The Defense Research Institute (DRI) is planning another excellent class action seminar to be held in Washington, DC on July 24 and 25, 2014 (see the seminar website).  I’m on the committee that has been planning the seminar.  Last year’s seminar was excellent, for some highlights see my July 31, 2013 and August 1, 2013 blog posts.  This year’s seminar will include discussions of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Mississippi v. AU Optronics, Halliburton and Proskauer Rose LLP v. Troice by defense lawyers who litigated those cases.  The sessions on the impact of Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, the evolution of the issue class action, Canadian class actions, class action settlements (including cy pres), constitutional limits on class actions and emerging issues (among others) should be very engaging. 

I hope to see some of my blog readers there.  Space may be limited, so sign up soon.  Registration is free for in-house counsel or claim executives who are members of DRI.  Companies are also encouraged to host meetings of their class action defense counsel during the seminar.  If you can’t make it, I’ll probably post some highlights on my blog after the seminar.

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Wystan Ackerman is a partner in Robinson+Cole’s Insurance + Reinsurance Group and handles a diverse range of property insurance litigation, including large business interruption cases, class actions, other complex litigation, and appeals. He also has substantial experience representing insurance companies in putative class…

Wystan Ackerman is a partner in Robinson+Cole’s Insurance + Reinsurance Group and handles a diverse range of property insurance litigation, including large business interruption cases, class actions, other complex litigation, and appeals. He also has substantial experience representing insurance companies in putative class actions involving homeowners’ insurance coverage and market conduct/claim-handling practices. He has been prominently involved in high-profile property insurance litigation concerning the September 11th catastrophe and Hurricane Katrina, and Chinese-made drywall. Based in the insurance capital of Hartford, Connecticut, Wystan writes the blog Insurance Class Actions Insider, which was selected by Lexis Nexis as a top insurance blog for 2011.

Wystan grew up in Deep River, Connecticut, a small town on the west side of the Connecticut River in the south central part of the state. He always had strong interests in history, politics and baseball and his heroes growing up were Abraham Lincoln and Wade Boggs (at that time the third baseman for the Boston Red Sox). Wystan says it was his early fascination with Lincoln that drove him to practice law. As a high school senior, he was one of Connecticut’s two delegates to the U.S. Senate Youth Program, which further solidified his interest in law and government. He went on to Bowdoin College, where he wrote for the Bowdoin Orient and majored in government. After Bowdoin, he went on to Columbia Law School. He also interned in the chambers of then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Second Circuit. Wystan graduated from Columbia in 2001, then worked at Skadden Arps in Boston before returning to Connecticut and joining Robinson+Cole.

When Wystan’s not at his desk, flying around the country trying to save insurance companies from the plaintiffs’ bar, or attending a conference on class actions or insurance litigation he often can be found watching “Dora the Explorer” or reading or playing whiffleball with his young daughter, helping his wife with her business, Option Realty, reading a book about history or politics, or watching the Boston Red Sox.

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