Bankhead, W. Barefoot

NITA Trustee: 2010-present

Education:  BBA - Accounting, December 1976, The University of Texas at Austin

Mr. Bankhead is a partner in the Forensic & Dispute Services practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. Mr. Bankhead, a recognized expert in financial service industry related disputes, specializes in providing services to the financial services industry and frequently proffers expert testimony on banking, subprime lending, and securitization matters, opining on damages and causation issues. Additionally, he has led numerous investigations of financial institutions focused on identifying potential fraud, noncompliance or accounting issues. Also, he has assisted financial institutions in evaluating, developing and/or implementing accounting, lending and operating policies. Prior to joining Deloitte, Mr. Bankhead served the financial services industry for over 25 years in various capacities, including as a consultant, auditor, regulator, and in a variety of positions with financial institutions. He formerly taught accounting classes at Richland College and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business.
 
Present position: Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
 
Previous positions: Prior to joining Deloitte, Mr. Bankhead was with a publicly traded consulting firm for over nine years where he served clients in the financial services industry and frequently testified in federal and state courts. Mr. Bankhead has extensive experience in the financial services industry, having held a variety of positions with financial institutions. He was an Audit Director for one of the largest bank holding companies in the country, served as Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for a savings bank, and was Managing Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for another savings bank. Additionally, Mr. Bankhead spent two years as a Professional Accounting Fellow at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (now the Office of Thrift Supervision). Mr. Bankhead began his career as an auditor in public accounting where he spent approximately ten years, the last several of which with an international accounting firm serving clients in the financial services and real estate industries.

Organizations/Honors/Awards:
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and
Certified Public Accountant - Texas
 
Presentations:
American Law Institute/American Bar Association webcast – “Subprime Crisis: Dealing with the Fallout”, Locke Liddell & Sapp CLE – “Fair Value Accounting”, Locke Liddell & Sapp CLE – “From the Box”, and The University of Texas McCombs School of Business – “The Savings & Loan Industry”, Richland College, Former Accounting Instructor

Bergman, Barbara E.
 
NITA Trustee: 2006–present
NITA Faculty: 1989–present

Education: Bradley University B.A.; Stanford Law School, J.D.

Present position: Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Previous positions: Associate, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C.; Staff Attorney, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C.; Associate Counsel to President Jimmy Carter, Washington, D.C.; Associate, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, D.C.; Co-counsel for Terry Nichols in state capital prosecution in Oklahoma (1999 to 2004).

Organizations: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association; and National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Offices/Honors/Awards: Co-author of the Every Trial Criminal Defense Resource Book as well as the multi-volume fifteenth edition of Wharton’s Criminal Evidence and the fourteenth edition of Wharton’s Criminal Procedure; Past President of NACDL; President of the Board of Directors of the PB&J Therapeutic Family Services, Inc.; Recipient of the Friedman Faculty Award, September 2007, UNM School of Law; Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award Winner, NACDL; 1993 Richard S. Jacobson Award for excellence in teaching of trial advocacy awarded by The Roscoe Pound Foundation.

Bresnahan, Pamela A.

NITA Trustee: 2010-present

Education:  Ms. Bresnahan received her J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law with honors and her B.A. magna cum laude with General Honors, from the University of Maryland where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. 

Ms. Bresnahan is a partner in the Vorys Washington, D.C. office and is the head of the litigation practice group in that office. She serves as trial and appellate counsel in business and commercial litigation matters, with an emphasis on professional liability defense and coverage litigation. She represents lawyers, financial institutions, broker/dealers, financial professionals, directors and officers, fiduciaries, insurers and other professionals. Ms. Bresnahan serves as coverage and litigation counsel for insurers issuing errors and omissions policies. She represents businesses and individuals in securities, intellectual property and other corporate litigation. She advises law firms and lawyers on management issues and discipline matters. 

Career highlights include:
Inducted into American College of Trial Lawyers; Being named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America; Being named as one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America by the National Law Journal; Being named to Best Lawyers in America in two categories, Legal Malpractice and Commercial Litigation. 

Ms. Bresnahan is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, California, Illinois, Maryland and New York. She has spoken on various topics in the United States and Europe on legal malpractice, professional liability, risk management,
insurance coverage, and commercial litigation issues. 

Present position: Partner in the Vorys Washington, D.C. office and head of the litigation practice group in that office

Organizations/Honors/Awards:
Professional & Community Activities: American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow, 2008-present; D.C. Circuit Committee on Admissions and Discipline, 2005-2008; American Law Institute, 2005-present; American Bar Association, Committee on Rules and Calendar, 2008-present; American Bar Association, Nominating Committee and Delegate, 2006-2009; American Bar Association, Delegate-at-Large and YLD Delegate, 1987-2007, 2009-present; American Counsel Association, President, 2004-2005; American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary, 2002-2005; American Bar Association, Chair, Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability, 1995-1997; American Bar Association, Commission on Women in the Profession, 2000-2002; Women's Bar of Maryland, President, 1987-1988.

Honors & Awards: The National Law Journal, One of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America, 2007 Washington D.C. Super Lawyers, Professional Liability: Defense, 2007, 2008; Professional Liability: Defense, Business Litigation, Insurance Coverage, 2009 The Best Lawyers in America, Bet-the-Company Litigation, 2010 The Best Lawyers in America, Legal Malpractice, 2001-2010 The Best Lawyers in America, Business Litigation, 2001-2008 The Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation, 2006-2010 The National Law Journal, One of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, 2006
The National Law Journal, One of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America, 2007 Fellow of the American Bar Foundation since 1994. 

Bar and Court Admissions: California, District of Columbia Illinois, Maryland, New York, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California,  U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. Supreme Court

Burke, Susan Nolting

NITA Trustee: 2010-present

Education: University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. (1990);Hanover College, B.A. Political Science, magna cum laude, 3rd in class (1987); Manhattan High School, Diploma, summa cum laude, 1st in class (1983)

Present position: District Court Judge, Fourth Judicial District - State of Minnesota, Civil Court & Criminal Court (August 2008-present)

Previous Positions: District Court Judge, Fourth Judicial District – State of Minnesota, Juvenile Court (July 2006-July 2008), Criminal Court (January 2005-June 2006); Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota, White Collar Crime Section (2002-2004), Narcotics/Firearms Section (1997-2002), Major/Violent Crime Section (1994-1997); United States Department of Justice Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice - Civil Division; and Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Paul A. Magnuson, United States District Court for the District of Minnesota

Organizations/Honors/Awards: Community Activities: YWCA of Minneapolis, Board of Directors, 2008-present; Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans, Executive Council Retreat, Panel Member, “Leadership,” 2009; Fil (Filipino)-Minnesotan Association, Installation of the Board of Directors, 2008; Family Alternatives, Training for Foster Parents, 2008; State of Minnesota Guardian Ad Litem Program, Swearing In Ceremony, 2007; Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Race for the Cure, 2006, 2007; National Association of Asian American Professionals, Panel Speaker, Wells Fargo Corporate Headquarters, “Working Women: Shaping the Standard for Success,” 2007; Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, Joint Dinner of Women Professional Associations, Panel Member, “Pipeline to Power: Increasing Women’s Leadership,” 2006; League of Women Voters, Leaders of Today and Tomorrow Conference, Speaker, 2006. Also volunteered in the past for the Andersen Open School Board, Minnesota Special Olympics, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Hanover College Alumni Association Board of Directors, and St. Paul Downtown Community District Council.

Professional Memberships: American Bar Association, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, At Large Council Member, 2009-present, Judicial Division, Conference of State Trial Judges, Member 2007-present; American Judges Association, Chair, Ethics Committee, 2008-present, Minnesota Delegate to the Assembly, 2007-present; National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Co-Chair, Thomas Tang Central Regional Moot Court Competition, 2008, Judge, Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition, 2005-present; President, Minnesota Chapter, 2003-2004, Board of Directors, Minnesota Chapter, 2000-2008, Advisory Board, Minnesota Chapter, 2008-present; Federal Bar Association, Board of Directors, Minnesota Chapter, 1995-1999, 2007-2009, Minnesota State Bar Association, Executive Council, 2006-2008, Board of Governors/Assembly, 2000-present, Presidential Appointment to MSBA Governance Task Force, 2002-2004; Hennepin County Bar Association, Board of Directors/Governing Council, 2001-2004; Nominating Committee, 2002-2005; Minnesota District Judges Association, Board of Directors Fourth District Alternate, 2008-present; Minnesota Women Lawyers, Advisory Board, 2009-present, Mentoring Programs, 1998-2004

Recent Honors: National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Trailblazer Award - selected to receive one of this national bar association’s most prestigious awards in Boston in November 2009; recognizes extraordinary contribution to the Asian Pacific American legal community, as well as the broader Asian Pacific American community; Hanover College Athletic Hall of Fame - inducted as the only student in college history to graduate with 12 varsity letters (volleyball, basketball & softball) and an Academic All-American nominee in volleyball & softball
Notable Achievements: First and only Japanese American judge in Minnesota; First Asian judge initially elected to the bench in Minnesota; Appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court to the Rules Committee for Juvenile Protection Procedure
Awards: Received Special Achievement Award for Sustained Superior Performance of Duty (1997) and Superior Performance of Duty Award (2003); Attorney General’s Honors Program

Professional Presentations: Minnesota Women Lawyers, Panel Member, “Balancing Life & Career,” 2008; Twin Cities Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners, “Presenting Fraud Cases,” 2008; Minnesota Women Lawyers, Panel Member, “Judicial Selection,” 2008; William Mitchell College of Law, Panel Speaker, “Judicial Clerkships,” 2007, 2008; American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Minorities in the Judiciary, Annual Convention Panel Member, “Achieving a Diverse Judiciary,” (San Francisco, CA), 2007; National Hispanic Bar Association, Mid-Year Conference, Panel Speaker, “Jury Selection,” (Minneapolis, MN), 2007; William Mitchell College of Law Latino Law Student Association, Panel Speaker, “The Invisible Woman:  Report of the ABA Commission of Women in the Profession,” 2007; Hamline University School of Law Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, Dinner Speaker, “Achieving Success,” 2006; Minnesota Women Lawyers, Panel Member, “Being a Judge,” 2006; University of St. Thomas School of Law, Multicultural Reception, Speaker, “Access To Justice,” 2006; Twin Cities Committee on Minority Lawyers and Larger Law Firms, Minority Recruitment Conference, Panel Member, “Judicial Clerkships,” 2004, 2005, 2006; Minnesota Women Lawyers, Panel Member, “Advice to New Attorneys,” 2006; St. Thomas University School of Law Asian Law Student Association, Dinner Speaker, “Pursuing Your Dreams,” 2006

Teaching: University of Minnesota Law School, Criminal Law Seminar, Guest Speaker “United States Sentencing Guidelines” 2003-present Trial Advocacy Course, Guest Instructor 2001-present; St. Thomas University School of Law Trial Advocacy Course, Adjunct Faculty 2008; United States Department of Justice National Advocacy Center Trial Advocacy School, Instructor 2002-2004 Title III Wiretap Seminar, Instructor 2001-2003. Also taught classes for the Minnesota County Attorneys Association, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, Minnesota State Bar Association, Drug Enforcement Administration, Minnesota Sheriffs Association and the Minnesota State Association of Narcotics Investigators.
 
 
 

Hon. Lee Smalley Edmon

NITA Trustee: 2012-present

EMPLOYMENT:
Los Angeles Superior Court
Appointed by Governor Gray Davis, August 2000. Currently, assigned to Complex Civil Department. Former Presiding Judge of the Court (2011-2012). Assistant Presiding Judge (2009-2010) Supervising Judge of the Civil Departments (2007-2008).

Lawyer, Dewey Ballantine LLP (associate, 1987-1990; partner, 1990- 2000) General civil litigation practice, with an emphasis on business litigation.  Areas of substantive experience included commercial and employment disputes, real estate issues, securities and other kinds of fraud, banking and products liability litigation.

Lawyer, Adams Duque & Hazeltine (associate, 1981-1987)

EDUCATION:
University of Illinois College of Law (J.D. 1981)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Court-Related Activities
Los Angeles Superior Court
Chair, Executive Committee (2011- )
Chair, Personnel & Budget Committee (2009-2010)
Chair, Bench/Bar Committee (2009-2010)
Chair, Political Outreach Committee (2005-2008)
Chair, Civil & Small Claims Committee (2007-2008)
Member, Education Governance Committee (2005-2008)
Member, Legislative Outreach Committee (2001-2004)
Member, Bench and Bar Committee (2001- 2006)
Member, Family Law Committee (2001-2002)
Chair, Annual Legislative Seminar (2001, 2006, 2007)
Chair, Planning Committee for Family Law Walk Through Program (2001)
Chair, Planning Committee for Family Law Annual Seminar (2002)
Member, Court Commissioner Selection Committee (2003, 2006)
Member, ADR Committee (2003-2006)

Judicial Council of California
Member, Trial Court Presiding Judges Advisory Committee Executive Committee (2011- )
Member, Trial Court Budget Working Group (2011- )
Member, Judicial Council of California (2008 -2010)
Chair, Judicial Council Litigation Mgmt Committee (2009-2010)
Member, Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) Governing Committee (2006-2008)
Civil & Small Claims Advisory Committee (Chair, 2006 - 2008; Member, 1998-2005)
Member, Judicial Service Advisory Committee (2002- 2005)
Member, Planning Committee for Statewide Judicial Confer (2005)
Member, Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Lawyer Regulation (2002 -2004 )
Member, California Judicial Administration Conference Planning Committee (2000)

California Judges Association
Member, Civil Law & Procedure Committee (2003-20008)
Member, Planning Committee for CJA Mid-Year Meeting (2004)

National Conference of Metropolitan Courts
Member, Board of Directors (2011- )

County Law Library
Vice President, Board of Trustees (2004-2009)        
Selected Bar Association Activities:       
American Bar Association
President, Board of Dir of American Bar Endowment (2006-2008)
President, Board of Directors of American Bar Insurance Plan Consultants (2011- )
Board Member, American Bar Foundation (2006-2008)
Board Member, American Bar Endowment (1995-2011)
Member, ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Judges Advisory Committee (2009- )
Chair, Jury Management Committee of National Conference of State Trial Judges (2006-2007)
Chair, State Court Funding Committee & Judicial Services Committees of National Conf of State Trial Judges (2005- 2006)
California Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates (1996-2001)
Member, Commission on Women in the Profession (2000-2003)
Co-Chair, Litigation Section Pretrial Practice & Procedure Committee (1998-1999)
Fellow, American Bar Foundation (1991- )

Los Angeles County Bar Association ("LACBA")
President (1998-1999)
President-Elect (1997-1998)
Senior Vice President (1996-1997)
Vice-President/Treasurer (1995-1996)
Member, Board of Trustees (1980-1990, 1993-1999)
Selected Committee Activities:
Chair, Judicial Profiles (1999-2000)
Chair, Litigation Section (1996-1997)
Chair, Lawyer Referral and Information Service
Advisory Board (1991-1994)
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to Study Funding Sources for
Legal Services (1994)
Vice-Chair, Dispute Resolution Services, Inc. (1989-1990)
Chair, Delegation to State Bar Confer of Delegates (1993-1994)
Member, Blue Ribbon Commission on Superior Court Improvement (1994 -2000)

California State Bar
Member, Committee on Administration of Justice (1995-1997)
Member, Committee on Competence (1990-1991)

Chancery Club
President (2003-2004)

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Lawyer Representative to Ninth Circuit Judicial Conf. (1991-1996)

Association of Business Trial Lawyers
Member, Board of Governors (1991-1993; 2005- 2007; 2010- )

Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Member, Board of Governors (1993-1996)
Co-Chair, Trial Lawyers Section (1993-1996)

American Law Institute
Member (2008 - )
          
Public Service and Educational Activities
Alliance for Children’s Rights
Member, Board of Directors (1994-2000)

Inner City Law Center
Member, Board of Directors (1991-1994)

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Member, Board of Directors (1995-2000) 

Constitutional Rights Foundation:
Member, Board of Directors (1997-2001)

University of Illinois College of Law:
Member, Board of Visitors (2004-2008)

The Rutter Group
Contributing Editor, Civil Procedure Before Trial (2004-2009);
Current Edition Author, Civil Procedure Before Trial (2009- )  
Matthew Bender
Contributing Editor, California Practice Handbook:  Nondeposition Discovery, Interrogatories, Admissions, Production and Inspection, Examinations, Experts (1993)
 
Frequent Panelist for The Rutter Group, California Judges Association and local and State Bar Associations

Awards/Honors
Univ. of Illinois College of Law Alumnus of the Year (2004-2005)
Alfred J. McCourtney Trial Judge of the Year, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (2005)
Ernestine Stahlhut Award, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (2008)
Metropolitan News-Enterprise Person of the Year (2009)
Emil Gumpert Judicial Services Award (2009)
Judge of the Year Award, Association of Southern California Defense Counsel (2009)
Judge of the Year Award, American Board of Trial Advocates, LA Chapter  (2009)
Trailblazer of the Bar Award, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Section (2011)
Commitment Award, Los Angeles County Bar Association Domestic Violence Project (2011)
Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award, California Women Lawyers (2011)
Ethel Levitt Award for Humanitarian Service, Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center (2011)
Maynard Toll Award for Distinguished Public Service (2011)
Justice Award, Los Angeles Center for Law & Justice (2012)

PERSONAL
Judge Edmon’s husband, Dick Burdge, is a partner with The Burdge Law Firm PC.  They have four daughters, Kristin, Lindsay, Maggie and Kelly.

Geraghty, Thomas F.

NITA Trustee: 2001-present
 
Education: AB cum laude, Harvard University; and JD, Northwestern University
 
Present position: Northwestern University, School of Law
 
In addition to teaching, fundraising, and administrative responsibilities, Geraghty maintains an active caseload at the Bluhm Legal Clinic, concentrating primarily in criminal and juvenile defense, death penalty appeals, child-centered projects dealing with the representation of children and juvenile court reform.
 
Previous positions: Associate Dean for Clinical Education, 1981-present; Professor of Law, 1979-present; Director, Legal Clinic, 1976-present; Reese Teaching Professor, 2001-2002;
Perkins-Bauer, Teaching Professor of Law, 1991-1992; Associate Professor of Law, 1976-1979; Co-director, Legal Clinic, 1973-1975; Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, 1973-1976; and Staff Attorney, Legal Clinic, 1970-1973.
 
Organizations/Honors/Awards: Member, Board of Trustees, National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA); Chair, Publications Committee, National Institute for Trial Advocacy; The New Perimiter Project, DLA Piper Rudnick’s International Pro Bono Initiative
During the last five years, Professor Geraghty has worked in Tanzania, Uganda, and Malawi on research projects with law students involving juvenile justice, the legal problems of street children, the status of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS, women in the legal profession, and freedom of the press. In 1996, he helped to design a clinical curriculum for the Addis Ababa University School of Law. In 2000, he assisted in the drafting of a proposal for a child law curriculum for the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana in Legon. Professor Geraghty has also been involved in training African lawyers in trial advocacy skills in cooperation with NITA. He also designed a trial training program for children's advocates’ that was held in Malawi in March of 2003. A similar program was planned for Uganda.

Writings:
• Assessing Children’s Competence to Stand Trial and to Waive Miranda Rights, Mental Health Needs of Young Offenders, 2007
• Access to Justice: Challenges, Models, and the Participation of Non-Lawyers in Justice Delivery, Access to Justice in Africa and Beyond: Making the Rule of Law a Reality, 2007
• L’Accès à la Justice: Problèmes, Modèles et Participation des Non-Avocats à la Prestation de Services Juridiques, L’Accès à la Justice en Afrique et Au-Delà: Pour que L’État de Droit Devienne Une Réalité, 2007
• Illinois: An Assessment of Access to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Delinquency Proceedings, 2007
• The Criminal/Juvenile Clinic as a Public Interest Law Office: Defense Clinics; The Best Way to Teach Justice, Mississippi Law Journal, 2006

Publications:
• Farrell et al. v. Strong Line, Inc., et al.
• World Oil Co. v. Northeast Shipbuilding, Inc., and Toiler Salvage Co.
• Exercises and Problems in Professional Responsibility
• Problems and Cases in Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation
  In re Pena

Ginsberg, Michael
 
NITA Trustee: 2004-present
Chair Elect: 2011-present
Treasurer: 2008-2011

Education: Rutgers University (B.A. magna cum laude with general honors and highest honors in Political Science 1982); Harvard University (J.D. cum laude 1985)

Present Position: Partner, Jones Day
Mr. Ginsberg is a commercial trial lawyer who has concentrated his practice during the past two decades in the area of insurance coverage litigation, focusing primarily on environmental, product liability, and bad faith, E&O, and D&O insurance claims. He also has substantial experience representing policyholders with insurance issues arising in bankruptcy settings. He has served as insurance counsel for debtors and creditors in asbestos-driven bankruptcies and has represented policyholders in insurer insolvencies proceedings. Mr. Ginsberg has handled insurance coverage claims and lawsuits in more than 30 jurisdictions.

In addition to insurance coverage litigation, Mr. Ginsberg practices in the area of environmental litigation. He tried the first P.R.P. arbitration under the California Superfund Law and has represented clients in numerous Superfund matters. He served as liaison counsel for third-party defendants in a major Superfund case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and was lead counsel for one of four P.R.P’s in litigation arising from a major environmental problem in Fresno, California. Although not the focus of his practice, he also represented clients in product liability and personal injury cases.

Organizations: Mr. Ginsberg is Jones Day’s Firm Training Partner and is a member and treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for teaching trial and other litigation skills. He frequently teaches litigation training programs for NITA, including NITA’s National Trial Program, regional trial and deposition programs, and Emory Law School’s Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques (team leader 2007).

Writings/Presentations: Mr. Ginsberg has written a number of articles and seminar presentations on insurance coverage topics, including first-party and third-party insurance coverage for environmental claims, the assessment of environmental liabilities for insurance coverage, and "Issues of Ripeness and Prematurity in Insurance Coverage Disputes" (presented at the 1994 ABA Convention). He recently completed a chapter on insurance coverage mediation in the book Insurance Law Settlements and Negotiations for Aspatore Books’ series “Inside the Minds.” Mr. Ginsberg has chaired several national conferences on insurance coverage for toxic tort and environmental claims and has been a panelist at numerous other programs. In addition, he has written on the topic of alternative dispute resolution.

William J. Hunt

NITA Trustee: 2013-present
William J. Hunt, Chairman of the Litigation Department of Clark, Hunt, Ahern & Embry, has been a civil trial lawyer for all of his professional life.
For over 40 years, he has tried and settled impact lawsuits, protecting the rights of individuals, companies and organizations. Early in his career, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, he drafted the first statute for The Federated States of Micronesia, which established that new nation’s territorial waters. Later in his career, as a Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, he won the first reported case to help determine under what circumstances the state may be sued. After helping found Clark, Hunt, Ahern & Embry, he won important federal cases establishing the rights of disabled students in a university setting and protecting the rights of individual landowners in the context of cell tower construction.
In recent years, Mr. Hunt has helped injured clients recover millions of dollars for their injuries. He has tried cases throughout the northeast. In recognition of his accomplishments, he has been elected to two of the most prestigious legal honorary societies, the International Society of Barristers and the American Board of Trial Advocates. He holds an “AV” rating (highest rating) from Martindale Hubbell and has been selected as a New England Super Lawyer, as published annually by Boston Magazine. He has been honored by various groups for his work on behalf of disabled individuals.
His commitment to legal education is internationally known. Mr. Hunt is an adjunct faculty member for the trial advocacy programs at Emory University and the University of San Francisco. He is on the USF Intensive Advocacy Program Advisory Committee and has been honored by the USF advocacy program with the Excellence in Teaching Award. He is a program director, team leader and instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) in many cities throughout the United States and many nations abroad, including the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Republic of Palau. Under the auspices of NITA and the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA-CEELI) he designed the first ever trial advocacy programs for the former Soviet republics served by ABA-CEELI and ran the first trial advocacy and advocacy teacher training programs in Chisinau, Moldova and Istanbul, Turkey, respectively. He inaugurated the first trial advocacy training program for prosecutors in Bosnia and was invited twice by the Japan Federated Bar Association to assist in the training of Japanese attorneys involved in the new Saiban-In jury trial system. In recognition of these efforts he has been honored by NITA with the Robert E. Keeton Faculty Award for professionalism and ethics.

Professional Organizations: He is a member of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bar Associations and a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU). Active in his community, he is Chair of the Town of Topsfield Board of Health.

Education:  He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Dickinson College and a Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk University Law School.

Kelly, Michael A.

NITA Trustee: 2002-present

Education: St. Mary’s College of California, B.A. 1973, Honors, Summa Cum Laude; University of California Hastings College of Law, J.D. 1976

Present position: Partner/Vice President, Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger
For the last 30 years he has specialized in the resolution of complex plaintiff’s personal injury claims, including claims for wrongful death, and those arising from product liability, government negligence, obstetrical mismanagement, drug and device failure and vehicle collisions. 

Previous positions: Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of Law

Organizations/Honors/Awards: Selected as one of Northern California’s Top Ten Super Lawyers in 2007, Michael A. Kelly is one of Northern California’s top trial lawyers. In June 2007, he obtained the largest medical negligence verdict ($9,374,540) in the history of Sonoma County. In March 2007 he obtained the largest jury verdict for medical negligence in the history of El Dorado County. In the spring of 2006, he obtained a jury verdict which was the largest ever reported for the wrongful death of a non-dependent adult child in San Francisco Superior Court. Mr. Kelly is a two time “Trial Lawyer of the Year” nominee of the San Francisco Trial Lawyer’s Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the International Society of Barristers, for whom he sits on their Board of Governors. 

In 2001 he was selected by the California Judicial Council to be a member of the task force empanelled to rewrite California’s civil jury instructions. At the present time he continues on the Jury Instruction Advisory Committee for CACI. He has annually been selected for inclusion among “The Best Lawyers in America,” for ten consecutive years and serves as Secretary of the American Board of Trial Advocates San Francisco chapter.

He holds an “AV” rating (highest rating) from Martindale-Hubbell and has been favorably profiled in legal periodicals. He is heavily involved in continuing legal education and teaches for NITA, the California Continuing Education of the Bar, ABOTA and The Rutter Group. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and serves as Program Director of the organization’s West Coast, Harvard, and Colorado Teacher Training Programs.

Loveland, L. Joseph

NITA Trustee: 2008-present 

Treasurer: 2012-present

Education: Mr. Loveland graduated with highest honors from the University of North Carolina and received his law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. 

Present position: Senior Litigation Partner, King & Spalding 

Previous positions: With more than 25 years of trial experience, Mr. Loveland's trial experience includes Lead Counsel for the following: Texaco Inc. and Texaco Pipeline Inc.; The Coca-Cola Company in a two-week jury trial in federal court in Atlanta for trademark infringement; Donnie Cleveland Lance in a death penalty habeas corpus case in Georgia; Ernst & Young in a month-long accountant liability jury trial in Gulfport, Mississippi; Defending Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in a number of suits in state and federal courts; WellCare in defeating a motion for temporary injunction; Columbia HCA and one of its hospitals in a three week trial in federal court in Atlanta; Group of United States and Netherlands Antilles corporations in two separate jury trials and appeals; and Miller Brewing Company in distribution litigation in federal court in Tampa. 

Some of the significant matters in which Loveland has been involved and served as Lead Counsel include: The Coca-Cola Company against whistleblower allegations of financial and accounting improprieties; Ernst & Young in securities litigation and accounting liability cases; WellCare Health Plans, Inc. and its subsidiaries; NBC Universal in purported class action litigation in the Northern District of Georgia; Various not-for-profit hospital systems in class action litigation in federal and state courts; Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company in class action litigation; The Coca-Cola Company in litigation filed in both federal and state court by more than 50 independent bottlers; Miller Brewing Company in federal court in Milwaukee in litigation against MolsonCoors and its affiliates; and Co-Lead Counsel for Imperial Tobacco Co. in a state court action in San Francisco. 

Organizations/Honors/Awards: A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he is listed in the Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA’s list of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Corporate Counsel Magazine’s list of the “Nation’s Top Business Litigators,” and a Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyer. A member of the bars of both Georgia and Texas, he has served as trial and appellate counsel on wide-ranging matters. 

Mr. Loveland serves as head of King & Spalding’s Professional Services Liability Practice and is a frequent speaker at professional meetings, including speaking on “Professionalism in Appellate Litigation in Georgia,” “Damages in Business Litigation in Georgia,” “Defeating Class Certification” at the 3rd Annual Class Action Summit, and “Class Actions Against The Insurance Industry” at the 4th Annual Class Action Summit. 

He has served as Chair of King & Spalding’s Litigation Department and has been elected to the firm’s Policy Committee on three occasions. Mr. Loveland serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Appleseed and as a member of the Board of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). He is Vice Chair of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Committee.

Romero, Leo M.
 
NITA Chairman of the Board: 2011-Present
NITA Trustee: 1994-present
NITA Board Secretary: 2009-2010
NITA Board Treasurer: 2003-2006
NITA Faculty: 1977-present

Education: Oberlin College, B.A.; Washington University School of Law, J.D.; Georgetown University Law Center, L.L.M.

Present position: Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law

Previous positions: Regents' Professor of Law and former Dean at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Visiting Professor at Washington University School of Law, University of Oregon School of Law, and George Washington University Law School. University of California Hastings, Southwestern University College of Law, Suffolk U. School of Law (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law), and Roger Williams School of Law

Organizations: Executive Committee of the AALS; Board of Trustees of Oberlin College; Board of Trustees of the Law School Admission Council; Washington University National Council. National Order of the Coif (President, 2003-2006) and for Law School Admission Council (Chair of Board, 1997-1999).

Offices/Honors/Awards: Editor-in-Chief of the Washington University Law Annual; Associate Editor of the Washington University Law Quarterly; Distinguished Alumnus Award, Washington University School of Law; Public Service Award, State Bar of New Mexico; Outstanding Teacher of the Year, University of New Mexico

Ben Rubinowitz

NITA Trustee: 2009-present

Education:  Boston University, magna cum laude with distinction, 1978, Phi Beta Kappa; Hofstra Law School; Juris Doctor, 1981 Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Trial Practice

Present position: Partner, Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz

Previous positions: He has served as an instructor for a host of organizations that include: adjunct professor of law, Hofstra Law School, course-Advanced Trial Techniques; adjunct professor of law, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, course-advanced Trial Techniques; Harvard Law School, Trial Advocacy Workshop, 1991-present, faculty member; Hofstra Law School, Trial Techniques Program, 1982-present, faculty, member; Cardozo Law School, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, 1986-present, faculty member; Emory Law School, Trial Advocacy Program, 1984-1988, faculty member; Pace Law School, Trial Techniques; National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1982-present; Team Leader, north east program (NITA), 1982-present; Team Leader National Program, NITA, Boulder, CO, 1991, 1997, 2000; Team Leader, MFY Legal Services, NYC, 2007; Harvard Teacher Training Program, NITA, 2007.

Organizations/Honors/Awards: New York State Bar Association; New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Dean; New York County Lawyers Association; The American Trial Lawyers Association; American Board of Trial Advocates, New York City chapter, past President; The International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Fellow; and International Society of Barristers, Fellow; Chair, Masters of the Art of Trial Advocacy Program, New York State Trial Lawyers Association; Chair, New York State Bar Association program on Construction Site Accidents; Listed in Best Lawyers in America; Listed in New York “Superlawyers” (one of the top 100 lawyers); and appeared as legal expert on Court TV.

Recent Writings/Publications: Co-author of Trial Advocacy column, New York Law Journal; The Cross Examination of the Defense Economist, October 31, 2008; The Art of Jury Selection: Working with Challenges, August 29, 2008; Getting the Big Picture: Using Exhibits Throughout a Trial, July 31, 2008; Prep is Key to Cross-Examining Medical Witness, May 29. 2008; Redirect Examination, November 29, 2007; Proving Damages in a Wrongful Death Case, October 23, 2007; Jury Selection: Time Constraints and Weaknesses in Cases, August 29, 2007; Using Operative Terms From Jury Charge in Cross-Exam, July 26, 2007; Authoritative Texts From Jury Charge in Cross-Exam, July 26, 2007; Authoritative Texts and Cross-Exam of Medical Experts, June 7, 2007; Hypothetical Questions on Cross, December 29, 2006; The Use of Hypothetical Questions as Weapons at Trial, October 31, 2006; Common Mistakes and Simple Remedies, September 21, 2006; Introduction of Exhibits in Civil Cases, July 25, 2006; Continuing to Try Your Case After the Summations, May 4, 2006; “Compendium of Trial Advocacy Drills,” by Robert Stein and Ben Rubinowitz, NITA, 2006;

Recent Lectures: North Shore/LIJ Hospital, Cross Examination of the Forensic Psychiatrist, April 18, 2008; St. John’s Law School, Mastering the Art of Cross Examination, April 11, 2008; Suffolk County Bar Association, Directed Cross Examination Skills, April 8, 2008; Winter Urologic Forum Scientific Program, State of the Art Urology, Lecture: Issues in Medical Malpractice sponsored by the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine; N.Y.S.T.L.I., 2008; Chair, Masters of the Art of Trial Advocacy, January 16, 2007, February 26, 2007, and March 19, 2008; N.Y.S.T.L.A., Trial Practice, 2007; Chair, Construction Site Accidents: The Law and The Trial, New York State Association, 2007 and December 2008; Social Security Disability Law Forum, Cross Examination of Medical Experts, N.Y.C., 2007; Update on Trucking Litigation and Claims, N.Y.S.B.A., 2006; Kings County Bar Association, Jury Selection Seminar, 2006; Bronx County Bar Examination, Lecture, How to Cross Examine an Expert, 2006; A.T.L.A., Thinking Inside the Box: Jury Selection and Opening Statement Seminar, April 21-22, 2006, Austin, TX; Cross Examination, Bronx County Bar Association, April 19, 2006; Masters Class in Jury Selection, Brooklyn Bar Association, April 3, 2006; Chair, Cross Examination Seminar, N.Y.S.T.L.A., 2000-present; Jury Selection Seminars, N.Y.S.T.L.A., 2000-present; National CLE Program, 1999-present; National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Team Leader, teaching attorneys trial advocacy, 1982-present.
Admissions: New York, 1982; U.S. District Court, Eastern & Southern Districts of New York, 1982 

Steingass, Susan

NITA Trustee: 2002-present
NITA Chairman of the Board: 2009-2010
NITA Chair Elect: 2008-2009
NITA Board Secretary: 2008

Education:  B.A., Denison University; M.A., Northwestern University; and J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
Steingass received her undergraduate degree from Denison University in 1963, her M.A. in English literature from Northwestern University with honors in 1965, and her J.D. degree magna cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1976 where she was an editor of the Wisconsin Law Review and a member of Coif.

Present position: Clinical Professor of Law Emerita, University of Wisconsin Law School

Previous positions: After graduation from law school, Steingass served as law clerk to the Honorable Nathan S. Heffernan, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was an associate and then partner at Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser & Hansen in Madison from 1977 to 1985. She was a Dane County Circuit Judge from 1985 to 1993, and was elected Wisconsin Trial Judge of the Year in 1993 by the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. In 1994, she joined Habush Habush & Rottier, where she has focused her practice on personal injury and commercial litigation.

Organizations/Honors/Awards: Steingass was President of the State Bar of Wisconsin from 1998-1999 and is Director of the University of Wisconsin Law School's Communication and Advocacy Program. She has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America, and is a recipient of the Marygold Melli Achievement Award given by the Legal Association for Women. In 2003 she was named chair of the Wisconsin Sentencing Commission, and she chairs the Wisconsin Judicial Selection Committee, which screens judicial candidates. She was president of the Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund, supporting legal services to the poor, and President of the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association. She remains a member of the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association Board of Directors.  She is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the William F. Vilas Trust.

