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Shameless plug – Your Inside Track on 2026’s Biggest Drug & Device Defense Issues

By Bexis on April 25, 2026
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Early Bird pricing may be history, but the good news is the 2026 Drug and Medical Device Seminar is shaping up to be anything but ordinary. If you like smart people, sharp ideas, and a little Boston energy, you’re in the right place.

What’s New and Big This Year

From May 20–22 at The Westin Copley Place in Boston’s bustling Back Bay, you’ll dig into the topics everyone in the field is talking about:

  • The newest twists on Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and expert challenges
  • Global mass tort coordination and cross‑border strategy
  • Hot‑button litigation trends like PFAS, ethylene oxide, and the push toward “clean pharma”
  • Direct insights from medical device GCs, in‑house leaders, and regulatory voices who don’t sugarcoat anything

Plus, this year’s program adds fresh sessions on AI in litigation, jury persuasion, MDL strategy, and science‑driven defense themes. DRI’s programming is all designed to give you takeaways you can use the moment you’re back at your desk.

Networking That Actually Matters

This seminar draws the people who move the needle in drug and device defense. You’ll meet trial lawyers, in‑house counsel, scientists, and industry leaders tackling the same challenges you are. And with attendees from companies like AbbVie, Becton Dickinson, GSK, Medtronic, Sanofi, and Stryker, the conversations you have here can genuinely shift your practice.

Boston. May. Your Next Big Professional Boost.

Prices are already up now that Early Bird has closed, but you can still save up to $500. If you want in, lock it in.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4ssfwFL

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JAMES M. BECK is Reed Smith’s only Senior Life Sciences Policy Analyst, resident in the firm’s Philadelphia office. He is the author of, among other things, Drug and Medical Device Product Liability Handbook (2004) (with Anthony Vale). He wrote the seminal law review…

JAMES M. BECK is Reed Smith’s only Senior Life Sciences Policy Analyst, resident in the firm’s Philadelphia office. He is the author of, among other things, Drug and Medical Device Product Liability Handbook (2004) (with Anthony Vale). He wrote the seminal law review article on off-label use cited by the Supreme Court in Buckman v. Plaintiffs Legal Committee. He has written more amicus briefs for the Product Liability Advisory Council than anyone else in the history of the organization, and in 2011 won PLAC’s highest honor, the John P. Raleigh award. He has been a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) since 2005. He is the long-time editor of the newsletter of the ABA’s Mass Torts Committee.  He is vice chair of the Class Actions and Multi-Plaintiff Litigation SLG of DRI’s Drug and Device Committee.  He can be reached at jmbeck@reedsmith.com.  His LinkedIn page is here.

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