Joe Babington, firm member and Vice President of the Trial Attorneys of America (TAA), was the program director and a speaker at the 45th annual TAA meeting held June 9-10, 2016 in Chicago. TAA is a national association of leading products liability defense and commercial litigation trial attorneys. The program included presentations on genomics, 3-D printing, The Internet of things, techniques and technology for presenting complex evidence, use of emoticons as evidence, and other current issues. Mr. Babington spoke on the topic “Don’t Be Blinded By Science: Use And Abuse Of Scientific And Medical Literature To Prove Causation.” Mr. Babington is the incoming TAA president for 2017–18 and is in charge of the program for the organization’s 2017 TAA meeting.