Seminar Web Catalog

Credits

Credit approved by 21 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Members

$99 for Non-members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify common pre-trial and trial motions and understand their strategic purposes in personal injury cases
• Evaluate procedural requirements for motions related to service of process, defaults, dismissals, and withdrawal of counsel
• Analyze and apply standards courts use when ruling on dispositive motions, including motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment
• Develop effective strategies for managing discovery disputes through motions to compel and motions for sanctions, including assessing proportionality, compliance, and remedies
• Understand the role of motions in limine in shaping evidentiary boundaries before trial and minimizing prejudicial or improper evidence
• Learn how to frame arguments, support motions with appropriate evidence, and anticipate common counterarguments

SPEAKERS

• Samantha Dos Santos, Esq.

Credits

Credit approved by 18 authorities

pricing

$79 for Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• A clear checklist for ethical, secure AI use across common use cases such as research, drafting, record summarization, and analytics
• What must be verified by a human, when informed consent is required, and how to disclose and bill fairly
• Safety and security essentials, including dataset and prompt redaction, secure settings, and access controls
• Model language for engagement terms, an internal AI policy, and incident response basics
• A billing and disclosure approach that avoids fee and candor pitfalls, plus a vendor vetting worksheet
• A 15-minute implementation plan you can run with your team the next day

SPEAKERS

• Matthew Schad

Credits

Credit approved by 19 authorities

pricing

$79 for Plaintiff Attorney Members

$99 for Plaintiff Attorney Non-Members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Know your client and earn their trust
• Tell the story right (practice makes perfect)
• Build confidence
• How to figure out the defense’s tactics

SPEAKERS

• Josh Birmingham

Credits

Credit approved by 14 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Members

$99 for Non-members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Recognizing subtle cognitive impairment
• Establishing liability and causation: preservation of evidence and the role of early experts
• Addressing defense arguments on causation
• The neuroscience of medical and diagnostic evidence
• Building the damages case
• Voir dire and jury selection—themes, sample questions, and jury bias trends
• Trial strategies and telling your client’s story
• Settlements and post-verdict planning—liens, MSAs, special needs trusts and more

SPEAKERS

• Daniel Chamberlain

Credits

Credit approved by 19 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Members

$99 for Non-members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand why Medicare now requires the insurance industry to report certain MSA data to Medicare for all settlements involving current Medicare beneficiaries
• Realize that Medicare no longer reviews and approves $0 MSAs
• Identify options that will protect Medicare’s future interest and your client’s future access to Medicare benefits
• Appreciate the importance of MSP compliance in all cases involving Medicare beneficiaries

SPEAKERS

• John Cattie, Jr.

Credits

Credit approved by 16 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Members

$99 for Non-members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Case framing, jury connection, and empowerment
• Selecting your good jurors by pre-habing/walking off your bad jurors for cause
• Owning bad facts without sponsoring them
• Normalizing the negative - creating a safe space for jurors to be honest about their biases
• The line between pre-conditioning and discovering biases
• Sequencing

SPEAKERS

• Sarah Havens
• Bo Fraser, Ph.D.

Credits

Credit approved by 15 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• What is taxable and what is not
• Exclusion for physical injuries
• How checks should be issued
• Tax reporting issues—the dreaded Form 1099
• Which attorneys’ fees can be deducted
• Structured settlements and Qualified Settlement Funds

SPEAKERS

• Robert Wood

Credits

Credit approved by 18 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Members

$99 for Non-members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn mindfulness techniques to decrease stress and anxiety
• Develop coping skills for particularly difficult moments
• Improve the ability to connect with witnesses and clients
• Understand the scientific evidence regarding the effectiveness of mindfulness
• Implement a daily mindfulness practice using a few simple techniques

SPEAKERS

• John Devlin

Credits

Credit approved by 14 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understanding the deepfake defense
• How to authenticate digital evidence and counteract AI-driven deception
• Practical guidance for attorneys facing AI evidentiary challenges.

SPEAKERS

• Kate Dunnington

Credits

Credit approved by 17 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Diagnose risk drivers for breakdowns in client communication can lead to bar complaints and malpractice exposure
• Mapping those risks to specific stages of the case
• Set a communication standard with evidence based cadence and channels for “proactive updates”
• Implement scalable systems to deliver regular, professional communications with templates adaptable by practice area
• Establish metrics and a feedback loop to refine communication practices and demonstrate impact on client satisfaction and complaint reduction

SPEAKERS

• Chuck Haskins
• Ed Lazarus

Credits

Credit approved by 16 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Designing the case from Day 1 – logging client anecdotes along the way and presenting them in a “rapid-fire” way
• Separating injuries into standalone claims, valuing each, then adding a value for the synergistic impact
• Respecting the province of the jury and the carrier in valuing your case: what do they need and how do you give that to them
• Arguing secondary injuries--treatment-related pain, suffering, and injuries; emotional/psychological consequences; disability/limitations; permanency of physical and emotional damage
• Defining the parameters of the settlement negotiation in advance and instilling a perception of risk

SPEAKERS

• Peter Grenier

Credits

Credit approved by 16 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Members

