice consisting of complex litigation and domestic and international arbitrations, with an emphasis on construction matters. Tonja represented a broad range of clients from Fortune 500 companies to small individual business owners and represented plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal court. Tonja first- chaired multiple cases before a judge and a jury. From 2008-2009, Tonja was seconded to Fulbright's London location, where she worked on UK litigation matters, FCPA investigations, bankruptcy proceedings, internal investigations, international arbitration, and insurance issues, among others. Tonja also became a licensed solicitor.

Noel Edlin defends clients throughout the U.S. in high-stakes environmental, toxic tort, and product liability matters. During his past three decades of practicing law Noel has successfully tried numerous cases to verdict, and every year since 2006 he has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer for Environmental Litigation. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 1982 from UC Hastings College of the Law where he currently serves as a Member of the UC Hastings Board of Governors.

John S. Guttmann is a principal in the law firm Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. and is based in its Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on toxic tort, product liability, environmental and natural resource damages litigation. He represents clients in a range of industries including oil and gas, chemicals, defense, real estate and consumer products. Over the past 34 years, Mr. Guttmann has litigated nationally in federal and state courts, including bench and jury trials. John is the Chair of the Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee.

Jeffrey A. Holmstrand is a member at Grove, Holmstrand & Delk, PLLC, in Wheeling, West Virginia. His practice focusses on defending products liability claims, including those brought against pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers; mass torts/class actions of all sorts; and complex insurance disputes. AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, he has been named a Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in the areas of Appellate Practice, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants.

William J. (Bill) Hubbard is a partner in Thompson Hine LLP's Product Liability and Construction practice groups. He focuses on mass tort and class action litigation and risk avoidance concerning commercial, consumer, and building products, and claims involving architects, engineers, and other construction professionals. He regularly appears in numerous cases throughout the United States and is a member of the Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates and the Ohio Chemistry Technology Council. Bill is the Program Chair for the Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar.

Gregory V. Jolivette, Jr. has been with The Sherwin-Williams Company since January 2014. In his role, he primarily handles claims and cases that arise out of the operations of S-W's stores in the United States and Canada – from products liability claims and cases to contractual and real estate disputes and almost everything in between. He also assists with handling and managing S-W's lead, asbestos, and toxic tort cases.

Louis A. Kapicak, Ph.D. Interim Assistant Professor-University of Florida (1971-1974). Research & Development-Union Carbide/Dow Chemical (1974-2002). Retired as Associate Director of R&D. Sole Proprietor-Products & Process Chemistry Consulting, LLC (2002-present). Senior Research Scientist-MATRIC (2004-present). Have served as an expert witness in civil (both federal and state court) litigation, and corporate patent infringement litigation. Married 48 years with 3 daughters and 8 grandchildren.

J. David Krause, Ph.D., MSPH, CIH serves as the national practice leader in Toxicology and Risk Assessment for Forensic Analytical Consulting Services (FACS) in Tallahassee, Florida. David is both a Toxicologist and a Certified Industrial Hygienist with expertise in risk assessment, workplace exposures, health care facilities, Legionnaires' disease, and mold. He co-authored the 2009 Guidelines for the Surveillance, Investigation, and Control of Legionnaires' Disease in Florida and the 2015 AIHA Guideline for the Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Legionella in Building Water Systems.

David C. Landever practices complex civil litigation with a particular interest in matters of medical, scientific and technical nature. He has managed and participated in multiple federal and state trials to verdict on matters involving occupational/environmental exposures, medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs. David has successfully argued before the Ohio Supreme Court; he has presented evidence in several MDL Daubert proceedings, and has participated in the drafting of several national mass tort settlements.

Shari Beth Libicki, Ph.D. Ramboll Environ's global Air Quality Service Line Leader, has over 25 years of chemical fate and transport experience, applied to a wide variety of air quality issues. She is an expert on GHG evaluations for CEQA documents and is at the forefront of developing regulations in California, with a particular emphasis on big data applications. She works on evaluating the application of micro-sensors to environmental issues. She has a BSE from the University of Michigan in Chemical Engineering and an MS and PhD from Stanford University in Chemical Engineering.

Adam H. Love, Ph.D. is Vice President and Principal Scientist at Roux Associates and the firm's Litigation Practice area leader. Dr. Love is an testifying expert at applying an array of technical tools for addressing environmental forensics questions regarding the source and release timing of contamination, and allocation of contaminant contribution among multiple PRPs. Dr. Love is also often asked to evaluate the potential impacts of emerging contaminants on the risk for reopening previously investigated and/or closed sites.

Suresh H. Moolgavkar, MD, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow and Principal with Exponent, has over 30 years of experience in the fields of epidemiology, biostatistics, and quantitative risk assessment. He has published over 170 papers in these fields and numerous papers on lung cancer. He is internationally known for his work in developing mechanistically based dose-response models for carcinogenesis, and, in particular, for the two-mutation clonal expansion model, also known as the Moolgavkar-Venzon-Knudson (MVK) model.

