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2022 Summer Conference - 08/04/2022 to 08/06/2022


Schedule

Workshops

Presenters

Sponsors
08/04/2022
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Golf at Ironbridge Golf Club

Ironbridge Golf Club
430 Iron Bridge Rd., Glenwood Springs 81601. The golf course is a good hour away (36 miles) from Snowmass.

Box Lunch Sponsored by: Judicial Arbitor Group


Beverage Cart Sponsored by: AB Litigation Services


Golf Hole Sponsored by: Exponent


Golf Hole Sponsored by: Integrated Medical Evaluations

5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Thursday Opening Reception

Viewline Resort - Slopeside
Dress casual, and kids are welcome. In addition, Snowmass Tourism provides the Taylor Ashton Trio (folk) at the outdoor pavilion, Fanny Hill. A photo booth sponsored by Filevine Legal Case & Matter Management will be available throughout the evening, taking photos with plenty of fun, outlandish props that you can post on social media.

Dress casual, and kids are welcome. In addition, Snowmass Tourism provides the Taylor Ashton Trio (folk) at the outdoor pavilion, Fanny Hill. A photo booth sponsored by Filevine Legal Case & Matter Management will be available throughout the evening, taking photos with plenty of fun, outlandish props that you can post on social media.

Sponsored by: JAMS


Photo Booth Sponsored by: Filevine Legal Case & Matter Management

08/05/2022
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Breakfast

Vendor Conference Area

Sponsored by: ArcherHall


Sponsored by: Armani & Associates


Sponsored by: Delta |v| Forensic Engineering


Sponsored by: Judicial Arbitror Group


Sponsored by: Pike Reporting Company


Sponsored by: VERITEXT Legal Solutions


Sponsored by: YOUNG & Associates

8:00 am - 8:30 am
Welcome and Announcements

Conference Ballroom

8:30 am - 9:30 am
Lessons from My Life by Kristin Beck - Navy SEAL stories that highlight leadership and human rights

Conference Ballroom

Workshop Materials

For decades, Kristin Beck hid her true self from her brothers in arms, family, and friends. Now, as the nation’s first openly transgender Navy SEAL, Kristin reflects on her years of honorable service and her many accolades, as well as her life beyond the Navy, including her journey to human rights activist and motivational speaker. Kristin touches upon themes of courage, leadership, and standing up for what’s right. In addition, Kristin explores the links between solid leadership, being an ally to those disenfranchised, and how nothing rewarding will ever be handed to you without hard work. Funny and sharp, Kristin Beck inspires audiences to find their voices and create better worlds for their selves, their teams, and future generations to come.

Kristin Beck, Retired Navy SEAL and Civil Rights Activist


EDI Credits - 30 minutes

General Credits - 60 minutes

9:30 am - 9:45 am
Break

Vendor Conference Area

Sponsored by: ARCCA


Sponsored by: Integrated Medical Evaluations


Sponsored by: Nederveld

9:45 am - 10:35 am
Top 10 Ways to Avoid Legal Malpractice

Conference Ballroom

Workshop Materials

Chris Montville
Haddon, Morgan & Foreman


Ethics Credit - 50 minutes

General Credits - 50 minutes

10:35 am - 11:25 am
The Unwavering Collateral Source Rule

Conference Ballroom

Workshop Materials

• The current state of the collateral source rule in Colorado, including a discussion of recent CO case law. • Practice pointers in dealing with the collateral source rule in CO, and how practitioners in other jurisdictions deal with the issue. • It matters because the collateral source rule impacts such a large cross section of practices, from med mal to products liability to general personal injury, etc.

Clarissa Collier
Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell


General Credits - 50 minutes

11:30 am - 12:45 am
Lunch and Learn Colorado Case Law/Appellate Update

Conference Ballroom

Workshop Materials

Katherine Otto
Messner Reeves


Kenda Beckwith
Lewis Roca


Box Lunches Sponsored by: AB Litigation Services


Box Lunches Sponsored by: Vector Scientific


General Credits - 50 minutes

1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
"Are you SURE you want to send that?" Lawyers and Listservs: Best Practices and Ethical Cautions

Independence Auditorium (2nd floor)

Listservs are tremendously useful resources in the legal field. They serve as valuable resources of knowledge, experience, references, and community (and sometimes a good laugh). They provide a platform for easy communication with broad groups with common needs and interests. However, they are also fertile ground for abuse and misuse, and can lead to unintended consequences. This presentation will address best practices, common mistakes, and some entertaining anecdotes on using and contributing to listservs. It will touch upon listserv etiquette and the various ways users can contribute and get the most out of an invaluable resource. Discussion will also include applicable ethics opinions, rules of professional conduct, and other legal and ethical considerations when using and contributing to listservs.

