Member Bill Ricci as usual was engaged in a number of professional activities in the past quarter including: (1) teaching a session as an adjunct professor for the Temple LLM in Advocacy, topic “Persuasion in Opening Statements”; (2) co-authoring a September 2024 Pennsylvania Defense Institute (PDI) Counterpoint article titled “Pennsylvania Supreme Court overruled Azzarello in 2014, but Ten Years Later the Ghost of Azzarello continues to Haunt; (3) serving as a panelist regarding Mediation techniques at the Annual PLAC Meeting in Tucson Arizona; (4) chaired the October 29 PDI webinar dealing with issues and strategy in the handling and trial of in products liability cases after the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Supreme Court decisions in Sullivan v. Werner.