Robert D. Mowrey is a founding partner of the Southeast's premier environmental boutique law firm, Kazmarek Mowrey Cloud Laseter LLP (kmcllaw.com). Bob represents clients facing complex environmental matters, including litigation, enforcement and regulatory advice, often involving "bet the company" scenarios. He is a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) and has been recognized with listings in Best Lawyers in America; Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers; Who's Who Legal; Legal 500; and LawDragon.

Lisa Marie Nespoli is the Product Safety and Stewardship Manager in the Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs group at Covestro. Lisa Marie provides guidance and expertise on product health, safety, and stewardship to Covestro's businesses and leadership teams and is responsible for developing and implementing product stewardship processes for Covestro. Lisa Marie represents the company on industry trade association groups such as the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the American Coatings Association (ACA), and the Adhesive and Sealant Council (ASC). At ACC, she chairs both the Aliphatic Diisocyanates Panel and the Product Stewardship Committee and was involved in the development of the Product Safety Code under Responsible Care®. Lisa Marie earned her M.S. in Biology and M.S. in Environmental Science and Management from Duquesne University and her B.S. in Biology from Allegheny College.

Kristen K. Orr is a litigation attorney at Stites & Harbison, PLLC. Her practice focuses on mass tort actions, medical malpractice, product liability, and toxic tort defense. Ms. Orr serves as the Program Vice Chair of the DRI Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar.

Scott Palmergraduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2006. Among other opportunities, Mr. Palmer worked for the U S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C. for the Commercial Litigation Branch from 2008-2011. While there, Mr. Palmer served on the bid protest team and received an Attorney General's award for excellence. Mr. Palmer subsequently worked as associate corporate counsel for APL Limited and now works as corporate counsel for Arcadis U. S., Inc.

The Honorable Jed S. Rakoff, a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York since 1996, has taught seminars on Science and the Courts and served on the Governance Board of the MacArthur Foundation Project on Law and Neuroscience and on the National Academies' Committee to Prepare the Third Edition of the Federal Judges' Manual on Scientific Evidence. He has a B.A. from Swarthmore College, an M.Phil. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

James B. (Jimmy) Slaughter has a national practice in environmental, toxic tort and constitutional litigation. His focus includes solid waste, wastewater, drinking water, biosolids, and preemption and Commerce Clause issues. He is a partner with Beveridge & Diamond in Washington, DC and began his career as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit for the Honorable James Sprouse. Jimmy graduated from Yale College and Columbia Law School.

Susan E. Smith is leader of the Toxic Tort Practice Group at Goldberg Segalla. Her current practice is focused on counseling clients facing public health investigations, regulatory actions, and litigation related to chemical, pathogen, and hazardous substance exposures, and soil and water contamination linked to residential, commercial, and industrial properties. Ms. Smith also guides clients through incident response and remediation. In recent years, Ms. Smith has represented clients facing Legionnaires' disease incidents, claims, and lawsuits in more than 15 states.

C. Nicole Sullivan in Environmental Counsel at BASF, where she deals with a spectrum of corporate environmental-, transactional-, OSHA-, and TSCA-related issues. Prior to BASF, Ms. Sullivan worked at private law firms where she handled a similar suite of issues for an array of private party and corporate clients. Ms. Sullivan has counseled numerous clients through environmental instigation and remediation activities and advised them of potential risks for environmental re-opening.

Elizabeth Taber is a Tort and Environmental Litigation partner in King & Spalding's Houston office. Elizabeth represents clients in the energy and oilfield services industries in high-stakes litigation, including product liability and environmental contamination, oil and gas–related disputes, and complex commercial matters. She has been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers as a Rising Star and by Legal 500 as a "Next Generation Lawyer." Elizabeth is a member of the Young Energy Professionals of the Institute of Energy Law, the Texas Defense Counsel Association and the DRI.

Barton H. (Buzz) Thompson, Jr. is a Senior Fellow and the Founding Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. He is the Robert E. Paradise Professor in Natural Resources Law at Stanford Law School. In 2008, the Supreme Court appointed Thompson to serve as the special master in Montana v. Wyoming. His research focuses on the sustainable use of water and other natural resources and on the effective design of regulatory institutions. He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Carmen R. Toledo is a partner in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding, where she concentrates her prac-tice on toxic tort, environmental and other complex litigation matters. She has handled individual, mass joinder and class action cases throughout the US, both at the trial and appellate levels. She is a frequent speaker on diversity and mentoring issues. Carmen is the Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Vice Committee Chair.

David Ullrich was Executive Director of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative for fourteen years, following a thirty-year career at EPA Region V, where his roles included Acting Regional Administrator and Deputy Regional Administrator. He currently serves as Chair of the Water Quality Board for the International Joint Commission, Chair of the Great Lakes Advisory Board, and U.S. Section Chair of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, as well as in many other roles throughout the Great Lakes region.

Clifford J. Zatz is a partner at Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, DC. Cliff has tried cases alleging environmental exposure to trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride, PCBs, and dioxins; formaldehyde in home insulation; and occupational exposure to benzene and isocyanates. He has also litigated product liability, defamation, Fifth Amendment takings, cyber security, breach of contract, wrongful death, and intellectual property cases in the courts of more than twenty states. Cliff teaches annually in NITA's DC regional program in Building Trial Skills.