1 SPECIALIZED DEPOSITIONS COLLEGE: MASS TORTS InterContinental New Orleans New Orleans, LA June 6-8, 2018 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2018 Sponsored by Filevine, Flint Law Firm, LLC, and Herman, Herman, and Katz, LLC PARTICIPANT AGENDA 7:00 8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND WELCOME NETWORKING BREAKFAST 8:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m. MORNING SESSION Welcoming Remarks and Faculty Introductions Mass Tort Practice & Depositions: An Overview Critical Thinking: Sequencing your Discovery and Anticipating Defenses Plaintiff and Expert Witness Preparation The 30(b)(6) Corporate Designee Deposition 12:15 1:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK AND WORKSHOP INTRODUCTIONS Boxed Lunch Provided 1:30 6:00 p.m. AFTERNOON SESSION What are the Roles of the 1 st and 2 nd (and 3 rd and 4 th ) Chair Attorneys in a Mass Tort Deposition? Establishing Standards of Care and Conduct with Defense Witnesses Advanced Deposition Techniques Workshop #1: Developing the Discovery Plan and Using Critical Thinking 6:00 7:30 pm NETWORKING RECEPTION *** Agenda topics, titles, times, and faculty members subject to change ***
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2018 PROGRAM AGENDA, CONTINUED 8:00 8:30 a.m. WELCOME BACK NETWORKING BREAKFAST 8:30 a.m. 12:00 p.m. MORNING SESSION The Dog and Pony Show: Turning the Deposition Room into the Courtroom Deposing the Difficult/Evasive Witness The Take-No-Prisoner Deposition Deposing the Treater The Learned Intermediary 12:00 3:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK AND WORKSHOP #2 Deposition Techniques in Action Boxed Lunch Provided 3:30 5:15 p.m. AFTERNOON SESSION Deposing the Sales Training Executive and Sales Rep The Pharma Corporate Witness 6:00 8:00 p.m. NETWORKING RECEPTION FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2018 8:00 8:30 a.m. WELCOME BACK NETWORKING BREAKFAST 8:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. MORNING SESSION Deposition Misconduct (Ethics Credit) Workshop #3: Death Star Depositions 1:00 p.m. ADJOURN *** Agenda topics, titles, times, and faculty members subject to change ***
ERIN K. COPELAND Fibich Leebron Copeland Briggs Josephson Houston, TX YVONNE M. FLAHERTY, Lockridge Grindal Nauen, PLLP Minneapolis, MN MAURY A. HERMAN Herman Herman & Katz, LLC New Orleans, LA ROBERT K. JENNER, Jenner Law Firm Baltimore, MD INVITED FACULTY LIST MARK R. KOSIERADZKI Kosieradzki Smith Law Firm Minneapolis, MN DANIELLE W. MASON Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC Birmingham, AL KAREN BARTH MENZIES Gibbs Law Group, LLP Oakland, CA TOBIAS L. MILLROOD, Pogust Braslow & Millrood, LLC Conshohocken, PA MICHELLE A. PARFITT Ashcraft & Gerel Rockville, MD PAUL J. SCOPTUR Aiken & Scoptur, SC Milwaukee, WI CARL L. SOLOMON The Solomon Law Group Columbia, SC ROBYN L. WISHART Wishart Brain and Spine Law Vancouver, BC *** All agenda topics, times, and faculty members are subject to change *** HOTEL INFORMATION AAJ s housing block at the InterContinental New Orleans hotel has closed. Please contact AAJ Education 800-622-1791 for housing information. InterContinental New Orleans 444 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70130 Reservations: (800) 439-4745
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