Paul Bland to Speak at the 2025 Complex Litigation Ethics Conference

We are pleased to announce that Berger Montague Shareholder Paul Bland will be speaking at the 2025 Complex Litigation Ethics Conference, to be held October 9-10, 2025 at UC Law San Francisco. Register for the conference here.

Mr. Bland will participate on a panel moderated by Berger Montague Shareholder Joshua Davis, entitled “Legal Journalists and Lawyers in an Age of Government Reprisals.” The government has been aggressive with the press and with law firms. How, if at all, should journalists and lawyers change their behavior given the possibility of government reprisal? Should they be more cautious about what they say? Less cautious? The same. Whose interests should they weigh in making those decisions?

Data suggest that about half of all cases filed in federal court are part of multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings or involve proposed class actions. Yet scant scholarly attention has been paid to the ways in which ethical rules, which are typically designed for traditional litigation, should be adapted and applied to MDLs and class actions. The Complex Litigation Ethics Conference will address these important and timely issues.

Berger Montague is one of the nation’s preeminent law firms focusing on complex civil litigation, class actions, and mass torts in federal and state courts throughout the United States. With more than $2.4 billion in 2025 post-trial judgments alone, the Firm is a leader in the fields of complex litigation, antitrust, consumer protection, defective products, environmental law, employment law, securities, and whistleblower cases, among many other practice areas. For over 55 years, Berger Montague has played leading roles in precedent-setting cases and has recovered over $50 billion for its clients and the classes they have represented. Berger Montague is headquartered in Philadelphia and has offices in Chicago; Malvern, PA; Minneapolis; San Diego; San Francisco; Toronto, Canada; Washington, D.C., and Wilmington, DE.