Writings: A member of the American Law Institute, Steingass is also an adviser to the Institute's work on the Restatement (Third) of Torts, Apportionment of Liability, as well as co-editor and author of Wisconsin Civil Procedure Before Trial, and co-editor of The Wisconsin Rules of Evidence: A Courtroom Handbook.

Sumter, Geraldine

NITA Trustee: 2008-present 

Education: J.D. degree - May, 1981, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina; Honors: 1980 National Winning Team Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition, Duke University School of Law Moot Court Board; and Bachelor of Arts Degree - May, 1978 Howard University, Washington, D.C., Major: Political Science/Economics; Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honor Society), Summa Cum Laude 

Present position: Managing Partner with Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Gresham & Sumter, P.A. in Charlotte, North Carolina 

Previous positions: Ms. Sumter was a staff attorney with Palmetto Legal Services in Lexington, South Carolina and prior to that, a clerk for the Honorable Charles L. Becton with the North Carolina Court of Appeals in Raleigh, North Carolina. 

Organizations: (Professional) North Carolina State Bar (1983); South Carolina State Bar (1981); North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers, President (1991-1994) (Member since 1983); North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1984- present (Co-Chair Employment Section 1998-2000); North Carolina Bar Association - Labor and Employment Law Section Council (Chairperson 1992-1993); North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys; Mecklenburg County Bar, (Executive Committee 1989-1992); National Institute for Trial Advocacy (Faculty Member Teaching Programs and Board of Trustees); South African Black Lawyers Association-Legal Education Center, Trial Advocacy Program (American Faculty Coordinator 1993-present); North Carolina Board of Trustees – IOLTA (Chairperson 1996-1997); (Vice Chairperson 1995-1996); National Employment Lawyers Association, Title VII Committee (Co-Chair 1998-present); Board of Directors, Charlotte-Mecklenburg; (Civic) Afro-American Cultural Center (President 1989-1990); Board of Directors, Advocates for Children in the Courts (Vice President 1990-1991); Board of Directors, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Arts & Science Council (Vice President 1990-1992); Board of Directors, Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont (President 1990-1991); Board of Directors, North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research (Executive Committee 1992-1994); Black United Forum (Treasurer 1991-Present); Auditorium-Coliseum-Convention Center Authority for the City of Charlotte (Chairperson 1997) (1991-1997); Charlotte-Mecklenburg Black Political Caucus; Foundation of the Carolinas, Board of Directors; North Carolina Domestic Violence Commission; U.S. Civil Rights Commission, North Carolina State Advisory Committee

Tecce, Andrea B.

NITA Trustee: 2012-present

Present Position: Andrea Tecce, CPA, CFF, is a Managing Director and Controller of Disputes, Investigations & Economics Segment at Navigant.

She has 20 years of experience providing consulting and expert support to policyholders, insurers and their legal counsel on a variety of complex litigation matters and merger and acquisitions. Her work includes estimation of product liabilities, insurance coverage analyses, claims analysis, claims review and damages calculations. While a trusted consultant in insurance, environmental and product liability matters, Andrea is also very passionate about promoting diversity and women’s leadership.

Professional Organizations:

·          Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants

·          American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

·         American Bar Association
 *Women’s Bar Association
 *Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section
 *Section of Litigation
 --Product Liability
 --Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee
 --Women’s Advocate Committee

Charitable Memberships:

• Women’s Bar Association Foundation, Board member
• Women’s Leadership & Mentoring Alliance, Executive Committee
• Washington Area Women’s Foundation, Finance Committee
• White House Project, Founding Member of DC Leadership Circle

Education:  BBA, Accounting, College of William & Mary

Edwin John U

NITA Trustee: 2013-present

Edwin U is a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and represents clients at trial and in arbitrations throughout the United States, including as lead counsel in the defense of complex class actions and federal Multi-District Litigation. He also represents companies and corporate officers faced with government investigations and enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Whether arguing a case on dispositive motions, conducting direct and cross-examinations at trial, or defending a judgment on appeal, Edwin has won commercial, antitrust, environmental, product liability and white-collar cases across the country.
Edwin has been recognized in the 2012 edition of the Legal 500 U.S. for Litigation (Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense).
Representative matters include:
     *Defeating California antitrust and consumer protection class action alleging that drug makers colluded to delay generic competition—winning summary judgment on all claims and then arguing winning appeal. See In re Cipro Cases I & II, 2011 WL 5120688 (Cal. Ct. App. 2011).
     *Trying deal dispute concerning Material Adverse Change (MAC) clause in acquisition agreement—leading to successful completion of $1B transaction following first day of trial.
     *Arguing for—and winning—dismissal of over fifty product liability actions against defense contractor following fatal commercial aviation accident. See In re Air Crash Near Peixoto de Azeveda, Brazil, 574 F. Supp. 2d 272 (E.D.N.Y. 2008), aff'd, 2009 WL 4282112 (2d Cir. 2009).
     *Trying and winning multiple arbitrations on behalf of insurance company faced with allegations of "redlining." See Bazzone v. Nationwide, 2005 WL 351250 (3d Cir. 2005).
     *Arguing for pharmaceutical defendants at contested class certification hearing— achieving ruling rejecting class and dismissing antitrust case in its entirety. See Altman v. Bayer, et al., N.Y. Sup. Ct. - N.Y. County Index No. 603820/00 (2003).
     *Defending multi-national company in SEC investigation following two restatements of earnings—ending with no enforcement action of any kind.
     *Arguing for—and winning—dismissal of civil RICO action alleging that telecommunications executive conspired with suppliers to violate Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. See National Group for Communications and Computers Ltd. v. Lucent Technologies Inc., et al., 420 F. Supp. 2d 253 (S.D.N.Y. 2006).
Representative clients include Raytheon Company, Barr Laboratories, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Red Bull and Nationwide.
Memberships & Affiliations: Faculty Member, National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), 2004 - Present. Instructor at NITA’s National Session, New England Regional Session and other trial skills programs.
Other Distinctions: Recognized in the 2012 edition of the Legal 500 U.S. for Litigation (Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense).  Board of Trustees, National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), 2013-Present.

Education: 
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1998 cum laude
     Harvard Law Review - Articles Editor
     Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy - Senior Editor
Harvard University, A.B., Economics, 1995 magna cum laude
     John Harvard Scholarship, Harvard College Scholarship

Vigil, Angela

NITA Trustee: 2009-present
NITA Board Secretary: 2010-present 

Education: Ms. Vigil earned a JD from Northwestern University School of Law (1995). She also earned a bachelor’s in Political Science and Speech Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1992).

Present position: Baker & McKenzie, Partner, Director of Pro Bono and Community Service, North America
Ms. Vigil is responsible for the direction of pro bono and community service projects in the firm’s 10 offices throughout the U.S. and Canada and leads the Firm’s region-wide pro bono practice. She regularly litigates cases related to juvenile justice, civil rights, children’s law, criminal law and other areas of public interest law. Ms. Vigil is involved with both training and mentoring the firm’s attorneys on pro bono projects and matters. As Director of Pro Bono and Community Service, Ms. Vigil routinely represents the firm in national and global conferences relevant to the firm’s pro bono work.

Previous positions: Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie, Ms. Vigil worked for the Children and Family Justice Center, at Northwestern University School of Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic as the Director of Children’s Law Pro Bono Projects, where she led strategic litigation and advocacy on behalf of children. While with the Legal Clinic, in addition to trying jury and bench trials in criminal and juvenile court, and directing policy strategies for at-risk youth involved in the juvenile justice system, Ms. Vigil mentored, trained and recruited volunteer attorneys. She habitually testified and offered written advocacy on significant juvenile justice and school law issues before various organizations and governmental bodies. Ms. Vigil also worked as an attorney, director and clinical teacher at Northwestern University’s Children and Family Justice Center Community Law Clinic, where she founded, directed and managed legal intake and practice in the neighborhood branch office.

Publications: Ms. Vigil has produced numerous publications and articles including:  In Re Eva Pena, Special Printing, Co-authored a case file for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy as part of a program in Philadelphia, PA, October 2002; “Training the Lawyer to Represent the Whole Child,” September 2002; Training Social Workers in Delinquency Proceedings in the – unpublished, Law Program for Community Developers and Social Workers, April 2002; Article on the intersection of school discipline and juvenile justice for the American Bar Association’s Juvenile Justice Center Newsletter, Fall 2001; “Abandoning Chicago’s School Children,” Opinion Editorial, Chicago Tribune, March 2001; “Effective Advocacy against Expulsions under Zero Tolerance,” American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, newsletter of the Children’s Law Committee, February 2001; “Recruiting and Maintaining Young Lawyers in Defender Organizations,” Co-author of article for the monthly newsletter of the American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center newsletter of the Criminal Justice Section; “Questioning Children in Police Custody in Chicago,” article for the First Defense Legal Aid organization newsletter entitled Miranda, Fall 2000

Presentations: Ms. Vigil frequently lectures at a variety of national and international conferences on issues related to professional responsibility in children’s law; juvenile justice practice; the representation of juvenile sex offenders; transfer of children to adult criminal court; interviewing and counseling child clients; and pro bono management in both law firms and in legal service organizations.

Teaching Experience: Northwestern University School of Law;
Assistant/Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law; National Institute for Trial Advocacy Team Leader/Faculty/Faculty Trainer; Emory University School of Law; University of Chicago School of Law; Intensive Trial Practice Workshop Adjunct Faculty; Center for Continued Learning DePaul Undergraduate Program; Undergraduate Professional Advisor; Guest Speaker in political science department criminal justice, social science, and juvenile justice seminars for undergraduate students.

Organizations: American Bar Association Co-Chair Children’s Rights Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation; Association of Pro Bono Counsel – founder, former leadership council member and current committee co-chair; Former Appointee to Task Force on Standards for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children; Former Member of Illinois Equal Justice Coalition; Juvenile Justice Center of Barry University-Advisory Board; Lawyers for Children American Regional Advisory Board; and National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
 
 
 
Cook County Juvenile Court
, John Marshall Law School Publication

Weaver, Robin
 
NITA Trustee: 2008-present

Education: University of Michigan, J.D., 1973; The Ohio State University, B.A., 1970 

Present position: Partner, Squire Sanders 

An accomplished trial lawyer who focuses his practice exclusively on general civil litigation including complex commercial, environmental and product liability litigation, Mr. Weaver has represented clients in federal and state courts in numerous jurisdictions throughout the United States. His practice has included extensive appellate work in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits, as well as several state supreme courts and a multitude of state courts of appeal. 

Representative experience:  Representing major oil companies against class action and mass tort environmental claims for property damage and personal injury arising out of closed refineries; Representing several rubber companies in environmental landfill cases involving claims for diminution in property values, medical monitoring and cancer; Representing an aluminum manufacturer in Superfund litigation; Representing a major chemical company in a class action against environmental claims for medical monitoring and property damage arising out of a closed smelter; Prosecuting a trade secrets action for a major British-based chemical manufacturer against a major Taiwan-based manufacturing conglomerate for the theft of sophisticated process technology; Defending a national US-based media company against claims of defamation; Defending a multinational manufacturer of X-ray film in a breach of nationwide distribution contract action; Representing a national medical billing services company in a breach of an asset purchase agreement action brought by a regional billing services company with attendant claims of fraud and misrepresentation; Prosecuting a breach of requirement contract action for an automotive parts manufacturer against an automotive parts supply company; Serving as national counsel for a major international tire manufacturer in defective design and mass tire recall litigation; Defending a major oil company against personal injury, property damage, business interruption and defective design claims evolving out of refinery explosions; Representing a major oil company in aviation fuel contamination cases; Serving as regional counsel on behalf of a major pharmaceutical company in drug recall litigation; Representing a major oil company against multiple claims evolving from alleged exposure of a contractor’s employees to petrochemicals; and Representing a major electrical utility company in nuclear radiation exposure cases arising under the Price-Anderson Amendments Act. 

Organizations/Honors/Awards: Mr. Weaver is a Fellow of both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. He was named Lawyer of the Year by Ohio Lawyers Weekly and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA. He is past president of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and is a master commissioner and past chair of the Supreme Court of Ohio Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline. He is a life member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference and the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference. He is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys and the Cleveland Association of Civil Trial Attorneys and is a master bencher in the John M. Manos Inn of Court. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association.

Williams, Hon. Ann C.
 
NITA Trustee: 1996-present
NITA Secretary: 2005-2007
NITA Faculty: 1979-present

Ms. Williams teaches the following NITA programs: Advocacy Teacher Training: Lawyers Without Borders; and Kenya Domestic Violence Trial Skills Training.

Education: Wayne State University, B.S.; The University of Michigan, M.A.; and University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D.

Present position: Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Chicago, Illinois

Previous positions: Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois; Chief, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force for the North Central Region, United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois; Deputy Chief and Trial Attorney United States Attorney’s Office, Chicago, Illinois; Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge Robert A. Sprecher, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Chicago, Illinois.

Academic positions: Adjunct professor or lecturer in trial advocacy, Northwestern and John Marshall law schools

Organizations: Member, United States Supreme Court Fellows Program Commission (2005-Present); Chair (1993-1997) and Member, Court Administration and Case Management Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States; Member, Judicial Council of the Seventh Circuit (1999-Present); President, President-Elect and Treasurer (1993-2003) and Board Member (1993-Present), Federal Judges Association; Lecturer, Kenyan Judicial Colloquium (2006-2008); Program Director, Kenyan Women’s Advocacy Program (2007-2008); Team Leader, Liberian Trial Advocacy Program (2007); Lecturer, Ghanaian Judiciary (2002-2003, 2008); Faculty Member, trial and appellate advocacy training programs of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (2004-2006); Founder and lecturer, Minority Legal Education Resources, Inc. (1985-Present); Secretary and Member, Board of Trustees of the University of Notre Dame (1987-Present); Founder, fellowship program and Board Member of Equal Justice Works; Founder, Former President, and Chair of Judicial Advisory Committee of Just The Beginning Foundation (1992-Present); Founder and Member, Black Women Lawyers Assn. (1987-Present); Lecturer and Team Leader, Lawyers Without Borders (2006-Present); Member, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Offices/Honors/Awards: American Bar Association – Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award (2008); National Bar Association – Gertrude E. Rush Award (2008); American Bar Association – Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Award (2008); Filipino American Bar Association and John Marshall Law School – Unity Award (2008); MLER Judge Ann Claire Williams Leadership Award (2007); Cook County Bar Association Hall of Fame (2007); American Bar Association’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession – Spirit of Excellence Award (2006); National Association of Women Lawyers – Arabella Babb Mansfield Award (2005); Crain’s magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times Chicago’s 100 Most Influential and Powerful Women (2004); National Bar Association – William H. Hastie Award (2002); National Council of Negro Women – Women Making History Award (2000); Chicago Lawyer Person of the Year (2000); Chicago Bar Association – Vanguard Award (2000) and Earl Burrus Dickerson Award (1997); Honorary degrees from Lake Forest College (1987) and University of Portland (1993)

John T. Baker

J.D., University of Denver College of Law

Following graduation from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 1973, John taught as a clinical instructor at the College of Law for three years, directing a juvenile and criminal advocacy clinic. In 1975 John joined the plaintiff’s personal injury and civil trial practice law firm, Carrigan & Bragg, P.C., which eventually became Bragg & Baker, P.C. John spent the next 26 years concentrating his legal practice in products liability litigation, representing individuals that have been injured by defective pharmaceutical products and vehicles. John currently continues with his own firm concentrating on complex litigation and public interest law.  John has been listed as a Colorado Super Lawyer for 2007 to the present.

During his legal career John has taken a national leadership role in multi-district litigation and other consolidated complex litigation, concerning birth control pills, intrauterine devices, L-Tryptophan dietary supplements, Jeep CJ-5 utility vehicles and diet pills. In those leadership roles John coordinated and conducted nation-wide plaintiffs’ discovery, managed document depositories, and served on nation-wide litigation plaintiffs’ steering or management committees. John has a special interest in professionalism and professional responsibility and has served or is serving in bar association leadership positions. The Denver Bar Association awarded the 2007 Award of Merit to John for his bar service. The specific bar positions include, 2009-2010 President  Denver Bar Association, past chair of the Denver Bar Association Professionalism Committee, past co-hair of the Metropolitan Conciliation Panel, past chair of the Colorado Bar Association Attorney Admission and Law School Committee, member of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado Conduct Rules Committee, and past chair of the law school working group of the Colorado Bar Association Professional Reform Initiative Task Force. John is a member of the American, Colorado, and Denver Bar Associations and the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. He is a fellow of the International Society of Barristers.

In addition to the practice of law, John has a strong interest in teaching. John has been appointed as President of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (“NITA.”) John served as NITA’s Public Programs Educations Director 2007-2010. NITA has honored him with the Honorable Prentice Marshall Faculty Award for 2005. John’s legal teaching experience includes adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law; Program Director and Lead Faculty for the NITA Hanley Advanced Advocacy Program; Program Director or Faculty for NITA pro bono programs for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Services Corporation, and the American Bar Association; and Faculty for joint NITA advocacy programs with the Law Society of Ireland and the Law Society of Scotland. The University of Denver College of Law Institute for Advanced Legal Studies honored John as “Educator of the Year” in 1997. John, also, lectures in Colorado, nationally, and internationally on professionalism issues, on torts/product liability issues, and on trial advocacy.

In Denver John is active in the community. As an appointed member of the Colorado Supreme Court Judicial Advisory Council, in 2006-07John chaired the year-long 40th Anniversary Celebration of Merit Selection of Judges in Colorado. He is past president of the board of directors of Denver Kids, Inc., a program to keep “at risk” Denver Public Schools students in school. John is married and has three children, who have involved him over the years in coaching youth soccer, basketball and baseball. 

 
Mary Jo Barr

Mary Jo began her practice in 1986 in San Diego, California, as an associate with a small plaintiffs and criminal defense firm.  In 1989, Mary Jo joined the Office of the Public Defender for San Diego County where she was a member of the team responsible high profile media cases and homicides.  There she developed relationships with local and national media representatives.  Mary Jo’s experience as a trial lawyer and as a teacher made her the natural selection to be the office’s training deputy.

Her interest in teaching began when she was awarded a Prettyman fellowship at Georgetown School of Law School in 1988.  Although she chose trial work over academics, she has been teaching since 1992.  Mary Jo began teaching with NITA in the regional trail skills programs.  Since her début with NITA she has been teaching trials skills, deposition skills, teacher training, and motion practice for NITA at regional, custom, and international programs.  She has been the program director for both trials skills and deposition programs, and she is the co-director of the annual trial skills program Pacific Regional in San Diego.

Mary Jo has taught lawyers and judges in Nigeria on behalf of the United States Department of Justice, in Japan for the Osaka Bar Association, in Canada for the Canadian Society for Advocacy and at the firm Borden,Ladner,and Gervais, and in both Ireland and Northern Ireland on behalf of NITA.

Mary Jo has also served as an adjunct professor at California School of Law and the University of San Diego School of Law in their advocacy programs.  

Barron, Barbara S.

Barbara S. Barron is a Professor of Legal Writing and Research and Director of Student Advocacy Programs at Hofstra University School of Law. Ms. Barron, a former Assistant District Attorney in the District Attorney's Office for New York County, has practiced extensively in the areas of commercial and matrimonial litigation on both the trial and appellate levels. Before attending law school, Ms. Barron was a Russian linguist with the Department of Defense. Ms. Barron has been a team leader in the Hofstra Trial Techniques Program and has been a member of the Northeast Regional Program and the Master Advocates Program for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Douglas A. Blaze

B.S., magna cum laude Dickinson College
J.D., summa cum laude, Georgetown University
 Professor Blaze, who received a J.D. summa cum laude degree from Georgetown University, was appointed Dean of the College of Law in 2008.   Professor Blaze joined the Tennessee faculty in 1993 as Director of Clinical Programs and served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2006-2008.  He came to Tennessee from Phoenix, Ariz., where he worked in private practice and later joined the faculty at Arizona State University. Professor Blaze is co-author of The Law of Negligence in Arizona. His work has been published in the Arizona State, Georgetown, Tennessee and William & Mary law reviews. Professor Blaze is the past-chair of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and is a member of several other bar committees. In 2004, Professor Blaze received the Thomas Jefferson Prize. He received the Bass, Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar in 1996 and 2004, the Harold Warner Outstanding Teacher Award in 1997, and the Carden Institutional Service Award in 2000 and 2005.
 
 

Borgen, Lori

Professor Borgen has worked on fair housing and other public interest concerns throughout her career. She litigated landlord-tenant and other housing issues with Brooklyn Legal Services, Corp. B. She then served as the Gibbons Fellow at Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger and Vecchione, P.C., where she engaged in impact litigation on welfare reform, racial profiling by New Jersey police, domestic violence, and governmentsubsidized housing. Even while engaged in a full time practice at Gibbons, she found time to teach a course on low-income housing and community development at Seton Hall. After her Gibbons Fellowship concluded, Professor Borgen worked as the senior staff attorney with the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C. Professor Borgen received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A., with honors, from Harvard College. She also clerked for the Honorable Joseph E. Irenas in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Jude D. Bourque
Assistant Attorney General
Department of Justice
Litigation Division
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Jude D. Bourque is an Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice in Louisiana who specializes in Medical Malpractice Defense.  He graduated from Tulane Law School [Class of 1987] having served on the Tulane Maritime Law Review and Tulane Moot Court Board.  He is a graduate of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

The National Institute for Trial Advocacy awarded Mr. Bourque the Volunteer of the Year Award in 2010 for volunteering over 100 hours at NITA Public Service and Public Programs in 2010.  He has taught trial advocacy programs across the nation in both public program and in-house programs for international law firms.

Mr. Bourque is a member of the Medical/Legal Interprofessional Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association and a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation.  He has volunteered and coached for several Trial Advocacy teams at the LSU School of Law. 

In June 2012, Mr. Bourque was the Program Director of the Louisiana Legal Services NITA Trial Skills Program sponsored by the Louisiana Bar Foundation.

Community Involvement:

He has worked with many civic organizations in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge communities including the Baton Rouge Kiwanis Club (Distinguished President, Distinguished Lt. Governor, chair Youth Service Committee), Big Buddy Board of Directors (co-chair fundraiser 2007), International Hospitality Foundation (President, 2006-07), the Baton Rouge Bar Association, Public Law Committee and the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce Leadership Alumni Board (President, 2011-12).  He has also worked with the Capital Area United Way 2008 “50 for the Future” campaign and on the Community Fund for the Arts cabinet (2009).

Cary A. Bricker

B.A., University of Rochester
J.D., Boston University

Professor Bricker comes to Pacific McGeorge from the Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia, where she was director of the highest-rated Trial Advocacy program in the country. She began her legal career as a staff attorney with the New York Legal Aid Society, Criminal Division, taking 20 jury trials to verdict in four years. As a senior staff attorney with the Federal Defender Division of the Legal Aid Society, she tried 25 jury trials to verdict. While working in New York City, she served as a trial advocacy adjunct professor of law at Fordham University, provided guest commentary for numerous Court TV trials, and joined the National Institute for Trial Advocacy as a faculty member teaching in regional programs, the national session and numerous law firms. She became an associate professor at Temple in 2002, teaching Trial Advocacy and Advanced Trial Advocacy as well as coaching the law school’s top-ranked competition team. Professor Bricker was voted Professor of the Year in 2006 by The Pacific McGeorge Day and Evening Division.

Broun, Jonathan

B.Ph..Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1987
J.D., University of North Carolina, 1991

Mr. Broun has been a staff attorney with the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham, North Carolina since 1996.  Mr. Broun is currently CDPL’s Training Director.  From 1991 through 1996, Mr. Broun was an assistant public defender in Fayetteville, NC.  In 1987 and 1988 he served as an investigator with the Office of the Capital Collateral Representative in Tallahassee, Florida. 

Mr. Broun has tried numerous criminal jury trials, including six capital cases.  He has also represented numerous individuals on capital direct appeals, state post-conviction, and federal habeas cases and before the governor in clemency proceedings.  Mr. Broun has taught at death penalty trial advocacy programs in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina.  He is program director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s Capital Trial program and its Southeast Regional Program.  He also teaches trial advocacy at the University of North Carolina Law School.  

In 2001, Mr. Broun drafted the certiorari petition to the United States Supreme Court in the case of McCarver v. North Carolina, the case where the United States Supreme Court initially agreed to revisit the issue of whether it was appropriate to execute the mentally retarded.

Mr. Broun lives in Carrboro, North Carolina and is married to one of Carrboro=s aldermen, Joal Hall Broun.  They have two children, Harrison and Rachel.  He is self-appointed official arbitrator between Harrison and Rachel.  The family’s dog, Fida, attended obedience school in 1997 and is two classes short of graduation.

Contact Information:
jonathan@cdpl.org

Henry Brown

J.D., University of San Francisco
B.A., Auburn University

As director of advocacy programs at USF, Assistant Professor Brown oversees all advocacy programs, both trial and appellate. He has taught at numerous law schools, including Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. His courses include: Evidence, Law & Literature, and Constitutional Law.

Brown is the co-director of the Western Trial and Deposition Programs offered by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and recipient of NITA's 2009 Hon. Robert Keeton Faculty Award. He has instructed NITA courses for more than 18 years, including public service programs in Africa.

Prior Experience
• Of Counsel, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
• Associate, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati
• Adjunct Professor, Stanford Law School
• Visiting Professor, East China University of Politics and Law
• Law Clerk, Hon. Barbara A. Caulfield, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Burns, Robert P.
 
Mr. Burns directs the following program: Deposition Skills: Midwest

Robert Burns is a professor of law and litigation attorney in the Northwestern University Legal Clinic. He teaches courses in evidence, civil procedure, professional responsibility, health care law, and the philosophy of law. In 1996, and again in 1998, he was awarded the Robert Childress Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence and in 1997 was elected the outstanding Professor of a Small Class. The Class of 1997 elected him to give the "Last Lecture" on the day before graduation. He is Program Director for the Law School's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Concentration and has been both Perkins-Bauer Teaching Professor and Stanford Clinton, Sr. Research Professor. His current research interests focus on the theory of the trial and on professional responsibility.

Professor Burns is a National Institute for Trial Advocacy Distinguished Faculty Member, having taught for the preeminent continuing legal education organization since 1982. He is a principal architect of Northwestern's unique coordinated program in Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Trial Advocacy and is co-author of Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy, Vols. I & II, Exercises and Problems in Professional Responsibility, and essays and articles on trial, evidence, professional responsibility, mediation, and legal philosophy.

Contact Information:
r-burns@northwestern.edu

MARK S. CALDWELL

Mr. Caldwell is Public Program Development and Resource Director for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. In this role he designs, administers, and teaches at a wide variety of NITA’s advocacy skills programs, including the Rocky Mountain Building Trial Skills Program, The Rocky Mountain Deposition Skills Program, the on-line Deposition Skills Programs, and NITA’s Faculty Training Programs. His past work also includes many of NITA’s specialty programs, including Bankruptcy Litigation, Family Law, Patent Litigation, and Tax Court Litigation. Mark Caldwell also serves as Program Director for some of NITA’s pro bono efforts, including programs to Native American lay advocates, lawyers working for legal service and public service organizations, including courses for lawyers working in juvenile settings and domestic violence cases.

Included among his published works are NITA case files and problems, NITA’s Faculty Training Manual, and law review articles on both international law and continuing legal education. He lectures on continuing and adult education and advocacy skills on a national basis, including presentations to the Association of Continuing Legal Education Administrators, the Colorado Women’s Bar Association, and Stetson University College of Law.

Mark Caldwell has worked as a consultant with a number of organizations and law firms in the development, administration and marketing of continuing education courses, including the American Bar Association, Professional Education Systems, Inc. He served as Assistant Dean of the University of Denver College of Law and as Executive Director of Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc.

Mark Caldwell volunteers his time in a variety of forms. He has served as a member of the Water Board for the town of Shawnee, Colorado and the Board of Directors for The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People. He was a member of the State Board of Education Advisory Committee on Gifted and Talented Education. He shares his time in working with high school students who compete in the Colorado Bar Association’s Mock Trial Competition.

Mr. Caldwell earned his J.D. from the University of Denver. He has been recognized for his work as teacher, program designer and administrator, receiving NITA’s Robert Oliphant Award for Service (2001) and Hon. Prentice Marshall Award for Excellence in the Creation of Education Techniques (2009), the University of Denver’s Institute for Advance Legal Studies Educator of the Year Award (1999), and recognition from the Colorado Asian American Bar Association, and the American Bar Association Section of Family Law.

Contact Information:
mcaldwell@nita.org

Jean M. Cary

B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Duke University,
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

Jean Cary is a member in good standing of the North Carolina Bar, United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States District Courts for the Western, Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina.  She presently is a Professor of Law at Campbell University School of Law teaching Family Law, Family Law Planning, and Advanced Trial Advocacy and Pretrial Litigation.  She has been an Adjunct Professor at the School of Law at the University of North Carolina and the Director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Southeast Regional Program. Ms. Carey previously was a Staff Attorney from with East Central Community Legal Services in Raleigh, North Carolina and for Legal Services of Southern Piedmont, Charlotte, North Carolina where her responsibilities focused on Public Benefits, including representation of indigent clients on cases concerning Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Food Stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Unemployment Compensation and Black Lung Benefits.  During the last two years at East Central Community Legal Services, my work included a large range of general work in the area of social services, landlord-tenant, juvenile and domestic law.

Carl Chamberlin

J.D., magna cum laude, Hastings
B.S., Stanford University

Mr. Chamberlin is a Senior Judicial Attorney for the California Court of Appeals and an adjunct professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he has taught Trial Advocacy since 1999.  From 1985 to 1999, Carl practiced law at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, specializing in intellectual property and complex civil litigation.  There he supervised the firm’s litigation training program, was Chair of the Internet and Computer Litigation Group, and received awards for his pro bono service.  Carl was also an Acting Assistant District Attorney for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and, beginning in 1998, served local courts as an arbitrator and judge pro tem.  He has taught trial skills, deposition skills, and motions practice for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy since 1992, as well as courses for California’s Continuing Education of the Bar and Santa Clara University Law School. 

Cheng, Doris
 
Ms. Cheng directs the following program: Advocacy Teacher Training: San Francisco

Ms. Cheng joined the Walkup firm in 1998 after a distinguished academic career at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Her areas of concentration include wrongful death, catastrophic injury, government liability, medical negligence, premises liability, sexual molestation and vehicular negligence. She has prosecuted cases throughout California and in the Federal District Courts. She has tried cases to verdict in multiple Northern California counties. She has experience in trial, mediation and arbitration.

A graduate of the University of California at Davis, Ms. Cheng attended USF School of Law, from which she graduated with distinction as a Public Interest Law Scholar. In 1997, she served as an extern law clerk to the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California.

Ms. Cheng is also active in local bar affairs. She has been elected to membership on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association as well as the Board of Governors of the University of San Francisco School of Law. She has also served as Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Barrister’s Club newsletter. She is active in the American Inns of Court, having served as Program Chair and Secretary-Treasurer of the USF Inn of Court. She serves on the teaching faculty and the Executive Committee for the University of San Francisco School of Law’s Intensive Advocacy Program.

Ms. Cheng currently serves as the assistant Program Director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s Western Region Teacher Training Program and has taught trial advocacy for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy at its Western Regional and Pacific Region Trial Skills programs. She also serves on the faculty of Emory University’s Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program in Atlanta, Georgia.

She is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Consumer Attorneys of California.
 

Dale, Michael J.

Mr. Dale directs the following program: Deposition Skills: Florida

Michael J. Dale has been a member of the faculty at the Nova Southeastern University Law Center since 1985, teaching courses in family law, juvenile law and in the family and juvenile clinic. He also teaches litigation courses including civil procedure, conflicts of laws, intensive trial advocacy, judicial administration and international litigation. Before joining the Nova faculty Dale spent time in private law practice in Phoenix and was Executive Director of the Youth Law Center in San Francisco after serving as Attorney in Charge of the Special Litigation Unit of the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society of the City of New York. He has been a practicing lawyer specializing in civil rights litigation for 30 years. He is admitted to practice in the states of Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and New York as well as the United States Supreme Court and numerous federal appellate and district courts.

Professor Dale teaches in National Institute For Trial Advocacy Programs concerning children including trainings held in Denver, in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, in New York at Hofstra University and in Houston at the University of Houston. For the past 12 years he has been program director for the National Institute For Trial Advocacy Florida Deposition program. He has been a consultant to a number of federal and state agencies on civil rights issues and to law firms on litigation issues.
He is the author of over seventy articles focusing primarily on juvenile and children’s law topics. Professor Dale is also the author of the two volume text, Representing the Child Client, published by Matthew Bender Co. He speaks regularly to professional groups on children’s law and litigation topics.

Contact Information:
dalem@nsu.law.nova.edu

Daniel N. Deasy

B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder
J.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Daniel Deasy received both his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating from the School of Law in 1993.  He was presented with the William O. DeSouchet Award for outstanding trial advocacy while in law school.  Following graduation, Mr. Deasy completed a judicial clerkship with the Jefferson County District Court and worked as a prosecutor in Colorado’s First Judicial District (Jefferson and Gilpin Counties) until 1998.  Mr. Deasy then served as Director of Contracting and Legal Affairs at a medical management group for approximately one year, but in 1999 returned to litigation as in-house counsel for Colorado’s largest insurance carrier.  In 2005, Mr. Deasy became the managing partner at Caplis & Deasy, LLC., where he specialized in personal injury litigation.  In 2008, Mr. Deasy moved to a prominent domestic relations law firm in the metro Denver area as special counsel and then partner, and earlier this year, he again formed his own firm, Ammarell Deasy, LLP.  Today, Mr. Deasy continues to handle a variety of courtroom matters, including family law, personal injury and criminal defense. 

Mr. Deasy’s teaching experience includes advocacy skill instruction at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), the University of Colorado School of Law, the University of Denver College of Law, and the Colorado District Attorneys Council Trial Techniques School.  He has also taught courses in Juvenile Law, Delinquent Behavior, Criminal Investigation and Judicial Function in the college setting.  Mr. Deasy has presented for the Colorado Defense Lawyers’ Association and instructed for the Colorado Bar Association and the First Judicial District Bar Association.  He has also lectured nationally on case analysis, direct and cross examination techniques, expert witnesses, opening statements, closing arguments, visual courtroom persuasion, courtroom technology, investigational strategies and deposition practice.

Mr. Deasy brings a wealth of courtroom experience and advocacy knowledge to the teaching arena, having prosecuted and defended well over 250 trials and contested hearings in criminal, civil and family law courtrooms across the state of Colorado. 

Dobson, Mark M.

Mr. Dobson directs the following program: Building Trial Skills: Florida Regional

Mark Dobson is a Professor of Law at the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University. He teaches criminal law, trial advocacy techniques, criminal justice, and criminal procedure courses. Dobson is admitted to practice in Florida, Maryland, and Kansas.

Contact Information:
dobsonm@nsu.law.nova.edu

John G. Douglass

B.A., summa cum laude, Dartmouth College
J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School

John Douglass is a Professor of Law at the University of Richmond, where he teaches Criminal Law, Evidence and Criminal Procedure and manages a program in litigation skills and trial advocacy.  His principal academic publications have focused on prosecution, the criminal trial process and the Confrontation Clause.  Before joining the Richmond Law faculty in 1996, he practiced law for 15 years.  He served for eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore and Richmond, and was Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in Richmond from 1992 to 1996.  He also served on the staff of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh in the Iran-Contra investigation. As a partner in a Richmond law firm, he specialized in commercial litigation, insurance defense, construction litigation and white collar criminal defense.   He is a faculty member of the Virginia State Bar’s Course in Professionalism, an instructor in trial advocacy and other litigation skills for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education.

