Join the Association of Corporate Counsel Tampa Bay on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at the Tampa Yacht & Country Club for Causal Inference: When We Think We Know Why—but Don't (and How to Tell the Difference), presented by David B. Weinstein and Christopher Torres of Greenberg Traurig.
Registration and networking begin at 11:30 a.m., followed by the program from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. This session will examine one of the most fundamental questions in legal and business decision-making: How do we know that one thing actually caused another? While causation is a required element in many legal claims, conclusions are often based on association, timing, plausibility, or intuition rather than evidence. Attendees will be introduced to objective and rigorous methods of causal inference, including potential outcomes, structural causal models, directed acyclic graphs, quasi-experimental designs, time-series methods, and sensitivity and falsification analyses. The program will provide practical insights into evaluating what conclusions the evidence supports, identifying the assumptions underlying causal claims, and determining whether those assumptions can be tested.
Registration and networking begin at 11:30 a.m., followed by the program from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. This session will examine one of the most fundamental questions in legal and business decision-making: How do we know that one thing actually caused another? While causation is a required element in many legal claims, conclusions are often based on association, timing, plausibility, or intuition rather than evidence. Attendees will be introduced to objective and rigorous methods of causal inference, including potential outcomes, structural causal models, directed acyclic graphs, quasi-experimental designs, time-series methods, and sensitivity and falsification analyses. The program will provide practical insights into evaluating what conclusions the evidence supports, identifying the assumptions underlying causal claims, and determining whether those assumptions can be tested.