Daniel J. Scully
Director
Clark Hill, PLC
Detroit, Michigan
Mr. Scully’s practice focuses on the defense of major manufacturers in product liability litigation. He is admitted to practice in California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. District Court in the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits. He is a member of DRI, AAAM and other professional organizations. He is a Diplomate, American Board of Trial Advocates; Past President of the Michigan Chapter of ABOTA and currently sits on the ABOTA National Board; Fellow, American Board of Trail Advocates Foundation; Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; and Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Randall R. Riggs
Director-Elect
Locke Reynolds, LLP
Indianapolis, Indiana
Mr. Riggs is a senior partner of Locke Reynolds LLP and chairs the firm's Product Liability Section. Mr. Riggs devotes his practice to the defense of vehicle/equipment manufacturers and distributors headquartered in the U.S. and internationally. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a member of the IADC, the Defense Research Institute, the Product Liability Advisory Council, and the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana. In 2002, he was named “Indiana Defense Lawyer of the Year.” He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America 2005, 2006 and 2007 editions. He is a former Chair of DRI's Product Liability Committee and a member of DRI's Board of Directors. Mr. Riggs is a 1977 graduate of the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.

John C. Aisenbrey
Stinson Morrison Heckler, LLP
Kansas City, Missouri
After graduating from Georgetown Law Center and a clerkship with Circuit Judge Roger Robb on the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Mr. Aisenbrey served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia from 1978 to 1981. He concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation and white collar criminal matters. He also serves as national and regional counsel defending manufacturers of industrial, farm and construction equipment in product liability actions. He has substantial jury trial experience, having taken more than 50 jury cases to verdict as lead trial counsel in federal and state courts in Missouri and Kansas, as well as around the country.

William H. Bave, Jr.
Wilson, Bave, Conboy, Cozza & Couzens
White Plains, New York
Mr. Bave received his undergraduate degree in political science from Providence College in 1970, and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1973. After law school he became an assistant district attorney in Westchester County, New York from 1973 to 1978 where he tried major felony cases during his final years in the office. In 1978 he joined the firm of Wilson, Bave as an associate and became a partner in 1985. Presently he specializes in medical malpractice defense and construction accident litigation. While the majority of his practice is defense he also represents plaintiffs in all areas of tort litigation except medical malpractice.

Morris C. Carrington
MehaffyWeber, P.C.
Beaumont, Texas
M.C. Carrington received a B.B.A. in accounting with honors in 1979 from Texas Tech University and his J.D. with honors from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1982. He is a member of MehaffyWeber, P.C.’s Management Committee. Mr. Carrington has tried to a verdict approximately forty cases in the last eight years. The cases have included toxic tort litigation, products liability, premises liability, premises security, commercial litigation and employment discrimination. Many of the cases which he has successfully defended have been in the courts of Jefferson County, Texas. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law.

William J. Conroy
Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Mr. Conroy graduated from Lycoming College with a B.A. in 1978 and earned his J.D. from Temple University School of Law (Evening Division) in 1982. He focuses his practice on the litigation of catastrophic injury cases. He has represented Ford Motor Company for more than 20 years in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He has served as national trial counsel to the Ford Motor Company in light truck rollover litigation since 1994, trying cases throughout the U.S. He also represents Honda Motor America, Hyundai Motor America, Yamaha Motor Company, and Crown Equipment Corporation, as well as the Philadelphia Electric Company, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, NP Medical, Inc., AIG Technical Services, Inc., and ACE-INA Insurance.

Molly Hood Craig
Hood Law Firm, LLC
Charleston, South Carolina
Ms. Hood Craig is the managing partner of the Hood Law Firm, LLC in Charleston, South Carolina. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee and received her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association and served as co-chairman of the organization's Trial Academy for two years. She specializes in medical malpractice, drug and medical device litigation, professional liability, nursing home litigation, products liability, and employment law.

Cathryn R. Ensign
Brouse McDowell
Cleveland, Ohio
Ms. Ensign is a principal member of the Labor and Employment Law Practice Group of Brouse McDowell, LPA. She has significant and extensive experience in litigation of employment and workers’ compensation cases. Ms. Ensign’s practice includes the representation of employers in employment issues including discrimination, harassment, retaliation and termination under both federal and state law. She received her J.D. in 1986 from Cleveland Marshall College of Law and her Bachelor’s of Arts degree in 1981 from Cleveland State University. Ms. Ensign is admitted to the Ohio Bar, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio and the United States Supreme Court.

Nancy M. Erfle
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, PC
Portland, Oregon
Ms. Erfle is a shareholder at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt where she is chair of the firm’s Product Liability and Business Litigation practice group. She focuses her practice primarily on the defense of major manufacturers and representing clients in complex business disputes, including antitrust. She has defended major pharmaceutical companies, automobile manufacturers and aerospace manufacturers both locally and regionally, serving on multiple trial teams. She is an active member of IADC, DRI and the Product Liability Advisory Council.

