24th Annual Business Litigation Conference 2025

February 7, 2025 at 12:00pm5:00pm (EST)

MCLE Conference Center
Ten Winter Place
Boston, MA 02108

Rhian Cull

Get the latest update on new business litigation developments and important case law delivered in a dynamic, streamlined format by a stellar faculty of U.S. District Court judges, U.S. Magistrate judges, Massachusetts Superior Court judges, and preeminent practitioners. The judges discuss trends and field your questions in the ever-popular Business Litigation Session Judicial Panel and Federal Judicial Panel. Get highly practical, sage perspective that only experience—and the Conference—can provide.

Agenda
  • Year-in-Review: A Dialogue on the Top 10 Cases
  • Business Litigation Session Judicial Panel
  • Bristol Asphalt and the Supreme Judicial Court’s New Anti-SLAPP Framework
    – Introduction to the statutory protection against assertion of claims based on petitioning activity: Rationale and practical implications
    – The previous Blanchard framework for defeating special motions to dismiss
    – The Supreme Judicial Court’s decision to revise the Blanchard framework in Bristol Asphalt
    – Implications of Bristol Asphalt for moving and non-moving parties
    – Review of recent trial court anti-SLAPP decisions applying the new framework
  • The Role of the Expert in Business Litigation
    – Types of business litigation experts
    – Finding the right expert: Sources and key considerations
    – The expert’s role in fact discovery
    – Preparing expert reports and interrogatory answers
    – Taking and defending expert depositions
    – The Daubert or Lanigan motion
    – The expert as trial witness
  • Federal Judicial Panel