Hillary D. Patterson
Patterson Ripplinger


Ethics Credit - 15 minutes

General Credits - 50 minutes

1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Qualifying Language in Repair Litigation

Conference Ballroom

Workshop Materials

How to use your experts when tackling improperly conceived repair recommendations. Increasingly, liability experts have begun using qualifying language within their reports, such as recommending repairs “where defects exist.” While this is a potentially acceptable repair recommendation, oftentimes, drawings or other means of clarifying where these defects should be assumed to exist are not provided, leaving the responsive experts with an information void and unclear direction on approaches to address these issues. This presentation will discuss how experts can facilitate attorneys with the means to address these issues from a technical standpoint and how attorneys use this information to help their clients. Topics will include: • Evaluation of intrusive testing methods (or lack thereof) • Approaches to address definitive versus speculative repair recommendations • Analyzing extrapolation based on limited observations • How to respond to vague or incomplete repair recommendations o …At locations where clearance is less than 2… o …Remove and replace as required to complete repairs… • How to address unnecessary or excessive repair recommendations • Resolving overlapping repair scopes

Ryan Phillips
Vertex Companies


Nicholas Snow
Dinsmore & Shohl


Matthew Blaubaugh
Dinsmore & Shohl


Sponsored by: Vertex


General Credits - 50 minutes

1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Hot Topics In Medicine

Ziegler (2nd floor)

Workshop Materials
Workshop Materials
Workshop Materials

Voir Dire and Experts in medical malpractice cases and issues surrounding Telehealth. Effective use of voir dire questions in medical malpractice cases. The “shock and awe” of expert disclosures and dismantling plaintiffs’ experts in medical malpractice actions. Telehealth: The Doctor is Out(side the State). Developing Medical-Legal Issues in the Post?-COVID World.

Lisa Leasure
Faraci Leasure


Mark Fogg
Childs McCune


Kevin Kuhn
Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell


Jim Miletich
Miletich PC


General Credits - 50 minutes

1:50 pm - 2:05 pm
Break

Vendor Conference Area

Sponsored by: ARCCA


Sponsored by: Integrated Medical Evaluations


Sponsored by: Nederveld

2:05 pm - 2:55 pm
Current Events in Legal Ethics and Professional Conduct in Colorado

Independence Auditorium (2nd floor)

Annual update of developments in Colorado Legal Ethics. A number of ethics opinions and decisions from the past year will be discussed. In addition, recent changes in the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct will be reviewed.

Alec Rothrock
Burns, Figa & Will


Ethics Credit - 50 minutes

General Credits - 50 minutes

2:05 pm - 2:55 pm
Taking the Offense Against Emerging Tactics in Bad Faith Litigation

Conference Ballroom

Linda Knight
Spencer Fane


Valentine Uduebor
Spencer Fane


General Credits - 50 minutes

2:05 pm - 2:55 pm
Using 3D Scanning in Accident Reconstruction and Biomechanics

Ziegler (2nd floor)

This presentation will provide a case study on using cutting edge 3D scanning of a subject vehicle, exemplar vehicle, and surrogate to create overlays that answer critical questions and reconstruct what occurred during the crash event. The audience will learn how this technology can be used to help defend their clients more effectively and help jurors understand critical issues.

Mathew Greenston, MD, MS, FACEP
BRC
CV


Sponsored by: BRC


General Credits - 50 minutes

3:00 pm - 3:55 pm
Fostering Meaningful Professionalism

Conference Ballroom

Workshop Materials

Explore how the rules of ethics impact our professional conduct in our workplaces, with the courts, and with our clients and how that conduct is actually allyship.

Jon Olafson
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith


EDI Credits - 50 minutes

General Credits - 50 minutes

5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Friday Night Soiree - Elk Camp gondola ride to the top

Elk Camp - take the Elk Camp Gondola
The gondola will start uploading at 5:30 with dinner from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., sangria and beer for the ride, complements of Vocational Diagnostics

Celebrate Friday Nights Hub's Pub dinner sponsored by Vocational Diagnostics at Elk Camp. The gondola will start uploading at 5:30 with dinner from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. While relaxing and catching up with friends, take in the nuances and aromas of high-end bourbons at the bourbon tasting tent sponsored by Exponent. Then, dance the night away with Brother's Keeper, a finger-popping cover band.

Sponsored by: Vocational Diagnostics (VDI)


Bourbon Tasting Sponsored by: Exponent


Alpine Slide Sponsored by: Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell

08/06/2022
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Breakfast

Vendor Conference Area

Sponsored by: ArcherHall


Sponsored by: Armani & Associates


Sponsored by: Delta |v| Forensic Engineering


Sponsored by: Judicial Arbitror Group


Sponsored by: Pike Reporting Company


Sponsored by: VERITEXT Legal Solutions


Sponsored by: YOUNG & Associates

8:00 am - 8:15 am
Welcome and Announcements

Conference Ballroom

8:15 am - 9:00 am
Judge's Panel -- Bench/Bar Community Outreach and Access to Justice