Daniel G. Dowd

Dan Dowd is the managing partner of Cohen Kennedy Dowd & Quigley.  Dan attended Iowa State University and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (with an emphasis in finance) with distinction in 1985, finishing with the highest grade point average among finance students.  He received his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1988, where he graduated with high distinction and was a member of the Order of the Coif.  He was admitted to practice in Arizona in 1988.

Dan has received substantial peer recognition during his career.  In 2004, The Business Journal recognized Dan as one of the “Best of the Bar – Litigation” as selected by his peers.  In 2007, Dan, Ron Cohen and Laura Kennedy obtained a $360 million verdict in a multi-week, hotly contested commercial tort trial. This is the second largest verdict in the history of the state of Arizona and the fourth largest in the U.S. in 2007.  Dan has also been selected as a "Super Lawyer" in every edition of “Southwest Super Lawyers”, a peer-evaluated publication recognizing individuals ranked in the top five percent of lawyers practicing in their state.  In 2011, Southwest Super Lawyers identified Dan as a member of "The Top Fifty" recognizing the Arizona lawyers who received the highest point totals in the review process.  Dan is recognized in "Best Lawyers in America" 2010 - 2012 editions and has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.  In 2010, Dan was inducted into "Arizona's Finest Lawyers", a peer-reviewed organization that limits membership to approximately six percent of the Arizona State Bar members.  In 2011, The Litigation Counsel of America ("LCA") selected Dan as a Fellow.  The LCA is an invitation only trial lawyer honorary society and membership is limited to 3,500 Fellows, representing less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers.

Dan is a member of the Maricopa County Bar Association, the State Bar of Arizona, the American Bar Association and a former member of the Sandra Day O’Connor Inn of Court.  Dan currently serves as co-chair of the American Bar Association's Judicial Intern Opportunity Program ("JIOP"). He was co-chair of the Special Committee on the Future of Civil Litigation of the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation from 2009-2010.  He served as Director of Division IV in 2009, co-chair of the Section's Solo and Small Firm Committee from 2006 to 2008 and as co-chair of the Federal Practice Task Force from 2001 to 2005.  Dan is also heavily involved with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, serving as the Program Director for NITA’s Arizona and Nevada Deposition Skills Programs and a NITA faculty member.

Dan is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of Arizona, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Dan concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, ADR and administrative dispute proceedings.

Mark Drummond

A trial lawyer for 20 years before taking the bench as a trial judge, Mark Drummond is one of the highest rated NITA instructors by in-house program participants.  A NITA instructor since 1986, he also teaches others how to be NITA instructors at all three NITA teacher training sites.

Mark was selected by the prosecutor’s office of the United Nation’s War Crimes Tribunal to train prosecutors at The Hague and in Arusha, Tanzania.  He regularly teaches barristers at Oxford and has been asked by the Federated Bar Association of Japan to teach advocacy skills to attorneys in anticipation of their judicial reform in 2009.

He is the author of “The Eight Keys to the Art of Persuasion”, a one-day trial advocacy program and has done numerous training videos for NITA.  He writes an advocacy column for litigation News, a publication of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association.

Sample Comments from in-house participants and other NITA instructors:
“Perhaps the best NITA teacher I have seen in 20 years of teaching NITA.”
“Mark Drummond was easily the most effective instructor I have ever seen.”
“I would come listen to him anywhere, anytime.”
“Fantastic!  When I grow up I want to be a female Mark Drummond.”
“The gem of the program.  Mark Drummond was a star.”

Bill Elward is the Criminal Trials Assistance Bureau Chief for the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.  Bill is lead counsel on complex prosecutions ranging from commercial fraud and internet crime cases to first degree murders.  Similar to complex commercial practice, Bill's cases involve extensive pretrial discovery, depositions and experts; however, the vast majority of his cases end up in trial, which has given him the opportunity to try over 100 jury trials to verdict.   Bill is “Distinguished Practitioner in Residence” at Loyola University of Chicago Law School where he teaches Evidence, Advanced Evidence, and Trial Advocacy.  In 2008 he received the Robert Bellarmine Award for Outstanding Law School Alumnus.  Elward also teaches Trial Advocacy at the University of Chicago School of Law each year, and has taught trial advocacy at numerous law schools. 
 
 Elward is the director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Midwest Trials Skills Program Bill teaches deposition practice and trial skills nationally and internationally.  In addition to his law school teaching, Bill supervises deposition training state-wide for the Illinois Attorney General’s office.  In addition to teaching several deposition and trial programs each year for private law firms throughout the United States, the Irish Department of Public Prosecutions has twice invited Bill to teach trial skills in Dublin, Ireland.  Elward also taught evidence and criminal procedure at the Alberto Hurtado University Law School in Santiago, Chile, and taught comparative criminal procedure in Rome, Italy. 

Elward routinely receives the highest evaluations in both his law school classes and in NITA programs.  In 2010 Elward was recognized by the Illinois State Appellate Prosecutor’s Office for Outstanding Instruction in Depositions and Trial Skills. Since 2005 Bill has also taught evidence, criminal law and bar exam preparation for Bar-Bri.  Elward is a cum laude graduate of Loyola University of Chicago Law School where he was the Research Editor on the Consumer Law Reporter.  Bill is married and has four sons.

Paul Enriquez

Paul V. Enriquez is in private practice specializing in criminal defense in state and federal courts in Dallas Texas. In 32 years of practice he has tried hundreds of cases both bench and jury trials. While serving as corporate litigation counsel for a major oil and gas company he was involved in commercial litigation and casualty defense matters throughout the country. Mr. Enriquez graduated from Southern Methodist University, BA (1970); and Southern Methodist University, JD (1973). Mr. Enriquez has been a NITA faculty member since 1993 and has taught as adjunct faculty in trial advocacy at Southern Methodist University since 2000.

John M. Farrell

B.A., Indiana University
J.D., University of Chicago

John Farrell is a principal at Fish & Richardson, P.C.  John is a trial attorney, handling both intellectual property cases and commercial litigation.  Mr. Farrell is an experienced trial lawyer, having tried over 90 jury trials.  He served as a head attorney in the homicide unit of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where he worked from 1987-2001.  He served as a law clerk to the Honorable S. Hugh Dillin, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.  He also has taken and defended hundreds of depositions and regularly argues motions in both state and federal court.  In addition to teaching trial advocacy, he often is called on to lecture on how to take and defend depositions and how to prepare witnesses to be deposed. He also lectures on rules of hearsay and the art of cross examination.

 Mr. Farrell is a veteran teacher of advocacy skills and has taught for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for over 15 years, in regional programs, the national program in Boulder and numerous in house programs around the country.  He regularly is one of the top ranked instructors for NITA

Bibianne Fell

Bibianne Fell directs the following programs: Deposition Skills: Pacific; Deposing the Expert Witness.

Ms. Fell graduated magna cum laude from USD law school in 2004 where she was a member of the Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.  She previously attended UCSD, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

After law school, Ms. Fell worked at an insurance defense firm practicing in the areas of professional malpractice and employment law.  From 2005 to 2008, she worked in the business litigation and employment law departments at Baker & McKenzie LLP.  Ms. Fell now practices business litigation and employment law at Fleming & Fell PC.

From early in her career, Ms. Fell has integrated teaching into her practice.  She has been a faculty member for NITA since 2008, teaches trial skills as an adjunct professor of law at her alma matter, and has assisted with ABOTA’s bi-annual Trial College.

Ms. Fell has received a number of professional awards and recognition including being twice named a Top Young Attorney by the San Diego Daily Transcript, a Rising Star by the Philippine American Business and Industrial Development organization, and being selected as the 2012-2013 Official Representative and Ambassador for the Filipino-American community in San Diego.

Flynn, Michael F.

Mr. Flynn directs the following programs: Child Advocacy; Deposition Skills: Florida

Michael Flynn is a professor of law at the Nova Southeastern University Law School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Professor Flynn hails from the State of Washington, where he received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, and his law degree, cum laude.

Contact Information:
flynnm@nsu.law.nova.edu

Dominic Gianna

Dominic J. Gianna, founding partner of Middleberg, Riddle & Gianna with offices in New Orleans, Dallas and Austin, is recognized as one of America’’s master advocates. He is a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers, has experience from both sides of the bench, and has been successful as a trial lawyer from both sides of the courtroom. He has tried cases throughout the United States in a wide variety of areas, including products liability, toxic tort and mass tort class actions, employment law and commercial matters for both corporate and insurance defendants and plaintiffs. He brings incredible creativity, energy and enthusiasm into the courtroom. On the other side of the bench, Mr. Gianna has been appointed as Special Master in complex mass tort class actions, has experience as a District Judge pro tem by appointment of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and has served as arbitrator and mediator in complex disputes.

Mr. Gianna is also recognized as one of America’s outstanding teachers of advocacy, persuasion and trial techniques. He is Program Director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Gulf Coast Regional Trial Advocacy Training Program and NITA’s Gulf Coast Deposition Program. He was the recipient of the 1998 Hon. Robert Keeton Award from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for his contributions to the teaching of advocacy. He has served as faculty member and Team Leader for NITA’s National Session since 1985 and has been Team Leader and faculty member at many NITA Regional Programs throughout the USA. Dominic has lectured throughout the world in the fields of advocacy, persuasion and trial techniques, and thousands have enjoyed his insightful and entertaining lectures. He is consistently rated as one of the most entertaining and energetic lecturers in American law. He has also demonstrated trial techniques to numerous bar and professional groups throughout North America and captivates audiences with his creative expertise and unmatched energy. Mr. Gianna serves as Director of Trial Advocacy at the Louisiana State University School of Law, has been a member of the Trial Techniques Faculty of Tulane and Emory Universities, and was selected Program Chair of the 1994 ABA Section of Litigation Meeting. He is the author of Opening Statements 2d :Winning the Beginning published by West\Thomson Publishing Co. and has written many articles on the arts of advocacy and persuasion

Dominic Gianna received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Organic Chemistry from Manhattan College and his law degree from Loyola University School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.

Green, Donald

Donald H. Green is a litigation of counsel resident in the Washington, D.C. office of Pepper Hamilton LLP. His practice covers a wide spectrum of substantive areas, including antitrust, financial, corporate, contract, constitutional, environmental, intellectual property, construction, and tort law. He has been lead counsel in major antitrust cases in the entertainment, telecommunications, and advertising fields. Major cases in other areas include Indian law, highway construction, civil liberties, employment, product liability, and professional malpractice. He has considerable litigation experience against the federal government, being a former Department of Justice trial attorney, and for many years has been on the faculty of the Department of Justice Legal Education Institute.

In addition, Mr. Green concentrates in mediation and arbitration. He has regularly been appointed as a mediator by the federal and local courts of the District of Columbia. He is experienced in arbitrating cases as counsel for a party and as an arbitrator. Mr. Green has been an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association since 1968. He has been retained by various federal agencies to resolve disputes through ADR procedures. Mr. Green also conducts training and teaches courses in mediation and arbitration techniques.

Mr. Green has written and lectured widely on civil litigation and discovery techniques, with articles appearing in the ABA Journal, the D.C. Bar Journal, the ABA TIPS Journal, and the Federal Bar Journal. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching courses on trial practice and civil discovery.

Active in firm management, Mr. Green was managing partner of the Washington, D.C. office from 1993-1999, and was a member of Pepper’s executive committee from 1993-2000, including serving as vice chairman from 1997-1998. Before joining Pepper, Mr. Green was a partner for more than 20 years in another law firm in Washington, D.C., including several years as managing partner. Before entering private practice, Mr. Green was a trial attorney for the U.S. Justice Department. He joined the Justice Department after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps as a trial attorney and defense counsel.

Mr. Green retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a colonel in 1985 after more than 30 years of service. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work in international public law, particularly the law of war, and also earned the Meritorious Unit Citation. In 1999, Mr. Green was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, where he serves on the executive committee and chairs the equality management committee. He also is a member of the Defense Joint Services Committee on Professional Ethics, the Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association and several other Marine and military organizations.

Contact Information:
greendh@pepperlaw.com

Susan M. Halpern

B.S., summa cum laude, University of Maryland
J.D., cum laude, Albany Law School of Union University

During Susan Halpern’s more than 25 years of practice, she has successfully litigated a broad range of commercial matters involving banking and lender liability issues, bankruptcy issues, all manner of complex contracts, trade secrets, Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act issues, partnership and corporate dissolutions, veil piercing theories, real estate and title issues, business aviation issues, including leases, liens, freight forwarding and engine maintenance, landlord tenant issues, alarm monitoring, embezzlement, fraud and the Uniform Commercial Code.  Ms. Halpern has also handled and tried countless injunction matters involving commercial disputes. In addition, Ms. Halpern has assisted in family law matters involving significant assets, focusing on business and stock option valuation issues, but also extending to more traditional issues such as property division and custody.  Ms. Halpern is admitted to practice before all Federal Courts in Texas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  Ms. Halpern is a member of State Bar of Texas, American Bar Association, Dallas Bar Association and the Denton County Bar Association.  She has been an Adjunct Instructor of Trial Advocacy at SMU Dedman School of Law since 2000, and a faculty member of National Institute for Trial Advocacy since 2001.

Prof. Zelda B. Harris
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
25 E. Pearson Street
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 915-7783
zharris@luc.edu

Prof. Harris joined the faculty of Loyola University Chicago School of Law in August 2012 as Director of the Dan K. Webb Center for Advocacy. Prof. Harris provides leadership in all aspects of the school’s advocacy programs, including curriculum development, program growth, and alumni relations. In addition to her administrative duties, Prof. Harris teaches courses in trial advocacy and evidence. Prof. Harris taught civil procedure and evidence at Loyola as a Visiting Professor in 2006-2007.

Prior to joining Loyola, from 1998 to 2012, Prof. Harris was a member of the law faculty at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona as Director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic and Co-Director of the Child and Family Law Clinic. She also taught separate courses on legal ethics for family lawyers and a seminar on domestic violence law. Further, Ms. Harris has held several positions for national, state and local organizations dedicated to addressing issues relating to family violence.

Prof. Harris’ past experience includes her position as a Visiting Professor at Villanova University School of Law (2006), a senior instructor for the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law (1992-1998) and as a staff attorney for Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc. in Alton, Illinois (1991-1992).

Prof. Harris serves as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). Since 1996 she has provided advocacy training and leadership to young attorneys nationally and internationally.

Prof. Harris is a 1991graduate of Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri. She received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. She is married to Jonathan Peck and they are the proud parents of two children, Jonathan and Wesley.

Peter Hoffman

Professor Peter Hoffman, a 1971 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, is a Professor of Law and Director of Skills Programs at the Elon University Law School in Greensboro, North Carolina.  Before joining the Elon faculty, Hoffman taught at the University of Houston Law Center (where he held the Newell H. Blakely Chair in Evidence and was also the Director of the Blakely Advocacy Institute) and the University of Nebraska College of Law (where he was the Earl Dunlap Distinguished Professor of Law).  Hoffman has also taught as a visitor at the University of Michigan, University of Hawaii, University of San Diego, Washington University – St. Louis and City University of Hong Kong.  Professor Hoffman is a frequent teacher for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has now taught in more than 400 litigation-related CLE programs in 33 states and territories and 16 foreign countries.  He also served as an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Palau.  He is the author of the Effective Deposition:  Techniques and Strategies That Work (with Malone), and is an Academic Member of the International Society of Barristers.

Howard, Maureen

B.A. 1982, Gonzaga University
J.D. 1986, University of Washington

Professor Howard was named Director of the Trial Advocacy Program as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2005. She joined the law school as an adjunct professor in 1997 and became Interim Director of the Trial Advocacy Program in 2002. Her research and teaching interests include trial advocacy, civil procedure, evidence, and criminal law. Professor Howard began her career as a civil litigator in Seattle with the law firm of Stoel Rives LLP, where she concentrated her practice in commercial and employment law. After twelve years, she moved to the King County Prosecutor's Office where she tried criminal felony cases. She later became a Judge Pro Tempore for King County, presiding over both civil and criminal trials, until joining the faculty full-time. Professor Howard has taught trial advocacy for over fifteen years: in addition to teaching at the UW School of Law, she has taught trial skills at Emory University and Loyola University law schools. She has also taught at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) programs at Stanford University, University of San Francisco, William Mitchell College of Law, Seattle University, and in San Diego, as well as at the NITA national program at University of Colorado. Professor Howard serves on the Washington Pattern Jury Instruction Committee, the Judicial College Board of Trustees, and the Executive Committee for the William L. Dwyer Inn of Court. She also coaches several Washington state high school mock trial teams for state and national competitions. In addition to her formal teaching, Professor Howard writes and speaks nationally on the art of trial advocacy and has appeared on several television programs as a legal commentator. Professor Howard is admitted to practice in Washington and California.

Contact Information:
mahoward@u.washington.edu

William J. Hunt

NITA Trustee: 2013-present
William J. Hunt, Chairman of the Litigation Department of Clark, Hunt, Ahern & Embry, has been a civil trial lawyer for all of his professional life.
For over 40 years, he has tried and settled impact lawsuits, protecting the rights of individuals, companies and organizations. Early in his career, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, he drafted the first statute for The Federated States of Micronesia, which established that new nation’s territorial waters. Later in his career, as a Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, he won the first reported case to help determine under what circumstances the state may be sued. After helping found Clark, Hunt, Ahern & Embry, he won important federal cases establishing the rights of disabled students in a university setting and protecting the rights of individual landowners in the context of cell tower construction.
In recent years, Mr. Hunt has helped injured clients recover millions of dollars for their injuries. He has tried cases throughout the northeast. In recognition of his accomplishments, he has been elected to two of the most prestigious legal honorary societies, the International Society of Barristers and the American Board of Trial Advocates. He holds an “AV” rating (highest rating) from Martindale Hubbell and has been selected as a New England Super Lawyer, as published annually by Boston Magazine. He has been honored by various groups for his work on behalf of disabled individuals.
His commitment to legal education is internationally known. Mr. Hunt is an adjunct faculty member for the trial advocacy programs at Emory University and the University of San Francisco. He is on the USF Intensive Advocacy Program Advisory Committee and has been honored by the USF advocacy program with the Excellence in Teaching Award. He is a program director, team leader and instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) in many cities throughout the United States and many nations abroad, including the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Republic of Palau. Under the auspices of NITA and the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA-CEELI) he designed the first ever trial advocacy programs for the former Soviet republics served by ABA-CEELI and ran the first trial advocacy and advocacy teacher training programs in Chisinau, Moldova and Istanbul, Turkey, respectively. He inaugurated the first trial advocacy training program for prosecutors in Bosnia and was invited twice by the Japan Federated Bar Association to assist in the training of Japanese attorneys involved in the new Saiban-In jury trial system. In recognition of these efforts he has been honored by NITA with the Robert E. Keeton Faculty Award for professionalism and ethics.

Professional Organizations: He is a member of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bar Associations and a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU). Active in his community, he is Chair of the Town of Topsfield Board of Health.

Education:  He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Dickinson College and a Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk University Law School.

Marsha Hunter

Marsha Hunter 
Legal communication consultant Marsha Hunter teaches persuasion for trial lawyers and public speaking for corporate attorneys. She works exclusively with lawyers. Her specialty is human factors—the science of human performance in high-stakes environments. Hunter’s expertise in cognition and communication focuses on how people think, speak, feel, and act in dynamic situations. Her teaching is both technical and practical, drawing on techniques from sports psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science.

 Three times each year, Hunter is the program director for The Articulate Advocate: Becoming More Fluent on Your Feet, a two-day intensive courtroom communication skills program, at NITA’s National Education Center in Boulder, Colorado. In the summer of 2011, as they have for 23 years, she and Brian K. Johnson kicked off NITA's National Trial Skills 40th Anniversary Session with a communication lecture. Ms. Hunter is the communication specialist for NITA's collaborative programs with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Violence Against Women, and at three regional trial skills programs annually for NITA. She teaches for the Department of Justice at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. Last year she served on preparation teams for lawyers appearing in multiple cases before the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. She has taught advocacy programs for the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Law Society of Northern Ireland, and in 2012 teaches for the Tasmanian Law Society.

 Hunter is the co-author with Brian K. Johnson of The Articulate Advocate: New Techniques of Persuasion for Trial Lawyers, published in 2009. It won a Best Business Book Glyph Award from the Arizona Book Publishers Association, and won a 2010 silver award at the Benjamin Franklin Awards at Book Expo America in New York City. Their second book is The Articulate Attorney: Public Speaking for Corporate Lawyers. Both are available for e-readers and in Spanish.
 Marsha Hunter has a Master’s of Aeronautical Science degree with a specialty in Human Factors from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, and holds a commercial pilot’s license. Her undergraduate degree in Music Performance is from Arizona State University. She attended The Curtis Institute of Music, an all-scholarship international school of music in Philadelphia. She lives in Phoenix.

Tom Innes

Tom Innes is a senior trial attorney with the Defender Association of Philadelphia.  He has tried cases for the Defender Association for the past thirty years, and was a member of the Defender Association Homicide/Capital Case Unit for five years.  He has been a member of the faculty of NITA for over twenty years and has guest lectured in the area of criminal trial practice and litigation at a number of law schools including University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University, Temple University He is adjunct faculty for the Temple University Law School Masters in Trial Advocacy Program.  Mr. Innes has taught at and co-administered a number of trial advocacy programs over the past ten years in New York State, Texas, California, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Louisiana,  Virginia and Washington, D.C. as well as a number of statewide trial advocacy programs in Pennsylvania. 

WILLIAM W. JACK, JR.
Attorney at Law
Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge
Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Ann Arbor

William W. Jack is a graduate of Denison University and the National Law Center, George Washington University.  He started at Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, P.C. in 1975 specializing in general litigation, health law and the defense of professional liability actions.  He served as the Chief Executive Officer of the firm from 1991 to 1997, was President of the firm from 1997 to 2009 and is currently Chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee.

Bill is on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has trained lawyers in advocacy skills for NITA Regional and National Programs, individual law firms in several states and  litigation counsel for a number of national insurance carriers.  In addition, he serves on the faculty and steering committee of the Western District of Michigan Hillman Advocacy Program and is the recipient of the first annual 2011 Hillman Award.

He is certified as a facilitative mediator by the United State District Court for the Western District of Michigan and a number of state Circuit Courts and has mediated several hundred matters.

Bill is past-president of the Western Michigan Chapter of the Federal Bar Association; former president of the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel; past-President of the Grand Rapids Chapter of the American Inns of Court; and past President of the Grand Rapids Bar Association.  He currently serves on the State Bar of Michigan Judicial Qualifications Committee. 

Bill is the recipient of the 1998 Service and Mentoring Award presented by the Young Lawyers Section of the Grand Rapids Bar Association; the 1999 Boss of the Year Award presented by the Grand Rapids Association of Legal Support Professionals; the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel 2002 Excellence in Defense Award; and, most recently, the 2009 Michigan Association of Justice Respected Advocate Award. 

He is a Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.  Bill is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Litigation.

Kelly, Michael A.

NITA Trustee: 2002-present

Education: St. Mary’s College of California, B.A. 1973, Honors, Summa Cum Laude; University of California Hastings College of Law, J.D. 1976

Present position: Partner/Vice President, Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger
For the last 30 years he has specialized in the resolution of complex plaintiff’s personal injury claims, including claims for wrongful death, and those arising from product liability, government negligence, obstetrical mismanagement, drug and device failure and vehicle collisions. 

Previous positions: Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of Law

Organizations/Honors/Awards: Selected as one of Northern California’s Top Ten Super Lawyers in 2007, Michael A. Kelly is one of Northern California’s top trial lawyers. In June 2007, he obtained the largest medical negligence verdict ($9,374,540) in the history of Sonoma County. In March 2007 he obtained the largest jury verdict for medical negligence in the history of El Dorado County. In the spring of 2006, he obtained a jury verdict which was the largest ever reported for the wrongful death of a non-dependent adult child in San Francisco Superior Court. Mr. Kelly is a two time “Trial Lawyer of the Year” nominee of the San Francisco Trial Lawyer’s Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the International Society of Barristers, for whom he sits on their Board of Governors. 

In 2001 he was selected by the California Judicial Council to be a member of the task force empanelled to rewrite California’s civil jury instructions. At the present time he continues on the Jury Instruction Advisory Committee for CACI. He has annually been selected for inclusion among “The Best Lawyers in America,” for ten consecutive years and serves as Secretary of the American Board of Trial Advocates San Francisco chapter.

He holds an “AV” rating (highest rating) from Martindale-Hubbell and has been favorably profiled in legal periodicals. He is heavily involved in continuing legal education and teaches for NITA, the California Continuing Education of the Bar, ABOTA and The Rutter Group. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and serves as Program Director of the organization’s West Coast, Harvard, and Colorado Teacher Training Programs.

Joseph E. Kennedy

B.A. with honors, Stanford University
J.D., University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

Before beginning teaching Professor Kennedy enjoyed a practice career that included both extensive complex civil litigation as well as numerous criminal jury trials.  After spending a year as a homeless advocate at St. Joseph Center in Venice, California, Kennedy worked for three years as a litigation associate at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, California. His practice experience during that time involved taking and defending numerous depositions in a major class action lawsuit as well as second chairing two liability hearings before federal special masters.  He left the firm in 1991 to work as a deputy public defender for the city and county of San Francisco, where he practiced indigent criminal defense until 1994.   During that time Kennedy tried twenty jury trials in addition to handling hundreds of trial court hearings.  From 1994 to 1997, Kennedy served as an Instructor in New York University School of Law’s acclaimed Lawyering Program where he taught Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, Fact Investigation and Trial Advocacy. He joined the UNC-Chapel Hill law faculty in 1997.  Kennedy spent his first six years at UNC teaching in the school’s criminal clinic where he supervised students handling juvenile matters at the trial and appellate level.  Since then he has taught Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Computer Crime Law and Criminal Justice Policy.  He served as Associate Dean in 2005-06, provides frequent media commentary on criminal matters of local and national interest, and is a Fellow at UNC’s Parr Center for Ethics. 

Kessler, Lawrence W.

Mr. Kessler directs the following programs: Building Trial Skills: Northeast

Lawrence Kessler is the Richard J. Cardali Distinguished Professor of Trial Advocacy at Hofstra University School of Law. Professor Kessler is a national expert in the field of trial advocacy training.

Contact Information:
lawlwk@hofstra.edu

Elizabeth Espinosa Krupa
Elizabeth Espinosa Krupa has been an attorney for nearly 20 years, currently in private practice.  She graduated from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law in 1994, served a judicial clerkship and then worked for the Colorado State Public Defender Office providing criminal defense for indigent clients.  Ms. Krupa also worked for the Federal Defender for the District of Colorado.  Ms. Krupa then worked as a Trial Attorney for the Denver Regional Office of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission conducting trials and administrative proceedings throughout the United States.  Ms. Krupa also served as Assistant Regulation Counsel for the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel and Faculty Member for National Institute for Trial Advocacy.  She has been teaching NITA since 2009 in regional, public service and custom programs including the Program Director for the NITA/National Organization of Bar Counsel Advanced Trial Advocates Training.

Ms. Krupa has argued before courts in the state, appellate and federal levels.  She has been active in many bar associations including the Hispanic National Bar and Colorado Hispanic Bar Association, for which she is President Elect.  She has been appointed to and served on the Editorial Board of the ABA/BNA Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct, the Colorado State Supreme Court Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee and the Western Regional Advisory Board for the United States Commission on Civil Rights.  She is a frequent lecturer at CLE programs, was an adjunct professor teaching trial advocacy and coached the American Association for Justice mock trial team for the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. 

Lasry, Lynne R.

Ms. Lasry directs the following programs: Deposition Skills: Pacific; Deposing the Expert Witness; Building Trial Skills: Pacific

Lynne Lasry is a 1979 USD law school graduate, having previously attended U.C. Davis and the University of Barcelona for a degree in comparative literature. She has been a trial lawyer and litigator for over 27 years, trying many complex criminal and civil federal and state cases.

From 1980-1982, Lynne focused on the representation of architects and engineers sued for malpractice. From 1982-1987, she was a prosecutor with the United States Attorney's Office in San Diego, trying traditional federal crimes as well as civil rights violations, murder for hire, arms and technology smuggling and participation in foreign counter-intelligence investigations. Since 1987, she has been in private practice, first as a partner with Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP and, since 2000, as a partner with Sandler, Lasry, Laube, Byer & Valdez LLP.

Her firm is a boutique litigation firm specializing only in civil litigation, trial work and appeals. For the last 20 plus years, Lynne has been a recipient of numerous local and national awards and recognition for her professional work, and for teaching trial and pre-trial skills to law students and lawyers. She is a regular volunteer in various community service opportunities, and serves on a number of non-profit boards as a director. She was twice nominated by President Clinton to the Senate for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench but never afforded a confirmation hearing before President Clinton left office.

In 2005, 2006 and 2007 Lynne was voted by her professional colleagues as one of the top 10 lawyers in the County of San Diego in the areas of employment law (2005) and commercial litigation (2006, 2007). In 2007 she was also selected as one of the top 50 Super Lawyers, one of the top 25 female Super Lawyers, and one of the top commercial litigation Super Lawyers in San Diego.
 

Leach, Jay

Mr. Leach directs the following Programs: PowerPoint and Technology for the Courtroom; Building Trial Skills: Western; Deposition Skills: Western; Deposing the Expert Witness

Jay Leach, an accomplished trial attorney, didn't have to give up the courtroom for the classroom when he joined the McGeorge faculty three years ago. His classroom for his Trial Advocacy courses is McGeorge's on-campus courtroom.
"I get to be in the courtroom every day now and I really enjoy it. I like to teach. I was a high school and grade school teacher (he has a Masters in Teaching) before I went to law school. At my law firm in Philadelphia, I was often the partner chosen to instruct the young associates," Leach said.

Leach practiced law for 18 years with Drinker, Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia. He has litigated general corporate and commercial disputes, franchising, construction, and automotive products liability. He also chaired the firm's alternative dispute resolution resources group.

Leach was an adjunct professor at the Temple University School of Law and has taught trial-skills courses for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Leach's interests include golf and singing. He grew up in Greenwich Village, appeared in amateur theatre, and even had a role in an off-Broadway production.
 

Leighton, Richard

Mr. Leighton is Chair of Washington DC’s Keller and Heckman's Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution practice group. He is a trial and appellate lawyer as well as a commercial arbitrator and mediator. He has a national practice representing business and trade association clients before federal and state courts, regulatory and self-regulatory bodies, legislative committees, and alternative dispute resolution forums. Mr. Leighton is most frequently involved in food, drug, medical device, environmental, and contract issues, especially those related to advertising, labeling, promotion, trademarks, trade secrets and other proprietary information, and franchising. He has been named by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the "50 Best Lawyers" in Washington and is listed in Who's Who and Who's Who in American Law.

Among other activities, Mr. Leighton is a program leader at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and an active neutral on the Commercial and Large Complex Case Panels of the American Arbitration Association, the Advertising and Trademark Panel of the Center for Public Resources/INTA, and the National Association of Security Dealers and New York Stock Exchange Panels of Arbitrators. He also is a former President of the Federal American Inn of Court, former Chair of the ADR Committee of the International Trademark Association, and former Chair of the Adjudication Committee of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

Among his many publications are "Making Puffery Determinations in Lanham Act False Advertising Cases: Surveys, Dictionaries, Judicial Edicts and Materiality Tests," 95 TMR 615 (2005); "Materiality and Puffing in Lanham Act False Advertising Cases: The Proofs, Presumptions, and Pretexts," 94 TMR 743 (2004); "Using Daubert-Kumho Gatekeeping to Admit Surveys in Lanham Act Advertising and Trademark Cases," 92 TMR 743 (2002), "Using (and Not Using) the Hearsay Rules to Admit and Exclude Surveys in Lanham Act False Advertising and Trademark Cases," 92 TMR 1305 (2002). He also is the co-author of U.S. Direct Marketing Law (Libey 1993).

Contact Information:
leighton@khlaw.com
 

Levy, Marcia R.

Ms. Levy directs the following programs: Building Trial Skills: New York; Deposition Skills: New Jersey; National Disability Rights Network; Equal Justice Works Trial Skills Training; Deposition Skills: New York

Marcia Levy is the Special Counsel-Pro Bono Initiative in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell.

Formerly, Levy was the Clinical Professor of Law and the Assistant Dean for Skills at Hofstra University School of Law, having overall responsibility for developing and teaching skills courses and supervising the externship program.  Prior to teaching at Hofstra, Levy was the Director of the University of Denver Clinical Program and before that she was a Clinical Law Professor at Rutgers – Newark.  At Rutgers, she was the first Director of the Eric Neisser Public Interest Program and created and taught in the intensive skills program.  She is a former assistant federal defender in the Eastern District of New York, former staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project, and former assistant public defender at the Metropolitan Public Defender's Office in Portland, Oregon.  She has done extensive work in international arenas to help to develop clinical legal education and trial skills.  Levy served as the clinical law specialist in the Moscow, Russia office of the American Bar Association Central and East Europe Law Initiative (ABA CEELI), and was the Associate

Director of Columbia Law School's Public Interest Law Initiative in Transitional Societies. 

She has traveled extensively to work with law faculties and lawyers to develop clinical legal education or trial skills, in places as diverse as China, Mongolia and the Balkans.  Levy is the author of a chapter on the development of clinical legal education in the United States in the Clinical Law Textbook (in Russian), published by ABA CEELI; and contributed to a chapter on clinical legal education in PILI's Handbook on Public Interest Law. Levy frequently comments on legal issues on CNN, CNBC, and Court TV. Levy earned a B.S. from SUNY at Albany and a J.D. from Lewis and Clark College, Northwestern School of Law.  Levy is a teacher, program director and Public Service Education Director for NITA.

Contact Information:
levym@sullcrom.com

Theo Liebmann

B.A., Yale University
J.D., Georgetown University

Professor Theo Liebmann has directed the interdisciplinary Hofstra Child Advocacy Clinic since its inception. In his capacity as Attorney-in-Charge, he supervises law students and mental health trainees working together to advocate on behalf of children involved in the child welfare system. Professor Liebmann and his students have represented hundreds of children in cases involving physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect, as well as related delinquency, custody and special immigrant juvenile matters. Prior to his current position at Hofstra, Professor Liebmann was a lawyer for children in maltreatment and juvenile delinquency cases at the Manhattan office of the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division. Professor Liebmann serves as Co-Director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Training the Lawyer to Represent the Whole Child program, frequently leads workshops on topics such as the role of the law guardian and immigrant youth issues, and co-authors regular columns in the New York Law Journal on children and the law. Professor Liebmann’s has written in the areas of the overlap between child welfare and immigration law, the impact of family law legal standards on the physical and emotional well-being of youth and children, and ethical problems in the representation of children.

Karen M. Lockwood
Founder and CEO
The Lockwood Group, LLC

“ACHIEVING SUSTAINED DIVERSITY IN BUSINESS”

The Lockwood Group serves the profession’s needs where your concerns about business, diversity, and leadership intersect.

We focus on cracking the code of business systems and structures to better cultivate, incorporate, and advance the talents of all professionals.  This business-practices approach cuts across the core values of diversity, creativity, client value, client responsiveness, and billing practices to help firms retain and advance all professionals -- those impacted by their diversity, and those not -- effectively and evenly. 

