Extract from Casey Sullivan’s article “Everlaw Summit ‘23 Keynote Speaker Announced”
If you haven’t booked your ticket for Everlaw Summit ‘23, do so now. Otherwise, you risk missing out on a must-see keynote session by celebrated author and staff writer for the The New Yorker, Patrick Radden Keefe, plus a can’t-miss reading and Q&A with The New York Times‘ Kevin Roose.
Keefe, author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, will share the hidden story behind the nation’s opioid crisis, an epidemic that led to some of the most significant public interest litigation ever undertaken in the U.S. legal system.
A New York Times bestseller and notable book of the year, Empire of Pain tells the gripping tale of the rise of one of America’s richest and most powerful families and the company, Purdue Pharma, that fueled their fortune until it was undone in the face of near-ceaseless litigation.
A story of “three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world,” Empire of Pain has been described as “A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail…a masterful work of narrative reportage.”