Conference Ballroom

Jon Olafson
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith


Judge Susan Blanco, 8th Judicial District Court Chief Judge


Justice Melissa Hart, Colorado Supreme Court


Judge Jonathan Shamis, Fifth Judicial District


General Credits 45 minutes

9:00 am - 9:10 am
Break

Vendor Conference Area

Sponsored by: ARCCA


Sponsored by: Integrated Medical Evaluations


Sponsored by: Nederveld

9:10 am - 10:00 am
Common Mistakes in Litigating Employment Cases: A View from the Plaintiff and Defense Bar

Conference Ballroom

Sarah Parady
Lowrey Parady Lebsack


Ray Martin
Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell


General Credits - 50 minutes

9:10 am - 10:00 am
Human Factors in Premises Liability Cases

Ziegler (2nd floor)

Workshop Materials

There are various disciplines that can help assess how and/or why a fall event occurs. Human factors can uniquely provide an understanding of whether a given trip/slip and fall incident can be explained by typical human behavior, which in turn is informed by a wealth of scientific studies. This presentation will discuss the visual perceptual cues, looking behavior, and avoidance responses that not only help pedestrians safely navigate their physical environment, but also aid in predicting the likelihood of a fall event. We will also address issues related to codes and warnings that are often seen in these types of cases, as well as common claims made by experts in relation to human factors.

Young Bui, Ph.D.
Exponent


General Credits - 50 minutes

Sponsored by: Exponent

10:00 am - 10:50 am
Reflections on the Derek Chauvin Trial

Conference Ballroom

Corey Gordon
Norton Rose Fulbright


General Credits - 50 minutes

11:00 am - 12:15 am
Lunch and Learn, Legislative Update

Conference Ballroom

Ike Eckert
Hall & Evans


Box Lunches Sponsored by: AB Litigation Services


Box Lunches Sponsored by: Vector Scientific


General Credits - 50 minutes

12:20 am - 1:20 pm
Workplace Investigations - Key Issues Every Employer Needs to Know (Even You!)

Conference Ballroom

Brooke Stover
Director HRIS and HR Shared Services at Global Medical Response


Liz Rita, CEO, Senior Investigator
Investigations Law Group


Meredith McDonald
Lewis Brisbois


Meredith McDonald
Lewis Brisbois


General Credits - 50 minutes

1:30 pm - 2:20 pm
Protecting Worker's Compensation Subrogation Recovery Rights

Independence Auditorium (2nd floor)

Greg will provide an overview of subrogation in the context of Worker’s Compensation including technical requirements, and limitations, the pros and cons of suing directly as opposed to intervening in ongoing suits, settlement, including what to do in a disagreement with the claimant as to settlement allocations, and the application of Delta Air Lines v. Scholle.

Gregory Plank
Ray Lego & Associates


General Credits - 50 minutes

1:30 pm - 2:20 pm
Litigating in the After-Life: Defending with or against Decedents

Conference Ballroom

Workshop Materials

Andrew will provide an overview of the relevant law governing decedents involved in litigation. What happens when your client dies? What about when your opponent dies? What is a personal representative, and how do you get one? Does it matter if the death occurred before litigation starts, or during it? What is the difference between wrongful death and survival actions? What kind of damages are recoverable? How is insurance affected? What about the statute of limitations? Andrew will answer these questions, and provide practical tips for litigating cases with one or more deceased parties. ******************************************************* “Any opinions offered herein are solely the opinions of the speakers and do not represent the opinions of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company”

Andrew LaFontaine
Stuart Jorgensen & Associates

General Credits - 50 minutes

1:30 pm - 2:20 pm
Forensic Evaluation of Damage to Roofs and Roofing

Ziegler (2nd floor)

a discussion regarding damage to roofs would include the following overall topics. I. Instructor Overview II. Hail damage to roofing. III. Wind damage to roofing. IV. Damage by Roof Snow Loads. This would be a more condensed/concise version of the presentation for Forensic Evaluation of Structures Damaged by Roof Snow Loads. V. Damage from Ponded Rain/Inadequate roof drainage.

Todd Martin, M.S., P.E.
Nelson Forensics


Sponsored by: Nelson Forensics


General Credits - 50 minutes

2:20 pm - 2:50 pm
Vendor Raffle

Conference Ballroom

Workshop Materials

2:50 pm - 3:30 pm
Fin Tech 101

Conference Ballroom

Workshop Materials

Richard Levin
Nelson Mullins


Kevin Tran
Nelson Mullins


General Credits - 40 minutes

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Closing Reception at the Limelight

Limelight Hotel

A 90-minute hosted event will feature beer, wine, and hors d’oeuvres sponsored by Braddy Investigative Group. Make your dinner reservations in Snowmass or take the shuttle from the Viewline Resort Snowmass or Limelight to Aspen with your firm, friends or family, leaving your car keys behind.

Sponsored by: Braddy Investigative Group

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