A former law partner with 31 years of practice and involvement in firm management, Karen M. Lockwood founded The Lockwood Group in May 2009 to advance diversity in the profession. Using her 24 years of experience as a law partner, she helps firms with strategy, design, and communication initiatives to leverage and retain diverse talent. She teaches, creates workshops, writes, conducts research, and facilitates strategic diversity plans. She also works on retainer for firms that outsource their diversity needs, and takes special projects.

Always a trial lawyer, Ms Lockwood continues to teach trial and litigation skills, both leading and teaching NITA’s gold-standard programs.  In addition, she also maintains a caseload as a commercial arbitrator. 

Ms Lockwood brings the insights and creativity rooted in serving corporate and business clients, first-chairing numerous jury and bench trials, and arguing appeals. Her specialty areas have included construction litigation, large disaster cases, multi-party commercial disputes involving all types of contracts, antitrust, trademark and copyright, and ADR. She also counseled on commercial transactions including leases, contracting, joint ventures, and other deals. Ms Lockwood has represented clients pro bono in trials and federal appeals throughout her career. Handling these matters required use of not only strategy, courtroom examination, and argument, but also team leadership in complex litigation, analysis regarding technical, financial, and specialized legal topics, and collaboration with general counsel and other firms.  She is AV-rated.

Ms Lockwood is an experienced law practitioner who understands partnership structure and business, lawyer needs and development, and the larger practice’s revolutionary evolution. She has significant expertise in diversity issues.  In The Lockwood Group, she uses those foundations to help firms strategize and solve their concerns where business, diversity, and leadership intersect.

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PERSONAL PROFILE: KAREN M. LOCKWOOD, ESQ.

Law Practice (retired)
Howrey LLP, Washington DC, Trial Partner (2000–2009)
Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott, LLP, Washington DC, Trial Partner (1990–2000)
Wickens, Koches & Cale, Washington DC, Founding Partner (as Karen McClearyCale) (1986–1990)
Surrey & Morse, Washington DC, Senior Associate through the firm’s final year (1984–1986)
Hogan & Hartson, Washington DC, Associate (1978–1984)

Teaching
Program Director, NITA’s District of Columbia Program of Intensive Trial Skills (2004--present)
Program Director, NITA’s pro bono trial skills program for Equal Justice Works (2009)
Faculty in numerous NITA programs, including NITA Intensive Trial Skills Program, NITA Deposition
      Programs (public and private), and NITA private programs (1997-present)
Washington College of Law, American University, Lecturer, Legal Methods (1980-81, 1982-83)
Consultant, Project on Attorney Retention (PAR) (2009–present)

Arbitration
Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel (2004-present)

Bar Activities
Delegate, ABA House of Delegates, incumbent representing DC Bar (2008-2011)
President, Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia, where she created the ground-breaking 
    Initiative on Advancement and Retention of Women in the Profession (2005-06)
Liaison, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession (2009–present)
Board, National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations (2008--present)
Editorial Board, ABA Commission on Women’s Perspectives Magazine (2009–present)
Membership Chair, Woman Advocate Committee, Section of Litigation (2004-05)
Moderator, General Counsel Forum at Corporate Counsel Committee Annual, Section of Litigation (2003)
Board, Litigation Section Chair, Annual Dinner Chair, Women’s Bar Association of DC (2001–2006)
Board, Development Committee Chair, Women’s Bar Association Foundation (2006–present)

Awards and Honors
The Annice Wagner Pioneer Award, Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2009)
The Women’s Bar Association Stars of the Bar Recognition (2007)
The Women in the Law Leadership Award, American University Washington College of Law (2006)
The Woman To Watch Award, American University Washington College of Law (2004)
Outstanding Graduate Award (American University Washington College of Law, JD 1978)
Galpin Prize (outstanding graduate) (The College of Wooster, BA 1972)

Speaking
Frequent speaker and lecturer to audiences of attorneys, state-wide bar associations, and students on subjects relating to the improvement of the legal profession, and the skills of navigating careers as lawyers.  Frequent moderator of dialogues at conferences, workshops, and bar groups to enable difficult conversations and find solutions to issues in law practice.

Community Service
Washington College of Law, American University (Annual Giving Chair, Dean’s Advisory Council) (ongoing)
St. Jude’s Research Hospital for Children, Committee For DC Gourmet Gala Fundraiser (2007-08)
The College of Wooster Alumni Board (1990–93)

Lisa A. Marcy

Lisa A Marcy has made her mark nationally as a trial lawyer and as one of America’s most dynamic and inspired teachers of advocacy, persuasion and communication skills.  Lisa has spent her professional life prosecuting and defending cases for an enormous range of clients ranging from disabled individuals to large corporations.  She has toured the USA as a principal faculty member of The Professional Education Group, is a Program Director and national faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), and serves as co-director and Faculty Leader of the Louisiana State University School of Law trial training program.  She has led numerous seminars and has developed unique teaching methods to help inspire women professionals to achieve success.  She has been honored as one of Utah’s 30 Women to Watch and was nominated as Utahan of the Year.  Lisa is the founder and senior partner of the Marcy Law Firm in Salt Lake City, Utah and tries cases from both sides of the courtroom.  She serves as a regular contributor to radio and television media, as a legal commentator and has been a small claims judge.  She is the co-author of Thomson West’s Opening Statements and has authored many articles on the art of trial persuasion.

McCrystal, James

Mr. McCrystal directs the following programs: e-Discovery; Deposition Skills: Great Lakes

James L. McCrystal, Jr. has been a NITA faculty member for more than 10 years and has served as Program Director for the Great Lakes Deposition Skills Program and as Program Director of the Cleveland Bar Association's five day NITA Trial Advocacy Program. In addition he has served on the faculty for NITA's Deposing the Financial Expert Program.

He is a past President of the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Product Liability Advisory Council, a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, and Defense Research Institute. He is a partner at Brzytwa Quick & McCrystal, LLC in Cleveland.

Contact Information:
mccrystal@bqmlaw.com
 

Moss, Frederick C.

Mr. Moss directs the following program: Deposition Skills: Southern

Frederick C. Moss is an associate professor of law at the Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he has taught since 1978. Born in Washington, D.C., Professor Moss received his J.D. from Villanova University in 1968. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Army from 1969-71, and a federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1975, he attended Harvard Law School as a graduate teaching fellow, receiving his LL.M. in 1977. The following year, he taught at Harvard as a Lecturer in Law and ran Professor Robert Keeton's mini-NITA course for the Harvard law students.

In 1978, Professor Moss came to SMU, where he teaches Evidence, Ethics, Trial Practice, and Criminal Law. Professor Moss was the Director of NITA's Southern Regional Basic Trial Skills Program for nine years. Currently, he is the director of the Southern Deposition Training Program since 1991. His publications include "Beyond the Fringe: Apocryphal Rules of Evidence in Texas," 43 Baylor L. Rev. 701 (1991), "Opening the Door to Extrinsic Offenses Through Misleading Blanket Statements," 18 Voice for the Defense 14 (1989) (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association), "The Sweeping-Claims Exception and the Federal Rules of Evidence", 1982 Duke L. J. 61, Texas Civil Trial Guide (Dorsaneo & Johnson eds. 1989) (Chapters on Hearsay, Relevance, Competence, and Objections), and Teacher's Manual for Seckinger and Broun, Problems and Cases in Trial Advocacy (NITA 1981) (co-author).

Contact Information:
fmoss@mail.smu.edu
 

Natali, Jr., Louis M.

Mr. Natali directs the following program: Deposition Skills: Mid-Atlantic

Professor Natali graduated from Georgetown Law Center in 1966. He was an Associate Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. He clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, working for Judge Herbert Boreman. Professor Natali was a graduate fellow in Criminal Law and Litigation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in a program directed by Professor Tony Amsterdam.

In 1971 Professor Natali formed the law firm of Segal, Appel and Natali specializing in criminal defense. He became an associate professor at Rutgers-Camden Law School in 1974, leaving that position in 1976 to become First Assistant Defender at the Philadelphia Defender's Association. From 1973 to the present Professor Natali has also been involved in the training of trial lawyers with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

He has published numerous articles on Evidence and Trial Advocacy. In 1992 he published In Re Grooten, a trial file in professional responsibility. Professor Natali co-published with Professor Ohlbaum an article on the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the constitutionality of the federal preventive detention statute. The article appears in 62 Temp. L. Rev. 1225 (1989).

In 1990 he joined the Temple law faculty teaching courses in Death Penalty Litigation, Criminal Law, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Interviewing, Negotiating and Counselling.

The death penalty clinical enjoyed its first victory in March 1991 when Judge Fullam granted a writ of habeas corpus setting aside a death sentence on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel. Two third year students worked extensively with Professor Natali in the preparation and presentation of the petition.

Contact Information:
louis.natali@temple.edu
 

Olu K. Orange

B.A., Howard University
J.D., Howard University School of Law

Mr. Orange handles civil rights and entertainment litigation in private practice in Los Angeles. He has taught numerous deposition, trial and negotiation programs for private law firms and government agencies. Based upon excellent ratings, NITA and Martindale-Hubbell awarded Mr. Orange the “NITA Faculty” designation in 2008. In addition to NITA teaching, Mr. Orange currently teaches at the University of Southern California where he authored the instructional trial advocacy curriculum. Since 2006, Mr. Orange has also taught as invited faculty for Harvard Law School’s winter session clinical trial advocacy course. Mr. Orange’s recent work of note includes the following: In 2009, Mr. Orange argued and won Millender v. County of Los Angeles, a blended 4th and 2nd Amendment case, before an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Later, for SCOTUS on Millender, Mr. Orange served as briefing counsel and was joined by both the NRA and ACLU as amici curiae against 26 states and the U.S. Solicitor General. In 2010, Mr. Orange tried and won the will contest case over the Estate of Sammy Davis, Jr. In 2011, Mr. Orange tried and won the first post-9/11 case wherein a police officer who also served as a member of the U.S. armed forces was found liable for the unlawful shooting death of a Muslim man -- Chaudhry v. City of Los Angeles.

C. William (Bill) Ossmann
Bill Ossmann is presently a District Court Judge for the Kansas Third Judicial District.

Prior to assuming the bench in August 2013, he was the Chief Litigation Attorney for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. He assumed that position in November 1997. His responsibilities included directing and coordinating the legal defense of the state, the agency and its employees in federal and state courts.

Mr. Ossmann was in private practice for a short time following his admission to the bar in 1977 and his early experience included work as a Guardian Ad Litem with the Shawnee County District Court. He was a criminal prosecutor from November 1, 1978 until January 8, 1993 serving as an Assistant District Attorney and later First Assistant District Attorney in Shawnee County. He worked with the Kansas Department of Agriculture as a Special Assistant Attorney General from early 1993 until November 1997.

Mr. Ossmann received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Kansas State University and his law degree from Washburn University School of Law. He received a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Kansas where he was recognized with the K.U. Capital Center Award for outstanding achievement in graduate study. He has also completed classes in fire science from Kansas City Community College and Hutchinson Community College.

Mr. Ossmann has been certified as a Criminal Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (1992-1997). The Kansas County and District Attorney's Association selected him to be Prosecutor of the Year in 1990. He is active as a Master in the Sam A. Crow Inn of the American Inns of Court.

He has been active in the Topeka community, participating in the 1991 Leadership Greater Topeka class and maintaining a life membership in the National Eagle Scout Association.

Mr. Ossmann served as fire chief with Shawnee County Fire District #4 until January 31, 2013 and he continues to serve the department as the Special Assistant to the Chief and an EMT.

He is the Past President of the State Capital Area Firefighters Association and a Past President of the Downtown Topeka Kiwanis Club.

Mr. Ossmann frequently teaches for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy trial skills and deposition skills programs in Chicago and Colorado.  He has served as the NITA Program Director for two Kansas Public Service Programs.  He is an adjunct professor at Washburn University School of Law where he teaches trial skills, depositions and cross examination.  He has been selected as the Adjunct Professor of the Year in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013.

In 2009 the Kansas Bar Association presented Mr. Ossmann with its Distinguished Government Service Award.

Dan Rabinovitz

After spending the first seven years of his legal career as a prosecutor in Chicago, Illinois with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, Dan Rabinovitz returned home to Boston in 1997 to focus his practice on complex civil business litigation, family and probate litigation, the defense of criminal matters, both at the state and federal level and securities litigation.

Mr. Rabinovitz has tried hundreds of cases, and regularly represents individuals and corporations in a wide variety of complex business litigation. This includes intellectual property disputes, trade secrets and trade dress infringement claims; employment discrimination and restrictive covenant disputes, breach of contract claims and commercial litigation.

Mr. Rabinovitz also represents individuals before the United States Department of Justice, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers, FINRA and other state securities regulatory agencies, including those in Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois.

As an instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (“NITA”), Mr. Rabinovitz regularly teaches young lawyers how to conduct all aspects of civil and criminal trials. He was also named a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer" in 2006 and 2007 by Law and Politics and Boston Magazine, and a "New England Super Lawyer" in 2007.

Mr. Rabinovitz also represents musical artists in various contract disputes and the pursuit of unpaid royalties. As a part-time professional trumpet player, who has worked for artists such as Solomon Burke, Son Seals, Luther Johnson and Sleepy LaBeef, he brings a special knowledge of the music industry to the firm.

Mr. Rabinovitz earned his B.A. from Union College in 1987 and his J.D. from Boston University in 1990. After his stint prosecuting violent crimes, Mr. Rabinovitz practiced in Boston with Abrams, Roberts, Klickstein & Levy; Dwyer & Collora, and Menard, Murphy & Walsh before joining Michaels, Ward & Rabinovitz, LLP in 2006.

Stuart M. Reynolds, Jr.

B.A., University of South Carolina, magna cum laude

J.D., University of North Carolina School of Law

Schneider & Miller, P.C.
300 N. Coit Road
Suite 1125
Richardson, Texas 75080
972.479.1112 Direct
972.479.1113 Fax
stuart@schneidlaw.com

I am pleased to announce that, effective January 19, 2009,I have joined my friends Steve Schneider and David Millerin their commercial litigation firm.

I started my law practice with a large law firm in New York City,where I assisted with antitrust, securities and banking litigation until 1983 when I moved to Dallas. I have first-chaired numerous complexjury and non-jury trials and appeals in state and federal courts in Texas and elsewhere and have been elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates.

My litigation experience includes arbitrations and covers a broad spectrum of subject matter areas – securities, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, joint ventures, trade associations, antitrust, employment, covenants not to compete,proprietary business information, trade secrets, real estate, financial institutions, insurance coverage, reinsurance, fraud, negligence and other business torts. I have represented companies and individuals in white collar criminal investigations,advised companies on federal and state laws affecting their businesses and have prepared compliance guidelines for directors, officers and employees.

I know how expensive and time-consuming dispute resolution can be, so I always conduct an initial risk/reward analysis with clients. I also review their situation often in order to avoid or resolve their disputes as simply and quickly as possible. With my more than 35 years of experience as a counselor and trial lawyer, and in consideration of today’s economy, I look forward to providing
my clients with valuable and cost-effective legal services.

J. Michael Roake

Mr. Roake combines the skills of an accomplished practitioner with pertinent teaching experience.  He trains judges and lawyers both domestically and internationally in ethics, advocacy, professional skills, and human rights and works well with diverse audiences. Mr. Roake has recently returned as the Country Director for Syria with the American Bar Association's (“ABA”) Rule of Law Initiative, following a one year assignment training criminal lawyers and judges in Azerbaijan.  He was requested to work with the O.S.C.E. training judges in Azerbaijan, a unique honor for an American. Lately, he has trained practitioners in advocacy and arbitration in the U.K., Japan, and Micronesia.
He approaches advocacy training from a practitioner’s viewpoint. With over a hundred jury trials to verdict since 1977, to include two death penalty cases in 2005, he specializes in employment law, intellectual property, tax controversy, governmental entanglements (white collar fraud), and military law.  He has been a Special Assistant United States Attorney, the Chief Prosecutor as well as Regional Defense Counsel with the Marines, a trial judge, an instructor at the Dept. of Justice Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, and a Level V Chief Capital Attorney with the San Diego County Defenders' Office.  He was with Baker and McKenzie before leaving the world's largest law firm to join his attorney wife in their own practice. Throughout his career, he has always blended practice with training.   
He has balanced his career between criminal and civil practice.  While named as one of the finest criminal defense attorneys in Southern California by the local press, he was also one of four attorneys chosen by the courts to explore governmental misconduct on the part of the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office in the People v. Butler case.  His last years of California practice, before volunteering with the ABA, were spent in white collar fraud and death penalty defense.  He was counsel in the largest fraud case in the 9th Circuit and obtained an acquittal in a high visibility death penalty case in San Diego before heading Overseas.
Mr. Roake teaches extensively in advocacy and trial/arbitration related areas. He has been the Director of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy ("NITA") Pacific Regional Trial and Deposition Programs since 1990 and was honored as the 2011 winner of the Keeton Award for excellence in teaching.  Aside from in-house training at large firms (national and international), Microsoft’s Legal Skills Academy enlists him to help train their outside IP counsel.  In the public sector, he works with the O.S.C.E., Tribal Courts, Bankruptcy Judges, Military Lawyers, DOJ, ACLU, Legal Aid, and with Domestic Violence and Juvenile Law programs.  A native of San Francisco, Mr. Roake received an A.B. from Stanford, a J.D. from McGeorge and his L.L.M. in Employment Law from Georgetown.  He is admitted to practice in California, New Mexico, before several Federal Courts, and the U.S. Tax Court.  He retired from the Marine Corps as one of its only lawyer/combat aviators.

Ben Rubinowitz

NITA Trustee: 2009-present

Education:  Boston University, magna cum laude with distinction, 1978, Phi Beta Kappa; Hofstra Law School; Juris Doctor, 1981 Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Trial Practice

Present position: Partner, Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz

Previous positions: He has served as an instructor for a host of organizations that include: adjunct professor of law, Hofstra Law School, course-Advanced Trial Techniques; adjunct professor of law, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, course-advanced Trial Techniques; Harvard Law School, Trial Advocacy Workshop, 1991-present, faculty member; Hofstra Law School, Trial Techniques Program, 1982-present, faculty, member; Cardozo Law School, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, 1986-present, faculty member; Emory Law School, Trial Advocacy Program, 1984-1988, faculty member; Pace Law School, Trial Techniques; National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1982-present; Team Leader, north east program (NITA), 1982-present; Team Leader National Program, NITA, Boulder, CO, 1991, 1997, 2000; Team Leader, MFY Legal Services, NYC, 2007; Harvard Teacher Training Program, NITA, 2007.

Organizations/Honors/Awards: New York State Bar Association; New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Dean; New York County Lawyers Association; The American Trial Lawyers Association; American Board of Trial Advocates, New York City chapter, past President; The International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Fellow; and International Society of Barristers, Fellow; Chair, Masters of the Art of Trial Advocacy Program, New York State Trial Lawyers Association; Chair, New York State Bar Association program on Construction Site Accidents; Listed in Best Lawyers in America; Listed in New York “Superlawyers” (one of the top 100 lawyers); and appeared as legal expert on Court TV.

Recent Writings/Publications: Co-author of Trial Advocacy column, New York Law Journal; The Cross Examination of the Defense Economist, October 31, 2008; The Art of Jury Selection: Working with Challenges, August 29, 2008; Getting the Big Picture: Using Exhibits Throughout a Trial, July 31, 2008; Prep is Key to Cross-Examining Medical Witness, May 29. 2008; Redirect Examination, November 29, 2007; Proving Damages in a Wrongful Death Case, October 23, 2007; Jury Selection: Time Constraints and Weaknesses in Cases, August 29, 2007; Using Operative Terms From Jury Charge in Cross-Exam, July 26, 2007; Authoritative Texts From Jury Charge in Cross-Exam, July 26, 2007; Authoritative Texts and Cross-Exam of Medical Experts, June 7, 2007; Hypothetical Questions on Cross, December 29, 2006; The Use of Hypothetical Questions as Weapons at Trial, October 31, 2006; Common Mistakes and Simple Remedies, September 21, 2006; Introduction of Exhibits in Civil Cases, July 25, 2006; Continuing to Try Your Case After the Summations, May 4, 2006; “Compendium of Trial Advocacy Drills,” by Robert Stein and Ben Rubinowitz, NITA, 2006;

Recent Lectures: North Shore/LIJ Hospital, Cross Examination of the Forensic Psychiatrist, April 18, 2008; St. John’s Law School, Mastering the Art of Cross Examination, April 11, 2008; Suffolk County Bar Association, Directed Cross Examination Skills, April 8, 2008; Winter Urologic Forum Scientific Program, State of the Art Urology, Lecture: Issues in Medical Malpractice sponsored by the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine; N.Y.S.T.L.I., 2008; Chair, Masters of the Art of Trial Advocacy, January 16, 2007, February 26, 2007, and March 19, 2008; N.Y.S.T.L.A., Trial Practice, 2007; Chair, Construction Site Accidents: The Law and The Trial, New York State Association, 2007 and December 2008; Social Security Disability Law Forum, Cross Examination of Medical Experts, N.Y.C., 2007; Update on Trucking Litigation and Claims, N.Y.S.B.A., 2006; Kings County Bar Association, Jury Selection Seminar, 2006; Bronx County Bar Examination, Lecture, How to Cross Examine an Expert, 2006; A.T.L.A., Thinking Inside the Box: Jury Selection and Opening Statement Seminar, April 21-22, 2006, Austin, TX; Cross Examination, Bronx County Bar Association, April 19, 2006; Masters Class in Jury Selection, Brooklyn Bar Association, April 3, 2006; Chair, Cross Examination Seminar, N.Y.S.T.L.A., 2000-present; Jury Selection Seminars, N.Y.S.T.L.A., 2000-present; National CLE Program, 1999-present; National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Team Leader, teaching attorneys trial advocacy, 1982-present.
Admissions: New York, 1982; U.S. District Court, Eastern & Southern Districts of New York, 1982 

Terre Rushton


Terre Rushton is the Associate Executive Director of Programs for NITA.  She has been teaching NITA since 1982 in regional, international, public service, teacher training and custom programs, and has held various positions including the Program Director of NITA’s National Session.

Ms. Rushton graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law served a judicial clerkship, and then worked for the Colorado Attorney General in its General Legal services section, specializing in election law.  She was a partner in the litigation practice of Kelly/Haglund/Garnsey &Kahn, in Denver Colorado for 20 years.  Ms. Rushton has argued before courts in the state, appellate, federal, and federal bankruptcy levels, the10th circuit and the United States Supreme Court, where she successfully argued Budinich v. Becton Dickinson. She has been active in many Colorado Bar association activities, including those focusing on civil court reform, served as Chair of her Section and on the CBA Executive Committee. She has chaired a statewide Multidisciplinary Committee on Domestic Relations, and authored the pro se forms and procedures used in Colorado district courts. She is a frequent lecturer at CLE programs, and an expert witness in court. 

Joan Saltzman

M.A., University of Pittsburgh
J.D., Rutgers Law School

Joan Saltzman has practiced civil law in her own firm in Philadelphia for over twenty years.  She has a philosophy degree from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Rutgers Law School. 

After law school Joan was a criminal lawyer with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. At the Defender Association she tried criminal cases and mental health commitment proceedings, dealt with many expert witnesses, interviewed myriad clients and negotiated pleas.  After leaving the Defenders, Joan practiced medical malpractice and appellate law in both state and federal courts at the firm of Klovsky, Kuby and Harris for five years, and later in her own firm. She has interviewed a host of civil case clients, taken many depositions, negotiated settlements for her clients, tried cases and argued appeals. The highlight of her appellate practice was a series of briefs she wrote for the United States Supreme Court. She also assisted in the oral argument preparation for that case. 
  
Ms. Saltzman was a Clinical Instructor/Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for two years. At Penn she taught courses in interviewing, counseling and negotiation. She also supervised Penn law students as they interviewed and counseled clients, negotiated for their clients, took depositions and tried cases. After Joan left the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she started her own firm specializing in medical malpractice and appellate law. 

Schepard, Andrew

Mr. Schepard directs the following programs: Modern Divorce; Deposition Skills: New York City

Professor Schepard's special interests are in family law, especially as it affects children, civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution and developing simulation-based programs of clinical education. He is the co-director of the Hofstra University-North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's Center for Children, Families and the Law. In 1995 Professor Schepard was awarded the Chair's Cup of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association for "meritorious service exceeding what is expected of our leadership."

Professor Schepard is a 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School and was articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following graduation he clerked for Judge James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Later, he was special counsel to the City Attorney of Los Angeles and in private practice in civil litigation, with several law firms in Los Angeles and New York. He has served as a special consultant to the State Bar of California to develop legislative proposals to simplify court procedures. Professor Schepard was previously on the faculties of Columbia University and the University of Southern California Law School. He was a principal consultant to the New York Law Revision Commission's Report on the Child Custody Dispute Resolution Process, which recommended a program of mediation for child custody disputes.

Professor Schepard is a founder and project director for Parent Education and Custody Effectiveness (P.E.A.C.E.), an interdisciplinary, court-affiliated education program for parents to help them reduce the difficulties their children experience during divorce and separation. P.E.A.C.E. has produced an award-winning video for parents, and has been recognized by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts for its "ongoing contribution to improving the lives of parents and children." Professor Schepard also helped design PARTNERS, an educational program for high school students about the legal responsibilities of marriage and communication skills, sponsored by the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association, in use in more than 400 schools nationwide. He is the reporter for the Task Force of the American Bar Association Family Law Section, for Standards of Practice for Divorce and Family Mediation, recently adapted by the ABA. He is the editor of the Family Court Review, an interdisciplinary journal focusing on constructive resolution of family conflict, sponsored by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and published at Hofstra Law School. He is the director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy's Northeast Deposition Program for Practicing Lawyers.

Professor Schepard has written many articles about divorce, child custody law, procedure and mediation of child custody disputes, as well as other aspects of judicial administration. He founded the Law and Children column of the New York Law Journal. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Child Psychiatry at New York University Medical School. He was formerly chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the National Governing Board of Common Cause, and a member of the Board of Education of the Mamaroneck School District. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Contact Information:
lawazs@hofstra.edu
 

Richard H. Schoenberger
J.D., Hastings College of the Law

Richard H Schoenberger is one of the most highly respected trial lawyers in California. In 2011, he was selected as the Trial Lawyer of the Year by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. It was his second nomination for this prestigious award. Rich has been included in the national publication The Best Lawyers in America since 2005 and has been a Super Lawyer in Northern California for every year the designation has existed. He was selected to be in the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Northern California for the years 2010 and 2011. He is "AV" peer review rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

He is an invited member of the most prestigious trial lawyer organizations in the country: the American College of Trial Lawyers, a fellowship extended only to a select group of experienced trial lawyers who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards; the International Society of Barristers, an honor society of trial lawyers chosen by their peers on the basis of excellence and integrity in advocacy; and, the American Board of Trial Advocates, where he serves as an officer and chaired the San Francisco Chapter's 2009 Masters In Trial program.

After graduating from Santa Clara University in 1982, Rich attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He began practice in 1985 as a Deputy District Attorney in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, where he prosecuted serious felonies. He joined the Walkup office in August of 1987 and became a partner in 1995. With Walkup, he has tried dozens of cases in more than ten counties throughout the state of California.

Rich has taught trial advocacy on a national and international level since the early 1990's. In California, he teaches Advanced Trial Practice as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). He has also served as a faculty member for the Judicial Council of California's Judicial Studies Program. As a highly rated member of the faculty for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Rich has been invited to teach advocacy at NITA's rigorous National, Midwestern, Northwestern, Western and Pacific Regional programs; as well as for private firms throughout the country. Rich has also served frequently as a team leader at Emory Law School's renowned Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program in Atlanta, Georgia.

In June of 2004, The American Bar Association, in concert with the Department of Justice's Central European Eurasian Law Initiative, invited Rich to the Republic of Georgia where he taught advocacy to 24 selected attorneys whose government had only recently allowed the right to a jury trial. In 2005, he was invited to lead a similar program in Sarajevo.  In 2011, Rich led a trial advocacy program in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

In an article printed in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, an opponent was quoted as follows: "Schoenberger is everything that a good plaintiff's lawyer should be: ethical, professional and smart, and he works hard."

For years, Rich served as CYO Athletic Director at St. Patrick's in Larkspur and as Minor League Rep for the Twin Cities' Little League Board of Directors. Rich also used to be found on some field or court, having coached more than 30 of his three kids' teams over the last decade. Now he just watches silently from the stands in full recognition that each of his kids is finally being coached by someone who knows what he or she is talking about.

Brian Schwalb

J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude, 1992
A.B., Duke University, magna cum laude, 1989

Brian Schwalb has a general civil trial practice, focusing primarily on a broad range of business disputes and commercial litigation, employment and compensation disputes, and tax controversies.  Mr. Schwalb also provides strategic counseling to his clients, working to avoid, respond to and/or resolve, in an efficient and practical way, the wide array of complex, sensitive, and often confidential problems that businesses and their owners regularly confront.

Jeff Senger

Jeff Senger is a partner at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C.  He previously served as acting general counsel and deputy general counsel of the Food and Drug Administration, where he worked on the most complex and sensitive FDA-related litigation and provided legal advice to the FDA Commissioner and senior staff. He previously served as Senior Counsel in the Office of the Associate Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, where he assisted in the oversight of more than 2000 lawyers. In 17 years at the Justice Department, including appointment as a Special Assistant United States Attorney, he served as lead counsel in many civil and criminal trials before juries and judges in federal and state courts, and he argued cases in the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals. He directed civil and appellate training at the Justice Department’s National Training Center. He has served as a federal mediator for the United States District Court and began his career as a law clerk for a United States District Court judge. An award-winning author, he wrote a book entitled Federal Dispute Resolution (Wiley 2003) and numerous law review articles. He has taught trial advocacy, mediation, and negotiation at Harvard Law School, and he is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He is a member of the D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference and has testified as an expert witness before the United States Congress. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Sher, Beth

Ms. Sher practices in the area of litigation. She has represented many long-standing clients of Day Pitney, LLP including Exxon Mobil Corporation, AT&T Corporation, Ford Motor Company and Sony Electronics, Inc. A member of the New Jersey and New York Bars, Ms. Sher has participated in trials, appeals, and hearings in both state and federal court in New Jersey and New York, as well as the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. She has participated in applications address to the United States Supreme Court and state administrative matters. In addition to her litigation experience, Ms. Sher has training and experience in mediation, both as a mediator and representing clients in mediation.

Contact Information:
esher@daypitney.com

Silver, Lawrence

Mr. Silver directs the following programs: Deposition Skills: Southern California; Deposing the Expert Witness; Deposition Skills: California Coast

Lawrence Silver is a civil trial lawyer who has tried civil cases for over 35 years and has taken and defended countless depositions. Mr. Silver has taught deposition techniques and strategies at NITA and at private seminars for over 30 years.

After graduation from the University of Wisconsin where he served as one of the Editors of the Law Review, Silver clerked for Judge David Stahl of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Thereafter, he was an associate with Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn & Levy in Philadelphia. Silver served from 1973 to 1976 as Chief of Civil Litigation for the Pennsylvania Department of Justice.

Mr. Silver, who practices with the firm of Silver & Field, has tried RICO, anti-trust, securities, commodities, employment, libel, intellectual property rights, real estate and civil rights cases, has argued twice before the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Silver is adjunct Professor of law and has taught courses in Statutory Construction and Trial Advocacy at both Southwestern University School of Law and Loyola Law School, and Chapman School of Law.

Mr. Silver co-authored with Willard Hurst, teaching materials for a course in statutory construction, Statutes in Court. He co-authored with Mark E. Field, an article entitled The Route To The Summit: Jurisdiction Under The Sherman Act, 4 DePaul Business L.J. 429 (1992) about the case Silver argued before the Supreme Court, Summit Health Ltd. v. Pinhas. Silver wrote - Anxiety and the First Semester of Law School, 1968 Wis. L. Rev. 1201. Silver has testified before Congress regarding due process rights in medical peer review proceedings and a proposed national data bank regarding physicians.

Contact Information:
lsilver@silver-field.com
 

Snyder, Allen C.

Mr. Snyder directs the following programs: Deposition Skills: Pacific; Deposing the Expert Witness; Building Trial Skills: Pacific

Allen Snyder is a Law Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law where he teaches primarily in the live client clinics and related skills classes such as Interviewing and Counseling, Negotiations, Trial Skills and Mediation. 

He has received awards and recognition for his law school teaching over the years.  Allen has also taught with NITA and directed NITA programs for over 15 years.  In addition he has taught trial and other legal skills to lawyers, judges and law students in numerous international settings including: UK, Italy, Australia, China (PRC), China (HK), Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain. 

Before beginning his academic work, Allen worked both as a commercial litigator and a Legal Services attorney where his client were primarily people with mental disabilities.

Contact Information:
asnyder@sandiego.edu

Mindy Solomon

J.D., Nova Southeastern Law Center

Mindy Solomon graduated law school in 1981. She   was an Asst. State Attorney until Nov of 1993. During those years she took numerous depositions and tried numerous jury trials to verdict.  She spent her last 5 years in that office trying Murder cases involving death penalty litigation. In 1993 she joined the Public Defender's Office. Ms. Solomon defended serious cases including and representing clients facing the death penalty. She was the Chief Assistant in charge of the Major Crimes, County Court and the Juvenile Division. Currently, she is a Broward County Court Judge. Ms. Solomon is an adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University Law Center teaching Trial Advocacy, Intensive Trial Advocacy, Psychology of Jury Selection, and the Criminal Clinic. She has been an instructor, assistant team leader and team leader in the NITA Florida Regional Program for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and also has been an instructor and program director for the NITA Deposition Program. Additionally she has taught in many in-house NITA trial programs, fact investigation programs, motion programs, expert deposition programs, and deposition programs.

Sonsteng, John O.

Mr. Sonsteng directs the following program: Advocacy from Start to Finish

Education
B.A., 1964; J.D., 1967, University of Minnesota

Experience
William Mitchell College of Law: professor of law, 1982-; associate dean, 1989-90; associate professor of law, 1981-82; assistant professor of law, 1979-81.

City Solicitors Education Trust Visiting Professor in Litigation Advocacy, Nottingham Law School, England, 1993-96.

Dakota County, Minn.: county attorney, 1973-79; assistant county attorney, 1969-73.

Assistant Hennepin County attorney, Minnesota, 1967-69.

Admitted: Minnesota, 1967.

Leadership & Service
Regional Director, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1989-.

Contact Information:
jsonsteng@wmitchell.edu

Karen Steinhauser

B.A., University of Colorado
J.D., University of Colorado Law School

Karen Steinhauser is a trial lawyer and owner of The Law Office of Karen Steinhauser LLC, focusing primarily in the area of criminal defense and family law. She began her legal career in 1981 as a prosecutor in the Denver District Attorneys’ Office, specializing in Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.  After working in the office for 20 years, as well as having taught as an adjunct professor at DU Law School for many years, she joined the faculty at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law on a full-time basis.  She taught Evidence, Criminal Procedure and Trial Advocacy, as well as ran the internship program and continued to coach the mock trial travelling trial teams to two national championships.  In 2006, Karen left the law school to go back to a full-time practice at the law firm of Pryor Johnson Carney Karr Nixon, P.C.  Her practice focused on a wide variety of civil trial work including employment law, professional liability defense and plaintiff’s personal injury.  She joined Isaacson Rosenbaum P.C. in 2008 to June 2011 when the firm dissolved, and then worked for Gutterman Griffiths PC, practicing family law and criminal defense as well.   Karen continues to serve as an adjunct professor at DU Law School, and is also an instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, where she teaches lawyers both nationally and internationally in the art and skill of persuasion and trial advocacy.  Her work in the community includes serving as a former chair of the Board of Directors of the Anti-Defamation League, serving as a Board Member for the Colorado Judicial Institute, and has served the Denver Bar Association and Colorado Bar Association in a number of different capacities.  She also serves as a media consultant both locally and nationally concerning various high-profile criminal cases.