$99 for Non-members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• How to craft prompts that produce accurate, case-specific output
• Where AI fits ethically into a litigation and trial practice—confidentiality, bias, and beyond
• Why lawyers who don’t learn prompting are replaceable—and how not to be
• How to use AI to assist with voir dire, motions, and mitigation strategy
• What to avoid: common mistakes that lead to bad output or ethical trouble

SPEAKERS

• Patrick Barone

Credits

Credit approved by 15 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Members

$99 for Non-members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Build investigation strategies that dig deep and become the foundation for a discovery plan
• Plan and package expert testimony that is engaging and persuasive
• Insulate experts from predictable defense attacks
• Valuation methods that maximize recovery for your client’s "ordinary" losses

SPEAKERS

• Ilya Lerma

Credits

Credit approved by 14 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Members

$99 for Non-members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Symptoms to look for
• How to get the proper evaluations
• When to get neuropsychological testing and how to use it
• Imaging and other techniques
• How to make these symptoms “objective” for the jury

SPEAKERS

• Cassandra Thorson
• Sarah Havens

Credits

Credit approved by 15 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Members

$99 for Non-members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• The three rules that prepare your client to respond to a question
• The one big exception to the three rules
• Tips for defending a deposition
• Creating great questions for a deposition
• Strategies for deposing the defendant
• How to question a defense witness
• Using video depositions in opening statement and at trial

SPEAKERS

• Greg Kafoury
• Jason Kafoury

Credits

Credit approved by 17 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Educate your client on their role in the litigation process.
• Teach your client and the trial team how to make a vivid, vibrant, truthful connection with the jury to tell the client’s credible story.
• Teach your client to describe with visual and visceral words, help us imagine their journey, connect with their real feelings, recreate important scenes, and take us through their life.
• Learn to be your client's guide to lead the connection with jurors at trial.
• Create a profound lawyer-client connection to build trust.

SPEAKERS

• Pat Montes

Credits

Credit approved by 15 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify what is ERISA?
• Statutory basis for pre-emption
• Identify types of state laws exempt from ERISA pre-emption
• Identify types of plans that are not covered by ERISA
• Identify types of participants that are not covered by ERISA
• How to get the information needed to determine whether your client’s plan is governed by ERISA or not

SPEAKERS

• Kaci Garrabrant

Credits

Credit approved by 14 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand the Federal Rules applicable to ESI spoliation
• What needs to be shown to establish/overcome spoliation
• When is the duty to preserve triggered under the FRE standard
• How bad faith fits within that standard
• The power of case-dispositive sanctions where spoliation is found

SPEAKERS

• Sarvenaz Fahimi

Credits

Credit approved by 17 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Common vocal issues lawyers face and the psychological patterns that often lie beneath them
• How your personal history, identity, and upbringing shape the way you speak under pressure
• How to shift old habits into powerful courtroom communication
• Simple, practical exercises to strengthen your voice, ground your presence, and speak with greater authority and authenticity

SPEAKERS

• Alexandra Wright

Credits

Credit approved by 15 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand the scope and power of FOIA at both state and federal levels.
• Identify common types of government records available (e.g., 911 calls, CCTV, BWC footage, agency reports).
• Learn how to draft effective requests and navigate agency procedures.
• Maximize early access to information that may support settlement or increase case value.
• Avoid pitfalls: timelines, preservation of short-lived materials, and how to follow up during discovery.

SPEAKERS

• Samantha Dos Santos, Esq.

Credits

Credit approved by 18 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• How to spot issues and prepare for them before taking your first trucking case
• How trucking collisions are different and what this means for damages, liability and insurance coverage
• Understanding what a truck driver is supposed to do and identifying driver failures in your case
• Identifying direct claims against the trucking company
• Preserving and obtaining the truck’s electronic tracking data
• Resources on trucking safety, driver training and motor carrier regulation

SPEAKERS

• Zebulan Snyder

Credits

Credit approved by 16 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Make your client likeable, credible, and worthy of a significant damages award
• Incorporate advances in medicine, science, and neuroimaging into your case
• Counter common defense tactics - and even using these tactics against them at trial
• 10 tactics to immediately apply to your mTBI cases.

SPEAKERS

• Steven Gursten

Credits

Credit approved by 17 authorities

pricing

$79 for Member

$99 for Non-member

$79 for Association Member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Gain a foundational understanding of AI tools, including large language models
• Learn how to implement AI for legal writing, research, witness preparation, and trail visuals
• Contemplate critical ethical considerations under ABA Formal Opinion 512, including competence, confidentiality, and supervision

SPEAKERS

• Joshua Cantrell

Credits

Credit approved by 13 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-Member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand effective lead generation strategies
• Optimize your firm’s online presence
• Leverage technology for smarter client acquisition
• Measure and improve your lead generation efforts

SPEAKERS

• Jerry Fly

Credits

Credit approved by 12 authorities

pricing

$79 for Association Member

$99 for Non-Member

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Tactics subrogation companies use to collect settlement funds from injury victims
• Strategies to maximize net settlement proceeds for your client
• Ensure you and your client remain Medicare-compliant when protecting Medicare’s future interests
• Techniques for recovering funds from Medicare’s Final Demand
• How to identify plan weaknesses
• Tactics for reducing liens or getting them waived entirely
• Addresses both fully funded and self-funded ERISA liens

SPEAKERS

• Rodd Santomauro