From the Executive Director

Preparations are continuing for our one-day conference on October 27th, "Waiting to Exhale: The Future of Tobacco Litigation."  If you have not yet registered, you can do so here.  As I discussed in this space last month, we have a first-rate lineup of speakers and it promises to be an extremely interesting day.   You can download the conference brochure here.

Recent news makes this conference even more timely. On August 17th, U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler issued her opinion in U.S. v. Philip Morris, finding that the tobacco company defendants had engaged in a decades-long racketeering conspiracy.  This decision is discussed in more detail in one of the feature articles in this newsletter.

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