Sullivan, Edward

Areas of Expertise
Education Law
   –Faculty & Staff Employment
   –Student Life & Discipline
Litigation;
Product Liability

Education
University of Notre Dame
Law School, J.D., 1993;
Villanova University,
B.A., 1983

Bar Admissions: Indiana, 1993

Court Admission: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, 1993;
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, 1993

Ed Sullivan has extensive and varied experience in litigation and in advising Indiana public schools, private businesses and individuals on managing risks and resolving disputes.  On behalf of his clients, Ed has litigated disputes to a jury, to a judge, to arbitration panels and administrative bodies and has argued before the Indiana Court of Appeals and the Indiana Supreme Court.  As part of his practice, Ed routinely resolves disputes for his clients through mediations and through direct negotiation.  Ed has experience in handling a wide array of issues including:
• Commercial disputes
• Special Education legal issues
• Public financing disputes
• Construction disputes
• Director & officer liability
• Personal injury defense
• Employment disputes
• Labor negotiation for Indiana Public Schools
• 1st Amendment disputes for schools
• Premises liability defense
• School Board governance issues

A nationally recognized teacher of trial advocacy skills, Ed has been invited to teach by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy ("NITA") through its "Next Generation" program in trial and deposition skills seminars in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Denver, CO, and Minneapolis, MN.  Each November, as the Co-Program Director and Team Leader for NITA's annual Mid-Central Deposition Skills program in Indianapolis, Ed works with Indiana's top trial lawyers in training young attorneys in advocacy skills and legal analysis.   Through his association with NITA, Ed has conducted "in-house" training seminars on trial skills for some of the world's leading law firms in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles. Ed is also an adjunct faculty member at Notre Dame Law School where he has taught deposition skills, trial advocacy and coordinated the moot court team (twice reaching the national finals).

Ed has a focus in representing public schools, and he is the leader of the Baker & Daniels school law team. He is a frequent contributor to the Indiana School Boards Association seminars and has presented at conferences for the National School Boards Association as well as the Council of School Attorneys. 

Honors
• The Best Lawyers in America — Education Law, 2008-11
• Indiana Super Lawyers — Business Litigation, 2010
• Indiana Bar Foundation — Fellow, 2010
• Kraft W. Eidman Award from the American College of Trial Lawyers — Recipient (member of 1993 National Trial Competition championship team)
• A. Harold Weber Award for Achievement in Oral Argument
• Jon E. Krupnick Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy

Professional Associations
• St. Joseph County Bar Association
Indiana State Bar Association

Toomey, Daniel E

Mr. Toomey directs the following program: Advanced Advocacy Skills

Mr. Toomey, a trial lawyer for over thirty-five years, is a Fellow of the College of American Trial Lawyers. He began his career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C, trying numerous felony cases there. Mr. Toomey is the former President of the D.C. Assistant U.S. Attorney's Association He has been in private practice for more than thirty years litigating a wide range of cases including domestic relations, plaintiff and defendant tort cases, professional liability, commercial litigation and white collar crime.

For over the last twenty years, he has concentrated his practice on Construction Contract matters, litigating them all across the country. For 25 years, from 1979 until 2003, he was a Team Leader of the Georgetown University Law Center's NITA Intensive Session in Trial Advocacy Skills which he co-founded. He and the other co-founders were honored at a dinner held in the Great Hall of the U.S. Supreme Court for their twenty-five years' service. He has been a regular faculty member in NITA's Harvard Teacher Training Program and has taught as well in NITA's San Francisco Teacher Training Program. Additionally, Mr. Toomey has taught in NITA's Advanced Trial Advocacy Program in Boulder, Colorado and numerous other trial advocacy programs nationwide.

Mr. Toomey has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at his alma mater, Georgetown, teaching Criminal Trial Advocacy in the Graduate School and Construction Contract Law in the JD Program. He is currently a partner at Duane Morris in Washington, DC.

Contact Information:
detoomey@duanemorris.com

Vaidik, Nancy

Nancy H. Vaidik was appointed to the Indiana Court of Appeals by Governor Frank O’Bannon on January 19, 2000.  Prior to her elevation to the appellate court, Judge Vaidik served for 7 years as Judge of the Porter Superior Court.  She began her legal career as a deputy prosecutor, achieving the status of chief deputy prosecutor before entering private practice.

As a private practitioner and prosecutor, Judge Vaidik tried nearly 100 jury trials.  As a trial court judge, she presided over hundreds of jury and bench trials. 

Judge Vaidik has had a life-long interest in legal education and particularly the litigation process.  She currently teaches as an adjunct professor of law teaching trial advocacy at Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana.  She also is a visiting professor with the College of Law of England and Wales and serves on its advisory board.  She teaches for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in numerous venues and is the program director for the Mid Central Regional Trial Program.  Last month she had the honor of teaching international criminal prosecutors at the United Nations’ criminal tribunal for Rwanda located in Arusha, Tanzania. 

Vaidik is the former president of the Indiana Judge’s Association and the former chairperson for the Indiana Supreme Court’s Judicial Education Committee.  She has also served on the advisory board member of the Indiana Women and Law Conference since its inception in 2000. 

In 2007, Judge Vaidik was named an Indiana Lawyer Distinguished Barrister and received the National Institute for Trial Advocacy Robert Keeton Faculty Award.  She has also received numerous other awards including the Indiana Domestic Violence Coalition Judge of the Year, the Indiana State Bar Association’s Women in Law Achievement Award, the Paragon of Justice award from the BLSA and HLSA chapters at Valparaiso University School of Law, and the Sagamore of the Wabash award from two Indiana governors.

Judge Vaidik is married and has two daughters—Kelly, a medical doctor and Kristin, a lawyer
 

Michael Washington

B.A in Accounting, San Diego State University 
J.D., California Western School of Law

Michael Washington is committed to advancing the profession by sharing his experience and knowledge in trial advocacy. He has taught the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s basic and advanced trial skills and deposition programs since 1998.  This year he served as Co-Director of the Southern California basic trial skills regional.  He has been a Team Leader at NITA’s National Session in Colorado, as well as the Pacific, Southern California, and Midwestern regionals.  He was also Co-Director of the PowerPoint for Litigators program.  Michael has also been a faculty member at the Western and Southwestern regionals, and Teacher Training in San Francisco.  He is also in demand to teach at custom advocacy programs for civil litigation, child advocacy, public service and insurance defense firms and organizations.  From 2007 to 2010, Michael was co-presenter of NITA sponsored trial skills sessions at the National Bar Association’s annual conference.

Michael is a senior felony trial attorney with the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office.  His current caseload includes all types of felony crimes including capital murder cases, and he conducts up to nine felony jury trials a year. In addition to his work at the Public Defender’s office, in 2003 he joined the University of San Diego School of Law as an adjunct professor teaching advanced trial advocacy, deposition and negotiation skills.  From 1994 to 2002, he coached the Mock Trial Teams at California Western School of Law.  He was named the Outstanding Public Lawyer by the Bar Association of North San Diego County in 2000.

Since 2010, Michael has taught advocacy skills internationally to judges and lawyers in Monrovia, Liberia and Nairobi, Kenya as a teacher sponsored by the NITA Foundation, and co-sponsored by the State Department and Lawyers Without Borders.

Michael is supported in all of this by his wife, Vanessa, and his three children, Cynthia, Annette and Malcolm.

Williams, Gary C.

Gary Williams is a professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He teaches courses in Evidence, Professional Responsibility (Ethics) and First Amendment law. He recently created a two-semester course, Civil Rights Litigation, designed to encourage students to pursue careers in public interest law. Gary has written articles discussing privacy and the First Amendment, the right to petition the government, and insurance discrimination based upon race and class.

Before going into teaching, Gary worked for the ACLU Foundation of Southern California for eight years. He was hired as Staff Counsel, then was promoted to Assistant Legal Director. Gary began his legal career as staff counsel for the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, headquartered in Sacramento, California.

Contact Information:
gary.williams@lls.edu

Matthew Williams

Matthew W. Williams is a King County District Court Judge.  King County is the largest population county in Washington State and includes Seattle.    Judge Williams handles both Criminal and Civil jury trial matters.
 
Since 1991 he has taught both Trial and Pre-Trial Advocacy at Seattle University School of Law (University of Puget Sound).   He serves as the Director of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) Northwest Regional Deposition program and has served many terms as faculty team leader at Emory Law School's renowned Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program.

He is committed improving access to justice and the rule of law through out the world.  He has led training for judges, advocates, and law enforcement personnel throughout the United States, as well in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Africa.  He is a frequent speaker before local high schools, attorneys, and citizen groups, and has given over 500 presentations on issues related to our justice system. 

Judge Williams holds a BS in Economics from the University of Nebraska (1980), and a JD from the University of Nebraska School of Law (1983) where he served as a member of the Moot Court Board.  He began his legal career with the Nebraska, Iowa, and Washington State Attorneys General where he handled a wide variety of cases ranging from death penalty/criminal appeals to complex commercial and tax litigation.  He served as an aviation prosecutor supervising drug and weapons interdiction efforts, and as the Managing Attorney of both governmental and private sector law offices.

Judge Williams is an active volunteer with the Northwest Sarcoma Foundation and serves as a board member of the Auburn Washington Rotary.  He has served as a Special Disciplinary Counsel and as an Investigative Counsel for the Washington State Bar Association. He is a former Trustee of the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers.

Judge Williams is an accredited Collision Reconstructionist.  He holds the rank of Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and has served as a martial arts and personal defense instructor.  He is a pilot and has logged hundreds of pilot-in-command hours throughout the United States.

Paul Zwier

Paul J. Zwier was named Director of the University of Tenneessee Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution in 1999. He came to Tennessee from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law, where he was a professor of law and former director of the Lawyering Skills program for eighteen years. Professor Zwier has been a program director, executive committee member, team leader and faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and since 1990 has taught in NITA's Teacher Training Conference at Harvard Law School, an institute designed to assist trial advocacy teachers in becoming more accomplished professors. In 1998, he received NITA's Prentice Marshall Award. Professor Zwier has taught alternative dispute resolution, trial advocacy, torts, advanced torts, and bioethics. He has been a visiting professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law and the William & Mary School of Law.

William D. Aaron, JR.

AARON, PLC
201 St. Charles Avenue, Suite 3800
New Orleans, LA  70170
504.569.1807(Telephone)
504. 569.1801(Facsimile)
Email: waaron@aaronfirm.com
URL: www.aaronfirm.com
            
                                                               
William D. Aaron, Jr. is a practicing attorney and managing shareholder of the New Orleans firm of Aaron, PLC.  Prior to joining Aaron, PLC (formerly Goins Aaron) in January of 2000, he was a Partner in the regional firm of Phelps Dunbar, LLP.  Mr. Aaron is a graduate of Duke University and Loyola University School of Law.  He is admitted to legal practice in Louisiana, Texas and the District of Columbia.  Mr. Aaron has over thirty-four years of legal experience in the public and private sectors.  He has previously served as City Attorney for the City of New Orleans, Assistant District Counsel for the U. S. Small Business Administration, Special Prosecutor for the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office and Outside Counsel for a wide range of business, governmental and not for profit clients. 

Mr. Aaron concentrates his practice in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, government and regulatory affairs and general business.  Substantive areas have included state and local government law, telecommunications and media law, professional liability, legal and governmental ethics, labor and employment law, public education, banking, insurance, and real estate.  Mr. Aaron is an experienced litigator and has served as lead counsel in complex and high profile trials, appeals and writs before a variety of state and federal courts including the U. S. Supreme Court.
      
Mr. Aaron is a frequent lecturer on law and law related topics, and has served on the adjunct faculties of Loyola University’s College of Business Administration as well as its School of Law.  Since 1991  he  has  served on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA)  Trial  Skills  Program  as  well  as  its Deposition Program.  Mr. Aaron has served as a court appointed special master in NORM and other complex civil cases, and as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases, cases involving the reasonableness of attorney’s fees, and cases involving legal ethics.
     
Mr. Aaron has achieved a number of professional distinctions.  He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Municipal Law and Municipal Litigation, and Louisiana Super Lawyers and Super Lawyers Business Edition in the category of Business Litigation.  He enjoys an “AV” Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating.  Mr. Aaron has been awarded the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Faculty Designation, and has been recognized as one of the area’s top lawyers by New Orleans Magazine (2007 - 2011).  He is a two time recipient of the New Orleans CityBusiness Newspaper’s Leadership in Law Award (2008 and 2012) and is a member of the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).
 
Mr. Aaron is active in bar association activities, and is a former Board Member and Chairman of the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board.  Prior to his initial appointment to the Disciplinary Board  by  the Louisiana  Supreme  Court  in January of 2006, Mr. Aaron served the lawyer disciplinary system  for  five  years  as  a  Hearing Committee Chairman  and  Lawyer  Member.  Since February of 2000 he has served as an Assistant Bar Examiner with the Louisiana Supreme Court’s Committee on Bar Admissions.

Mr. Aaron has a long history of civic and community involvement.  He is a member
of  the  Jefferson  Business Council,  and currently serves on the Board of Directors of  the  New Orleans  Chamber of Commerce (Board Chairman 2012), the  New Orleans Museum of Art,  the Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corporation  and  the Visiting Committee of Loyola University School of Law.  He has previously served on the Board of Directors of Crimestoppers, the New Orleans Neighborhood Development Collaborative, Volunteers of America, Big Sisters of Greater New Orleans, the Mental Health Association of Greater New Orleans, and Traveler’s Aid Society of New Orleans.

Mr. Aaron is a native of New Orleans, and a resident of Harvey, Louisiana.  He is married and the father of three daughters and one son.  Mr. Aaron is active in  the  rebuilding of  the  New  Orleans Area,  and  is  an Organizer  and  Director of First NBC Bank, a successful Commercial Bank chartered by the State of Louisiana in May of 2006 and headquartered in New Orleans.

Mr. Ainley concentrates his practice in the area of family law as a partner in the Chicago law firm of Katz & Stefani, LLC.  He received his B.S. in Business Management from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana (1990) and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois (1994).  He was admitted to the Illinois State Bar in 1994 and the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court in 1999.  Mr. Ainley is a Fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a former member of the Board of the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has a top AV Preeminent peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations, and a former appointed member of the ISBA Family Law Section Council and Committee on Professional Conduct. He is also recognized by his peers as a member of the Leading Lawyers Network and Illinois Super Lawyers.

Mr. Ainley is a frequent lecturer on family law issues including tax, trusts, evidence, trial advocacy, and business and real property valuation including, Faculty, National Institute for Trial Advocacy and American Bar Association Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute, 2010 and 2011; Speaker, “Business Valuation, Financial and Tax Issues in Divorce”, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2011; Speaker, “Examining Financial Experts,” Chicago Bar Association, 2010; Business Valuation Guest Attorney “Trying the Domestic Relations Case," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2008 and 2009; Speaker, "Advanced Evidence," American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 2008; Speaker, "Issues Affecting the Treatment of Trusts in Divorce," Stout Risius Ross, 2007; Speaker, "Tax Matters and Ramifications in Divorce," National Business Institute, 2007; Speaker, National Business Institute Seminar on Financial Settlement Strategies for Divorce, 2006; Speaker, “Property Issues in Family Law”, Illinois State Bar Association Family Law Section, 2006.  Mr. Ainley is also a Co-Author of the Attorneys' Fees chapter in the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education Family Law Series, 2008-2011.

Cindy C. Albracht-Crogan

Cindy Crogan obtained her B.S. in Criminology with an emphasis on Corrections in December 1993 from California State University of Fresno where she was named to the Dean’s List.  After a career as a probation officer, Cindy attended Pepperdine University College of Law before transferring to Arizona State University College of Law.  At Pepperdine, Cindy received the American Jurisprudence award for her work in legal research and writing and was actively involved in the American Trial Lawyers Association.  In May 2000, Cindy received her Juris Doctorate from the Arizona State University College of Law where she was named a Pedrick Scholar.  Cindy wrote for Jurimetrics, the Journal of Science and Technology, and served as a note and comment editor.  She was also a member of the Women Law Students Association.  She is now a member of the Arizona Bar Association Section of Litigation, the Arizona Women’s Law Association and the Thomas Moore Society. 

In 2002, Cindy received an award in recognition of her pro bono work with the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project.  Cindy also was an instructor at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy 2003 Gulf Deposition Program in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Cindy is currently the website editor for the Solo & Small Firm Committee of the ABA Section of Litigation for which she received recognition as “Outstanding Subcommittee Chair” and “Most Improved Webpage” for 2010-2011.  She is also an editor for the Children’s Rights Committee of the ABA Section of Litigation where she has published three articles: “Child Clients Are Different: Best Practices for Representing Unaccompanied Minors”, Children’s Rights, Vol. 10, Issue 4 (Summer 2007); “Representing Child Victims and Witnesses in Criminal Proceedings”, Children’s Rights, Vol. 9, Issue 3 (Spring 2007); “Best Practices for Juvenile Drug Testing”, Children’s Rights, Vol. 12, Issue 4 (Summer 2010); and “Recognizing and Addressing LGBTQ Issues,” (Summer 2012). In 2011, Cindy was named to the Board of Directors as Secretary of the DC2 Performing Arts Foundation – a nonprofit group that assists dancers who may not be able to afford to continue their training.

Cindy is a member of the State Bar of Arizona and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and the United States Supreme Court.  Cindy concentrates her practice in commercial litigation.

Professor Carol Anderson is one of the nation's leading trial advocacy educators. She has been recognized for teaching excellence by the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) and by the North Carolina Association for Justice (formerly NCATL). The litigation clinic and trial advocacy program that she directs at Wake Forest University received the Emil Gumpert Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy from the American Bar Association (ABA), which carries a $50,000 prize.

In 2010, she was named a Fellow of the American Bar Association. This membership is limited to one-third of 1 percent of the lawyers in America. Fellows are elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding achievements in the legal profession.

Professor Anderson is the author of three highly regarded trial advocacy textbooks: North Carolina Trial Practice, Anderson on Advocacy, and Inside Jurors’ Minds: A Hierarchy of Juror Decision-Making.”

Professor Anderson and her son Gunnar are self-professed "gym rats" and avid hikers in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina.

Atwell, Charles

Judge Charles E. Atwell was a trial attorney whose emphasis was on criminal defense when he was appointed to the bench in 1996 by Gov. Mel Carnahan. Prior to joining the firm that became Wyrsch Atwell Mirakian Lee and Hobbs, Judge Atwell worked as an assistant Jackson County prosecutor and as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. He received his law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1978. Judge Atwell taught high school for several years after graduating from the University of Kansas in 1972 with a degree in secondary education.

MARK L. AUSTRIAN

Mark Austrian graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was on the Board of the Law Review, clerked in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and currently is a Partner in the litigation group of Kelley Drye & Warren in Washington, D.C.  He is an Adjunct Professor at the American University Washington College of Law teaching Advanced Trial Advocacy in the High-Tech Courtroom, a member of the American Law Institute, the E-Discovery Advisory Board of Georgetown Law School, the Board of Directors of the Council for Court Excellence and the Board of Directors of the William B. Bryant Inn of Court. He has tried numerous cases, jury, non-jury and arbitration, in the areas of intellectual property, product liability, toxic torts, environmental law, intellectual property, and telecommunications. Mr. Austrian has been a frequent teacher in deposition, trial practice and expert witness programs at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy throughout the United States for the past 25 years. 

Brent Bailey

Brent Bailey has been a lawyer since 1992.  He began his litigation career with the Albuquerque law firm of Hatch, Allen & Shepherd, concentrating in the areas of insurance defense and commercial litigation.  In 1995, he joined Sharp, Jarmie & Scholl, where he became a partner in 1998.  In 2000, he formed Dixon, Scholl & Bailey with his two friends, Jerry Dixon and Steve Scholl.  His practice focuses on representation of plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, professional negligence and insurance matters.  He has been counsel in over fifty jury trials.  He has also argued appeals before the New Mexico Court of Appeals, the New Mexico Supreme Court and the United States 10th Circuit Court, although he prefers working with juries.  Since 1993, he has worked with the UNM Law School’s National Mock Trial Team.  He has taught trial skills in the ETP course, and in trial and deposition training programs for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.  On a personal note, Brent, his wife Suzee and their three children share interests in waterskiing, four-wheeling, camping and generally being outdoors.    

Rick Baileya

B.S., Illinois State University
 J.D., University of Wisconsin  
Mr. Bailey provides strategic advice and counsel, and trial and appellate representation for complex business problems. He brings over 25 years of experience, both as a trial lawyer and as a high level corporate law and government affairs executive. He seeks creative and practical solutions to business disputes, litigating where appropriate. His recent cases in federal and state courts have included disputes involving breach of contract, trade secrets, software ownership, non-compete agreements, business torts, employee raiding, regulatory disputes, and corporate and partnership disputes for companies in widely varied industries, such as the life insurance and annuity marketing, oil and gas, geothermal energy, Internet, cable, telecom, forest products distribution, software development and home warranty industries.
Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Mr. Bailey was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for AT&T Broadband, which was at the time the largest cable television and broadband company in the U.S. As General Counsel, Mr. Bailey was responsible for all aspects of legal and government affairs counseling and services. Mr. Bailey also held various other senior positions for AT&T Corp., including Vice President of Federal Government Affairs, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of AT&T's federal government affairs office in Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Bailey was a trial attorney in Chicago, Illinois, focusing on securities and commercial litigation and debt workouts, primarily representing banks, insurance companies and indenture trustees.
Mr. Bailey is the practice group manager for Holland & Hart's Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Previously, he served as the administrative partner for Holland & Hart's Denver Tech Center Office

 Member, Board of Trustees and Governance Committee, 
                 Colorado Symphony Orchestra
 Member, American Bar Association and Sections of:
             Business Law
                 Antitrust Law
                  Litigation
            Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
            Science and Technology Law
 Member, Colorado Bar Association
 Member, Wisconsin Bar Association
 Member, Court of Federal Claims Bar Association

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
Colorado
 Colorado Supreme Court
 United States District Court for Colorado
Illinois
 Illinois Supreme Court
 United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Wisconsin
 Wisconsin Supreme Court
 United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
 United States Court of Federal Claims

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin   J.D., cum laude 1982
-American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Constitutional Law
-Clerk Intern for Justice Shirley Abrahamson, Wisconsin Supreme Court (Fall 1981)
Illinois State University   B.S. 1979
-Bone Scholar (Highest Undergraduate Honors)

James S. Bailey

B.A., University of Colorado, 1988
J.D., University of the Pacific, McGeorge College of Law, 1992
Biography: Order of the Coif. Recipient: Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, 1992; West Publishing Company Award, 1990-1991; Valedictorian Award. Editor in Chief, Pacific Law Journal, Volume 23. Author: "Allocation of Loss for Forged Checks Under Articles 3 and 4 of the Proposed Revisions Thereto," 22 Pac. L.J. 1263, 1991. Author with: S. Dhaunda, Comment SB-2638 Review of Selected California Legislation, 22 Inc. L.J., 726, 1991. Co-Author: with Steven Epstein, Marital Agreements, Colorado Domestic Relations Law, 2003. Law Clerk for the Honorable Luis D. Rovira, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, 1992-1993.
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Commercial Law; Appellate Practice; Family Law; Probate.
Admitted: 1993, Colorado; U.S. District Court, District of Colorado and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
Member: Denver Bar Association; The Colorado Bar Association.

John T. Baker

J.D., University of Denver College of Law

Following graduation from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 1973, John taught as a clinical instructor at the College of Law for three years, directing a juvenile and criminal advocacy clinic. In 1975 John joined the plaintiff’s personal injury and civil trial practice law firm, Carrigan & Bragg, P.C., which eventually became Bragg & Baker, P.C. John spent the next 26 years concentrating his legal practice in products liability litigation, representing individuals that have been injured by defective pharmaceutical products and vehicles. John currently continues with his own firm concentrating on complex litigation and public interest law.  John has been listed as a Colorado Super Lawyer for 2007 to the present.

During his legal career John has taken a national leadership role in multi-district litigation and other consolidated complex litigation, concerning birth control pills, intrauterine devices, L-Tryptophan dietary supplements, Jeep CJ-5 utility vehicles and diet pills. In those leadership roles John coordinated and conducted nation-wide plaintiffs’ discovery, managed document depositories, and served on nation-wide litigation plaintiffs’ steering or management committees. John has a special interest in professionalism and professional responsibility and has served or is serving in bar association leadership positions. The Denver Bar Association awarded the 2007 Award of Merit to John for his bar service. The specific bar positions include, 2009-2010 President  Denver Bar Association, past chair of the Denver Bar Association Professionalism Committee, past co-hair of the Metropolitan Conciliation Panel, past chair of the Colorado Bar Association Attorney Admission and Law School Committee, member of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado Conduct Rules Committee, and past chair of the law school working group of the Colorado Bar Association Professional Reform Initiative Task Force. John is a member of the American, Colorado, and Denver Bar Associations and the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. He is a fellow of the International Society of Barristers.

In addition to the practice of law, John has a strong interest in teaching. John has been appointed as President of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (“NITA.”) John served as NITA’s Public Programs Educations Director 2007-2010. NITA has honored him with the Honorable Prentice Marshall Faculty Award for 2005. John’s legal teaching experience includes adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law; Program Director and Lead Faculty for the NITA Hanley Advanced Advocacy Program; Program Director or Faculty for NITA pro bono programs for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Services Corporation, and the American Bar Association; and Faculty for joint NITA advocacy programs with the Law Society of Ireland and the Law Society of Scotland. The University of Denver College of Law Institute for Advanced Legal Studies honored John as “Educator of the Year” in 1997. John, also, lectures in Colorado, nationally, and internationally on professionalism issues, on torts/product liability issues, and on trial advocacy.

In Denver John is active in the community. As an appointed member of the Colorado Supreme Court Judicial Advisory Council, in 2006-07John chaired the year-long 40th Anniversary Celebration of Merit Selection of Judges in Colorado. He is past president of the board of directors of Denver Kids, Inc., a program to keep “at risk” Denver Public Schools students in school. John is married and has three children, who have involved him over the years in coaching youth soccer, basketball and baseball. 

Arthur E. Balbirer is admitted to the Connecticut Bar; the U.S. District Court for District of Connecticut; and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Named one of the best matrimonial lawyers in the United States, Town & Country Magazine (1985); named one of the Best Lawyers in America, Naifeh and Smith (all editions); Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 1972.

President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) (1992-1993); Governor of AAML (1984-1987); President of the Connecticut Chapter of AAML (1979-1981); Chairman, Family Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association (1976-1978); Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Co-author of "Annual Survey of Connecticut Family Law," Connecticut Law Journal (1974- 1996); Senior Topical Editor on Family Law, Connecticut Bar Journal (1979-1996).

Lecturer: University of Connecticut Law School; Fairfield University; numerous conferences/seminars in the United States, Mexico and Europe.

Adjunct Professor of Family Law University of Connecticut Law School (2000-2001); Special Master appointed by the Superior Court in New Haven, Fairfield and Hartford Counties; Mediator in numerous cases throughout the country.

Arbitrator Certified by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Patrick F. Balestrieri

Mr. Balestrieri graduated from Mercer University School of Law in 1993 and has been litigating civil cases ever since.  In 1993, Mr. Balestrieri began practicing music focused entertainment law in Manhattan and had a combined transactional and litigation practice.  In 1995, Mr. Balestrieri took a position as in-house litigation counsel for a medical practice insurance company and defended medical malpractice actions in all boroughs of New York City.  Mr. Balestrieri came to North Carolina in 2001 and represented plaintiffs in medical malpractice, legal malpractice and pharmaceutical liability cases until joining the North Carolina Medical Board in 2008.  Since 2008, Mr. Balestrieri has been a staff attorney with the North Carolina Medical Board.  As a Board attorney, Mr. Balestrieri is responsible for prosecuting disciplinary cases against physicians and physician assistants as well as advising the North Carolina Medical Board on various legal issues and making recommendations on investigatory and licensing cases.        

Micaela P. Banach

Micaela P. Banach is a partner at Kirby Noonan Lance & Hoge, LLP, a boutique commercial litigation firm in downtown San Diego.  Since 2003, her practice has focused on general business and commercial disputes, including real estate, employment, professional liability, products liability and personal injury matters.  She has co-chaired both bench and jury trials to successful verdicts, most notably obtaining a multi-million dollar judgment in a complex fraud and securities action in 2011.

Ms. Banach’s firm was recently honored in U.S.News & World Report as one of the top ranked law firms in the United States, an honor received by less than 1% of law firms.

Ms. Banach received her undergraduate degree in business administration from Washington State University in 2000, cum laude.  She received her J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, with great distinction, in 2003. 

 
Mary Jo Barr

Mary Jo began her practice in 1986 in San Diego, California, as an associate with a small plaintiffs and criminal defense firm.  In 1989, Mary Jo joined the Office of the Public Defender for San Diego County where she was a member of the team responsible high profile media cases and homicides.  There she developed relationships with local and national media representatives.  Mary Jo’s experience as a trial lawyer and as a teacher made her the natural selection to be the office’s training deputy.

Her interest in teaching began when she was awarded a Prettyman fellowship at Georgetown School of Law School in 1988.  Although she chose trial work over academics, she has been teaching since 1992.  Mary Jo began teaching with NITA in the regional trail skills programs.  Since her début with NITA she has been teaching trials skills, deposition skills, teacher training, and motion practice for NITA at regional, custom, and international programs.  She has been the program director for both trials skills and deposition programs, and she is the co-director of the annual trial skills program Pacific Regional in San Diego.

Mary Jo has taught lawyers and judges in Nigeria on behalf of the United States Department of Justice, in Japan for the Osaka Bar Association, in Canada for the Canadian Society for Advocacy and at the firm Borden,Ladner,and Gervais, and in both Ireland and Northern Ireland on behalf of NITA.

Mary Jo has also served as an adjunct professor at California School of Law and the University of San Diego School of Law in their advocacy programs.  

Barron, Barbara S.

Barbara S. Barron is a Professor of Legal Writing and Research and Director of Student Advocacy Programs at Hofstra University School of Law. Ms. Barron, a former Assistant District Attorney in the District Attorney's Office for New York County, has practiced extensively in the areas of commercial and matrimonial litigation on both the trial and appellate levels. Before attending law school, Ms. Barron was a Russian linguist with the Department of Defense. Ms. Barron has been a team leader in the Hofstra Trial Techniques Program and has been a member of the Northeast Regional Program and the Master Advocates Program for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Ross F. Bass, Jr.
Phelps Dunbar LLP
Partner, Jackson Office

Service Areas
Tort Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Products Liability

Practice
Rick Bass practices in the area of complex commercial and product liability litigation. He has substantial experience in the representation of financial institutions and the litigation and settlement of class actions, mass tort and other complex matters.

Mr. Bass is a frequent lecturer on litigation issues and for several years has served as Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Mississippi College School of Law. He also served on the faculty for the NITA Gulf Coast Deposition Program.

He is among a select group of lawyers, recognized in the category of Litigation:
General Commercial in the nationwide client survey published in Chambers
USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of commercial litigation and recognized in Mid-South Super Lawyers.

Education
University of Mississippi, J.D., with honors, 1973; Editor-in-Chief, Mississippi Law Journal
Vanderbilt University; Belhaven College, B.A., 1970

Memberships/Affiliations
The Mississippi Bar; State Bar of Georgia; American Bar Association,
Litigation Section

Fellow, Mississippi Bar Foundation

Publications/Speeches
Frequent lecturer on litigation issues and for several years has served as Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Mississippi College School of Law.
Faculty, NITA Gulf Coast Deposition Program

Representative Matters
Defense of Connecticut-based insurance company against alleged misappropriation of trade secrets and copyright infringement.

Defense of national bank headquartered on east coast involving 1,500 individual home improvement loan claims and a statewide class action.

Multi-forum litigation for Mississippi LLC over ownership of cellular license for Honolulu, Hawaii.

Defense of national consumer finance company in state and federal actions in Mississippi challenging sale and financing of satellite television systems.

Nationwide class action on collateral protection insurance claims against California-based national bank in Southern District of Mississippi.

Defense of national bank headquartered in Louisiana against multiple class actions in Mississippi and Louisiana, arising from collateral protection insurance.

Statewide class action settlement of collateral protection insurance claims against Mississippi-based national bank in Southern District of Mississippi.
 
Defense of United Kingdom public company against thousands of Mississippi asbestos claims in Mississippi state courts.

Defense of Texas-based insurer in multiple putative class actions and individual actions in Mississippi and Louisiana, involving individual collateral protection insurance claims.

Defense of Mississippi-based national bank against claim of $10 million fraudulent wire transfer under UCC Article 4A.

Defense of thousands of individual claims against national finance company and Mississippi subsidiary arising from placement of collateral protection insurance.

Defense of Pennsylvania-based national company in aviation-related electrocution case.

John T. Battaglia

John T. Battaglia is a partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, in Washington, DC, specializing in patent and other intellectual-property disputes.  He has had substantial experience as a trial lawyer handling jury and bench trials, evidentiary hearings, and arguments, as well as extensive appellate experience, and has successfully represented clients in an array of different civil and criminal disputes. 

Over two periods of public service, Mr. Battaglia served at the United States Department of Justice as a trial lawyer and federal prosecutor in trying numerous cases to verdict.  In addition, he was appointed in 2006 as the Department’s deputy associate attorney general, where he managed some of the Department’s largest litigating components; briefed and advised the attorney general and deputy attorney general of the United States; and argued several appeals in courts across the country, including the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, as well as for the Federal Circuit. 

Between his periods of public service, Mr. Battaglia was also a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, where he handled various patent, IP, and other civil disputes at trial and on appeal.  Prior to that, he had been selected and served as a law clerk to federal judges at both the trial and appellate courts.  He has been teaching trial advocacy since 2006, including as a faculty member at the University of Virginia’s advocacy college.  He lives in Virginia with his wife and family.   

Steve Bennett

Steve Bennett's practice at Jones Day focuses on domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration, including cases involving bankruptcy, construction, corporate, energy, insurance, intellectual property, privacy and data security, and other disputes.

Steve is chair of the Firm's e-Discovery Committee and an active member of the Firm's construction practice team. He co-founded the Sedona Conference Working Group on International E-Discovery. He teaches a course on conflicts of law at Hofstra Law School and co-teaches a course on advanced civil procedure (e-discovery) at New York Law School. He is a qualified arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and the CPR Institute. Steve serves as hearing officer pursuant to the consent decree in the Civil RICO case of United States v. Local 14-14B, IUOE (E.D.N.Y.) and served two terms as election officer in the case of United States v. District Council of Carpenters (S.D.N.Y.). He taught arbitration law at Brooklyn Law School for nine years.
Steve regularly speaks to a wide array of groups for CLE and other purposes. He has written more than 150 articles on a variety of topics. His book, Arbitration: Essential Concepts (ALM) was published in 2002. His book, A Privacy Primer for Corporate Counsel (Aspatore/West) was published in 2009.

Steve writes a continuing column, "Arbitration," with Professor Samuel Estreicher, which has appeared in the New York Law Journal since 2004, and his column, "Computer Law," has appeared in the New York State Bar Association Journal since 2009. He blogs occasionally in the "Thinkernet" series at InternetEvolution.com and at NLJ.com.

