Phoenix Partners Wallwork and Fitzsimmons Teach in ALI-ABA Course

Partners Nicholas Wallwork and Mark Fitzsimmons of the Phoenix office are teaching in the Ninth Annual Advanced ALI-ABA Course of Study: Environmental and Toxic Tort Litigation, held January 26-27, 2006, in Scottsdale Plaza Resort, Arizona. Mr. Wallwork is also serving as planning chair.

They are part of the faculty for the sections on toxic torts and case management; Mr. Wallwork is part of the faculty for enforcement trends and effects on private litigation, corporate liability, homeland security, and natural disasters.

This course provides an advanced update of developments and coverage of issues in both toxic tort and environmental litigation. It gives private- and public-sector practitioners updates on important toxic tort and environmental topics and discusses anticipated developments during 2006. This year’s program features panel discussions on legal developments since enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act, as well as legal standards for CERCLA liability after the US Supreme Court’s decision in Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Aviall Services, Inc. This year’s program also deals with potential environmental and toxic tort liabilities relating to natural disasters and homeland security.

The course includes specific updates on case law, statutory enactments, regulatory changes, and procedural developments as applied to environmental and toxic tort litigation. Additional areas of emphasis include the conduct of class action and multi-party litigation, disclosure rules and alternative procedural tracks under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, expert and scientific evidence issues, contribution and common law claims, alternative dispute resolution, settlements, joint defense privileges, ethics issues, and case management.