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Blank Rome partners <a href="/people/shannon-e-mcclure/" type="poa_person" id="18671">Shannon E. McClure</a> and <a href="/people/deborah-greenspan/" type="poa_person" id="19090">Deborah Greenspan</a> will serve as panelists at the Rabiej Litigation Law Center’s <a href="https://rabiejcenter.org/events/mass-tort-mdl-leadership-bench-bar-leadership-summit-2026/">Mass-Tort MDL Bench-Bar leadership Summit 2026</a>, being held Thursday, July 16, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.

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Ten to 15 federal judges will join 20 to 25 practicing lawyers and other experts on five panels&nbsp;and&nbsp;consider recommending guidance addressing identified issues related to mass-tort multidistrict litigations (“MDLs”).

Major Barriers to AI in E-Discovery—Lessons from TAR Experience 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Moderator: Professor Adam Hoeflich, Northwestern University School of Law

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Bill Belt, CDS, Complete Discovery Source

Michael Zogby – Barnes &amp; Thornburg LLP

Shannon McClure, Blank Rome LLP

William Monahan – Sullivan &amp; Cromwell LLP

Rebecca Weinstein Bacon, Bartlit Beck LLP

Jacksy Bilsborrow, Weitz &amp; Luxenberg PC

Hon. Iain Johnston, Northern District of Illinois

Hon. Hope Cannon – Northern District of Florida

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“Docket Control” Order 2:00–3:45 p.m.

“Docket control” order issued after several years into the mass-tort MDL, which imposes deadlines to submit, after reasonable notice, medical records and documentation of injury; failure to submit records subject to automatic dismissal with prejudice without show-cause hearing.

Alex Parkinson, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel &amp; Frederick, PLLC

Jennifer Greenblatt, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan &amp; Baum LLP

Khaldoun Baghdadi, Walkup, Melodia, Kelly &amp; Schoenberger

 Ashlie Sletvold, Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway &amp; Wise

Deborah Greenspan, Blank Rome LLP

Hon. Darrin Gayles, Southern District of Florida

Single Consolidated Pleadings; Setting and Holding Pilot (Test) Trials Early in the MDL

Judge Panel: Which Procedure That You Adopted in a Mass-Tort MDL Would You Have Changed in Hindsight?

Default 10% Common-Benefit Assessment and Allocation of More Money to More Individual Law Firms for Common-Benefit Work in Mass-Tort MDL

For more information, please visit the&nbsp;<a href="https://rabiejcenter.org/events/mass-tort-mdl-leadership-bench-bar-leadership-summit-2026/">event webpage</a>.

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