Jonathan A. Berkelhammer

B.S., University of North Carolina
J.D., University of North Carolina School of Law

Jon Berkelhammer regularly appears in the state and federal trial and appellate courts in North Carolina and has been retained and appeared in courts in other jurisdictions.  He is active in the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, serving as an instructor at the Southeast Region Trial Skills Program.

Education
J.D., with honors, University of North Carolina School of Law, 1982
B.S., summa cum laude, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1979
Admissions
North Carolina, 1982
United States Supreme Court, 1996
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1984
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1999
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1992
United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina
United States District Court, Middle District of North Carolina
United States District Court, Western District of North Carolina

Academic Honors
Member, North Carolina Law Review, 1981–82
Order of the Coif
Achievements
Recognized by Chambers and Partners, United Kingdom, as one of North Carolina Leaders, Litigation, 2007, 2008
Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 (Copyright 2007 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.), Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation, 2005-2009
Martindale-Hubbell's top ("AV") Peer Review Rating
Business North Carolina's Legal Elite, Litigation, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, Antitrust, 2007
Selected by Law & Politics Magazine for inclusion in North Carolina Super Lawyers, Business Litigation, and as one of the "Top 100" attorneys in North Carolina, 2006-2009
Professional Memberships
North Carolina Association of Defense Counsel; Former Chair, Commercial Litigation Committee, Member, Board of Directors, 2008 - current
American Bar Association, Trial Tort and Insurance Practice Section; Transportation Committee
Defense Research Institute; Drug and Medical Device Committee
Trucking Industry Defense Association
International Association of Defense Counsel
Experience
Clerkship, Judge Franklin T. Dupree, Jr., U.S. District Court
Recent Cases
Blue Ridge Investors II LP v. Ernst & Young LLP –Represented the plaintiff in thirteen day arbitration on a claim against the accountants for negligent misrepresentation. Plaintiff was an investor in a company for which defendant was the certified public account and provided audited financial statements for purposes of the investment. The case was arbitrated to judgment. (October 2006)
Regina Andrews v. Marilyn Breese and her husband William D. Breese – Trial counsel for defendants in an action for breach of fiduciary duty claiming that the defendants had taken in excess of $500,000 from the aunt of the plaintiff while she was living with the defendants. The case was tried to verdict. (January 2007)
Analog Devices, Inc. v. Michalski, et al., 579 S.E.2d 449 (N.C. App. 2003) – Co-trial-counsel for defendants in a claim against two former employees and their present employer for misappropriation of trade secrets.
Market America, Inc. v. Rossi, 104 F. Supp. 2d 606 (M.D.N.C.), aff'd, 2000 WL 1699830 (4th Cir. 2000) – Trial counsel for defendants and counterclaimants in a suit against former independent distributors for, among other things, breach of contract requiring that material be held confidential and misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information.   The case was tried to verdict.
Medlin v. FYCO, Inc., 534 S.E.2d 622 (N.C. App. 2000), disc. review denied, 547 S.E.2d 12 (N.C. 2001) – Trial counsel for defendant on claims that the exterior insulation and finish system applied to the plaintiffs' new home was defective and that the defendant fraudulently represented the exterior as "stucco" when it was a synthetic product.  Plaintiffs sought compensatory damages to repair the home, as well as punitive damages for the alleged fraud, and treble damages for the claim of unfair and deceptive trade practices.   The case was tried to verdict.
Catastrophic Personal Injury and Motor Vehicle Experience
Henry Allen Tillman v. Janet Harper Wrights, et al. – Lead counsel for defendants in a claim for personal injuries sustained when a 15 passenger van overturned.   The driver of the van was attempting to pass a tractor-trailer when the tractor-trailer began to enter the same lane to pass a preceding motor vehicle.   The van driver swerved to avoid the tractor-trailer and lost control.   The van was carrying recruits for the armed forces shortly after September 11, 2001.   The plaintiff suffered multiple injuries, including a closed head injury.
Puczylowski v. Superior Carriers, Inc. – Lead counsel for defendants in a wrongful death case involving the death of a mother.  The deceased had eleven grown children and a surviving spouse.  The accident occurred when the car in which the plaintiff was a passenger stopped to render assistance and was struck from behind, at highway speeds, by the defendant trucking company's eighteen-wheeler.
Anderson v. Demolition Dynamics, Inc., 525 S.E.2d 471 (N.C. App. 2000) – Lead counsel for defendant in a wrongful death action arising out of a demolition accident.  The deceased was in the process of rigging a scaffold for explosive demolition when the structure collapsed.
Intellectual Property and Commercial Litigation Experience
ViewCast v. Inlet Group -- Lead counsel for defendants in a claims alleging, among other things, misappropriation of trade secrets. Defendants were former employees of Osprey Technologies, a subsidiary of ViewCast. Defendants at different times left Osprey and ultimately started a small company to try to develop technology to distribute high definition television signals in real time. (2005)
State v. McClure, 2004 NCBC 8 (Dec. 14, 2004) – Represented a defendant in an antitrust action brought by the State of North Carolina in which the State alleged that all defendants had, among other things, engaged in a conspiracy either to rig bids for the provision of services involving the clean-up of underground storage tanks or to boycott the bidding process.   Defendant was an officer in a non-profit trade association.
Johnson & Johnson * Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. v. Lyon, 941 F. Supp. 1443 (M.D.N.C. 1996) – Lead counsel for plaintiffs in a trade secret claim to prevent a Canadian employee of Johnson & Johnson * Merck from joining Glaxo Wellcome PLLC.
Neway Anchorlok International Inc. v. Longwood Industries, Inc., 107 F. Supp. 2d 810 (E.D. Mich. 1999) – Lead counsel for defendant in which plaintiff, a competitor, alleged that the defendant's use of litigation to protect trade secret information from misappropriation by departing employees was an antitrust violation.
Products Liability Experience
William E. Hassell v. Sears Roebuck & Co. and Campbell Oil Company of Whiteville and Delores Rhodes, Administrator of the Estate of Vivian O. Smith. Lead counsel for defendant Sears Roebuck & Co. in a claim alleging personal injuries and death arising from the alleged explosion of a gas stove. (2008)
Green v. Miller Brewing Co., 589 S.E.2d 750, 2003 WL 23018273 (N.C. App. December 6, 2003) – Co-counsel for Miller Brewing Company defending a claim for personal injuries caused when a Miller employee allegedly became intoxicated and shot his roommate.   Plaintiff alleged that Miller was negligent when, as a part of an employee benefit, Miller supplied alcohol for home consumption to its employees.
White v. Penske Truck Leasing Co., Inc., 256 F. Supp. 2d 440, 2003 WL 1900247 (M.D.N.C. April 10, 2003) – Lead counsel for defendant in a claim for negligent design of the hand-holds for rear of cab access to a Freightliner power unit and for negligent maintenance of the steps leading to the fifth wheel.
Marsh v. W.R. Grace & Co., Frit Industries, Inc., and Continental Casualty Co., 80 Fed. Appx. 883, 2003 WL 22718177 (4th Cir. 2003) – Lead counsel for defendant Frit Industries, Inc. in two wrongful death claims and one personal injury claim in which the plaintiffs alleged that their cancers were caused by exposure to the herbicide picloram.
St. Clair v. General Motors Corp., 10 F. Supp. 2d 523 (M.D.N.C. 1998) – Co-counsel for defendant in a case involving allegations that an airbag failed to deploy.
Other
Mutual Service Casualty Ins. Co. v. Frit Industries, Inc., et al., 358 F.3d 1312, 2004 WL 225081 (11th Cir. 2004) – Counsel for Frit Industries, Inc. in an insurance dispute among its carriers to determine insurance coverage for personal injury claims

KARL BERNARD

Karl Bernard is the General Manager of the Law Offices of G. Karl Bernard and Associates, a law firm that specializes in employment law, general business litigation, sports and entertainment law, and oil and gas law.  The firm has successfully litigated matters involving employment rights, defamation, contract law, and criminal law. Most notably, the firm recently won a $2 million jury verdict in a discrimination law suit involving a college football coach.  The results of the suit were reported by ESPN sports and news organizations across the country.  Additionally, the firm has successfully negotiated nearly $70 million in professional player agreements, head coaching agreements, endorsement contracts and licensing agreements.  Furthermore, the firm has handled pay-per-view telecast and other broadcast rights agreements (both domestic and international); life story rights agreements; production agreements; NCAA compliance issues; recording and managerial contracts; event promotional agreements (venue, artist, productions, theatrical, etc.); non-profit and for-profit business incorporation and operational matters.

Karl Bernard has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola School of Law and/or Tulane University College for nearly fifteen years. Karl is a retired professional football player, formerly with the Detroit Lions NFL football organization, and a retired petroleum engineer, formerly with Marathon Oil Co. He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Bar for United States District Courts in Louisiana and Texas, and a member of the Bar for the United States Supreme Court. Karl is also a certified NITA instructor in Trial Advocacy Skills.    

RICHARD M. BERNSTEIN 

B.A., Brown University
Ph.D., Princeton University
J.D., University of Pennsylvania

LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
 Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia PA, 1976-84
Associate
General Commercial Litigation
Trial and Appellate Work  
Antitrust, Multidistrict Class Actions

Hoyle, Morris & Kerr, Philadelphia PA, 1985-98
Associate (1985); Partner (1986-98)
General Commercial Litigation
Trial and Appellate Work   
Toxic Torts, Products Liabilty, Multidistrict Class Actions  
Chair -- Pro Bono Committee         
      
Assistant United States Attorney, 1998-present
 Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA  
Civil Division
 Trial and Appellate Work  
Employment Discrimination, Tort, Immigration (representing
 National Park Service, Postal Service, IRS, Social Security,
 HHS, Army, Navy, Bureau of Prisons, Agriculture, Federal
 Emergency Management Agency, FDIC, INS, and others). 

BAR MEMBERSHIPS:
Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, United States
Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth,
Tenth, Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits, Supreme
Court  of the United States, Supreme Court of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania

UNDERGRADUATE: Brown University, A.B., 1963
    Magna Cum Laude
    Phi Beta Kappa (Jr. Year)
    Francis Wayland Scholar, 1961-62
    James Manning Scholar, 1962-63 
    Major: History
 
GRADUATE SCHOOL: Princeton University, Ph.D., 1969
       Modern German History
       Advisor: Professor Arno J. Mayer

FOREIGN STUDY: University of Bonn, West Germany, 1963-64
           German Academic Exchange Service
          
                                Free University of West Berlin, 1966-67
           Exchange Program with Princeton  

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:    University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1967-69
    Instructor/Assistant Professor
                European History

    State University of New York at Stony Brook,
     1969-70
                                     Visiting Assistant Professor of History 
     Modern German History 

     Wellesley College, 1970-73
     Assistant Professor of History
     European History

LAW SCHOOL:  University of Pennsylvania, J.D. 1976
      Cum Laude
      Law Review, Research & Writing Editor
 

Erin Sherburne Beyer

Erin Sherburne Beyer, admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 1992; Senior Partner of Hill & Beyer, APLC.  Ms. Beyer graduated from Louisiana State University in 1989 and received her Juris Doctor degree from Louisiana State University Law School in 1992 where she earned honors on Chancellor’s List, Moot Court Board, Flory Trial Finalist, and American Jurisprudence Awards.

Ms. Beyer has argued before the Louisiana Supreme Court and several Louisiana Courts of Appeal.  She is admitted to practice in all State and Federal Courts in Louisiana, as well as the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.  She is a member of the American, Federal, Louisiana, State and Lafayette Parish Bar Associations and the American Inns of Court.  Mrs. Beyer has worked with several groups in the community, including work as a court-appointed curator for minor children, injunctive relief for abused women, American Red Cross, United Blood Services, Teen Court, Law on Tape, homeless shelters and illiteracy programs.  Hill & Beyer received the Small Firm Award for its dedication and commitment to pro bono service in the community. 

Ms. Beyer has presented numerous lectures, seminars and demonstrations regarding such topics as:  brain and spinal injuries, catastrophic injury and complex medical litigation, Louisiana tort law, automobile liability defense, merchant liability law, restaurant liability, the Americans with Disabilities Act, age discrimination, and sexual harassment defense.  Ms. Beyer has also had the privilege of participating as a faculty member with the NITA programs in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dallas, Texas, and at the Louisiana State University Paul Macarius Hebert Law School in Baton Rouge.   

Maureen Beyers

Maureen Beyers is a commercial litigator with a specific emphasis on the securities industry and alternative dispute resolution. Nationally recognized as a top arbitrator, Maureen has served as a neutral in hundreds of arbitrations on a variety of business disputes, and is a member of many of the American Arbitration Association's specialized panels, including its Large and Complex Case Panel, and CPR's Banking, Accounting and Financial Services, Franchise, and Insurance Panels.

Maureen is also qualified to conduct international arbitrations as a Fellow with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Licensed in Arizona since 1996 and New York since 1988, Maureen also practices in state and federal court defending clients in cases and shareholder class actions alleging a wide assortment of business torts.

Clients who find themselves in alternative dispute resolution, also find in Maureen an experienced advocate and arbitrator. Maureen has a unique depth of experience in internal investigations, regulatory investigations, enforcement proceedings, and criminal investigations conducted by federal and state authorities, including the Department of Justice, the SEC, the FDIC, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Arizona Corporation Commission, as well as the major self-regulatory organizations. Maureen has also defended broker-dealers and other securities industry employers in all forms of employment disputes including charges of discrimination and harassment. She is a member of the firm's litigation, alternative dispute resolution, employment and criminal practice groups.

Before moving to Arizona in 1995, Maureen was an associate at the New York office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

Education:
J.D., Fordham University, 1987; Fordham Law Review, Editor-in-Chief, 1986-1987
B.S., State University of New York, Oneonta, 1979

Bar Admissions:
New York, 1988
Arizona, 1996

Dina Biblin

Dina Biblin is a 1978 graduate of George Washington University Law School.  After three years in private practice, she joined the federal government as a trial attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to prosecute what was at that time, the largest futures Ponzi scheme in history.  Over the course of her career, she has worked as a litigator with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, where she now serves as Senior Litigation Counsel.   Ms. Biblin has twenty six years of trial litigation experience in a variety of areas, including real estate, torts, and contract litigation both in the private sector and, for the past twenty years, representing primarily the FDIC and other bank regulatory agencies. 

She has served as an instructor in trial techniques on the faculty at NITA, ALI-ABA, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and the U.S. Department of Justice National Advocacy Center. 

HENRY E. BILLINGSLEY, II

B.A., Columbia University
J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law
 
 PRACTICE AREAS
Trial; Mass Tort & Product Liability; Maritime; Environmental
 
 BAR ADMISSIONS
Ohio
New York
United States District Courts in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and New York
United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Circuits
United States Claims Court
United States Supreme Court

HENRY E. BILLINGSLEY, II is a Partner in the Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis & West.  The majority of his practice is devoted to the defense of products liability, maritime, environmental and toxic tort cases in state and federal courts.  He has litigated cases to completion in Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Florida and Texas.  Henry also has handled the prosecution and defense of commercial cases and assisted in the defense of clients in white-collar criminal investigations.

Following law school, and prior to embarking on the practice of law, Henry served as a deck and engine crewman (Q.M.E.D.) in the United States Merchant Marine, sailing on bulk carriers, container and general cargo ships and tankers on the Great Lakes, coastwise and deep sea.  He is a certified scuba diver. 

Henry was asked recently to assist the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, in the review of a proposed set of model local admiralty rules of the Federal Court, as recommended by the Maritime Law Association of the United States, and prepared revisions to the current local rules. 

 CIVIC & PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Maritime Law Association of the United States, Proctor Member
National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), Faculty Member
Case Western Reserve University, Adjunct Professor of Law, Admiralty
Tucker Ellis & West LLP Community Action Committee, Chair

AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Named as a “Leading Lawyer” and “Super Lawyer” in Ohio and listed in the Best Lawyers in America

Jerry P. Black, Jr.

B.A., 1965, Rhodes College
J.D., 1968, Vanderbilt University

Professor Black has been working in the public interest his entire legal career. He was a staff attorney with Legal Services of Nashville, Director of Clinical Programs and Administrator of Clinical Programs at Vanderbilt University, and Executive Director of the Knoxville Legal Aid Society. Professor Black was Director of the UT Legal Clinic from 1981-86 and Acting Director during 1990-91, the spring of 1993, and the fall of 2002. He remains a member of the clinic faculty.

Professor Black was honored in August 2003 by the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for "his lifetime contribution to teaching the goals, aspirations, and principles of quality criminal defense to his students, peers, and friends at TACDL." He also received the Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy from the Roscoe Pound Institute in 2002.
Professor Black was the recipient of the Harold C. Warner Outstanding
Faculty Service Award in 1991 and 1998 and the Forrest W. Lacey Award in 1996-1997.

Alan Blakley

Alan Blakley practices intellectual property law in Fort Collins, Colorado with a focus on protecting rights through negotiations and litigation. He is admitted to practice in numerous courts and has been litigating simple and complex matters, including national class actions, since 1991. He also teached Internation Dispute Resolution and Protecting Intellectual Property in International Business Transactions in the LLM in International Business Transactions program at Sturm College of Law, University of Denver.  Professor Blakley formerly taught at the University of Montana School of Law and at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He has taught Contracts, Property, Advanced Trial Practice, Civil Procedure and Evidence. Professor Blakley has published numerous books on discovery in civil litigation and the use of electronic information in litigation, as well as articles in both law reviews and popular legal publications on issues ranging from privacy to litigation to the historical federal courtroom in Butte, Montana. As chair of the Federal Litigation Section of the Federal Bar Association and as a member of The Federal Lawyer editorial board, he published a regular column on litigation issues.

Robert Blasco

Robert P. Blasco graduated with honors from the University of Maryland Law School and clerked for the Maryland trial courts. He has practiced law in Alaska since 1977 in all of the Judicial Districts in the Alaska state courts, the Alaska Supreme Court, in the Federal District Court for Alaska, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.

Before entering private practice in 1988, Mr. Blasco served as a Supervising Attorney for the Alaska Legal Services Corporation, as a State Assistant Public Defender, and as a State Assistant District Attorney.  In these positions, Mr. Blasco conducted class action litigation and many jury trials, including trials as long as eight months.

Mr. Blasco’s clients and cases involve business and contract concerns and litigation, construction claims and disputes, products liability and personal injury defense, defense of employers, representation and defense of school districts, medical centers and hospitals, and representation of Alaska Native Corporations in state and federal court. Mr. Blasco has served as trial counsel for the state of Alaska in constitutional challenges to state statutes and in the defense of state agencies.

In addition to his general litigation practice, Mr. Blasco represents many of the small Southeast Alaska municipalities as their Municipal Attorney for municipal matters and in defending the municipalities in litigation.  He has served in that capacity for several of the Alaska municipalities since 1992.

Mr. Blasco began teaching trial advocacy and deposition programs as a member of the National Faculty for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in 1987.  He has taught on several occasions at the National Trial Advocacy session in Colorado, and on a regular basis in the Midwest trial program and the Los Angeles deposition program.   Mr. Blasco served on the faculty for the Northwest Trial Program and at the Emory University Trial program.  He has taught trial advocacy in New Zealand by invitation.    In addition to trial advocacy and deposition programs, Mr. Blasco has taught NITA programs related to expert witnesses and mediation.

Mr. Blasco is AV Rated by Martindale- Hubbell and is an elected fellow in the International Society of Barristers.  He lives on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska with his wife, Dolores.  They have four children in various stages from teenagers to grown and gone.  After thirty years in Alaska, he still roots for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team.

Douglas A. Blaze

B.S., magna cum laude Dickinson College
J.D., summa cum laude, Georgetown University
 Professor Blaze, who received a J.D. summa cum laude degree from Georgetown University, was appointed Dean of the College of Law in 2008.   Professor Blaze joined the Tennessee faculty in 1993 as Director of Clinical Programs and served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2006-2008.  He came to Tennessee from Phoenix, Ariz., where he worked in private practice and later joined the faculty at Arizona State University. Professor Blaze is co-author of The Law of Negligence in Arizona. His work has been published in the Arizona State, Georgetown, Tennessee and William & Mary law reviews. Professor Blaze is the past-chair of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and is a member of several other bar committees. In 2004, Professor Blaze received the Thomas Jefferson Prize. He received the Bass, Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar in 1996 and 2004, the Harold Warner Outstanding Teacher Award in 1997, and the Carden Institutional Service Award in 2000 and 2005.
 
 

SETH BLUM

B.A., Tufts University
J.D., Duke Law School

Seth is a graduate of Tufts University and Duke Law School. He also holds a Master's Degree from the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Studies. Seth is an experienced trial attorney who is licensed and has tried cases in both North Carolina State and Federal Courts. 2009 will mark his fifth year as an assistant team leader with NITA.

John Blumberg

John Blumberg has been practicing tort litigation law in Long Beach for 34 years, specializing in medical and legal malpractice cases. He is A-V rated, Board Certified as a Trial Lawyer by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and Board Certified in Medical Malpractice by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys.  

Mr. Blumberg was a 2005 nominee for Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Trial Lawyer of the Year. He serves on the CAALA Board of Governors and is the CAALA Parliamentarian. He has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates for over 20 years and has achieved the rank of Advocate.  He also serves on the ABOTA National Board of Directors.  Mr. Blumberg has been on the NITA faculty since 1994.

Alan Blumenfeld

Alan Blumenfeld is a working professional actor who makes his living in film, television and theater. He is an Instructor of Theater at Pomona College. For the past three decades, Alan has also been regarded as one of the leading trial consultants in the United States. He specializes in live communication skills based in the discipline of theatre and has been working to make attorneys and witnesses better courtroom communicators since 1977. 

As a teacher of working professional trial lawyers and law students, Alan has taught for scores of continuing legal education colleges such as NITA (since 1986) AAJ (formerly ATLA, since 1986) ABTL, ABA, DRI, CICA as well as many dozens of private law firms and bar associations. Over 30,000 lawyers have taken workshops offered by his company, ACT of Communication. These workshops and other training in trial skills are now available online as streaming courses, in DVD form and as a part of the online school which ACT of Communication offers through its website.

His partner and wife, Katherine James, acknowledged as the preeminent leader in Witness Preparation has been widely published and her articles can be read in the Knowledge Tank on the ACT of Communication? website.  She and her co-founder and husband, Alan Blumenfeld, are proud members of The American Society of Trial Consultants. Alan holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from The American Conservatory Theater.  His older son, Jordan Blumenfeld-James is a plaintiff’s lawyer specializing in meso cases (Simon Greenstone Panatier and Bartlett PC) and his younger son Nathan Blumenfeld-James is a professional rock and roll musician (earlymorningrebel.com and his previous band Julietheband.com). 

For a complete CV, please look on the ACT of Communication’s website: www.actofcommunication.com and on Alan’s IMDB page
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0089781/

Kurt R. Bockes
Kurt R. Bockes represents and advises clients in all aspects of employment law, including the litigation of claims involving:
? Employment discrimination
? Wrongful termination
? Harassment
? Retaliation
? Unfair competition and trade secrets
? Wage and hour issues
? Title VII
? The California Fair Employment and Housing Act
He also represents clients in employment class actions, and appears regularly in California state and federal courts.
Additionally, Kurt advises and counsels employers regarding equal employment practices, employee discipline and termination, and wage and hour compliance. He has represented a variety of clients including airlines, security companies, financial companies, retail, technology, and real estate companies.
He also has served as a member of the Hiring Committee at Littler Mendelson, and oversaw the work assignments for first year associates.
Prior to joining Littler, Kurt was an associate at another law firm where he was a member of the litigation and employment practice groups. During law school, he clerked for the Honorable Moria Krueger, Dane County Circuit Court, Madison, Wisconsin. He also was the vice president of the Wisconsin Law School Moot Court Board.
Professional and Community Affiliations
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Bar Association of San Francisco
Education
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School, 1993
M.A., Michigan State University, 1988
B.S., Michigan State University, 1984

Borgen, Lori

Professor Borgen has worked on fair housing and other public interest concerns throughout her career. She litigated landlord-tenant and other housing issues with Brooklyn Legal Services, Corp. B. She then served as the Gibbons Fellow at Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger and Vecchione, P.C., where she engaged in impact litigation on welfare reform, racial profiling by New Jersey police, domestic violence, and governmentsubsidized housing. Even while engaged in a full time practice at Gibbons, she found time to teach a course on low-income housing and community development at Seton Hall. After her Gibbons Fellowship concluded, Professor Borgen worked as the senior staff attorney with the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C. Professor Borgen received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A., with honors, from Harvard College. She also clerked for the Honorable Joseph E. Irenas in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

CARL M. BORNSTEIN

Carl Bornstein is a lawyer in private practice in New York City. He has been engaged in complex civil and criminal litigation and investigations throughout his career in both the private sector and in government service. He has taught trial advocacy at NITA for 30 years. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he teaches investigative techniques for the Masters in Public Administration–Inspection & Oversight (IG) program.

 Mr. Bornstein has represented clients in criminal tax, securities and insurance fraud cases, against copyright violations, and in professional disciplinary proceedings, among others. He also has been a member of several monitoring teams including those concerning: a major bank’s compliance with the Global Research Settlement Agreement; the assessment and evaluation of the MTA’s integrity and procurement controls; and the investigative practices and procedures of Hewlett Packard.

 In July 2007, Mr. Bornstein became a founder, the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Executive Director of the Fortress Monitoring Group (“FMG”), a joint venture. Since then, he has directed the activity of FMG as the Integrity Monitor for the $3 billion construction of 1World Trade Center reporting to the Inspector General of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. FMG actively monitors and investigates in order to prevent fraud or corruption and coordinates effective actions with the Inspector General’s Office if such conduct is detected.

 Mr. Bornstein is a former (1999-2002) Inspector General of the New York City School Construction Authority (SCA-IG) where he managed a $4.5 million budget and a staff of 47, including investigators, auditors, lawyers and analysts. As the SCA-IG he reported directly to its Chairman of the Board and President about integrity matters, major on-site accidents, and construction deficiencies. He was accountable for the pre-qualification integrity screening of contractors and supervised the SCA-IG’s participation in joint investigations with both United States Attorneys’ Offices in New York City, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, and the New York State Organized Crime Task Force.

 His earlier public service included 12 years trying major organized crime and public corruption cases as both a Special Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Offices in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and as a state prosecutor. He served as a Bronx County Assistant District Attorney (Chief of the Rackets Bureau) and subsequently became the Queens County Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney. Thereafter, he was appointed as the Executive Special Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the N.Y.S. Special Prosecutor Investigating Corruption in the New York City Criminal Justice System.

 He is a member of the New York City Bar Association, where he has been active in the judicial selection process as a member of both its Judiciary and Criminal Courts Committees; the New York State Bar Association where he was active on its Federal Constitution and Legislative Committee; the American Bar Association; and the International Association of Independent Private Sector Inspectors General.

 Mr. Bornstein is a graduate of New York University and the Brooklyn Law School where he served as an editor of the Law Review. He was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army Reserve, Military Police Corps.

Contact information: 212-422-4500 | cbornstein@carlbornstein.com

Jude D. Bourque
Assistant Attorney General
Department of Justice
Litigation Division
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Jude D. Bourque is an Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice in Louisiana who specializes in Medical Malpractice Defense.  He graduated from Tulane Law School [Class of 1987] having served on the Tulane Maritime Law Review and Tulane Moot Court Board.  He is a graduate of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

The National Institute for Trial Advocacy awarded Mr. Bourque the Volunteer of the Year Award in 2010 for volunteering over 100 hours at NITA Public Service and Public Programs in 2010.  He has taught trial advocacy programs across the nation in both public program and in-house programs for international law firms.

Mr. Bourque is a member of the Medical/Legal Interprofessional Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association and a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation.  He has volunteered and coached for several Trial Advocacy teams at the LSU School of Law. 

In June 2012, Mr. Bourque was the Program Director of the Louisiana Legal Services NITA Trial Skills Program sponsored by the Louisiana Bar Foundation.

Community Involvement:

He has worked with many civic organizations in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge communities including the Baton Rouge Kiwanis Club (Distinguished President, Distinguished Lt. Governor, chair Youth Service Committee), Big Buddy Board of Directors (co-chair fundraiser 2007), International Hospitality Foundation (President, 2006-07), the Baton Rouge Bar Association, Public Law Committee and the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce Leadership Alumni Board (President, 2011-12).  He has also worked with the Capital Area United Way 2008 “50 for the Future” campaign and on the Community Fund for the Arts cabinet (2009).

AARON P. BRADFORD
B.A., Arizona State University
J.D., University of Denver Strurm College of Law

AREA OF Focus
Mr. Bradford is a civil trial attorney. Mr. Bradford's national trial practice focuses on complex commercial, product liability, professional liability, mass tort and intellectual property litigation. Mr. Bradford also works with clients in the area of risk management and litigation avoidance. He has tried fifteen complex matters to verdict and litigated hundreds of matters to successful resolution. Prior to joining Hensley Kim & Holzer, he was a shareholder and manager of a prominent trial firm. Mr. Bradford draws upon his legal expertise and business experience when advising clients regarding the many issues encountered during the course of a lawsuit. In partnership with his clients, Mr. Bradford utilizes his experience, creativity and the immense resources at HKH to develop a litigation strategy that best serves the client's variable needs and interests. Whether the case is destined for the courtroom or early resolution, Mr. Bradford thrives on the challenge of developing and presenting a compelling and persuasive argument that a jury and/or opposing counsel can digest and trust. Clients appreciate the unique blend of imagination, professionalism and advocacy that Mr. Bradford brings to every case, as reflected below:
Secured a landlord's dismissal from a multi-million dollar mold exposure case after establishing a lack of scientific connection between the injury and the offending flora.
Developed and successfully implemented a litigation strategy that focused upon enforcement of an assigned brokerage agreement that provided the leverage to resolve other disputes without litigation.
Secured Court-ordered dismissals in multi-million dollar cases even after my clients admitted liability under oath.
Secured a jury verdict for a client after admitting liability during trial.
The plaintiff was seeking $10 million in compensatory damages.
Secured favorable orders from various courts causing the creation of a new defense in professional liability matters. The defense has subsequently been used to obtain favorable settlements and dismissals.
Counseled corporations and individuals on risk management techniques.
Lectured to trade organizations on litigation management and risk avoidance.
Lead trial counsel for national and regional insurance companies.
 
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Shareholder, Manager, Pryor Johnson Carney Karr Nixon, P.c.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Young Lawyer ofthe Year, Denver Bar Association, 2008 SuperLaywer, Colorado, Rising Star, Litigation, 2008
Aaron P. Bradford (continued)
Outstanding Scholar, College of Architecture, 1996
Champion, Daniel S. Hoffman Moot Court Trial Competition, 1998 Champion, DU vs. CU Mock Trial Competition, 1998
Champion, Phillip C. Jessup International Law Competition, 1998
 
LEGAL VOLUNTEERISM
Vice President, Second, Denver Bar Association 2009-2010.
Co-Chair, Denver Bar Association's uWHEELSOFJUSTICE/' a team of riders participating in the Denver Children's Hospital's Courage Classic and raising money to benefit the Denver Children's Hospital, 2006- present.
Chair, Colorado Pledge to Diversity, 2007 - present.
Board of Directors, Colorado Lawyers Committee, 2007 - present.
Board of Directors, Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence, 2006- present.
Chair, Community Action Network, Denver Bar Association, 2006 - 2008.
Judge, University of Denver's Moot Court and Mock Trial Competitions, 1999 -
present.
 
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presenter, Legislative, Appellate and Regulatory Update along with discussion of Hot Topics in Obstetrical Litigation, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Colorado Permanente Medical Group, May 21,2008.
Instructor, la-Day National Trial Skills, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY, April 27 - May 4,2008, Broomfield, Colorado.
Invited Presenter, Grand Rounds, Litigation Risks associated with Remote Management of Labor and Shoulder Dystocia, St. Joseph Hospital Residency Program, 2007.
Invited Presenter, "Hot Topics in Obstetrics & Gynecology", Colorado Gynecological & Obstetrical Society's Annual Conference, Aspen, Colorado, June 22-23, 2007.
Presenter and Instructor, "Irony, Humor and Imagery - Controlling Juror Perceptions in the Courtroom", lO-Day National Trial Skills, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY, May 2-12, 2007, Broomfield, Colorado.

EDUCATION
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, J.D., 1999, Order of St. Ives.
Arizona State University, 1996, summa cum laude

LICENSURE AND ADMISSIONS
State of Colorado
United States Federal District Court for the State of Colorado
United States Federal District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Kate Braner received her Bachelors’ degree from Bowling Green State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude with Honors in 1990.  She earned her law degree from Yale Law School in 1993 where she was an editor on the Law Review.  She was admitted to the Washington, D.C. Bar in 1993 and the California Bar in 1994.

After law school, she joined a Washington, D.C. firm specializing in white collar criminal appellate litigation.  In 1994, she joined the San Diego County Public Defender Office where over the last seventeen years she has become an experienced trial attorney handling complex felonies including capital cases. 

Most recently, she has been the Assistant Supervisor for the Central Misdemeanor Unit as well as Director of Internship and Post Bar Programs.  She is also the Director of and instructor for “Trial Skills Academy”, a comprehensive trial advocacy program for new attorneys and post bar clerks for the Public Defender Office.

Ms. Braner has also been a participant in and instructor for NITA.  She is a trial skills instructor for California Public Defender Association and a guest lecturer at University of San Diego School of Law, California Western School of Law, and Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she presents on substantive law topics, trial advocacy, and career development.

Jeffrey A. Brauer

Jeffrey A. Brauer, a partner at Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP in Cleveland, Ohio, is an experienced trial lawyer who has handled numerous trials, arbitrations, testimonial hearings, and oral arguments. He has also argued appellate matters addressing an array of business disputes. Mr. Brauer has been involved in almost every kind of commercial litigation, but has particular experience in handling high-end construction matters representing owners and general contractors with complex disputes. Additionally, he frequently represents lenders, secured creditors, general creditors, equipment lessors, and debtors in commercial foreclosures, complex receivership proceedings, and in bankruptcy court. Mr. Brauer has been recognized as an “Up and Coming Lawyer,” a “Rising Star,” and as a “Top Rated Lawyer” by various trade publications, and is AV® Preeminent™ Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He is admitted to practice law in Ohio and Illinois.

Actively engaged in his community,  Mr. Brauer serves as Pro Bono Committee Chair at Hahn Loeser. He founded Ohio’s Wills for Heroes, an organization providing free wills to police, firefighters, and other first responders; and in 2009, was recognized for these efforts by the Ohio State Bar Foundation with its statewide Community Service Award for Attorneys 40 and Under. Mr. Brauer also serves as vice president and board member of the Fine Arts Association in Willoughby, Ohio. A frequent speaker and writer, he is actively involved in the leadership of the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, and has been a part of the NITA faculty for several years.

Mr. Brauer resides in the Cleveland area with his wife and sons.

