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Gain practical insight from the experts on what the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure changes will mean to you. Get prepared for the changes with this informative discussion about these changes. See examples of the changes, and much more. Register here.
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Gregory P. Joseph, Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC
Gregory P. Joseph heads Gregory P.Joseph Law Offices LLC in New York. Mr. Joseph was formerly the Chair of the Litigation Department at New York's Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. An honors graduate of the University of Minnesota and its Law School, he is a former member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence of the United States Judicial Conference; a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; and past Chair of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association (1997-98). Mr. Joseph is the author and editor of several volumes on evidence, procedure, trial practice and Civil RICO. He has lectured on numerous occasions for the Federal Judicial Center to federal judges across the United States; has addressed the Judicial Conferences of the First, Second, Third, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits; and has lectured at the Annual Meetings of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Arbitration Association, and the Federal Bar Association. A former Assistant United States Special Prosecutor, Mr. Joseph served as Chair of the Committee on Professional Responsibility of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1993-96 and is a member of the American Law Institute.
John K. Rabiej, Chief of the Rules Committee Support Office of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts
John K. Rabiej is the chief of the Rules Committee Support Office of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. His office staffs the Advisory Committees of Appellate, Bankruptcy, Civil, Criminal, and Evidence Rules and the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He has served as chief since 1992. As chief of the office he works directly with the rules committees' chairs and reporters on drafts of proposed rule amendments and prepares reports to the Judicial Conference and Congress on the amendments. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. He was inducted into the American Law Institute in May 2004.
Thomas D. Rowe, Jr., Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law at Duke University
Thomas D. Rowe, Jr. is Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law at Duke University, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Complex Civil Litigation, and Federal Courts. He is co-author of Civil Procedure (Foundation 2004) and Federal Courts in the 21st Century: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis 2d ed. 2002), and has conducted empirical experiments on the effects of possible variant forms of offer of judgment devices. He served from 1993 to 1999 as a member of the U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Professor Rowe was a Rhodes Scholar and commenced his professional career as a law clerk in the Supreme Court of the United States. He joined the Duke law faculty in 1975, served as associate dean from 1981 to 1984, and was senior associate dean in 1995-1996. He has also taught at Georgetown, Michigan, UCLA, and Virginia, and on leave from Duke has served with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, worked as an attorney with a private firm in Los Angeles, and been a visiting scholar at the RAND Corporation's Institute for Civil Justice. He has written in the fields of civil procedure, complex litigation, judicial remedies, and constitutional law.