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24th Annual Business Litigation Conference 2025
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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 Courtjudges, 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
 
Faculty
 
Faculty image Michael D. Brier, Esq.
Gesmer Updegrove LLP,
Boston,
Cochair		 Faculty image Sara J. Shanahan, Esq.
Sherin and Lodgen LLP,
Boston,
Cochair
 
Faculty image Hon. Christopher K. Barry-Smith
Superior Court,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts		 Faculty image Hon. Donald L. Cabell
U.S. District Court,
District of Massachusetts,
Boston
 
Faculty image Rhian M.J. Cull, Esq.
Goulston & Storrs, PC,
Boston
 Faculty image Hon. Helene Kazanjian
Superior Court,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 
Faculty image Hon. Peter B. Krupp
Superior Court,
Business Litigation Session,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts		 Faculty image Hon. Paul G. Levenson
U.S. Magistrate Judge,
U.S. District Court,
District of Massachusetts
Boston
 
Faculty image Robert S. Mantell, Esq.
Law Office of Robert S. Mantell,
Somerville		 Faculty image Michael J. McMahon, Esq.
Cooley LLP,
Boston
 
Faculty image Ana Munoz, Esq.
Zalkind, Duncan & Bernstein LLP,
Boston		 Faculty image Hon. Katherine A. Robertson
U.S. Magistrate Judge,
U.S. District Court,
District of Massachusetts
Springfield
 
Faculty image Hon. Kenneth W. Salinger
Superior Court,
Business Litigation Session,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts		 Faculty image Emily C. Shanahan, Esq.
Husch Blackwell, LLP,
Boston
 
Faculty image Hon. Debra A. Squires-Lee
Superior Court,
Business Litigation Session,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts		 Faculty image Benjamin M. Stern, Esq.
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP,
Boston
 
 
Materials
  • E-materials link emailed upon registration
  • Transcript & videorecording emailed 2 weeks post-program
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    Dates Earn up to 5 CLE credits.
     
    In-Person ProgramBOSTON »
    Friday, February 7, 2025
    12:00 pm–5:00 pm
     
    Live WebcastLIVE WEBCAST »
    Friday, February 7, 2025
    12:00 pm–5:00 pm
     
    Recorded WebcastRECORDED WEBCAST »
    Tuesday, February 25, 2025
    12:00 pm–5:00 pm
     
    Recorded WebcastRECORDED WEBCAST »
    Wednesday, March 5, 2025
    11:00 am–4:00 pm
     
    Tuition (includes written materials)
    $275
    $247 MCLE Members
    $137.50 New Lawyers admitted to law practice within 5 years, Pending Admittees, Law Students, and Paralegals
    FREE for MCLE OnlinePass® Subscribers
     
    To apply for a need-based scholarship, email scholarships@mcle.org

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