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May 1998
A Word from the Chair
By Kenneth M. Roberts
Schiff Hardin & Waite, Chicago, IL
By the time you read this, the ABA Annual
Meeting will be less than three months away. I would like to personally invite all
Committee members to attend the Annual Meeting in Toronto this August. This year, the
Committee will be co-sponsoring two programs. The first, "Corporate Counsel’s
Guide to Excess Insurance and Reinsurance in the Next Millennium," will take place on
Saturday, August 1, 1998, and will be co-sponsored by ESLR, Corporate Counsel, and the
Self-Insurers and Risk Managers Committees. ESLR also will be jointly sponsoring another
program with the Self-Insurers and Risk Managers Committee regarding insurance and risk
management issues raised by the Year 2000 Problem on Friday, July 31, 1998.
The Committee also will be holding its annual business meeting on August 1, 1998. As
usual, the business meeting will be conducted over breakfast, followed by a presentation
by our guest speaker. In addition to these meetings, we are planning several informal
activities for the Toronto meeting, and will provide additional information shortly.
I would like to thank everyone who attended the successful ESLR business meeting on
Friday, February 21, 1998 at the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee’s Midwinter
Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. ESLR co-sponsored the Scottsdale meeting, and, although El
Niņo made the weather feel more like Chicago in March, the programs were excellent and it
was good to see so many familiar faces. ESLR’s contributions to the meeting included
an excellent presentation by Michael Sean Quinn on avoiding bad faith in the
primary/excess relationship, as well as a thought-provoking reinsurance toolbox lunch
session led by Wesley Sunu.
David Anderson and Wesley Sunu are planning a regional program for late Spring/early
Summer in Chicago on attorney-client privilege issues. We will provide more information as
it becomes available.
We need two or three volunteers to assist in preparation of the Committee’s
contribution to the 1999 Annual Survey issue of the Tort & Insurance Law Journal.
Anyone who is interested should contact David Anderson at (312) 258-5594 or danderson@schiffhardin.com.
Speaking of e-mail addresses, Larry Schiffer recently e-mailed detailed instructions to
all eslrcom List Serve subscribers on how to use the List Serve to keep ESLR members abreast
of recent developments in our practice areas. I have asked Mike Knoerzer to reprint the
instructions in the Spring edition of the ESLR Committee Newsletter in the hope that we
will see increased activity over the List Serve as more and more of us become accustomed to
using it. Don’t forget to send newsletter contributions to Mike Knoerzer at Werner
& Kennedy, 1633 Broadway, 46th Floor, New York, NY 10019, maknoerzer@mcimail.com.
Finally, I hope to see many of you in May at the Joint Spring Meeting in La Jolla,
co-sponsored by TIPS and the Young Lawyers Division.
ESLR COMMITTEE TO
COSPONSOR TWO PROGRAMS AT THE 1998 ANNUAL MEETING
Insurance and Risk Management Issues Raised
by the Year 2000 Problem
Friday, July 31, 1998
Co-sponsored by:
ESLR Committee and The Self-Insurers and Risk Managers Committee
Corporate Counsel's Guide To Excess
Insurance And Reinsurance In The Next Millennium
Saturday, August 1, 1998
Co-sponsored by:
ESLR Committee, Corporate Counsel Committee and
The Self-Insurers and Risk Managers Committee
ANNUAL BUSINESS
MEETING
The ESLR Committee will also be holding its
Annual Business Meeting on August 1, 1998. Currently, several informal activities in
addition to a Speakers’ Dinner are being planned for the evening of Friday, July 31.
Additional information will be provided shortly.
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