The 5th National Forum on Food-Borne Illness Litigation

Food-Borne Illness Litigation

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile, Chicago, IL

Alan Maxwell
Partner
Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC (Atlanta, GA)

Leo Knowles
Senior Vice President & Chief Counsel
ConAgra Foods Inc. (Omaha, NE)

C. Harold (Hal) King
Senior Manager, Food and Product Safety
Chick-fi l-A (Atlanta, GA)

Wendy Webb Williams
Associate General Counsel – Business Operations
U.S. Foodservice, Inc. (Chicago, IL)

James Neale
Partner
McGuire Woods LLP (Charlottesville, VA)

Nicholas M. White
General Counsel
JBS USA Holdings, Inc. (Greeley, CO)

John Batz
Director, Quality & Food Safety
Malt-O-Meal Company (Lakeville, MN)

Sarah L. Brew
Partner
Faegre & Benson LLP (Minneapolis, MN)

William E. Keene, PhD, MPH
Senior Epidemiologist, Acute & Communicable Disease Prevention
Oregon Public Health Division (Portland, OR)

Jeffrey Conner
Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
Dole Food Company, Inc. (Westlake Village, CA)

Dean Panos
Partner
Jenner & Block LLP (Chicago, IL)

Nate Sabel
Associate Chief Counsel for Enforcement
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Silver Spring, MD)

Gerald Wilhelm
Assistant U.S. Attorney
US Attorney’s Office (Minnesota, MN)

Thomas J. Bondurant, Jr.
Partner
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore LLP (Roanoke, VA)

Arthur P. Liang, MD, MPH
Director, Food Safety Office
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control (Atlanta, GA)

Lisa Volk
Director, Recall Management Staff, Office of Field Inspections
Food Safety Inspection Service, USDA (Washington, DC)

Paul E. Benson
Partner
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP (Milwaukee, WI)

Jonathan Cohen
Partner
Gilbert LLP (Washington, DC)

William Marler
Managing Partner
Marler Clark L.L.P. P.S. (Seattle, WA)