Thomas J. Breen

SCHROETER GOLDMARK & BENDER 
800-809-2234 | Seattle: 206-622-8000 
www.sgb-law.com | www.sgb-abogados.com
810 Third Avenue, Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98104

Asbestos-Mesothelioma | Product Liability | Serious Accidents
Tom Breen focuses his practice at SGB on representing those injured from products and other serious personal injury matters. He is known among his peers as an outstanding trial attorney and fierce advocate for his clients, with the ability and passion to litigate complex cases against the toughest opponents.
Background and experience
Tom began his law career as a Deputy King County Prosecutor where he first-chaired scores of trials to verdict.  Prior to joining SGB, he was lead counsel for the litigation team of a boutique law firm, and worked at a commercial litigation firm, where he tried a variety of cases in court and at arbitration.
Tom is fluent in Spanish and volunteers his time at a Hispanic legal clinic.  He also serves on the faculties of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the University of Washington School of Law, instructing lawyers and law students on trial advocacy.  
Prior to law school Tom completed two years of public service with Teach for America, and taught college in Spain and in San Francisco, California.  During law school Tom clerked for celebrated trial attorney Dick DeGuerin and was the recipient of a Caine fellowship, which sent him to Latin America to work on environmental law issues for Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin.
Professional and Civic Involvement
"Rising Star" Washington Law & Politics 2010, 2011, 2012
Speaker, WSBA, Evidence and Objection Skills Boot Training CLE: "How to Prepare for the Unexpected at Trial" 2011
Speaker, WSBA, Jury Selection and Other Jury Skills CLE:  "How to Avoid Having 12 Angry Jurors: The Fundamentals for Excelling In Front of a Jury" 2010
Speaker, King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office "Effective Cross Examination" 2011
Member of the William L. Dwyer American Inn of Courts
Adjunct Faculty, University of Washington School of Law, Trial Advocacy
Faculty Member, National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Mock Trial Coach, University of Washington, American Association of Justice competition
Faculty member, University of San Francisco 1997-1998
Faculty member, La Universidad Europea de Madrid 1996-1997
Literacy Academy Director for Latin American immigrant students, Redwood City 1996-1997
Advisory Board Member, Stand for Children, Washington State Chapter
Let us help you
If you’re facing a tough legal battle, call on SGB. We focus our practice on representing people, not corporations, and we’ll give you the respect you deserve. Visit us online at sgb-law.com or call us anytime at 206-622-8000.

Cary A. Bricker

B.A., University of Rochester
J.D., Boston University

Professor Bricker comes to Pacific McGeorge from the Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia, where she was director of the highest-rated Trial Advocacy program in the country. She began her legal career as a staff attorney with the New York Legal Aid Society, Criminal Division, taking 20 jury trials to verdict in four years. As a senior staff attorney with the Federal Defender Division of the Legal Aid Society, she tried 25 jury trials to verdict. While working in New York City, she served as a trial advocacy adjunct professor of law at Fordham University, provided guest commentary for numerous Court TV trials, and joined the National Institute for Trial Advocacy as a faculty member teaching in regional programs, the national session and numerous law firms. She became an associate professor at Temple in 2002, teaching Trial Advocacy and Advanced Trial Advocacy as well as coaching the law school’s top-ranked competition team. Professor Bricker was voted Professor of the Year in 2006 by The Pacific McGeorge Day and Evening Division.

Lisa Vincler Brock

Lisa Vincler Brock received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1979, her law degree from Seattle University School of Law in 1982, and her M.A. in Bioethics from the University of Washington in 2000.

Ms. Brock has been a WA. State Assistant Attorney General since 1982. She represented the Department of Social and Health Services (SHS) from 1982-1986 handling child abuse, elder abuse, and support enforcement cases. She represented the Department Labor and Industries (L&I) from 1986-1990 handling industrial insurance litigation. She then represented the University of Washington (UW) and its teaching hospitals (Harborview and UW Medical Centers) from1990-2001 handling a variety of health law issues. In December 1991, she returned to L&I Division where she handles some litigation and is the Seattle Section Chief supervising 26 attorneys and coordinating management of 30 other staff, e.g. paralegals and assistants. 

She briefed and argued appellate cases for each of the three state agencies (SHS, L&I, UW) she has represented.  Within the Attorney General’s Office she has been a speaker and committee member for continuing legal education programs. Ms. Brock has also spoken at national, state, and local health care/higher education law forums.  Her volunteer activities have included: Board Member for the WA. State Society of Healthcare Attorneys; Committee Member for the National Association of College and University Attorneys; Chair for the Interprofessional Committee of the WA. State Bar Association; and Committee Member for Swedish Medical Center's Institutional Review Board. In 1997, the UW School of Medicine appointed her an honorary Faculty Associate in its Department of Medical History and Ethics. 

She has published articles in a variety of forums including: the Washington Law Review (1996); The Journal of College and University Law (1994); The Journal of Health and Hospital Law (1997); and has been a contributing author to medical/higher education/health law texts on legal/bioethics issues for Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice, 2nd and 3rd eds. (1999, 2004), Office Andrology (2005), Intellectual Property Issues in Higher Education: A Legal Compendium, 2nd ed. (2001), The IACUC Handbook (2000), WA. Health Law Manual, 1st and 2nd eds. (1996, 1998), UW School of Medicine continuing education website (1998, 2005, and current update in peer review), and a credited reviewer of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (final report-2002).

Jim Brosnahan has played every role with NITA, since it’s beginnings from veteran faculty member to NITA Board of Trustees member.  As an active NITA teacher, Jim delights NITA participants of the Hanley Advanced Advocates Program with his recall of the “Greek rhetorical roots” of the practice of trial law. Jim maintains an active trial practice in both criminal and civil matters as a senior partner with Morrison & Foerster, LLP.  He has tried approximately 141 jury cases in a broad variety of cases from perjury to patents and murder to maritime.

Broun, Jonathan

B.Ph..Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1987
J.D., University of North Carolina, 1991

Mr. Broun has been a staff attorney with the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham, North Carolina since 1996.  Mr. Broun is currently CDPL’s Training Director.  From 1991 through 1996, Mr. Broun was an assistant public defender in Fayetteville, NC.  In 1987 and 1988 he served as an investigator with the Office of the Capital Collateral Representative in Tallahassee, Florida. 

Mr. Broun has tried numerous criminal jury trials, including six capital cases.  He has also represented numerous individuals on capital direct appeals, state post-conviction, and federal habeas cases and before the governor in clemency proceedings.  Mr. Broun has taught at death penalty trial advocacy programs in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina.  He is program director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s Capital Trial program and its Southeast Regional Program.  He also teaches trial advocacy at the University of North Carolina Law School.  

In 2001, Mr. Broun drafted the certiorari petition to the United States Supreme Court in the case of McCarver v. North Carolina, the case where the United States Supreme Court initially agreed to revisit the issue of whether it was appropriate to execute the mentally retarded.

Mr. Broun lives in Carrboro, North Carolina and is married to one of Carrboro=s aldermen, Joal Hall Broun.  They have two children, Harrison and Rachel.  He is self-appointed official arbitrator between Harrison and Rachel.  The family’s dog, Fida, attended obedience school in 1997 and is two classes short of graduation.

Contact Information:
jonathan@cdpl.org

Jessica Brown

Jessica Brown began work as a trial attorney at the United States Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor in September 2007.  Jessica graduated with honors from Bates College with a B.A. in American Cultural Studies and is a 2001 cum laude graduate of Temple Law School.  Prior to joining the Solicitor’s Office, Jessica was a staff attorney at the Defender Association of Philadelphia.  While at the Defender Association she tried numerous jury and bench trials, representing clients charged with both misdemeanor and felony offenses.  At the Solicitor’s Office, Jessica has handled a range of cases in the MSHA, OSHA, ERISA, and OFCCP programs. 

Henry Brown

J.D., University of San Francisco
B.A., Auburn University

As director of advocacy programs at USF, Assistant Professor Brown oversees all advocacy programs, both trial and appellate. He has taught at numerous law schools, including Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. His courses include: Evidence, Law & Literature, and Constitutional Law.

Brown is the co-director of the Western Trial and Deposition Programs offered by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and recipient of NITA's 2009 Hon. Robert Keeton Faculty Award. He has instructed NITA courses for more than 18 years, including public service programs in Africa.

Prior Experience
• Of Counsel, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
• Associate, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati
• Adjunct Professor, Stanford Law School
• Visiting Professor, East China University of Politics and Law
• Law Clerk, Hon. Barbara A. Caulfield, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Frederick Brown

Mr. Brown is a trial lawyer concentrating his practice on complex commercial and class action trials as well as patent, trademark and trade secret, and antitrust litigations.  He has tried dozens of civil and criminal cases.  Mr. Brown has extensive experience in civil, multi-district litigation and often coordinates the work of counsel in multiple jurisdictions.  He is frequently asked to “fix” problem cases where current counsel is being replaced or supplemented before trial.  Mr. Brown has led teams in cases litigated in federal or state courts in, California, Delaware, Idaho, New York, Oregon, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Utah and Washington.  He also has significant experience in representing major corporations in prosecuting cases as a plaintiff.  Mr. Brown worked on criminal matters as a federal criminal investigator and as a prosecutor with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office on a public service leave of absence.

Mr. Brown is Partner-in-Charge of the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn.

He teaches trial skills for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and for the Intensive Advocacy Program at the University of San Francisco School of Law.  He has also been a guest lecturer at Boalt Hall on trial techniques and has taught advocacy skills for the Practicing Law Institute.

Stephen P. Brunner
Education:  University of Texas at El Paso, B.S., Clardy-Fox Fellow; University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D.

Experience:  Steve has been a litigator since 1980 and a trial lawyer since 1981.  Steve's jury-trial work began as second chair in three federal trials in San Francisco and Sacramento in successful defense of statutory and tort claims arising under federal securities law and common law.  Steve was lucky enough to have his first, first-chair jury trial in 1984 in Alameda County Superior Court in successful defense of a bank and its officers against lender liability claims.  He co-founded Angell, Brunner & Angell in San Francisco in 1988.  Steve has briefed and successfully argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (respondent) and the California Court of Appeal (appellant).  He holds an "AV" rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has held this rating since first being rated by members of the judiciary and his peers in 1992.  Steve continues to practice in Superior Courts in the greater Bay Area and Northern California, in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of California, and in the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California.   He is experienced in resolving matters in all forms of alternative dispute resolution, and was a resolution advocate for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California from 1995 to 2005.  Steve began teaching for NITA in 2006.  Other than trying cases, the most enjoyment Steve takes from his profession is teaching trial and deposition skills.

Bonnie Bulla

Bonnie A. Bulla was appointed Discovery Commi9ssioner for the Eighth Judicial District Court in January 2007.  She graduated from Arizona State University with a B.S. degree in Economics in 1984 and a J.D. degree in 1987.  She has been a member of the Nevada Bar since 1987, practicing primarily civil law with a concentration in the area of professional negligence defense.

She was a member of the American Bar Association where she served as Speaker of the Young Lawyers Division.  She was a past president of the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys.  She has also been a member of the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association and the Defense Research Institute.

Ms. Bulla has conducted several seminars including “Nursing Documentation and Related Issues” for the staff at Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital, “The Medical Dental Screening Panel Process” to both the Clark County Bar Association and the National Business Institute, and “Physician Profiling” to the American College of Legal Medicine. 

Burns, Robert P.
 
Mr. Burns directs the following program: Deposition Skills: Midwest

Robert Burns is a professor of law and litigation attorney in the Northwestern University Legal Clinic. He teaches courses in evidence, civil procedure, professional responsibility, health care law, and the philosophy of law. In 1996, and again in 1998, he was awarded the Robert Childress Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence and in 1997 was elected the outstanding Professor of a Small Class. The Class of 1997 elected him to give the "Last Lecture" on the day before graduation. He is Program Director for the Law School's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Concentration and has been both Perkins-Bauer Teaching Professor and Stanford Clinton, Sr. Research Professor. His current research interests focus on the theory of the trial and on professional responsibility.

Professor Burns is a National Institute for Trial Advocacy Distinguished Faculty Member, having taught for the preeminent continuing legal education organization since 1982. He is a principal architect of Northwestern's unique coordinated program in Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Trial Advocacy and is co-author of Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy, Vols. I & II, Exercises and Problems in Professional Responsibility, and essays and articles on trial, evidence, professional responsibility, mediation, and legal philosophy.

Contact Information:
r-burns@northwestern.edu

Cal Burnton

Cal Burnton is a partner in the Litigation Department of Wildman Harrold.  Cal has earned a national reputation for coordinating, managing, and defending complex product liability and mass toxic tort cases with a special emphasis on high-risk matters involving novel legal, scientific, and environmental theories.  Over his 25-year career, Cal has litigated and won numerous complex product liability cases for leading manufacturers and sellers of products such as health care appliances, medical devices, electrical equipment, firearms, printing presses, industrial machinery, and power tools.  Cal is also a trusted counselor to his clients, advising them on issues regarding product liability, product safety, and related matters.  Throughout the years, he has represented corporate clients in both federal and state courts in almost every state across the country.  He is also a frequent lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has presented seminars on product liability issues in Japan and the University of Warwick in England, as well as for an association of heavy equipment manufacturers and for various insurance companies.

As lead trial and coordinating counsel, defends chemical manufacturers in numerous lawsuits in Mississippi alleging environmental contamination leading to health and property damage.  The suit was brought by residents living near client’s chemical plant.  Involved in similar trial in West Virginia involving class action issues and medical monitoring.

Represents manufacturer of creosote and pentachlorephenal in ongoing national defense coordination for numerous toxic tort matters filed across the country
As national counsel for Smith & Wesson, coordinated, managed, and defended numerous product liability cases alleging claims of wrongful death, hearing loss, and shooting injuries

As lead counsel, defended manufacturer of water tank liner against allegations that the client contaminated water at a community housing facility; case involved claims of medical monitoring on behalf of several hundred present and past residents

As coordinating counsel, represented manufacturers of rifles and shotguns against various product liability claims.  Achieved successful defense verdict in trial in Anchorage, Alaska in 2003.  Defended other cases in Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Defended several claims involving hearing loss issues, involving products such as police sirens, firearms, and flares

Defended corporations in cases involving licensing and trademark issues, including cases in Florida, West Virginia, and Illinois

Represents foreign corporation in claims asserting veil piercing theories of liability for environmental toxic tort claims brought against acquired subsidiary company

Counsels clients on national and international product safety issues, warning issues, FIFRA compliance, and drafting Material Safety Data Sheets

Defended manufacturers of various types of products in product liability claims in numerous state and federal courts across the country; defended products include excavators, food cooking equipment, paper slitters and rewinders, wood cutting equipment, pharmaceuticals, and police equipment

Reported Decisions
Stephen Whaley v. Sturm Ruger & Company, Inc., Superior Court for the State of Alaska, No. 97-03022
Beck v. Koppers, et al. Northern District of MS 2006 U.S. Dist. Lexis 17866, 2006 U.S. Dist. Lexis 16168, 2006 U.S. Dist. Lexis 16099, 2005 U.S. Dist. Lexis 26613
Koppers v. Crowder, 2005 Miss. Lexis 376 (2005)
Camden County Bd. v. Berretta, 273 F.3d 536 (3d Cir. 2001)
Young v. Bryco Arms, 327 Ill. App.3d 948 (1st Dist. Ill. 2001)
White v. Smith & Wesson, 97 F. Supp. 2d 816 (N.D. Ohio 2000)
Copier v. Smith & Wesson Corp., 138 F.3d 833 (10th Cir. 1998)
Treadway v. Smith & Wesson Corp., 950 F.Supp. 1326 (E.D. Mich 1996)
Hamilton v. Accu-Tek, 935 F. Supp 1307 (E.D. N.Y. 1996)
Riordan v. Int. Armament, 132 Ill. App. 3d 642 (1983)
Linton v. Smith & Wesson, 127 Ill. App. 3d 676 (1983)

Publications and Presentations
Author, “New Standard Helps Manufacturers Meet Duty to Warn in Product Manuals,” IndustryWeek, October 22, 2008.
Author, “ Expanding The Duty To Warn In Wash. Liability Cases,” Product Liability Law360, October 21, 2008.
Author, “Much-Needed Guidance For Product Safety Manuals,” Product Liability Law360, October 16, 2008.
Author, “Danger Ahead - Caution Needed When Defending Company Witnesses, ” Product Liability Law & Strategy, Vol. 28 (4), October 2008.
Author, “Narrowing the Field in Mass Torts: The Lone Pine Solution,” Toxic Torts Verdict Reports, March 2008.
Instructor, Seminars on Product Liability and Warnings & Instructions, University of Wisconsin, spring and fall semesters, 1990–present.
Instructor, 15th and 18th Product Liability Conference, University of Wisconsin. November 2003 and November 2006.
Regular Lecturer and Speaker, Product Liability and Defense Group, spring and fall, 1988–present.
Instructor, “Using Safety Manuals To Avoid Litigation,” July 1998.
Speaker, “Avoidance of Liability,” European AIRMEC Conference, University of Warwick, England, 1997.
Speaker, “Product Liability and Accident Prevention,” Japan Risk Management Association; Tokyo, Japan; August 1991–1992, October 1995, October 1999.
Speaker, “Risk Management and Product Liability,” Nippon Fire and Marine Insurance Company Ltd.; Tokyo, Japan; October 1993.

Personal Information
Cal resides in Arlington Heights, Illinois with his wife and four children.  He is a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin and is a proud owner of the Green Bay Packers.

Douglas K. Burrell

Mr. Burrell has been a practicing trial lawyer for 18 years. He developed comprehensive experience while serving as first chair on more than 40 jury trials and more than 100 bench trials. He has also taken and defended hundreds of depositions.

His practice consists of civil defense litigation with an emphasis on wrongful death and catastrophic injury, construction law, premises liability, transportation and trucking law and product liability. Mr. Burrell uses his substantial trial experience to counsel companies in evaluating the options and strategies for trial, including the use of mediation.

He has developed particular experience with national retailers, manufacturers, companies in the food & beverage industry, commercial trucking and transportation companies, furniture and construction companies.

Mr. Burrell began his legal career in Cedar Rapids, Iowa practicing in a distinguished civil litigation firm. He later became a Prosecutor where he obtained extensive jury trial experience. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Burrell worked in the Macon, Georgia City Attorney’s office where he assisted in resolving various issues involving federal and state legislation and local ordinances.

He also participated in negotiations with the National Basketball Association to place one of the first NBA Developmental League teams in Macon, Georgia. While an undergraduate student, Mr. Burrell was a two time letter winner on the University of Iowa football team and played in the 1986 Rose Bowl.

Mr. Burrell is Chair of DRI's Diversity Steering Committee, has been active on the planning committee for DRI’s Diversity for Success Seminar and Corporate Expo since 2007 and serves as co-chair of Drew Eckl & Farnham's Diversity Committee. He continues to serve as Faculty and is the Vice Chair for the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association’s Trial Academy and serves as Faculty for NITA’s Deposition Skills Program.

Education
University of Iowa College of Law, JD, 1994
University of Iowa College of Business, MBA, 1994
University of Iowa, BA Communications, 1986

Court Admissions
Iowa, 1995
Georgia, 2001
Supreme Court of Georgia
Georgia Court of Appeals
US District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia
US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

Memberships
DRI
National Bar Association
Georgia Defense Lawyers Association

Practice Areas
Commercial Transportation Law
General Casualty Law
Commercial Law
Construction Litigation

THE HONORABLE BEATRICE A. BUTCHKO

Hon. Beatrice Butchko is a Circuit Court judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade, where she serves as a trial judge in the extended trial division of the civil court.  She received her B.S. Degree from the University of Florida in 1986 and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in 1989.  Judge Butchko was appointed to the Circuit Court on December 20, 2005 and served in the Juvenile Dependency and Circuit Criminal divisions prior to her present assignment.  Before becoming a Circuit Court Judge, Ms. Butchko began her legal career as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County from 1989-2000 where she tried over 80 jury trials and was a member of the Organized Crime Unit, served as Assistant Chief of the Career Criminal Unit and served as a Division Chief trying homicide cases.  Judge Butchko entered private practice as an associate with Kaye, Rose & Maltzman, LLP, 2000-2001 where she practiced maritime law.  In 2001 she joined Ferrell Shultz, PA where she practiced commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense and family law.  From 2003-2005 Judge Butchko was a partner with the international firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, LLP where she practiced commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense. While in private practice Judge Butchko received an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell.  She also served as Special Counsel to the Florida Judicial Qualifications commission from 2001-2005 and served The Florida Bar as a member, Vice Chair and Chairperson of a Florida Bar Disciplinary Grievance Committee from 2003- 2005. In addition to her duties on the bench, Judge Butchko is a dedicated instructor of trial advocacy.  She is an adjunct professor at the University Of Miami School Of Law, Litigation Skills department since 2004 and also teaches trial advocacy as a visiting adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law since 2009.  Judge Butchko is on the faculty of the Florida Judicial College.  In terms of community service, Judge Butchko is a mock trial coach for Our Lady of Lourdes Academy High School; is on the Miami-Dade Pro Bono Committee; serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Red Cross; is active in Big Brothers Big Sisters and is a Eucharistic Minister at St. Patrick Catholic Church on Miami Beach.

Jeff Byer

Jeff Byer has a broad litigation practice which is focused primarily on the representation of plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of complex commercial and real estate disputes.  Jeff began his practice in 1990 after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law).  From 1990 to 2000, he was an associate and then partner with the law firm of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves and Savitch LLP.  Since 2000, Jeff has been a partner with Sandler, Lasry, Laube, Byer & Valdez LL.  Jeff has represented individual and institutional clients in all phases of litigation, including jury trials, court trials and arbitrations.  In addition to his work with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Jeff has served as a Judge Pro Tem for the San Diego Small Claims Court and recently completed a 3-year term as a Commissioner on the California State Bar Judicial Nominees Evaluation (JNE Commission). 

MARK S. CALDWELL

Mr. Caldwell is Public Program Development and Resource Director for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. In this role he designs, administers, and teaches at a wide variety of NITA’s advocacy skills programs, including the Rocky Mountain Building Trial Skills Program, The Rocky Mountain Deposition Skills Program, the on-line Deposition Skills Programs, and NITA’s Faculty Training Programs. His past work also includes many of NITA’s specialty programs, including Bankruptcy Litigation, Family Law, Patent Litigation, and Tax Court Litigation. Mark Caldwell also serves as Program Director for some of NITA’s pro bono efforts, including programs to Native American lay advocates, lawyers working for legal service and public service organizations, including courses for lawyers working in juvenile settings and domestic violence cases.

Included among his published works are NITA case files and problems, NITA’s Faculty Training Manual, and law review articles on both international law and continuing legal education. He lectures on continuing and adult education and advocacy skills on a national basis, including presentations to the Association of Continuing Legal Education Administrators, the Colorado Women’s Bar Association, and Stetson University College of Law.

Mark Caldwell has worked as a consultant with a number of organizations and law firms in the development, administration and marketing of continuing education courses, including the American Bar Association, Professional Education Systems, Inc. He served as Assistant Dean of the University of Denver College of Law and as Executive Director of Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc.

Mark Caldwell volunteers his time in a variety of forms. He has served as a member of the Water Board for the town of Shawnee, Colorado and the Board of Directors for The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People. He was a member of the State Board of Education Advisory Committee on Gifted and Talented Education. He shares his time in working with high school students who compete in the Colorado Bar Association’s Mock Trial Competition.

Mr. Caldwell earned his J.D. from the University of Denver. He has been recognized for his work as teacher, program designer and administrator, receiving NITA’s Robert Oliphant Award for Service (2001) and Hon. Prentice Marshall Award for Excellence in the Creation of Education Techniques (2009), the University of Denver’s Institute for Advance Legal Studies Educator of the Year Award (1999), and recognition from the Colorado Asian American Bar Association, and the American Bar Association Section of Family Law.

Contact Information:
mcaldwell@nita.org

Kevin M. Camp

Kevin Camp received his undergraduate degree from the University of Houston with a bachelor of science in Economics and a minor in Finance.  In 2008, Kevin received his Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law.  While in law school, he served as President of the Board of Advocates and represented the school across the nation in several different varsity trial competitions.  While attending South Texas College of Law and competing in these mock trials, Kevin achieved several awards and accomplishments, including; Champion in the 2007 National White Collar Crime competition at Georgetown in Washington D.C., Champion of the 2007 T. Gerald Treece Summer Mock Trial Academy Competition, semi-finalist in the 2008 ABA Criminal Trial in Chicago, multiple Speaking awards, Advocacy scholarships and service awards.
 
He continues to stay involved in the advocacy program by working with law students as a varsity mock trial coach at South Texas College of Law and an Adjunct Professor in Mock Trial Litigation.  In September of 2010, Kevin had the privilege of graduating from the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyer’s College in Wyoming. 

Kevin opened a solo-practice in Houston, in 2010, where he represented clients in personal injury and other general business litigation matters.  He began working for Jones Granger, which is approved and designated by railway trade labor unions, in June of 2012, and he is devoted to protecting the right to a trial by jury.
 

E. Michael Canges
Senn Visciano Canges, P.C.
1801 California Street, Suite 4300
Denver, Colorado  80202
Telephone:  (303) 298-1122
Email: canges@sennlaw.com
  

EDUCATION: University of Denver (B.A., 1962; J.D., 1965).

LECTURER: Faculty Member, National Institute of Trial Advocacy since 1988 - Present; 

 Lecturer at Law, University of Denver College of Law, 1986-1989;

Lecturer and Seminar Presenter: Continuing Legal Education, Colorado Bar Association; Colorado Trial Lawyers Association; National Center for Continuing Legal Education; SMH Colorado Bar Review (ethics, family law).

 Papers Presented/Seminars in recent years:

• Communication in the Age of Complexity – Evidence and Discovery Issues, CLE Family Law Institute, August 13, 2011.
• Program Chair: CLE/CJI Seminar−The Art and Science of Persuasion in the Courtroom, February 6, 2009.
• Boulder County Bar Association, Ethics Update and Malpractice Prevention — CLE —December 17,2008;
• Program Chair: CLE/CJI Seminar−Best and Worst Trial Tactics, February 29, 2008;
• Risk Prevention, Tort Law Update −CLE, January 25, 2007;
• Ethics: Minimizing the Risk of Grievances and Claims – 2005 Spring Seminar – Family Law: Advanced Practice. April 22, 2005;
• Colorado Bar Association Annual Conference, Family Law Section, August 4, 2006;
• Boulder County Bar Association Ethics Update and Malpractice Prevention – CLE – December 10, 2004;
• Legal Malpractice – 9th Annual Ethics Seminar – CLE in Colorado, Inc. – December 6, 2004;
• Preventing Legal Malpractice in Colorado - CLE in Colorado, Inc. – January 29, 2004;
• Preventing Legal Malpractice - CLE in Colorado, Inc. - January 2003;
• Call your Carrier! Obtaining the Proper Malpractice Coverage – CLE in Colorado, Inc. – Breckenridge Solo Small Firm Conference – September 27, 2002;
• Legal Fee Agreements – Colorado Bar Association Tuesdays at the Bar – February 12, 2002;
• Preventing Legal Malpractice – CLE in Colorado, Inc. – January 26, 2001
 
AUTHOR: Computer Inspection — Whoops!

When Things go Awry – Whoops!
 
 “Outstanding Lawyers in Colorado History, Irving P. Andrews” – The Colorado Lawyer, July 2009.
 
 “Disengagement” – The Colorado Lawyer, May, 2004

 “When the Attorney-Client Relationship Breaks Down” – The Colorado Lawyer, July, 2003

 “Privacy in Judicial Proceedings” (publication pending)

 Arbitration Clauses in Fee Agreements: to be or not to be, that is the Question.  Whoops! 1999

 “Disqualification of Judges” – The Colorado Lawyer, January, 1984

 “5th Amendment & Civil Litigation” – The Colorado Lawyer, February, 1981

PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS   Fellow: American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA);
And AWARDS: Special Assistant, State Deputy Public Defender, 1970; 
Member:  Attorney Regulation Committee of the Supreme Court of Colorado, 2005-2008; Member: Hearing Panel: Colorado Supreme Court  Attorney Discipline, 2008 to present; Colorado Judicial Institute, Director: 2005 – Present; Member: Civil Justice Committee of the Colorado Supreme Court, 1998-2000; Member: Committee on Conduct, U.S. District Court, Colorado, 1986-1991; Member:  Denver and Colorado Bar Associations; Faculty of Federal Advocates; National Judicature Society.  Listed in Best Lawyers in America (all editions). Listed in Colorado Super Lawyers (all editions).AV Rating, Martindale AVVO rating10 (Superb). 

ADMISSIONS: Supreme Court of Colorado; United States District Court for the District of Colorado; United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; United States Supreme Court; pro haec vice admissions: District Court for the District of Columbia, Wyoming, Nebraska, Nevada, California, Vermont.

Therese Cannata

Ms. Cannata has practiced law since 1979 in both large and small firms, as well as acquiring significant trial experience while a senior trial attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office.

In the mid-1980's, Ms. Cannata was an associate attorney at the San Francisco law firm of Morrison & Foerster, serving corporate clients in state and federal courts, including antitrust, intellectual property, "white collar" crime, and commercial fraud actions. She joined the Oakland law firm of Alborg & Dictor as an associate in 1989, which became Alborg, Veiluva & Cannata LLP in 1996. While a partner there, Ms. Cannata developed her business, legal malpractice defense, and real estate litigation practice in their Walnut Creek office. In 1999, she opened a branch office for the firm in downtown San Francisco. The San Francisco office became Ms. Cannata's main office in March 2003.

Although she remains active in the criminal defense community, Ms. Cannata currently specializes in professional liability defense and business litigation on behalf of institutional and individual clients. In representing attorneys, accountants, corporations, public entities, and financial institutions, Ms. Cannata maintains her considerable talents as a trial attorney, having successfully tried professional liability, real estate and commercial cases on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants. She consults as well with attorneys and insurers in preventing litigation by early identification of conflicts and claims repair before litigation. For her business clients, Ms. Cannata provides assistance in the formation corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, business reorganization, bankruptcy court workouts for creditors, arbitrations and mediations.

Ms. Cannata was admitted to the California bar in 1979 and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court in the Northern, Southern, Central and Eastern Districts of California, and the U.S. Court of Appeal, Ninth Circuit. She was a certified Criminal Law Specialist from1983 to 1994. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.A. cum laude, in 1976, and University of San Francisco with a J.D. in 1979.

Ms. Cannata is a member of the American Bar Association, Bar Association of San Francisco, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, and University of San Francisco Inn of Court. She also serves on the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability. She is a regular faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, teaching at the Deposition and Trial programs. More recently, Ms. Cannata has served as a commissioner pro tem for the Contra Costa Superior Court.
In addition to her business law practice, Ms. Cannata has dedicated herself to promoting delivery of pro bono legal services to low income and indigent persons throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Her philosophy is simple and direct: every private attorney should have at least one active pro bono case open during every year of his or her legal career. She is also active with a local shelter meal program providing for homeless adults and families.

Carey, James P.

James P. Carey is professor of law at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago. He has taught and is widely published in the areas of evidence, criminal procedure, trials, depositions, and judicial administration. A sought-after legal expert and speaker, Professor Carey has presented lectures at the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, and the IICLE. Carey serves as a faculty member and team leader for several NITA programs, including the National Session held annually in Boulder, Colorado. Most recently he has been conducting trial practice and deposition training programs for NITA's In-House Training Programs.

Contact Information:
jcarey@luc.edu

Kenneth P. Carlson, Jr.

B.A., University of North Carolina
J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law

Ken Carlson is a partner with the law firm of Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina – a labor and employment defense firm based in Atlanta, Georgia.  Mr.Carlson’s pactice is concentrated in the areas of employment law, employment litigation, trade secret and unfair competition law and litigation, drafting employment and noncompetition agreements, and wage & hour issues.  He is also a certified mediator, with an emphasis on mediating employment-related disputes and covenant not to compete/trade secret issues.  In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Carlson regularly develops trade secret protection programs and conducts management training to help employers avoid employment law problems before they occur.  He has published numerous articles on such diverse matters as drafting noncompetition agreements, developing trade secret protection programs, the pros and cons of employment law arbitration, compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and managing the modern workforce with employment laws in mind.  He is consistently named to Business North Carolina’s annual “Legal Elite” for employment law, to the list of North Carolina “Super Lawyers,” and to the Best Lawyers in America for labor & employment law and alternative dispute resolution.

Mr. Carlson received his J.D. degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law, where he also serves as an adjunct professor and teaches courses in advanced trial practice and trade secrets/unfair competition law.  In addition to his law degree, Mr. Carlson is a 1976 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a Master of Divinity from Yale University.  At Wake Forest, he served on the Board of Editors of the Wake Forest Law Review and was a member of the National Trial Team.

Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP is one of the oldest and most respected labor and employment law firms in the country.  The firm was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with offices in 11 states, including most of the Southeast, California, Illinois, Missouri, Texas and Wisconsin.

Monique Adair Carter
Deputy Public Defender

Education: 
Monique Carter attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln from 1998-2001.  She received her B.A. in Political Science.  After her undergraduate experience in the Midwest, she ventured to the West Coast for law school.  Monique attended the University of San Diego School of Law.  She received her J.D. in 2005 and was admitted to the California Bar in 2005.

Current Position: 
Monique started working for the Public Defender’s Office of San Diego in 2005.  Monique was originally assigned to the Central Misdemeanor Unit.  During that time, Monique had many misdemeanor jury trials.  In 2006, she was transferred to the Juvenile Delinquency Branch where she defended indigent juveniles.  During that time, Monique had various bench trials.  In 2008, Monique was assigned to the Central Adult Felony Division where she currently represents adult indigents through all stages of the criminal process.  In her felony practice, Monique has gone to trial on felony strike cases as well as life-top cases with successful verdicts.

NITA Faculty Experience: 
Monique was a faculty member for NITA’s 2008 Trial Skills Program in San Francisco and various NITA programs locally in San Diego. 

Additional Training/Experience: 
In 2006, Monique attended NCDC’s two week long trial skills seminar in Macon, Georgia.  In addition, she attends weekly MCLE trial practice seminars provided by the San Diego Public Defender’s Office.  Further, she attends various lectures offered by San Diego’s law schools.  The most recent was Strategies in Jury Selection.  Monique is also a guest speaker at USD for the school’s undergraduate curriculum.  It is Monique’s passion to continue to expand her wealth of legal knowledge while also sharing her knowledge and experiences with others. 

Anna Moore Carulas

University of Notre Dame, J.D., 1986; Alma College, B.A., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. 
 
Ms. Carulas is a partner in the Cleveland office of Roetzel & Andress and serves as the partner in charge of the firm's Medical Defense Department.  Ms. Carulas has devoted her career to the defense of doctors and hospitals in medical negligence cases and has secured defense verdicts in more than 60 medical malpractice jury trials throughout the State of Ohio.   She is board certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and has received a number of recognitions, including being named in the Top 10 Lawyers in Ohio and Top 5 Lawyers in Cleveland by Ohio Super Lawyers magazine, as well as being named to The Best Lawyers in America® for Medical Malpractice Law.  

Jean M. Cary

B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Duke University,
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

Jean Cary is a member in good standing of the North Carolina Bar, United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States District Courts for the Western, Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina.  She presently is a Professor of Law at Campbell University School of Law teaching Family Law, Family Law Planning, and Advanced Trial Advocacy and Pretrial Litigation.  She has been an Adjunct Professor at the School of Law at the University of North Carolina and the Director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Southeast Regional Program. Ms. Carey previously was a Staff Attorney from with East Central Community Legal Services in Raleigh, North Carolina and for Legal Services of Southern Piedmont, Charlotte, North Carolina where her responsibilities focused on Public Benefits, including representation of indigent clients on cases concerning Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Food Stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Unemployment Compensation and Black Lung Benefits.  During the last two years at East Central Community Legal Services, my work included a large range of general work in the area of social services, landlord-tenant, juvenile and domestic law.

ROGER T. CASTLE

B.A., Harding University
J.D., University of Denver College of Law
 
Mr. Castle licensed, Colorado, in 1976. He was also admitted to the Bar in the United States District Court, District of Colorado; the United States Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit; and the United States Supreme Court.

