GERSON H. SMOGER, J.D., Ph.D.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA: Ph.D. (With distinction)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY - BOALT HALL: J.D.

LYCOMING COLLEGE, Williamsport, PA: B.A. (Summa Cum Laude)

Toxic Torts, Hazardous Substances, and Environmental Law Committee (Vice-Chair 1993-2001)

ASSOCIATION OF TRIAL LAWYERS OF AMERICA (ATLA): 

Board of Governors (1996-2002) 

Amicus Curiae Committee, Chair (2002)

Herbicides and Pesticides Litigation Group (Including Dioxin)

(Chair 1991-2002)

Scientific, Medical and Technical Committee (Chair 1996-1999);

Legal Affairs Committee (1996-2002)

Section Leaders Council (1994-2002; Chair 1995-1996);

Section on Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts (Chair 1994-1995; Vice-Chair 1997-2002); PPA (Phenylpropanolamine) Litigation Group (Chair 2001)

ATLA Center for Constitutional Litigation (Board of Advisors 2001-2002)

TRIAL LAWYERS FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE (TLPJ):

Executive Committee (2002); Board of Directors (1996-2002)

ROSCOE POUND SOCIETY:

Chair, Roscoe B. Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest (1997-2002)

BAR MEMBER: California, Texas, Washington D.C., U.S. Supreme Court

III. LECTURES AND SPEECHES

The American Bar Association

Direct and Cross-Examination of Expert Witnesses in Toxic Tort Cases (Charleston 1992)

Managing Multiple Plaintiff Toxic Tort Cases (San Diego 1995)

Mass Case Management: Tort Reform (Washington D.C. 1996)

The Plaintiff's Approach When Corporate Defendants Indicate the Potential For Bankruptcy (Phoenix 1997)

Handling Challenges to the Admissibility of Expert Witnesses Under

Daubert, Joiner, and Kumho Tire (San Diego 1999)

Use and Abuse of Class Actions in America (Sydney 1995)

Class Actions in America and Australia (Aspen 1996)

Class Actions: Use and Abuse (S.F. 1996)

The Center for Continuing Legal Education

Toxic Torts (S.F. and Sacramento 1988)

The Use of Expert Witnesses Under the New Discovery Act (San Diego, Los Angeles, S.F., Newport Beach, Sacramento, San Jose 1988)

Dioxin 1993 (Vienna 1993)

In-Utero and Postnatal Exposure to 2,3,7,8-TCDD in Times Beach, Missouri: 

1) Immunological Effects: Lymphocyte Phenotype Frequencies

                                                            2) Impact on Neurophysiological Functioning

Hastings College of Law (S.F. 1998)

The Environmental Audit Privilege: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come

Herbicides in War: 2nd International Symposium (Hanoi 1993)

Exposure to Agent Orange: Birth Defects

The Current Status of Compensation for American Veterans and Their Families Subsequent to Agent Orange Exposure

International Conference on Hazardous Waste (Sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Ecology) (St. Petersburg, Russia 1993)

American Regulations and Dangers

Prospects and Proposals for the C.I.S.

Law and Organizational Economics Center (for State Court Judges)(Kansas 1999)

The application of Supreme Court Expert Witness Decisions to the States;

MTBE: The Use of Animal Studies to Prove Causality;

Focusing on the Methodology of Toxicology and Epidemiology;

Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association (November 2000)

Use of Expert Witnesses in Federal Court

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Litigating Closed Head Injury Cases (Dallas 1996)

National Judicial College

Toxic Torts for Trial Judges (Reno 1989)

Assessment and Distribution of Damage Awards (Reno 1989)

Pound Forum for State Court Judges

Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom (San Diego 1997)

Discovery in Federal Courts (San Francisco 1999)

The Jury System (Montreal 2001)

Medical Causation in Toxic Tort Cases (San Francisco 1986)

Typical Toxic Exposure Litigation Issues in the Workplace (Las Vegas 1992)

Turning the Expert's Perspective Into Your Own Winning Strategy ( Las Vegas 1992)

Case Management: Settlement Perspectives (Dallas 1993)

Demonstration of Direct and Cross-Examination of the Expert Witness (Dallas 1993)

Corporate Use of Public Relations to Manipulate Juries and Lessen Governmental Standards (San Francisco 1993)

Use and Abuse of Class Actions (Chicago 1994)

Use of Experts in Pesticide Cases (Chicago 1994)

Toxic Tort Case Management: Financial Considerations (S. F. 1995)

Considering Children in the Prosecution of Mass Toxic Tort Actions (New York 1995)

Children and Silicon Implants (Chicago 1995 and Santa Fe 1995)

Experts: The Use of Daubert By Plaintiffs (Dallas 1996)

Poisoning the Studies: The Manipulation of Science Regarding the

Neurological Effects of Lead on Children (Boston 1996)

The Ultimate Trial Advocacy Course: Cross-Examination with a Purpose (Berkeley 1996)

Juries and Public Perception (San Diego 1997)

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Where Are We Going -- An Update on Discovery (Maui 1998)

Coping With the Financial and Emotional Stress of Mass Litigation in Pharmaceutical and Toxic Tort Cases (Washington D.C. 1998)

Daubert, Joiner, and Kumho Tire (Washington, D.C. 1999; Chicago 2000)

Litigating Sudden Toxic Release Cases (Plant Explosions and Railroad Tank Cars) (San Francisco 1999)

Rezulin: Meeting Daubert Challenges (Chicago 2000)

From Daubert to Weisgram and the new F.R.E. 702 (New Orleans 2001)

Expert Witnesses (Las Vegas 2001)

Understanding, Evaluating and Critiquing Epidemiology and Toxicology

in the Court Room; From Daubert to Weisgram and the new F.R.E. 702

Evaluating PPA Cases: Understanding the Medicine and Epidemiology (Phoenix 2001)

Ethical Aspects of Funding Mass Tort Cases (Montreal 2001)

Litigating PPA Cases (Dallas 2001)

                    Smoger, G.H., "New Environmental Laws Muzzle Critics," Trial, (October 1997), pp. 70-74

Smoger, G.H., Wolf, A., and Hoffman, M., "FIFRA Preemption: Overview and Tactical Considerations, " Trial, ( July 1995), pp. 34-41

Smoger, G.H., "Using Experts Wisely in Toxic Tort Cases," Trial, (Sept. 1993), pp. 30-35

Smoger, G.H., Kahn, P.C., Rodgers, G.C., Suffin, S., McConnachie, P., "In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to 2,3,7,8-TCDD in Times Beach, Missouri: 1. Immunological Effects: Lymphocyte Phenotype Frequencies, "Vol. 13, pp. 345-348 in Fiedler, ed., et. al., Organohalogen Compounds, 1993

Cantor, D.S., Holder, G. , Cantor, W., Kahn, P.C., Smoger, G.H., Rodgers, G.C., Swain, W., Berger, H., Suffin, S., "In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to 2,3,7,8-TCDD in Times Beach, Missouri: "2. Impact on Neurophysiological Functioning" Vol. 13, pp. 341-344 in Fiedler, ed., et. al., Organohalogen Compounds, 1993

Smoger, G.H., "Whither the Commission on Human Rights," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, (1979) Vol. 12: 943-968

BAR MEMBER: California, Texas, Washington D.C., U.S. Supreme Court