CURRICULUM VITAE
I. 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)
II. OFFICES IN LEGAL MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (ABA):
Toxic Torts, Hazardous Substances, and Environmental
Law Committee (Vice-Chair 1993-2001)
ASSOCIATION OF TRIAL LAWYERS OF AMERICA (ATLA):
ATLA Executive Committee (2003-2004)
Board of Governors (1996-2004)
Amicus Curiae Committee, Chair (2001-2004)
ATLA Center for Constitutional Litigation (Board of Advisors 2001-2004)
Herbicides and Pesticides Litigation Group (Including Dioxin and Agent
Orange) (Chair 1991-2004)
Legal Affairs Committee (1996-2004)
PPA (Phenylpropanolamine) Litigation Group (Chair 2001-2004)
Scientific, Medical and Technical Committee (Chair 1996-1999);
Section Leaders Council (1994-2004; Chair 1995-1996);
Section on Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts (Chair
1994-1995; Vice-Chair 1997-2004);
ROSCOE POUND SOCIETY:
Chair, Roscoe B. Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest (1997-2003)
TRIAL LAWYERS FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE (TLPJ):
Executive Committee (2002-2004);
Board of Directors (1996-2004);
Communications and Outreach Committee (Chair 1999-2004)
Cy Pres Committee (Chair 2002-2004)
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)
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)
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)
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 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 (Phoenix 2001)
Ethical Aspects of Funding Mass Tort Cases (Montreal 2001)
Litigating PPA Cases (Dallas 2001)
Surviving Challenges to Epidemiological and Toxicological Testimony
(Atlanta 2002)
Presenting Epidemiology and Toxicology Experts in the Daubert Era (Maui
2003)
The Settlement of Mass Tort Cases (San Francsico 2003)
IV. 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., "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
V. SUPREME COURT AND FEDERAL RULES INVOLVEMENT RELATED TO
SCIENCE ISSUES
Testimony on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America before the
Federal
Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules (Rule 702), October 22, 1998; Washington,
D.C.
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
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
VI. SUPREME COURT AND FEDERAL RULES INVOLVEMENT RELATED TO
CLASS ACTION ISSUES
Testimony on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America 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 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
BAR MEMBER: California, Texas, Washington D.C., U.S. Supreme Court