Past DRI Events

Drug and medical device manufacturers remain a target in high stakes litigation. Understanding the basics of drug and medical device litigation is key to defending the makers of these life-saving and life-saving drugs and devices. Join DRI for an informative webinar for a better understanding of FDA's regulation of drug and medical devices; product liability claims and defenses; and the applicability of the learned intermediary defense.

The registration is $75 for DRI members and $150 for non-members.

Sponsored by Trellis

Join DRI and Trellis for an engaging webinar as we cover how strategic legal research & analytics enables you to analyze the behavior and history of your judge, competitive counsel, prospects and clients to gain crucial insights into litigation history and ruling tendencies. We’ll show you how to leverage state trial court data to be more efficient, more proactive, and achieve better results for your clients. You’ll learn how to maximize legal analytics to add value to your firm while gaining a competitive advantage, win cases and bring in more money when litigating in state trial courts.

Topics will include:

* Judge Analytics and Ruling History
* Draft Stronger Motions, Faster
* Case Valuation and Verdict Data
* Strategic State Trial Court Research
* Alerts - Stay Informed

Discover how you can capitalize on legal research + analytics using state trial court data to make more informed decisions. We encourage you to join this informative session to add value to your firm and to your practice.

This webinar is free for DRI members and non-members.

Sponsored by DeeGee Rehab Technologies Ltd.

Join this webinar for an insightful presentation on medical damages, including the assessment of damages, examples of accommodations, economic considerations, and an understanding of the roles of Life Care Planners as well as Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation professionals.

This webinar is free for DRI members and non-members.

The labor law under the National Labor Relations Act continues to be an important field of practice. It not only governs the right to form, join, and assist labor unions and labor-management relations such as collective bargaining, strikes, and boycotts but it also creates rights for even non-union employees. Because the National Labor Relations Board regulates through quasi-judicial decision making, the rules tend to shift with each new administration, and President Biden has promised to be very pro-union, which is expected to lead to more union activity and even greater protection for non-union employees.

Our presenters are highly-skilled traditional labor lawyers who cumulatively have decades of experience representing and advising employers on union elections, collective bargaining, strikes, boycotts, and picketing, and defending employers on arbitrated grievances and unfair labor practice charges before the NLRB. 

The registration is $300 for DRI members and $500 for non-members.

Sponsored by ESi

In this course, participants will learn how chemical compositions in building materials affect their functions and how modern chemical analysis can determine the root cause when they fail. The course will introduce participants to the nomenclature and basics of the chemicals used in modern building materials. Case studies will show how chemistry is used to identify types of failure issues, as well as the analytical tools used to determine causation of the failure. At the end of the course, participants will have obtained an understanding of how highly engineered, modern building materials are dependent upon chemistry to make them operate properly, and how deviations in those chemical components can adversely affect the performance of these materials in their intended function.

This webinar is free for DRI members and non-members.

Sponsored by Rimkus

In an effort to address the shifting ways in which consumers access product safety information, the ANSI Z535 series of standards is evolving. The upcoming ANSI Z535.7 will address how to present safety information in electronic media, such as video, online, and other digital platforms. This webinar includes:

1. Insights into why ANSI Z535.7 standard is being developed and why it matters,
2. What standards users can expect,
3. Beyond the standard, additional considerations when providing safety information in digital format,
4. A brief update on the soon-to-be-published revisions of ANSI Z535.1 through .6.

Speakers:
Farheen Khan, Vice President
Judi Isaacson, Consultant
Jared Frantz, Consultant

This webinar is free for DRI members and non-members.

This program will provide practitioners with an overview of the general law of product liability from theories of liability to defenses, as well as practical considerations when handling a product case.

The registration is $75 for DRI members and $150 for non-members.

Sponsored by J.S. Held

Currently, there are two hundred fifty (250) known disease-causing microorganisms or pathogens that are responsible for twenty (20) percent of the reported foodborne cases. The cause of the remaining eighty (80) percent of foodborne illness cases are unknown. This presentation will focus on foodborne illness and food contamination in the restaurant, retail, and hospitality sectors. Trained experts, such as epidemiologists and toxicologists, determine how these incidents may have occurred, including the root cause, and provide recommendations on how to eliminate or resolve the problem. As an example, an epidemiologist can create an epidemiological curve, a type of chart, to determine how long the illness occurred from ingestion of the suspect food item in multiple people. This curve can be used to rule out other illnesses such as non-foodborne viruses that could have caused similar symptoms as a foodborne illness.

Presenter:
Allison Stock, PhD, MPH, MS | Vice President | Environmental, Health & Safety | J.S. Held

This webinar is free for DRI members and non-members.

Join us for an engaging conversation with the preeminent constitutional scholar, Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of U.C. Berkeley Law School. Dean Chemerinsky will discuss the most interesting and impactful cases to come before the United States Supreme Court in 2022. A year like no other, this presentation will get you everything you need to know to catch up on the current happenings within the Court and prepare for what 2023 may bring. This presentation will be moderated by former DRI Employment and Labor Law Committee Chair, Stanley E. Graham, Partner, Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis, LLP.

The registration is $75 for DRI members and $150 for non-members.

Sponsored by J.S. Held

This presentation gives an overview of iPhone LiDAR data collection procedures. It gives an in-depth look at current and past research that was conducted by the presenter on this new technology. In addition to LiDAR data collection, it also provides an overview of cell phone data retrieval and it’s capabilities using the Cellebrite system.

This webinar is free for DRI members and non-members.

Sponsored by Exponent

When a workplace injury or fatality involves a product, the actions of both the employer and the product manufacturer are often scrutinized. Workers’ compensation laws forbid most injured workers from suing their employers, but claims against manufacturers of products used in the workplace are common. Such claims often raise complex questions about interactions between the product, the workplace, and the workers. These questions can involve product design, usability, marketing, warnings, instructions, and maintenance requirements, as well as workplace safety management systems.

This presentation will discuss how human factors professionals with expertise in occupational safety and health can evaluate the conduct of employers, workers, contractors, and product manufacturers in these contexts, including illustrative case studies involving industrial equipment, control software, and chemical products.

Presenters:
Chason J. Coelho, Ph.D., CSP, CFI | Senior Managing Scientist | Exponent
Julia K. Diebol, Ph.D., CSP, C.P.S.M. | Senior Scientist | Exponent

This webinar is free for DRI members and non-members.