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6 Litig. News 1 (1980-1981)

handle is hein.journals/lignws6 and id is 1 raw text is: Li W Fall Meeting: San Francisco Section to Lead Plus the Best Program Yet Big Case Study The Section of Litigation will hold its Fifth Annual Fall Meeting November 6-8, 1980, at the stunning Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco. The meeting offers Section members the ambience of one of the world's great cities, some of the best programs ever presented by the Section and an opportunity to meet the Section's leadership and become involved in its work. Outstanding Programs. The Section will offer more programs in San Francisco than at any prior fall meet- ing. The planners of the meeting have achieved their ob- jective of offering a program that addresses current issues of significant interest to every litigator in the Sec- tion. Topics include class actions, condemnation, secu- rities litigation, consumer protection, antitrust, interna- tional business disputes, appellate practice, teaching trial advocacy, gag orders and more. Every member at- tending will find one, and probably several, of the scheduled programs directly relevant to some pending matter. The program is listed in this issue, and a quick review will leave no doubt about its content and quality. Distinguished Speakers. Some of the nation's leading attorneys, judges and professors will participate in the meeting. Headliners include Chief Justice Rose E. Bird of the California Supreme Court, Associate Attorney General John H. Shenefield, Judge Jacob D. Fuchsberg of the New York Court of Appeals, Robert F. Hanley, former chairman of the Section and, more recently, lead counsel for the plaintiff in a trial that resulted in the largest verdict in American history, and Professor John Kaplan of Stanford Law School, a nationally recog- nized expert in evidence and criminal law. Superb Location. San Francisco offers visitors more beauty, more to do and more to remember than virtual- ly any other city in the nation. San Francisco's setting, skyline, restaurants and services are unsurpassed. It is a city that is hard to leave and impossible to forget. Section leaders and the meeting's planners expect a large turnout for-the Fifth Annual Fall Meeting Erly- registration and reservations will-be wise. The Section of Litigation's representative will serve as chairman of the newly created Coordinating Group to Study the Impact of the Big Case on Litigation Costs and Delay. The Coordinating Group, composed of representatives of various ABA and other entities, will examine the problems created by the growth of com- plex, protracted cases in recent years, monitor existing experiments, encourage new experiments for solving these problems and submit recommendations for more effective approaches to handling preparation and trial of the Big Case. Leonard Janofsky, retiring ABA President, recom- mended creation of the Coordinating Group. The ABA Board of Governors approved the recommendation at the ABA Annual Meeting in Honolulu. The recommen- dation provided that the Section of Litigation's repre- sentative would be chairman of the Coordinating Group. Section Chairman Asa Rountree has designated Edward W. Mullinix of Philadelphia as the Litigation Section's representative. Mullinix has served as a member of the Section's Council and the Special Com- mittee for the Study of Discovery Abuse. In announcing creation of the Coordinating Group, Janofsky stated that big cases such as United States v. IBM and Japanese Electronics Antitrust Litigation have contributed to court costs and delays that have made it more difficult for the average American to achieve timely justice at an affordable price. Janofsky added that the Coordinating Group will help us and other interested entities outside the. ABA to better mar- shal our limited resources of personnel and dollars in addressing this problem. The Coordinating Group includes several representa- tives of the judiciary. Mark W. Cannon will represent the Chief Justice of the United States. United States District Judge§ Andrew Caffrey of Boston, Milton Pollack of 'New York, and Philip Pratt of Detroit will represent the Judicial Conference of the United States. Judge Frank Kaufman of Baltimore will represent the ABA's Judicial (continued on page 12) Copyright © 1980 American Bar AssociationP Produced by the ABA Press

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