Cranbrooke v. Intellex, International Arbitration Version - Claimant Materials

John T. Baker has spent most of his career concentrating his legal practice in products liability litigation. He earned a national leadership role in multi-district litigation and other consolidated complex litigation concerning defective pharmaceutical products and vehicles. In those leadership roles, he coordinated and conducted nationwide plaintiffs' discovery, managed document depositories, and served on nationwide litigation plaintiffs' steering or management committees. Mr. Baker lectures nationally and internationally on professionalism, torts/product liability, and trial advocacy issues. His legal teaching experience includes adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law; The University of Denver College of Law, and he serves as the Public Programs Educational Director for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, as well as other program leadership roles for NITA. The University of Denver College of Law Institute for Advanced Legal Studies honored Baker as "Educator of the Year" in 1997.

Robert P. Burns is the William W. Gurley Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, where he has taught evidence, trial advocacy, procedure, and professional responsibility. He is the author of The Death of the American Trial (University of Chicago Press, 2009), A Theory of the Trial (Princeton University Press, 1999), and many articles. Students have voted him the Robert Childress Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence three times. He has litigated many civil and criminal cases through Northwestern’s Legal Clinic and has taught for NITA for over thirty-five years.

Steven Lubet is the Williams Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University, where he also directs the law school's award-winning Bartlit Center on Trial Advocacy. He is the author of several best-selling NITA books and case files, including Modern Trial Advocacy, as well as popular books such as Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp and Lawyers' Poker: Fifty-Two Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players. Professor Lubet is a nationally recognized expert in trial advocacy and legal ethics, having written a dozen books and over one hundred articles on all aspects of law practice.

Terre Rushton is the director of in-house education and curriculum at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) in Louisville, Colorado. She is a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and clerked for the Honorable Joseph Quinn after graduation. She then worked with the Colorado Attorney General's Office before going into private practice, specializing in divorce and family law. Ms. Rushton has been associated with NITA for a number of years, and in 2006 received The Robert E. Oliphant Service to NITA Award for outstanding service in all areas, including program directorship, public service, writing and support.

James H. Seckinger, one of the nation's outstanding trial-advocacy teachers, has been part of the faculty of the Notre Dame Law School since 1974. Professor Seckinger teaches and writes in the areas of deposition techniques, evidence, professional responsibility and trial advocacy. Since 1973, he has been a member of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and served as its director from 1979 to 1994. He earned his B.S. from St. John's University (Minnesota) in 1964, his M.S. from Vanderbilt University in 1968, and his J.D. from Notre Dame in 1968, where he served as articles editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. A member of the Colorado Bar since 1968 and the Indiana Bar since 1976, Professor Seckinger clerked for the Honorable William E. Doyle on the U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado (1968-69), served as director of litigation at Denver Legal Aid (1969-72) as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow, served as chief deputy district attorney at the Denver District Attorney's office (1972-74), and held a visiting professorship at Cornell (1978-79).