Dear Colleagues:
On April 7, 2006, UMKC Law School will host a remarkable class
action symposium. The Law School, with support from the law firm of
Jones Day, will bring together the most distinguished faculty of class action
judges, scholars and practitioners ever to meet at a single event. This unique
learning experience will complement the publication of the special UMKC Law
Review’s comprehensive examination of the 20th anniversary of Phillips Petroleum v. Shutts. I hope many of you will be able to attend.
Sincerely,
Professor Robert Klonoff
Douglas Stripp/Missouri Professor of Law
UMKC School of Law
Symposium Chair
Nonprofit Org.
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Professor
Jones Day
with project support from
presents
Arthur Miller
Harvard Law School
Opening Keynote Speaker
Class Action
Symposium
MCLE credit: 8.0 hours in most jurisdictions. Visit our Web site or contact us for information about a specific
jurisdiction. Written materials include the UMKC Law Review Symposium Issue and Class Actions Nutshell by
Professor Klonoff.
Prof. Debra L. Bassett
Loula Fuller and Dan Myers Professor
Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Fla.
Prof. Linda S. Mullenix
Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy
University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Austin, Tex.
Edward K. M. Bilich
Jones Day, Washington, D.C.
Prof. Richard A. Nagareda
Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tenn.
Prof. Deborah R. Hensler
Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution
Stanford Law School, Stanford, Calif.
James Sullivan
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, Mo.
Mark Herrmann
Jones Day, Cleveland, Ohio
Patricia J. Villareal
Jones Day, Dallas, Tex.
Prof. Samuel Issacharoff
Bonnie & Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law
New York University School of Law, New York, N.Y.
Brian Wolfman
Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C.
Matthew W. Lampe
Jones Day, Columbus, Ohio
Prof. Patrick Woolley
Beck, Redden & Secrest Professor
University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Austin, Tex.
William Lerach
Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP
San Diego, Calif.
Prof. Stephen C. Yeazell
David G. Price & Dallas P. Price Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, Calif.
Prof. Nancy Levit
Curators’ and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law
UMKC School of Law, Kansas City, Mo.
Panels will address the following:
· Phillips Petroleum Company v. Shutts:
20 years later
· Class Action Fairness Act
· Ethical Issues in Class Action Litigation
· Labor and Employment Class Actions
· Securities Class Actions
· Mass Torts Class Actions
Prof. Francis E. McGovern
Duke University School of Law, Durham, N.C.
Prof. Geoffrey P. Miller
Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law
Director, Center for the Study of Central Banks
New York University School of Law, New York, N.Y.
Friday, April 7, 2006
Liberty Memorial Auditorium
100 W. 26th Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Prof. Edward F. Sherman
Moise F. Steeg, Jr. Professor of Law
Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, La.
Symposium
Prof. Edward H. Cooper
Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law
The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Joseph M. Sellers
Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.
Class Action
Prof. John C. Coffee
Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law
Columbia Law School, New York, N.Y.
Prof. William B. Rubenstein
UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, Calif.
UMKC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.
Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
San Francisco, Calif.
Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal
U.S. District Judge, Southern District of Texas
Houston, Tex.
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Continuing Legal Education
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City MO 64110-2499
Panelists
Panelists
Prof. Debra L. Bassett
Edward K. M. Bilich
Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Prof. Edward H. Cooper
Prof. John C. Coffee
Prof. Deborah R. Hensler
Mark Herrmann
Prof. Samuel Issacharoff
Matthew W. Lampe
William Lerach
Prof. Nancy Levit
Prof. Francis E. McGovern
Prof. Geoffrey P. Miller
Prof. Linda S. Mullenix
Prof. Richard A. Nagareda
Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal
Prof. William B. Rubenstein
Joseph M. Sellers
Prof. Edward F. Sherman
James Sullivan
Patricia J. Villareal
Brian Wolfman
Prof. Patrick Woolley
Prof. Stephen C. Yeazell
Friday, April 7, 2006
CLE Credit:
Kansas pending
Missouri 9.1 hours
Liberty Memorial Auditorium
100 W. 26th Street
Kansas City, Mo.
The Honorable
Diane Wood
U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
Lunch Keynote Speaker
Professor
Robert Klonoff
Symposium Chair
UMKC School of Law
Symposium Faculty
Prof. Arthur R. Miller
Bruce Bromley Professor
of Law
Harvard Law School
Arthur R. Miller is the Bruce Bromley
Professor of Law at Harvard Law
School, where he has taught since
1971. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of
Rochester and his law degree from
Harvard Law School. Before joining
the Harvard faculty, he practiced
law in New York City and taught at
the University of Minnesota and the
University of Michigan.
Among lawyers he is nationally
known for his work on court procedure (a subject on which he has
authored or co-authored more than
40 books), copyright and unfair competition, and remedies. The general
public knows him for his work in the
field of the right of privacy, a subject
on which he has written, testified,
debated, and helped formulate
legislation. His book The Assault on
Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and
Dossiers (1971) has been extremely
influential.
In recent years Professor Miller
has taught courses on civil procedure, copyright, and complex litigation; he recently co-taught a seminar
on law, information and technology.
He has worked in the public interest
in the fields of privacy, computers,
copyright and the courts. Among the
responsible positions he has held
are those of commissioner on the
United States Commission on New
Technological Uses of Copyrighted
Works, reporter for and member
of the Advisory Committee on Civil
Rules of the Judicial Conference of
the United States, and reporter for
the American Law Institute’s Project
on Complex Litigation.
