Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern
In one of the first Supreme Court decisions handed down since Justice Scalia's death, the Supreme Court ruled that statistical evidence is a permissible means of establishing liability in class cases. This panel will examine this issue from differing perspectives, and provide discussion of what judicial trends may develop for evidentiary proof in class cases.
The Program will be presented by David Gulley, Mike Mueller, and Jason Lichtman. David joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1979, and first testified in Federal Court in 1983. Over the years he has been involved as an expert witness in many noteworthy cases. He has extensive experience in class certification issues and has served as a court-appointed expert on this subject.
Mike is a partner in the Washington, D.C. and Miami offices of Hunton & Williams LLP, where he is national Co-Chair of the Retail and Consumer Products Litigation Practice Group (formerly Business Litigation). He specializes in complex labor and employment litigation and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on FLSA, RICO, and alleged consumer warranty/deceptive business practice cases. He was lead counsel in the district court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and co-lead counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court, in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, No. 14-1146 (decided March 22, 2016).
Jason is a partner in Lieff Cabraser’s New York office focusing on consumer protection and defective product cases. In addition to his trial court practice, he has secured major victories before numerous federal appellate courts, including in Butler v. Sears, Roebuck and In re: Whirlpool Corp. Front-Loading Washer Products Liability Litigation.