COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

Organizers: Liz and Manny Smith, Carol and Allan McCausland

DEADLINE FOR PAPERS/PROGRAM CHAIRS/DISCUSSANTS: ASAP

Ideas for paper presentations and names of volunteers for program chairs and discussants should be submitted to Manny or Allan ASAP. Registration fees and guest fees should be sent to Liz and Manny at 405 Cove Road, Wellfleet, MA 02667. Email Liz at emuirsmith@yahoo.com, Manny at econlawsmith@yahoo.com, Carol at mea1012@aol.com, or Allan at mea248@aol.com.

The meeting will be held in the Tivoli section of Copenhagen, at a hotel to be determined. These meetings will continue the format of past meetings in Edinburgh, Dublin, Florence, Barcelona, Istanbul, and Dubrovnik. The meeting format will be informal and interactive with both North American and European participants.

The program sessions will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on June 3 and June 4. Sessions will cover methodologies in PI/Death, and commercial and employment litigation in North America and Europe. The conference registration fee for each meeting attendee is $350, which will cover conference facilities, coffees, equipment rental, lunches, and tour. Each guest attending lunches and tour must pay $100.00 registration. The deadline for hotel location and room registration will be announced soon. Please contact any of the oganizers listed above at your earliest convenience if you have an interest in attending.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

Organizers: Liz and Manny Smith, Carol and Allan McCausland

DEADLINE FOR PAPERS/PROGRAM CHAIRS/DISCUSSANTS: ASAP

Ideas for paper presentations and names of volunteers for program chairs and discussants should be submitted to Manny or Allan ASAP. Registration fees and guest fees should be sent to Liz and Manny at 405 Cove Road, Wellfleet, MA 02667. Email Liz at emuirsmith@yahoo.com, Manny at econlawsmith@yahoo.com, Carol at mea1012@aol.com, or Allan at mea248@aol.com.

The meeting will be held in the Tivoli section of Copenhagen, at a hotel to be determined. These meetings will continue the format of past meetings in Edinburgh, Dublin, Florence, Barcelona, Istanbul, and Dubrovnik. The meeting format will be informal and interactive with both North American and European participants.

The program sessions will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on June 3 and June 4. Sessions will cover methodologies in PI/Death, and commercial and employment litigation in North America and Europe. The conference registration fee for each meeting attendee is $350, which will cover conference facilities, coffees, equipment rental, lunches, and tour. Each guest attending lunches and tour must pay $100.00 registration. The deadline for hotel location and room registration will be announced soon. Please contact any of the oganizers listed above at your earliest convenience if you have an interest in attending.

PORTLAND―JUNE 29-JULY 3, 2010

Organizer: Boyd Fjeldsted, Vice-President, Western Region

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30

 

8:15 – 10:00 Calculating Losses in Wrongful Termination Cases

Chair: Laura Taylor, Willamette University

 

Thomas Roney, Thomas Roney LLC, Estimating Duration of Economic Damages in Wrongful Termination Cases

Discussant: Michelle Rodriguez, Rizzardi Pearson Associates

 

Thomas Ireland, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Legal Decisions Dealing with the Tax Consequences of Lump Sum Awards for Back and Front Pay in Wrongful Termination Cases

Discussant: Nora Ostrofe, Hagen, Streiff, Newton & Oshiro

 

10:15 – 12:00 Pension Losses and Discounting Issues

Chair: Marianne Inouye, Zengler & Inouye, LLC

 

Gary Skoog, Legal Econometrics Inc. and James Ciecka, De Paul University, Social Security and Pension Losses (or Gains) in Wrongful Death Cases

Dicussant: Beverly Fuller, Portland State University

 

Matthew Cushing and David Rosenbaum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Interest Rate Term Premium in Forensic Economics

Discussant: Merle Dimbath, Dimbath Economics

 

12:15-1:45 NAFE BOARD LUNCH

 

2:00 – 2:30 NAFE GENERAL MEETING

 

2:30 – 4:15 Class Action Litigation Issues

Chair: Allan McCausland, McCausland Economic Associates

 

Richard Eichman, FTI Consulting, The Role of the Economic Expert in Reviewing Class Certification Issues

Discussant: Rick Gaskins, Gaskins Associates

 

Stephanie Rizzardi, Rizzardi Pearson Associates and Nicholas Briscoe, The Udinsky Group, Methodology Used to Calculate Damages in a Wage and Hour Class Action Case

Discussant: Robert Male, Forensic Economic and Vocational Damage Analysis

 

4:30 – 6:15 Invited Papers

Chair: Boyd Fjeldsted, University of Utah

 

Robert McCullough, Mallory Keeler and Tolga Yilmaz, McCullough Research, Tests for Market Manipulation in Emerging Electric Markets

 

Robert Shavelle, Life Expectancy Project, Life Expectancy for Forensic Economists

 

6:30 – 8:00 NAFE MEMBERS’ RECEPTION