Francis J. Grey, Jr.
Lavin, O’Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & DiSipio
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mr. Grey practices principally in product liability defense. As a shareholder of Lavin, O’Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & DiSipio, he handles local and national matters including automotive crashworthiness actions with an emphasis on occupant protection systems including airbags. Mr. Grey also has extensive experience in matters involving forklifts, reach trucks, pallet jacks as well as area work platforms including scissor lifts and self-propelled boom trucks. Mr. Grey has tried to verdict more than 30 product and premise liability actions including multiple catastrophic injury cases. Mr. Grey has served as lead counsel in matters pending in more than 30 states. He also has certification in accident reconstruction.

John F. Kuppens
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
Columbia, South Carolina
Mr. Kuppens practices in the areas of product liability, drug and medical device, and toxic tort litigation. He has defended product liability cases involving a wide range of products and is the Chair of DRI’s Agricultural, Construction, Mining & Industrial Equipment Committee. Mr. Kuppens is the author of a number of articles on legal skills, including “Effective Closing Arguments,” in A Young Lawyer's Guide to Defense Practice (DRI, 2006). He also regularly speaks on issues of interest to litigators, including “It Ain’t Over When It’s Over—Dealing With Discontinued Product Lines” (2006 DRI Product Liability Seminar).

Ivan M. Rodriguez
Chaffe McCall, LLP
New Orleans, Louisiana
Mr. Rodriguez is originally from Bogotá, Colombia but grew up in the U.S. He is fluent in English and Spanish. He received a B.S. in Finance from Louisiana State University in 1990 and his J.D. in 1993 from LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center. He works primarily in the area of civil litigation, including admiralty, insurance defense and coverage, labor and employment, negligence, personal injury, premises liability, products liability, and professional malpractice. He is admitted to practice before all Louisiana and Florida state courts, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Kevin C. Schiferl
Locke Reynolds, LLP
Indianapolis, Indiana
Mr. Schiferl concentrates his practice in product liability and tort litigation involving automobiles and other products as well as professional liability litigation. He has taken numerous cases to verdict, including several that involved multi-week trials, catastrophic injuries and high verdict exposure. One case was selected by The National Law Journal as one of the top defense verdicts in 2005. Mr. Schiferl has served as President of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana among many professional activities. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, named an “Indiana Super Lawyer” and was the 2004 Indiana Defense Lawyer of the Year.

Thomas D. Schroeder
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Mr. Schroeder’s practice focuses on commercial and complex, multi-jurisdictional product liability litigation. He also advises clients on product liability claims avoidance, product warnings, warranties, product liability insurance issues, product recalls and Consumer Product Safety Commission issues. He has handled cases for clients in several jurisdictions across the country. In 1999-2000, Mr. Schroeder was lead trial counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in a multi-billion dollar cost reimbursement lawsuit brought against the leading tobacco manufacturers by the Johns Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of hundreds of thousands of claimants.

Lawrence A. Sutter
Sutter, O’Connell & Farchione
Cleveland, Ohio
Nationally recognized for his success in defending catastrophic injury cases, Mr. Sutter was named as one of America's top ten trial lawyers by The National Law Journal in 2002. He also received recognition from the NLJ as one of the 40 best trial lawyers in the country under the age of 40. He has successfully achieved defense verdicts from juries in a half dozen states--his trial ledger includes professional liability, premises liability insurance coverage, hospital liability and products cases. Mr. Sutter serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Akron School of Law, where he was named the Distinguished Adjunct Instructor in 2001.

M. Gary Toole
Cabaniss, Smith, Toole & Wiggins, PL
Maitland, Florida
Mr. Toole received his B.S. degree in corporate finance from the University of Alabama in 1984. He graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1987. Mr. Toole is a partner at Cabaniss, Smith, Toole & Wiggins, PL. He practices in the areas of product liability, insurance defense and commercial litigation. He is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Florida. Mr. Toole's practice currently focuses on the defense of product liability cases for clients such as Ford Motor Company, Bob's Barricades, Collins Industries, and Capacity of Texas, Inc.

Robert. T. Veon
Veon & England, LLP
Texarkana, Arkansas
Mr. Veon is managing partner at Veon & England, LLP. His practice involves catastrophic claims in commercial, product liability, premises, toxic tort and transportation matters. He represents carriers and commercial policyholders in coverage litigation. He has taken cases to verdict in state and federal courts. He served as national and regional trial counsel for insurers and self insured entities. His experience includes everything from slip/fall and automobile accidents to industrial product defects, major chemical spills and class actions. A former chair of DRI's Young Lawyers Committee, he developed DRI's Complex Medicine for Trial Lawyers seminar. He has lectured at various seminars and is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Texas.