Josh Shaw Speaks at DRI Annual Meeting
November 19, 2012
COLUMBIA, SC – November 19, 2012 – Joshua D. Shaw, attorney in the Columbia office of Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., presented during the Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Committee CLE session at the DRI Annual Meeting held in October in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mr. Shaw focuses his practice on environmental and product liability litigation. His presentation concerned a pending Supreme Court case Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. Kiobel is a putative class action brought against several oil companies and raises a complex federal jurisdictional issue that is of particular interest to corporations with overseas operations.
Mr. Shaw has written several articles on related topics as a representative of the Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Committee; those articles have been published on the website ddritoday.org. DRI is the world’s largest and premier international organization of attorneys and in-house counsel who defend the interests of individuals, insurers, and businesses in civil litigation.
About Turner Padget
Founded in 1929, Turner Padget is one of South Carolina’s largest law firms with over 90 attorneys and five offices in Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Greenville and Myrtle Beach. The firm provides clients in many industries with quality legal services in areas such as arbitration and mediation, business entity planning and organization, business litigation, construction and environmental litigation, employment and labor law, estate and tax planning, insurance coverage analysis and litigation, intellectual property, personal injury defense litigation, products liability, professional liability, real estate transactions, trucking and transportation, and workers’ compensation. For additional information, visit http://www.turnerpadget.com.
