MCLE Conference Center
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