46th Annual Air Law Symposium
Omni
Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas, 221 East Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX 75039
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012
6:00-p.m. – Early
Check-In and Late Registration
9:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. Welcome
Reception
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012
7:45 a.m. – Check-In
and Late Registration
5:00 p.m.
7:45 a.m. Continental
Breakfast
MORNING
SESSION
Charles A. Tarpley,
Presiding
8:30 a.m. Welcoming
Remarks
8:45 a.m. Will
S. Skinner
DeForest Koscelnik Yokitis Skinner & Berardinelli
– Recent Developments in
Aviation Law – 2011
9:45 a.m. Douglas
H. Amster
LeClairRyan – The Legal Consequences of Undisclosed Medical Conditions on Aircraft
Operator Liability
10:15 a.m. Coffee
Break
Debra D. Fowler, Presiding
10:35 a.m. P.
Nikolai Ehlers
Ehlers, Ehlers & Partner – Current Developments in European Aviation Regulation and Litigation
Litigation
Charles A. Tarpley,
Presiding
11:20 a.m. Luncheon
Presentation
of the 16th Annual John J. Tigert VI
Memorial Scholarship
12:20 p.m. Captain Jeffrey Skiles
First Officer on US Airways
Flight 1549 – “The Miracle on the Hudson” – The
Miracle on the Hudson: The Revolution in Cockpit Human Factors Engineering
Behind the Most Celebrated Aviation Success Story of Our Time
AFTERNOON
SESSION
Ladd Sanger, Presiding
1:00 p.m. John
G. Sams
Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. –
Legal Challenges Navigating the International
Aviation Marketplace
1:30 p.m. Mark
D. Pierce
Slack & Davis, L.L.P. –Government
Documents and Witnesses: Using FOIA & Touhy
to Get What You Need in Aviation Litigation
2:00 p.m. Mark
A. Tomicich
Federal Aviation Administration – Responding
to Requests Under FOIA and Touhy
2:30 p.m. Robert
F. Spohrer
Spohrer & Dodd – Legal Implications for Outsourcing Military Aviation Work
3:00 p.m. Coffee
Break
Don G. Rushing, Presiding
3:20 p.m. Philip
A. Rush
Martin, Bischoff, Templeton, Langslet &
Hoffman LLP – Ethics and Experts
3:50 p.m. Lea
P. Valdivia
Podhurst Orseck, P.A. –
The Impact of Amended Rule 26 on
Expert Discovery
4:20 p.m. John
E. Scarbrough, Ph.D.
Litigation Analytics, Inc. – The Cost Effective Use of Experts With Special Emphasis on Economists
4:50 p.m. Douglas
A. Latto
Baumeister & Samuels, P.C. – The Use of Expert Witnesses in Aviation
Disaster Litigation
5:20 p.m. Charles
A. Tarpley
Closing
Remarks
Raffle Sponsored
by Southwest Airlines
Presentation
of the 9th Annual International Aviation Womens
Association Scholarship
5:35 p.m. Reception
FRIDAY, March
30, 2012
7:45 a.m. Continental
Breakfast
MORNING SESSION
H. Norman Kinzy,
Presiding
8:30 a.m. Panel: Current
Aviation Insurance Claims Issues
Panelists: Tracy R. Barrus, QBE North America
John P. Bruen, Chartis
Aerospace
Clark E. Howard,
United States Aviation Underwriters
Naji Malek, Berkley
Aviation, LLC
9:30 a.m. Ross
Williams
Clyde & Co. LLP – Aviation Reinsurance – From Underwriting the Risk, To Policy Issuance and On To Claims Resolution
10:00 a.m. Coffee
Break
Thea
M. Capone, Presiding
10:20 a.m. Mark
Kleinlein
Aon Risk Solutions – Aviation
Losses and Insurance Market Overview
10:50 a.m. Justin T. Green
Kreindler & Kreindler LLP –
Ethics of Marketing to Aviation Victims
11:20 a.m. Raven
M. Atchison
Anderson, Riddle & Kuehler,
L.L.P. – Recent Developments in
Personal Jurisdiction
Charles A. Tarpley, Presiding
11:50 a.m. Luncheon
Presentation
of the 13th Annual Wayne Vines Memorial Scholarship for
Aviation
Safety
12:50 p.m. The
Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Former
Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and
former U.S. Attorney General – Religious Extremism Encounters with the U.S.: It Didn’t Start In The Air and It Won’t End In The Air
AFTERNOON SESSION
Ladd Sanger, Presiding
1:30 p.m. Frederick C.
Moss
Professor Emeritus, SMU Dedman
School of Law – The Ethics of Witness Preparation: A Peek
Inside the Woodshed
2:30 p.m. The
Honorable W. Royal Furgeson, Jr.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District
of Texas – Civil Jury Trials R.I.P.? Can It Actually Happen in America?
3:00 p.m. Charles
A. Tarpley
Closing
Remarks
Raffle Sponsored
by Aviation Law
Week
3:15 p.m. Closing
Reception
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