Moore's Federal Practice

Daniel R. Coquillette is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor at Boston College of Law in Newton, Massachusetts, and the Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor Coquillette is a graduate of Williams College (B.A., 1966), Oxford University (B.A., 1969 and M.A., 1975) and Harvard University (J.D., 1971). He clerked for Justice Robert Braucher (MA SJC) in Boston (1971-1972) and Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger (1972-1973), and was a partner in the Boston law firm Palmer & Dodge (1973-1975, 1978-1985). In his academic career, Professor Coquillette has served as an Associate Professor at Boston University (1975-1978), Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School (1978, 1983), Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School (1978-1979, 1983-1984, 1994-), Dean of Boston College (1985-1993), Professor of Law at Boston College (1985-1988), and J. Donald Monan S.J. University Professor at Boston College (1989-). His course subjects include Contracts, Jurisprudence, Legal History, and the Legal Profession.

Gregory P. Joseph is a past President of the American College of Trial Lawyers (2010-11), Chair of the 60,000-member Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association (1997-98), President of the Supreme Court Historical Society (2011-17), and member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence (1993-99). He is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Supreme Court Historical Society and author and editor of several volumes on evidence, procedure, trial practice and Civil RICO. He has lectured for the Federal Judicial Center and the National Judicial College; has addressed the Judicial Conferences of several Circuits, and at more than 200 professional conferences. Mr. Joseph is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute.

Georgene M. Vairo is the David P. Leonard Professor of Law Emerita at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Sweet Briar College (B.A. 1972) (Phi Beta Kappa), the University of Virginia (M. Ed. 1975) (With Distinction), and Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 1979) (cum laude). While a student at Fordham, Professor Vairo was an associate editor of the Law Review, and a member of the National Moot Court championship team. Professor Vairo practiced antitrust law at the New York City office of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (1979-1981), and served as the first law clerk to the Honorable Joseph M. McLaughlin (1981-1982), then District Judge for the Eastern District of New York and later United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Second Circuit. She joined the faculty of Fordham University School of Law in 1982 and taught there for 13 years, serving as Associate Dean from 1987 until 1995, and was appointed to the Leonard F. Manning Chair in 1994. She served as a visiting professor at Loyola Law School in 1995-1996, and taught courses in Federal Jurisdiction, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation, International Dispute Resolution, and Federal Courts. From 1988 to 2000, Professor Vairo served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dalkon Shield Claimants' Trust, and as its Chairperson from August 1989 through the termination of the Trust. She has served on the editorial board of several litigation and dispute resolution journals. She is a member of the American Law Institute, and served as a member of the ALI Project on Complex Litigation. She has been invited to testify before the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, and has lectured widely on various federal procedural topics including Rule 11, summary judgment, choice of forum considerations, abstention, class actions, resolution of mass torts and federal jurisdiction, to groups of judges, lawyers, and law professors.

Chilton Davis Varner became King & Spalding's first female litigation partner in 1983. She is the senior lawyer in the firm's product liability practice, which has been named one of the top three in the country by The American Lawyer and one of the top such practices by Chambers. In 2004, Former Chief Justice Rehnquist named Ms. Varner to the Advisory Committee to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and she was re-appointed to a second term until 2010 by Chief Justice Roberts. Ms. Varner currently serves on the Editorial Board for Moore's Federal Practice, a leading treatise on practice in the federal courts. Ms. Varner is a past President of the American College of Trial Lawyers. She currently serves as President of the Supreme Court Historical Society. Ms. Varner has served as national trial and appellate counsel for a variety of corporate clients, including her work in products liability, business litigation, regulatory investigations and counseling on questions of attorney-client privilege and work product.