COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL
New York, N.Y.
U.S.A.

This Forum will address Current Developments in Cross-border Litigation. The program is free to invitees. To learn more about the Global Justice Forum Fall 2007, visit www.globaljusticeforum.com.

About Lieff Global LLP

Lieff Global LLP is a law firm specializing in cross-border plaintiffs’ litigation with offices in San Francisco and New York, and affiliate offices worldwide. Lieff Global grew out of the rapid expansion of the international and aviation practices at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, which Robert L. Lieff founded in 1972.  Lieff Global represents survivors and families of victims who died in domestic and international mass accidents, as well as foreign citizens in other types of actions, in cases filed in the United States and abroad. Such cases include tainted blood litigation involving approximately 2,000 hemophiliacs in 20 countries, a ferry disaster in which 1,000 people died in the Red Sea between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and a case involving a midair collision over Brazil in which 154 people died on a commercial airliner.  Robert Lieff has been litigating international plaintiffs’ cases since his graduation from Columbia Law School (1961) and Columbia Graduate School of Business  Administration (1962), first at Belli Ashe Ellison Choulos & Lieff from 1965 to 1972 and then at Lieff Cabraser from 1972 to 2007.

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Thursday, November 1, 2007
6–8 p.m.
OPENING COCKTAIL RECEPTION
The Rockefeller Center Club
30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor
(Between 49th and 50th Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
New York City

Friday, November 2, 2007
9 a.m.
WELCOME AND GENERAL REMARKS
Robert L. Lieff '61, Founder, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP; Partner, Lieff Global LLP
David M. Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

MODERATOR
Benjamin L. Liebman, Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School

9:30–10:45 a.m. Session IA
FORUM NON CONVENIENS: TRENDS IN THE U.S. COURTS AND RESPONSES FROM ABROAD
Speakers
Leonardo Amarante, Senior Partner, Leonardo Amarante Advogados Associados, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stefano Bertone, Partner, Ambrosio & Commodo Studio Legale Associato, Turin, Italy
Sarah H. Cleveland, Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights, Columbia Law School
Lexi J. Hazam, Partner, Lieff Global LLP
Jonathan D. Schiller '73, Managing Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP

This panel will address recent precedents and trends in U.S. FNC jurisprudence, and responses thereto from U.S. and foreign lawyers, including FNC "blocking statutes" and denials of jurisdiction in some Latin American countries, collaborative efforts among U.S. and foreign lawyers to refile and litigate cases in foreign plaintiffs' home countries after FNC dismissals, and filings in foreign jurisdictions instead of, or together with, U.S. filings with arguments that U.S. law should apply to U.S. parties in the foreign actions.

11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Session IB
MADE IN THE USA: THE SPREAD OF AMERICAN LITIGATION MECHANISMS ABROAD
Speakers
Marco Bona, Partner, Ambrosio & Commodo Studio Legale Associato, Turin, Italy; Professor, Milan-Bocconi University and East Piedmont University, Italy
Ronald S. Rolfe '69, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Peter Rosenblum '92, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein LLP; Associate Clinical Professor in Human Rights, Columbia Law School

This panel will discuss efforts in foreign countries to implement American-style legal mechanisms for mass actions and plaintiffs’ practice, addressing the pros and cons and successes and failures of such efforts, as well as the ways in which such mechanisms are adapted or modified for the particular country. Examples may include, inter alia, efforts to adopt class actions and/or other consolidation mechanisms in Italy, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other countries; efforts to adopt punitive damages in France and Italy; and funding mechanisms for plaintiffs’ practice, such as the recent authorization of contingency fee representation in Italy and the use of private funding companies in Australia.

12:45–1:45 p.m.
Lunch and Presentation
Speaker
John Fabian Witt, Professor of Law and History, Columbia Law School
"Melvin Belli, Roscoe Pound, and the Dilemmas of the Global Justice Project"

2–3:15 p.m. Session IIA
PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT: AN EVALUATION
Speaker
John C. Coffee, Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Commentary
Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP
David L. Carden, Partner, Jones Day

3:30–4:45 p.m. Session IIB
THE CHALLENGE OF CHINA: SEEKING JUSTICE WITHIN AND OUTSIDE ITS BORDERS
Speakers
Edward Lehman, Partner, Lehman, Lee & Xu, Beijing, China
Benjamin L. Liebman, Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
Yao Yao, Director of Law and Public Participation, Civil Society Watch, Beijing, China

This panel will cover efforts to bring human rights, products liability and other plaintiffs' actions on behalf of Chinese citizens and/or victims of Chinese corporate misconduct both inside and outside of China, including, e.g., the U.S. action on behalf of Chinese aviation accident victims, the cough syrup case brought in Spain on behalf of Panamanian victims, and efforts to use plaintiffs’ litigation mechanisms in China’s own courts.

5:15–7 p.m.
CLOSING RECEPTION

GLOBAL JUSTICE FORUM Fall 2007
New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Cost:

There is no charge to attend the Global Justice Forum.

Registration Deadline:

October 15, 2007. Please use this form.

Hotel Accomodations:

Conference registration does not include accommodations.

For Further Information:

Please e-mail Eve Love at elove@lieffglobal.com or call 1-415-788-8000.

You may register online for the Thursday Opening Cocktail Reception and the Friday Forum (and request a vegetarian meal).