CURRICULUM VITAE
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Smoger & Associates, P.C.
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Oakland, CA 94602
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I. OFFICES IN LEGAL MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS
PUBLIC JUSTICE (FORMERLY “TLPJ”):
President-Elect (2007-2008)
Board of Directors (1996-2008)
Finalist for Trial Lawyer of the Year (2003)
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (ABA):
Toxic Torts, Hazardous Substances, and Environmental
Law Committee (Vice-Chair 1993-2001)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE (FORMERLY “ATLA”):
Amicus Curiae Committee, Chair (2001-2008)
Herbicides and Pesticides Litigation Group (Including Dioxin and Agent Orange)
(Chair 1991-2008)
Section on Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts
(Chair 1994-1995; Vice-Chair 1997-2008);
Legal Affairs Committee (1996-2008)
Scientific, Medical and Technical Committee (Chair 1996-1999);
Executive Committee (2003-2006)
Board of Governors (1996-2006)
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION (“CCL”):
Board of Advisors 2001-2008
BAR MEMBER: California, Texas, U.S. Supreme Court
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I. 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)
The Class Action Fairness Act (Washington D.C. 2005)
10th Annual Institute on Class Actions: Plaintiff’s Opening Statement in Support of Class Certification (San Diego 2006)
Australian Trial Lawyers Association
Use and Abuse of Class Actions in America (Sydney 1995)
Class Actions in America and Australia (Aspen 1996)
California Association of Consumer Attorneys
Class Actions: Use and Abuse (S.F. 1996)
Class Actions: An Update on the Law (S.F. 2007)
Preserving Access to Justice: Class Actions (L.A. 2008)
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
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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;
• 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)
• State-Federal Relations (Atlanta 2002)
The National College of Advocacy
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 Toxic Exposure (Chicago 1995 and Santa Fe 1995)
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The National College of Advocacy (Continued)
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)
• Pharmaceutical Litigation: 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 (Phoenix
2001)
• Pharmaceutical Cases: Understanding the Medicine (Phoenix 2001)
• Ethical Aspects of Funding Mass Tort Cases (Montreal 2001)
• Litigating Pharmaceutical Cases (Dallas 2001)
• Surviving Challenges to Epidemiological and Toxicological Testimony (Atlanta
2002)
• Epidemiology and Toxicology Experts in the Daubert Era (Maui 2003)
• The Settlement of Mass Tort Cases (San Francsico 2003)
• The Admissibility of Expert Testimony (Palm Springs 2005)
• Coping with the Class Action Fairness Act (Washington D.C. 2005)
• E-Discovery (Seattle 2006)
• Issues Regarding Removal to Federal Court (Chicago 2007)
• Update on Issues of Preemption (Chicago 2007)
III. PUBLICATIONS (NOT RELATED TO SPEECHES)
Smoger, G.H., “Knocking Down Windmills,” Trial, (July 2003), pp. 56-61
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., 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
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Smoger, G.H., "Using Experts Wisely in Toxic Tort Cases," Trial, (Sept. 1993), pp. 30-35
Smoger, G.H., "Whither the Commission on Human Rights," Vanderbilt Journal of
Transnational Law, (1979) Vol. 12: 943-968
IV. SUPREME COURT AND FEDERAL RULES INVOLVEMENT
A. Class Action Issues
Testimony on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now “AAJ”) before the
Federal Advisory Committee on Discovery Rules, Subcommittee on Class Actions, January 2,
2002; San Francisco, CA.
Testimony on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now “AAJ”) before the
Federal Advisory Committee on Discovery Rules, Subcommittee on Class Actions, 1996; San
Francisco, CA
Counsel of Record before the U.S. Supreme Court for Respondents Daniel Stephenson and Joe
Isaacson in the case of Dow Chemical Co., et. al., Petitioners, v. Daniel Stephenson, et. al.,
Respondents. No. 02-271
B. Expert Witness Issues
Counsel of Record before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice,
P.C., Public Citizen, Inc., and the Center for Auto Safety as Amici Curiae in support of
Respondents in the case of Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., Kumho U.S.A., Inc. and Hercules Tire &
Rubber Company, Inc.,petitioners, v. Patrick Carmichael, et. al., Respondents. No. 97-1709
Counsel of Record before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of OCAW (Oil, Chemical & Atomic
Workers Int'l. Union, AFL-CIO) as Amicus Curiae in support of Respondents in the case of
General Electric Company, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and Monsanto Company,
petitioners, v. Robert K. Joiner and Karen P. Joiner, Respondents. No. 96-188
Testimony on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America before the Federal Advisory
Committee on Evidence Rules (Rule 702); 1998; Washington, D.C.
C. Discovery and Damages Issues
Testimony on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America before the Federal Advisory
Committee on Discovery Rules, 1998; San Francisco, CA
Testimony before the Federal Advisory Committee on Discovery Rules, Subcommittee on
Electronic Discovery; 2005; San Francisco, CA. and participation as one of the coordinators of
ATLA’s response to electronic discovery restrictions
Counsel of Record before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of The Association of Trial Lawyers
of America as Amicus Curiae in support of Respondent in the case of Philip Morris USA,
Petitioner, v. Mayola Williams, Respondent. No. 05-1256.
Counsel of Record before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Jean-Michel Cousteau and Other
Natural and Social Scientists as Amici Curiae in support of Respondents in the case of Exxon
Shipping Co. and Exxon Mobil Corp., Petitioners, v. Grant Baker, et. al., Respondents. No.
07-219
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V. EDUCATION
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)
BAR MEMBER: California, Texas, Washington D.C., U.S. Supreme Court