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Register Today for the Montana Chamber’s Legal Reform Conference in March
The Montana Chamber of Commerce is hosting a “Legal Reform Conference” in Billings on March 22 & 23 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel to discuss everything from medical liability reforms to workers’ compensation reform to corporate contributions in elections. You won’t want to miss it!
The recent debate over health care reform and the lack of any meaningful medical malpractice reform in the bill has brought new life to the issue of tort reform in general. Montana has passed some meaningful reforms over the years, but more could be done to stop frivolous lawsuits.
We invite businesspeople, legislators, candidates, attorneys (7.5 CLE credits) and Montana citizens to hear speakers from all over the country on a variety of important legal reform issues. To view the tentative agenda for the Legal Reform Conference, click here or read it below.
You must register in advance if you’d like to attend. The registration fee for Montana Chamber members is $75, non-members $100, and for attorneys getting CLE credits $125.
To register for the conference, contact Jon at the Montana Chamber office at (406) 442-2405, ext. 104 or jon@montanachamber.com.
Tentative Agenda:
March 22, 2010
12:00 – 1:00: Registration and Lunch provided
1:00 – 1:15: Welcome and Introduction
Webb Brown, Montana Chamber of Commerce
1:15 – 2:15: Products Liability Reforms
Mark Behrens, Shook, Hardy & Bacon
2:15 – 3:15: Workers’ Compensation Reforms
Larry Jones, Liberty Northwest
3:15 – 3:30: Break
3:30 – 4:30: National Medical Liability Reform
Leah Lorber, GlaxoSmithKline
4:30 – 5:30: Panel on Medical Liability Reform in Montana
Gene Jarussi, Jarussi & Bishop
Bob Brown, Poore, Roth & Robinson
Dr. Michael Brown, Yellowstone Pathology Institute
5:30 – 7:00: Reception
March 23, 2010
7:30 – 8:00: Breakfast
8:00 – 9:00: Tort Reform and Tort Deform Potpourri
Amy Kjose, American Legislative Exchange Council
9:00 – 10:00: Wrongful Discharge: A Uniquely Montana Law
Andy Forsythe, Moulton Bellingham
10:00 – 10:15: Break
10:15 – 11:15: Corporate Campaign Contributions & the Citizen United case
Browning, Kaleczyc, Berry & Hoven
11:15 – 12:00: Choosing Supreme Court Justices: Election or Selection?
Karla Gray, Former Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch and Legislative Panel
Registration for Montana Chamber Members: $75
Registration for non-members: $100
Registration for Attorneys getting CLE credits (7.5 credits approved): $125
To register, contact Jon at the Montana Chamber office,
(406) 442-2405, ext. 104 or at jon@montanachamber.com.
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