Co-Chairs’ Opening Remarks
David Biderman
Partner
Firmwide Chair, Consumer Products & Services Litigation
Perkins Coie LLP
Lori Leskin
Partner
Co-Chair, Consumer Products Practice Group
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
The food, cosmetics and dietary supplements industries remain a consistent target of putative class action litigation, with plaintiffs’ counsel continuing to scrutinize the labels of FDA-regulated consumer products for potential lawsuits. In this opening session, our esteemed co-chairs will set the stage for the conference with a high-level “state of the industry” and a statistical analysis of the last year’s case filings.