Recorded Webinar—Defending Failure-to-Warn and Consumer-Deception Claims: A Role for the First Amendment

Webinar

Featuring:
Robert R. Weiner, Senior Counsel, Arnold & Porter
Trenton H. Norris, Partner, Arnold & Porter

Description:
The First Amendment offers enormous untapped potential as a defense against failure-to-warn and consumer-deception claims. The defense applies not only in cases brought by federal, state, and local governments, but also in private actions. Two experienced First Amendment lawyers will discuss the increasingly strong protections for speech by commercial entities, and will describe how to capitalize on those advances in litigation challenging what defendants did or did not say regarding their product.

Speakers' Biographies

Robert N. Weiner

Rob Weiner has significant experience as a trial lawyer, appellate advocate, and legal strategist in complex litigation. He is skilled in developing creative legal approaches to bring cases to a quick, cheap and successful resolution. From 2010-2012, Mr. Weiner was Associate Deputy Attorney General at the US Department of Justice. Mr. Weiner also has served as Senior Counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office, and as an Associate Independent Counsel. He began his career as a law clerk for The Honorable Henry J. Friendly and for Justice Thurgood Marshall.

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Trenton H. Norris

Trent Norris is one of the foremost consumer product attorneys in the country and co-leader of the firm's Consumer Products and Retail Sector. His litigation, counseling, and government advocacy practice involves some of the most significant challenges for manufacturers and retailers of everyday products and services. He has argued a dozen cases before the California Court of Appeal, the California Supreme Court, and the Ninth Circuit. Common opponents include activist and environmental groups, the California Attorney General, California District Attorneys, and plaintiffs' lawyers.

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