Media Relations
For all media inquiries, please contact
Tim Kolly, DRI Director of Communications
Phone: (312) 698-6220
Cell: (312) 914-0774
tkolly@dri.org
Quick facts
- Founded: 1960 in Milwaukee as the Defense Research Institute
- Headquarters: Chicago, IL
- Total Membership: 22,000
- Amicus Briefs Filed in 2012: 20
- Monthly Publication: For The Defense
- Quarterly Publication: In-House Defense Quarterly
- Executive Director: John R. Kouris
- President 2012-2013: Mary Massaron Ross, Plunkett Cooney, Bloomfield Hills, MI
- President-Elect: J. Michael Weston, Lederer Weston Craig, Cedar Rapids, IA
- Substantive Law Committees: 29
- Number of National Seminars 2012: 23
- Number of Webcasts 2012: 27
- Annual Meeting 2013: October 16-20, Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
- Annual Meeting 2012: New Orleans; Speakers: Former presidential press secretaries Karen Hughes and Dee Dee Myers
- National Foundation for Judicial Excellence 2012: 113 attendees at free seminar for judges
- DRI Experts Witness Database: 65,000 plaintiff and defense expert witnesses