Hon. Diane P. Wood
U.S. Court of Appeals
7th Circuit
Senior Lecturer in Law
University of Chicago
Law School
Diane P. Wood is a circuit judge on
the United States Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit and a senior
lecturer in law at the University of
Chicago Law School. Wood attended
the University of Texas at Austin,
earning her B.A. in 1971 (highest
honors) and her J.D. in 1975 (Order
of the Coif). After graduation from
law school, she clerked for Judge
Irving L. Goldberg on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
(1975-76) and for Justice Harry
A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme
Court (1976-77). She then spent a
brief period at the Office of the Legal
Adviser in the U.S. Department of
State.
In 1980, she began her career
as a legal academic at Georgetown
University Law Center. She moved to
the University of Chicago Law School
in 1981, serving as a full-time professor until 1995 and as associate
dean from 1989 through 1992. In
1990, she was named to the Harold
J. and Marion F. Green Professorship in International Legal Studies,
becoming the first woman to hold
a named chair at the school. From
1993 until she was appointed to the
Seventh Circuit in 1995, she served
as deputy assistant attorney general
in the Antitrust Division of the U.S.
Department of Justice. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
& Sciences and is on the Council of
the American Law Institute.
Wood has three children. She
enjoys playing the oboe and English
horn in several Chicago-area amateur orchestras.
Schedule of Events
Symposium Chair
and Moderator:
Prof. Robert Klonoff
Douglas Stripp Missouri
Professor of Law
UMKC School of Law
Counsel to Jones Day
Prof. Klonoff is a national authority
in the field of complex litigation. A
1979 graduate of Yale Law School,
Klonoff served as an assistant to
the Solicitor General of the United
States, an Assistant United States
Attorney, a visiting professor at the
University of San Diego Law School,
and law clerk for John R. Brown,
Chief Judge, United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He also
previously taught class actions at
Georgetown Law Center.
He has authored or co-authored
five books, including the West
Group Casebook, Class Actions
and Other Multi-Party Litigation
(2000, 2d ed. forthcoming 2006).
Klonoff is an associate reporter for
the American Law Institute’s class
action project, Principles of the Law
of Aggregate Litigation. He serves in
editorial positions for the American
Bar Association’s Class Actions &
Derivative Suits and the Bureau of
National Affairs’ Class Action Litigation Report.
He is a member of the American
Law Institute and a Fellow in the
American Academy of Appellate
Lawyers. He served as a reporter for
the 2005 National Conference on
Appellate Justice. In addition to his
academic post, he is counsel with
Jones Day, having previously served
as a partner with the firm for nearly
15 years. He has argued eight cases
before the Supreme Court.
7:45 a.m. Registration and
Continental Breakfast
11:45 a.m. Luncheon (included
in registration fee)
8:10 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
Ellen Y. Suni
Dean, UMKC School of Law
Kansas City, Mo.
12:15 p.m. The Future of Class Action
Litigation
Hon. Diane P. Wood
Prof. Robert Klonoff
8:15 a.m. Reflections on Phillips
Petroleum v. Shutts
Prof. Arthur R. Miller
8:45 a.m. Labor and Employment
Moderator: Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal,
Joseph M. Sellers
Matthew W. Lampe
Prof. Nancy Levit
12:45 p.m. Phillips Petroleum Company
v. Shutts II: Choice of Law
Moderator: Prof. Robert Klonoff
Prof. Samuel Issacharoff
Prof. Richard A. Nagareda
Prof. Linda S. Mullenix
1:40 p.m. Ethical Issues in
Class Action Litigation
Moderator: Prof. Geoffrey P. Miller
Prof. Edward F. Sherman
Edward K. M. Bilich
Prof. Debra L. Bassett
9:40 a.m. Coffee break
Fee: $250
Fee includes seminar, lunch and networking happy hour.
You may also register online at www.law.umkc.edu/cle/.
Enclosed is $ _____ for _____ registration(s)
for enrollment in the Class Action Symposium, Friday, April 7, 2006,
Liberty Memorial Auditorium, 100 W. 26th Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Seating in the auditorium is limited and will be available on a first-paid basis. Additional seating
will be available in an overflow room adjacent to the auditorium. The Symposium will be simulcast
to that room.
Name (please print or type)
Firm or Company
Address
2:40 p.m. Refreshment break
9:50 a.m. Mass Torts
Moderator: Prof. Samuel Issacharoff
Prof. Francis E. McGovern
Prof. Deborah R. Hensler
Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Mark Herrmann
10:45 a.m. Comment on the Hyatt
Regency Class Action
Lawsuit
James Sullivan
10:50 a.m. Phillips Petroleum Company
v. Shutts I: Adequacy,
Personal Jurisdiction
Moderator: Prof. Robert Klonoff
Prof. William B. Rubenstein
Prof. Patrick Woolley
Prof. Geoffrey P. Miller
City/State/ZIP
2:50 p.m. Securities
Moderator: Prof. Robert Klonoff
William Lerach
Patricia J. Villareal
Prof. John C. Coffee
3:45 p.m. Class Action Fairness Act /
Class Action Reform
Moderator: Prof. Patrick Woolley
Prof. Edward H. Cooper
Brian Wolfman
Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal
Prof. Stephen C. Yeazell
4:40 p.m. Adjourn and
Networking Happy Hour
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UMKC School of Law, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499. No admission ticket or
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UMKC has secured a block of rooms at the Raphael Hotel 816-756-3800 or 1-800-821-5343. Standard
rooms will be priced at $127, suites will be priced at $137. When making your reservation please mention the UMKC Class Action Group to ensure the special rate. All reservations need to be confirmed by
Friday, March 17, 2006.
Limited seating is available on a first-paid basis.
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