He is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, and the Christian Legal Society since 1976.  Member of the Colorado Bar Association and Denver Bar Association, and an active member of the Professionalism Committees of the Denver and Colorado Bar Associations for many years.

Mr. Castle is a Lecturer/faculty member in Continuing Legal Education programs in the area of civil litigation.  He is also a faculty member of National Institute of Trial Advocacy (1988 to present) and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

For over 30 years, Roger Castle has specialized in the litigation, settlement, and trial of serious personal injury and death cases.  These cases include products liability, medical malpractice, professional liability, construction site injuries, motorcycle and other vehicle collisions, and media libel cases. He has argued many seminal cases in the Colorado Supreme Court.

B.A., Harding University, magna cum laude, 1973.
J.D.,  University of Denver College of Law, 1976.

Carl Chamberlin

J.D., magna cum laude, Hastings
B.S., Stanford University

Mr. Chamberlin is a Senior Judicial Attorney for the California Court of Appeals and an adjunct professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he has taught Trial Advocacy since 1999.  From 1985 to 1999, Carl practiced law at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, specializing in intellectual property and complex civil litigation.  There he supervised the firm’s litigation training program, was Chair of the Internet and Computer Litigation Group, and received awards for his pro bono service.  Carl was also an Acting Assistant District Attorney for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and, beginning in 1998, served local courts as an arbitrator and judge pro tem.  He has taught trial skills, deposition skills, and motions practice for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy since 1992, as well as courses for California’s Continuing Education of the Bar and Santa Clara University Law School. 

Nancy Chausow Shafer is principal in the Highland Park firm, Chausow Shafer, PC, concentrating in Matrimonial Law, including Litigation, Mediation and Collaboration. She is chapter co-author of Child Custody Litigation, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education publication 1991 Edition, and has conducted presentations at Continuing Legal Education seminars on various topics, including: Business Valuation for Dummies (2002); Presentation of complex financial issues in divorce litigation (2004); Mediation: Being an Advocate without being Adversarial (2005); Domestic Partnerships—Financial Implications (2005); UCCJEA and UIFSA: Understanding Jurisdictional Distinctions (2006); and Maintenance Guidelines: A Modest Proposal (2008); Civil Unions (2011).

She is recipient of the AAML 2008 Michael Cohen Award for contributing greatly over the years to the continuing education of lawyers in the area of Family Law and has been selected by her peers as an Illinois Leading Lawyer in Family Law and Illinois SuperLawyer.

Professional affiliations include: Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 1992–present; President AAML Illinois Chapter 2012-2013; Chair AAML Mediation Committee 2011-present; Faculty for Mediation Training offered by the AAML, DePaul University and Mediation Training and Consultation Institute, Ann Arbor MI.

Cheng, Doris
 
Ms. Cheng directs the following program: Advocacy Teacher Training: San Francisco

Ms. Cheng joined the Walkup firm in 1998 after a distinguished academic career at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Her areas of concentration include wrongful death, catastrophic injury, government liability, medical negligence, premises liability, sexual molestation and vehicular negligence. She has prosecuted cases throughout California and in the Federal District Courts. She has tried cases to verdict in multiple Northern California counties. She has experience in trial, mediation and arbitration.

A graduate of the University of California at Davis, Ms. Cheng attended USF School of Law, from which she graduated with distinction as a Public Interest Law Scholar. In 1997, she served as an extern law clerk to the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California.

Ms. Cheng is also active in local bar affairs. She has been elected to membership on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association as well as the Board of Governors of the University of San Francisco School of Law. She has also served as Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Barrister’s Club newsletter. She is active in the American Inns of Court, having served as Program Chair and Secretary-Treasurer of the USF Inn of Court. She serves on the teaching faculty and the Executive Committee for the University of San Francisco School of Law’s Intensive Advocacy Program.

Ms. Cheng currently serves as the assistant Program Director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s Western Region Teacher Training Program and has taught trial advocacy for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy at its Western Regional and Pacific Region Trial Skills programs. She also serves on the faculty of Emory University’s Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program in Atlanta, Georgia.

She is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Consumer Attorneys of California.
 

Anthony A. Ciaccio
Trail Lawyer at Graunberg Kelly Della

After receiving an Honorable Discharge from The United States Marine Corps, Anthony Ciaccio received a BA in Finance cum laude from Dowling College and a JD Hofstra University School of Law.  Mr. Ciaccio started his legal career as an ADA with the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office where he tried both misdemeanors and felonies.  After his tenure with the DA’s office, Mr. Ciaccio worked as a trial lawyer for GEICO for six years. He has now joined the prestigious law firm of Gruenberg Kelly Della. They specialize in personal injury law throughout Long Island and all the boroughs. Gruenberg Kelly Della has obtained millions of dollars for compensation to victims of various forms of negligence. They have a reputation throughout the courts for maximizing our client’s compensation.

Robert B. Clemens

J.D., University of Notre Dame, 1982
M.S., State University of New York at Albany, 1972
A.B., Syracuse University, 1969

Bob Clemens is a partner in the Litigation and Appellate Groups, as well as an established member of the Indiana Trial Bar. He practices in the areas of civil trial litigation, concentrating in commercial litigation and personal injury. A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, he undertook his legal education after a successful military career as an infantry officer. Mr. Clemens has been the principal author of numerous appellate and amicus briefs as well as a participant in oral arguments before the Indiana Court of Appeals, Indiana Supreme Court and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He serves as Indiana Counsel to numerous insurers and transportation entities. Mr. Clemens is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He also is board certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocates, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and among Indianapolis Monthly Magazine’s “Indiana’s Super Lawyers.”

Dennis A. Clifford

Houston Office
(713) 238-1801
dclifford@seyfarth.com

Experience
Dennis Clifford practices employment law in Seyfarth Shaw’s Houston office.  He is Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and he regularly defends employers against a variety employment claims, including those arising under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act, the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. He also regularly advises clients on employment matters, including hiring practices, pay obligations, corrective actions, and leaves of absence.

Mr. Clifford has substantial experience litigating class actions and collective actions involving overtime and minimum wage claims.  He frequently counsels clients on a broad range of wage and hour issues, including exempt status, individual liability, “off-the-clock” work, pay deductions, and the appropriate regular rate of pay for purposes of calculating overtime payments for non-exempt employees.

Education
J.D., University of Houston Law Center, Order of the Barristers; Advocate of the Year; Byron McCoy Excellency in Advocacy Award
B.A., University of Houston at Clear Lake

Affiliations
Order of Barristers
Houston Bar Association
Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Publications
Chapter Author, “Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation (The definitive treatise on wage and hour litigation.),” ALM Law Journal Press, Chapter 24 (2012)
“Overtime Claims:  A Common Pitfall In The Construction Industry,” The Texas Merit Shop Journal (June 2011)
“Bonus Payments and The Fair Labor Standard Act’s Regular Rate,”  Employer’s Guide to the Fair Labor Standards Act (May 2011 Vol. 18, No. 9)
“Minimizing OT Damages For Misclassified Employees,” Employment Law 360 (Sept. 7, 2010)

Jeffrey Cohen

Jeffrey Cohen, a partner in the firm, has been practicing criminal defense for more than 20 years. Based on the evaluations of his peers, the Martindale-Hubbel national lawyers' directory has given Mr. Cohen its highest rating (AV) and Washington Law & Politics Magazine has selected him as a "Super Lawyer". He is licensed to practice in Washington and Oregon.

Mr. Cohen began working in criminal defense in 1979 while still a student at the University of Oregon School of Law. Upon graduation, he became a staff attorney at the Lane County Public Defender, where he represented clients in misdemeanor and felony cases. He moved to Seattle in 1981 to establish a private criminal defense practice. Since then, he has devoted his career almost entirely to trial work in state and federal courts. He has also long been active with the American Civil Liberties Union as a cooperating attorney.

Although Mr. Cohen handles a wide variety of cases, from simple assault to murder, the vast majority of his practice involves domestic violence and sexual assault cases. His undergraduate and graduate work in biology, chemistry, and biochemistry gives him special expertise in dealing with DNA evidence, which is being used more and more frequently in sexual assault and other prosecutions.
Because of his expertise defending against accusations of sexual assault and domestic violence, Mr. Cohen has been asked to lecture to both defense attorneys and prosecutors on specialized topics relevant to such cases, including interviewing child witnesses, jury selection strategy, investigation techniques, and the use of hearsay evidence. This expertise has also led to a significant practice representing parents against the government's efforts to take away their children in dependency actions.

Mr. Cohen also devotes a significant portion of his practice to representing juveniles charged with criminal offenses.

Jeffrey Michael Cohen

A.B., Colgate University
J.D., Columbia University School of Law

PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
Jeff Cohen concentrates in the trial of complex insurance and commercial disputes and counseling clients involved in significant litigation. 
Mr. Cohen was Board Certified as an Expert in Civil Trial Law by The Florida Bar in 1983, among the first lawyers in Florida to receive the distinction.
He also has extensive experience handling appeals.  Mr. Cohen has appeared as counsel in over 75 reported appellate decisions.

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
The Florida Bar
Past Chair, The Florida Bar's Board of Legal Specialization and Education (Two Terms)
Past Chair, The Florida Bar's Committee on Civil Trial Certification (Two Terms)
Past Chair and Member, Florida Bar's Grievance Committees (Two Terms)
American Bar Association
Co-Chair, Bad Faith Subcommittee of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation (2008-2010)
Dade County Bar Association
Director
Chair, Professional Arbitration Committee
Chair, Judicial Poll Committee
National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Faculty Member, teaches national courses for lawyers in Deposition Skills and Trial Advocacy
University of Miami School of Law
Adjunct Professor of Trial Skills, teaches courses in Pre-Trial Civil Litigation, Pre-Trial Criminal Litigation and Trial Advocacy
Nova Southeastern University School of Law
Adjunct Professor of Law, teaches courses in Intensive Trial Advocacy and Advanced Intensive Trial Advocacy
Appointed by the Governor of Florida to serve as Special Assistant State Attorney to the Leon County Grand Jury in Tallahassee, Florida
Appointed to serve as Special Assistant State Attorney in Dade County for public corruption cases
Appointed to the Dade County Alliance for Ethical Government

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
AV Rated by Martindale - Hubbell
Listed in the Top 100 in South Florida by the South Florida Legal Guide (2009)
Listed in Who's Who in American Law
Listed in Florida Monthly - Florida's Best Lawyers
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
Listed in Florida Super Lawyers
Listed in Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite

BAR ADMISSIONS
Florida
 
COURT ADMISSIONS
Florida State Courts
United States Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida

BACKGROUND
Division Chief, Dade County Public Defender's Office
Major Crimes Prosecutor, Dade County State Attorney's Office
Specially Appointed Assistant State Attorney for Public Corruption

Marcus Cohn

LL.B., Boston University School of Law, 1968
B.A., Lake Forest College, 1965 

Marcus Cohn has concentrated for 35 years in the litigation, trial and appeal of cases in state and federal courts in an out of New England.  He represents a wide variety of commercial, public, private, and charitable institutions, business organizations, developers, owners, managers, of real estate and individuals.  He maintains a very active trial practice.  He has tried over 125 cases and argued 28 appeals – many involving issues of first impression nationally – in state and federal appellate courts.

Mr. Cohn has used his expertise to secure and defend the rights of clients in different industries and in a variety of disputes.  For example, he has tried or argued the appeals of cases establishing the right and responsibilities of banks under the Uniform Commercial Code, the rights of owners and developers of multi-family housing regulated by HUD, the rights of real estate owners and developers against municipal authorities under Urban Renewal Plans, the rights of business organizations to enforce and recover damages for the violations of intellectual property rights, the rights of insurance companies to enforce contract rights in environmental coverage cases, as well as an array of litigation arising our of business wrongdoing, broken mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, real estate development and environmental claims.

Dustin Collier

Dustin Collier grew up in a working-class family, the second to graduate from college. He is also the first in his family to attend graduate school of any kind, bringing to that experience a passion and understanding for the plight of workers. Throughout his education at prestigious Berkeley Law, he emphasized his studies on workers’ rights, trial and appellate advocacy, and constitutional law. In an impressive feat, Mr. Collier published an extensive article on prison reform in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law and won an award from the State Bar of California for an article on labor and employment law, all before graduating from law school.

Mr. Collier clerked at Beeson, Tayer, & Bodine, P.C., a law firm specializing in traditional labor law and representation of low-wage workers and/or their Unions. He later joined Beeson, Tayer, & Bodine as an associate, continuing in this post until opening his own practice in the Spring of 2011.  He is now a partner at the recently formed law firm of Collier Teti, LLP, a firm with an emphasis on plaintiff’s employment and personal injury matters.

Mr. Collier has served as a trial and deposition skills instructor for NITA since February 2011.  He has served as a faculty member at NITA programs in San Diego, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Seattle, training countless other attorneys on how to effectively conduct depositions and trials.  In 2012, he received an award from NITA for serving as a faculty member for over 100 hours that calendar year.

As a result of the foregoing, Mr. Collier is skilled in handling civil matters through all stages and forms of litigation, from demand letters to mediations, from arbitrations to jury trials, and everything in between. He prides himself on taking fewer clients than most attorneys in order to invest as much time and energy into his cases as possible, going above and beyond the services rendered by many of his peers. Mr. Collier has experience in litigation against employers of all shapes and sizes, including the smallest employers and the largest multi-national corporations, temporary employment agencies, and public entities.  For the prospective client, this means that Mr. Collier has the expertise to tailor his representation to your particular case, encouraging the best possible result for your particular legal problems.

Chris Collier
Chris Collier is a partner in the Atlanta office of Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP. Chris represents individuals as well as businesses, ranging from family-owned businesses to Fortune 250 national and multinational corporations. Chris concentrates his practice in the areas of Premises Liability, Products Liability, Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation, Transportation, and General Negligence. 
Chris focuses his practice in federal and state courts in Alabama and Georgia but has represented clients in numerous jurisdictions throughout the United States. In addition, Chris manages and coordinates litigation in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.
Chris believes in being personally available to his clients. Likewise, he understands the time demands and financial constraints faced by his clients, as he previously served in the role of Counsel-Litigation & Environmental for one of the nation’s Class I railroads.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Premises Liability
Chris has successfully defended shopping center owners and managers and major retail and industrial companies in premises liability claims involving personal injury and wrongful death in Georgia and throughout the United States. He has also represented and advised a nationally-renowned resort in a variety of litigation ranging from slip and fall cases to injuries sustained during resort activities.
Recently, Chris obtained summary judgment in a difficult jurisdiction on behalf of an auto parts supplier.  This premises liability matter involved the definition of a static condition under Georgia law.  Chris also successfully defended the appeal of this matter before the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Products Liability
Chris has represented a number of manufacturers in product liability actions involving a wide variety of products. He has defended against allegations of spoliation, product design defect, and failure to warn, among others. Chris recently defended and obtained several favorable resolutions for a brake remanufacturer in a number of claims involving a multi-vehicle accident due to an alleged product defect. 
Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation
Chris has defended toxic tort and environmental litigation claims, including a substantial number of asbestos lawsuits, throughout his legal career. He has participated in all phases of the defense of these matters, from initial discovery through dispositive motions, expert discovery, settlement negotiations, and trial.
Chris serves as national counsel to a Fortune 500 company involved in both premises and products liability claims of alleged asbestos exposure.  In this role, Chris coordinates national defense issues. He also serves as counsel for several additional clients on a regional and state-wide basis. Chris understands the dilemmas faced by companies in toxic tort and asbestos litigation, having advised one of the nation’s Class I railroads on issues related to asbestos liability from both a legal and business standpoint.
Transportation
Chris has defended and advised railroads, trucking companies, transloaders, and companies with fleets of delivery vehicles. He has represented these entities in all aspects of litigation, including claims involving personal injury and death.
General Negligence
Chris has handled numerous cases and advised clients in matters involving allegations of construction defects, bridge safety, insurance issues, computer security breach protocol, and non-specific general liability claims.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• American Bar Association, 1999-present
• American Bar Association Advisory Panel, 2011-present
• Atlanta Bar Association, 2001-present
? Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers, 2008-2011
• Defense Research Institute, 2001-present
• Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, 2007-present
• Lawyers Club of Atlanta, 2007-present
• State Bar of Georgia
• Alabama State Bar
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
• Everybody Wins! Atlanta (Weekly reading mentor to at-risk elementary school students), 2007-present
• Peachtree Presbyterian Church, 2008-present
? Substitute Sunday School teacher
• Habitat for Humanity
• Emory University school of Law Moot Curt Competition Judge, 1999, 2004, 2010
HONORS
• "Rising Star," Georgia Super Lawyers, Atlanta Magazine (2009)
• Georgia Super Lawyers (2012)
TRIALS
• George Adams, et al v. A.W. Chesterton, et al.
• Henry Barabin, et al v. E.J. Bertells, et al.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Faculty Member at NITA’s “Deposition Skills” Program at Georgia State, Dec. 2010
• Faculty Member at NITA’s “Deposition Skills” Program at Georgia State, Dec. 2011

ARTICLES

“Hindsight is 20/20,” Defense Research Institute Asbestos Medicine Seminar, Las Vegas, Nevada (2011)

Kevin Collins

Kevin Collins is a Partner in the Austin, Texas office of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.  He is a former federal prosecutor, and his practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, internal investigations, grand jury counseling and related civil and regulatory matters. Kevin has represented companies and employees in complex criminal cases in several areas including environmental crimes under RCRA, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act; fraud and obstruction; public corruption and other criminal statutes. He also assists clients in designing, implementing, auditing and improving their comprehensive compliance programs.

Kevin served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Texas. He has significant experience in all aspects of a criminal investigation. He bases his advice to clients on his previous prosecutorial experience leading grand-jury investigations, negotiating deferred prosecution agreements and trying cases to jury verdict in federal court.

Kevin graduated with honors from The University of Texas School of Law.  He was editor-in-chief of The Review of Litigation.  He serves on the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) committees for Environmental Enforcement and Crimes and Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts. Kevin is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.

Steve was appointed to serve as a District Court Judge in the Eighteenth Judicial District effective February 1, 2011.  For the first 18 months that he served as a judge, Steve was assigned to Division 12 of Arapahoe County District Court, which handles only domestic matters.  Since August 13, 2012, Steve has been assigned to Division 408, which has a mixed criminal/civil docket.  Before being appointed, Steve specialized in complex commercial litigation in Denver, Colorado, with an emphasis on natural resources, real estate, employment/business relationship matters, and intellectual property. His clients ranged from sole proprietors to multi-national corporations. In addition to acting as an advocate, Steve frequently served as an arbitrator in commercial cases.  Steve was included in the Denver Business Journal’s list of Who’s Who in law, every year from 1998 through 2011, and was recognized as a 5280 Magazine Super Lawyer and in Best Lawyers in America every year from 2005 through 2011.
Steve has been very active in teaching and other pro bono matters. Each year since 1992, he has served on the faculty of, or has been a team leader or assistant team leader at, the Rocky Mountain Regional Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Steve also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law, teaching a variety of Uniform Commercial Code classes including Sales, Secured Transactions, and Commercial Paper. Steve was on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Colorado Lawyers Committee and was the co-chair of the Hate Violence Task Force for approximately ten years during which time Steve presented mock trials at approximately 140 schools in the Metropolitan Denver area. Steve also worked with the US Department of Justice's Hate Crimes Task Force and participated in community meetings and police force training sessions in Colorado, Utah and Arizona. Steve has been honored as the Attorney of the Year by the Colorado Lawyers Committee for 1996, as the Volunteer Attorney of the Year by the Denver Bar Association for 1998, and he received the 2001 Outstanding Sustained Contribution Award from the Colorado Lawyers’ Committee in 2001.

Stacy Preston Collins, CPA/ABV, CFF, is a Managing Director at Financial Research Associates, with offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. She has provided expert testimony on business valuation/forensic accounting issues in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Maryland and Illinois.
Ms. Collins' experience includes marital dissolution cases, corporate litigation, estate planning valuations and transactions. She has co-authored courses on business appraisal and has presented valuation and forensic accounting topics to financial professionals, attorneys and judges in many forums. 
Ms. Collins has been involved with the ABA's Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute since 2000. She also participated in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers' Institute for Training Family Law Associates since 2006.
Ms. Collins graduated from Drexel University with a concentration in Accounting and Finance. She holds the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) designations from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). She is past Chair of the AICPA's Family Law Task Force, and a contributing author to Financial Valuation Applications and Models, Third Edition and Family Law Services Handbook.

Edward Connette

Edward (Woody) Connette graduated from Davidson College in 1974 and then finished UNC Law School in 1977. He was a mediocre student with a short attention span.

Woody is a member of ESSEX RICHARDS, in Charlotte, North Carolina.  His civil litigation practice emphasizes complex per¬sonal injury and plaintiffs ERISA, litigation. He has been recognized as one of the North Carolina Legal Elite, the Best Lawyers in America, North Carolina Super Lawyers, and other listings. In 1989, Connette began representing women in ERISA cases against insurance carriers who had been denied coverage for treatment of their breast, ovarian and other cancers. On a volunteer basis, he also represented Medicaid patients whose treatment had been denied. From those beginnings, his practice has expanded to include all forms of health, disability and life insurance coverage issues.

Community Engagement
Through his legal work, Woody developed a keen interest in health policy issues that led to his volunteer participation with the national Patient Advocate Foundation including past service on its Executive Board and as Board President.  He has served on Mecklenburg Medical Society Bioethics Resource Group, the Davidson College Medical Humanities Advisory Board, and the UNC Charlotte Center for Community and Applied Ethics.

Other community involvement includes service on the Board of Directors and as immediate past President of Easter Seals/UCP of North Carolina and Virginia. At the national level, he is a member of the Board of Trustees for United Cerebral Palsy and will become its Board Chair later this year. In the past, he has chaired the Permanent Judicial Commission of the Presbytery of Charlotte and has served on the boards of various community nonprofit organizations.
The volunteer and pro bono activities of Woody and his law firm have been recognized by awards from the North Carolina Bar Association and other bar and community organizations.

Bar Activities
Connette has been appointed to the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism. In 2010, the North Carolina Bar Association awarded its H. Brent McKnight Renaissance Award to Connette. In June 2012, he will begin a term on the Board of Governors for the North Carolina Bar Association.
He is a frequent speaker and teacher at various continuing education programs. He has taught trial practice skills for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has spoken on a wide range of topics for bar and community groups, including national ERISA conferences at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago; North Carolina and South Carolina Bar Associations; the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; North Carolina Advocates for Justice; and the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys.
He has authored a number of CLE manuscripts and journal articles through the years, including an article on depositions for the ABA Litigation Section journal and another on health care reform for the ABA Health Law Section.

The Fun Stuff
Woody enjoys surfing, running, art, theater and music. He has surfed lots of places, but his home beach is Wrightsville Beach. Ten Fifteen Twenty pounds ago, in 1991, he completed the Ironman World Triathalon in Hawaii. He sometimes swims distance races in the Hudson River with the Manhattan Island Foundation, and has completed the 60 kilometer Kepler Challenge, a mountain trail run in New Zealand. Woody is married to Jane Harper, a retired state court judge and private mediator.

Marcia G. Cooke

Marcia G. Cooke is a native of Detroit, Michigan. Judge Cooke is an experienced trial attorney and lawyer and has held a variety of positions in the public sector. Prior to being appointed to the Federal Bench, she was an Assistant Miami-Dade County Attorney. She represented Miami-Dade County in a variety of matters including litigation on behalf of the Housing Agency and defensive tort litigation. Judge Cooke has also served as the Chief Inspector General for the State of Florida. Governor Jeb Bush appointed Judge Cooke in 1999. The Chief Inspector General is responsible for promoting accountability, integrity, efficiency and ethical behavior in the agencies under the jurisdiction of the Executive Office ofthe Governor.
Prior to serving as Chief Inspector General, Judge Cooke served as an Executive Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, in Miami, for seven years. Her responsibilities included training and professional development for a staff composed of200 lawyers and over 200 support personnel, as well as immigration issues and other special projects.

In 1984, she was selected as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. Responsible for the full range of judicial activities, Judge Cooke was the youngest federal judicial officer at the time of her appointment.
She has also served as a legal services attorney and a public defender, providing representation for the indigent, and an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan. As a prosecutor in Michigan and Southern Florida, she successfully prosecuted over thirty criminal jury trials. Judge Cooke was also in private practice with the law firm of Miro, Miro and Weiner.
In addition to her other responsibilities, Judge Cooke is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law where she teaches litigation skills and criminal law. She also served as an adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School. She is also a long¬time faculty member ofthe National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) and has taught at trial practice and litigation programs throughout the country. Judge Cooke also lectures on issues related to trial practice and litigation. Having presided over the case of United States of America v. Jose Padilla, she is often called upon to participate in symposiums related to terrorism.
A graduate of the Georgetown University Edmund G. Walsh School of Foreign Service, she remains active in university activities. She is a member of the Board of Governors and served as the national President ofthe Georgetown University Alumni Association. She was elected to the University's Board of Directors in 1998. She received her law degree from the Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan.

Judge Cooke has presided over many interesting cases, among them criminal cases involving the Israeli mafia moving company scams, and various drug offense cases. One of the more memorable multi-defendant drug cases involved the kidnapping and attempted murder of rival drug trafficker (who happened to have his 3 year old godchild with him). Testimony in the case revealed drug traffickers pawning off Mercedes Benz automobiles in order to acquire cash to complete drug deals; torture of rivals using a household steam iron; boyfriends hiding in closets; and even a love affair between a trafficker and police officer!
Another memorable case Judge Cooke presided over was the terrorism trial of United States of America v. Jose Padilla, et aI., currently on appeal. One ofthe defendants in the trial, Jose Padilla, is the only American citizen detained in a military brig as an enemy combatant. Mr. Padilla, at the behest of his co-defendant, served as a Mujadeen in Afghanistan.
 

Doreen J. Correia

B.A., University of Massachusetts
J.D., Hofstra University School of Law 

Doreen J. Correia received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts.  She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Hofstra University School of Law in 1988.  While at Hofstra Law School, she was an articles editor for two years for the Hofstra Labor Law Journal.   She joined Robin, Harris, King and Fodera (their predecessor) in September of 1988 as a trial and pleadings attorney.  She practices insurance defense litigation in the areas of complex construction accidents, products and premises liability cases, as well as other types of personal injury defense actions in both State and Federal Courts. 

John H. Cotton
Partner
Cotton, Driggs, Walch, Holley, Woloson & Thompson

Creighton University B.A. 1971, J.D. 1976

John H. Cotton was born in Omaha, Nebraska, February 14, 1949.  Mr. Cotton was admitted to the Nebraska Bar in 1976, Arizona Bar in 1989 and Nevada Bar in 1995.  He is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth and Ninth Circuits, and U.S. Supreme Court.  Mr. Cotton was listed in Who’s Who in American Law. 

Mr. Cotton has been involved in a number of associations and programs to assist in the furthering education of attorneys.  He has served as an instructor, demonstrator and team leader for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, in the national, regional and deposition programs. 

In 1983, Mr. Cotton served as a litigation skills team Leader for the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and Dade County Bar Association.   He was a member of the National Panel of Arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association in 1987.  In 1990, Mr. Cotton was a demonstrator for the Trial Techniques Program for the Maricopa County Bar Association.  He was a lecturer for the Nevada State Bar in 1993.  In the same year, he also served as an Instructor/Judge for the University School of Law Intensive Trial Advocacy Program.  He was a lecturer for the National Education Network on “How to Prepare Your Evidence for Trial-Experts,” in Phoenix, AZ. 

Associations:
State Bar of Arizona, State Bar of Nevada (serving as a member of the Ethics Screening Panel 1997-2000), Nebraska Sate and American Bar Associations (serving as member for the Section on Litigation Products Liability Committee), The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, Counsel to Nevada Physicians in Legislative Special Session on Medical Malpractice Reform (2002), Eighth Judicial District Committee on Medical Malpractice Rule Reform (2004), Nevada Supreme Court Subcommittee on Revision of Jury Instructions for Medical Malpractice Actions (2004), Mountain States Super Lawyers (2007-2012) and Litigation Counsel of America (2008-2012).

Practice Areas:
Business Litigation, Complex Litigation, Insurance Defense

Dina Cox

Ball State University, B.S., cum laude, 1991
Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, J.D., cum laude, 1995

Dina belongs to Lewis Wagner’s Litigation, Professional Negligence, and Drug & Medical Device practice groups. Dina has more than ten years of litigation experience, focusing on the defense of complex, drug and medical device, products liability, and professional negligence lawsuits. Dina represents individuals and companies at both the trial and appellate levels. She has tried numerous jury trials throughout the state and has been involved in a wide number of appeals to the Indiana Court of Appeals, Indiana Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Dina has extensive experience managing document-intensive cases, most recently defending prominent Indianapolis law firms against claims of legal malpractice.

Since graduating cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law in 1995, Dina has been heavily involved in representing pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. In the 1990's, she served as local co-defense counsel in literally hundreds of lawsuits involving silicone breast implants. From 1995 to 2000, she defended numerous orthopedic bone screw cases that were part of multi-district litigation. In these cases, Dina was successful in helping her client win several summary judgment awards. Dina also served on the defense team for blood plasma product manufacturers in Indiana's AIDS/hemophiliac litigation. Since 1995, Dina has been an approved panel counsel member of MEDMARC, a large insurer of medical device companies.

Dina has also defended lawyers, law firms, and other professional clients against claims of malpractice. Dina lectures frequently in the areas of litigation and trial tactics and has taught seminars on evidence, trial notebooks, jury instructions, deposition strategies, expert discovery, and wrongful death litigation. She has published articles on topics ranging from expert scientific evidence to developments in Indiana product liability law. Dina is an active member of the Professional Liability and Drug & Medical Device Committees of the Defense Research Institute; the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability and the Professional Liability Committee of the Litigation Section; the Litigation Section of the Indiana State Bar Association; and, the Trial Tactics Committee of Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana; and, the Professional Liability Underwriters Society.

William J. Cozort, Jr.
10003 Green Tree Road
Houston, Texas 77042
Telephone:  (713) 417-1565
Work Email: wcozort@bairhilty.com

William J. Cozort has represented clients in commercial, construction, transportation, toxic tort , and products and premises liability disputes for more than eighteen years.  Before joining Bair Hilty, P.C. in October 2007, Mr. Cozort was a partner with the Houston firm of Manning, Gosda & Arredondo, L.L.P. for more than ten years.  Mr. Cozort has successfully defended electrical utilities and contractors, trucking and transportation concerns, petrochemical companies, oilfield services companies, banks and other lenders, general contractors and road construction firms, manufactured housing retailers and manufacturers, and premises owners and product manufacturers of all types in federal courts, state courts and other forums throughout the State of Texas.  Mr. Cozort has years of experience in the field of mass and toxic tort litigation, having served as trial counsel and Assistant Regional Manager for a major asbestos defendant’s eight state Southwest Region – a position including direct responsibility for the day to day management of tens of thousands of asbestos claims. 

Mr. Cozort is a native Houstonian and graduated with honors from Bellaire Senior High School and the University of  Texas at Austin’s College of Liberal Arts prestigious honors program (Plan II).  Mr. Cozort was among the inaugural group of five students to receive the Texas Excellence Award from the Ex-Students’ Association of the University of Texas.  Mr. Cozort earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law in 1989.   Mr. Cozort has served as Faculty Member for the Texas Association of Defense Counsel’s Trial Academy.  Mr. Cozort is admitted to practice before all Texas state and federal courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and has been licensed to practice law in Colorado. Mr. Cozort has maintained an A.V. rating from Martindale Hubbell since 2004.   

Mr. Cozort relishes practicing complex high stakes litigation, and particularly enjoys the challenges presented by trying catastrophic loss cases in adverse jurisdictions.   Mr. Cozort recognizes that tireless preparation followed by a powerful but nuanced trial presentation, timely and informative communication and creative and cost efficient solutions to vexing problems are the keys to courtroom success and client satisfaction.

Mr. Cozort concentrates his practice in the following areas: Insurance Defense and Coverage Disputes, Transportation Law, Products Liability, Premises Liability, Construction Litigation, and Commercial and Consumer Litigation. 

Professional Organizations:

Defense Research Institute, Inc.
State Bar of Texas - Litigation Section
Texas Association of Defense Counsel
Houston Bar Association  

James W. Craig

 B.A., Whitworth College
J.D., Mississippi College

Practice
Jim is a partner in the general litigation group in the Jackson office. He handles complex commercial litigation matters including consumer finance litigation, "bad faith" insurance litigation, trade secrets, copyright and other intellectual property cases, products liability, state and federal antitrust law, and contracts. Jim represents several banks and financial institutions in defense of cases including credit insurance and lending practices, and insurance carriers in defense of direct actions filed by insureds. He has also handled environmental law cases, both in the context of civil actions against manufacturers and in environmental coverage litigation. He is often consulted by lawyers both within and outside the firm on questions regarding federal removal jurisdiction. Another aspect of his practice is appellate law - to date he has appeared in over 100 appeals in Federal and State Courts, nearly always as lead counsel. He has secured several interlocutory appeals for clients. Jim is a member of the American Law Institute, and is one of only three Mississippi lawyers on the ALI's membership consultative groups on Economic Torts, Unjust Enrichment, and Aggregate Litigation. He is the only Mississippi lawyer on ALI's consultative group on Software Contracts. He is a faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He teaches Remedies, Products Liability, and Capital Punishment Law as an adjunct professor at Mississippi College School of Law. Jim has been awarded the "AV" rating by Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory, which is the highest possible rating for legal ability and ethical standards. He has twice been acknowledged as a source by John Grisham for providing background information for Grisham's novels "The Appeal" and "The Chamber."  Jim is also among a select group of lawyers listed in a nationwide client survey published in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America.

Service Areas:  Appellate Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Health Care Litigation, Gaming, Products Liability, Environmental, Insurance and Reinsurance

Education
Mississippi College, J.D., 1985; Editor-in-Chief, Mississippi College Law Review
Whitworth College, B.A., summa cum laude, 1981

Memberships/Affiliations
American Law Institute
Faculty, National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Co-chair: Death Penalty Representation Task Force, ABA Section of Litigation
Commissioner: Mississippi Public Defender Commission
Elder: Fondren Presbyterian Church (USA); Presbytery of Mississippi
Member: The Mississippi Bar; Mississippi Public Defenders' Association; American Bar Association (Section of Litigation); Fifth Circuit Bar Association; Hinds County Bar Association

Publications/Speeches
Note, "Public Utilities - Charitable Contributions No Longer Chargeable as Operating Expenses in Mississippi," Mississippi College Law Review 353 (1994)
"From the Crossing of the Rubicon to the Return of the Republic: The Mississippi Supreme Court's View of the Judicial Role, 1980-2004," (with M. Wallace) Federalist Society (October 20, 2004), http://www.fed-soc.org/doclib/20070325_mississippi.pdf

Representative Matters
Representation of State agency in litigation involving failures in a contracted-for computer software system (won $299 M actual damages verdict, largest in Mississippi history).
Representation of parties to software development contracts in pre-project and post-defect contract negotiation and litigation.
Representation of gaming entity in antitrust/patent litigation (won $39 M verdict).
Representation of manufacturers in product liability cases involving alleged defects in design and/or warning in United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Representation of manufacturer in plant explosion case in United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Representation of insurance carriers in bad faith litigation brought by insureds.
Representation of banks and consumer finance companies in State and Federal Court litigation on alleged "predatory lending."
Representation of computer hardware manufacturers in trade secrets litigation in state and federal court.
Representation of municipalities in Voting Rights Act litigation.
Representation of state agencies and county governments in various types of administrative law and constitutional litigation.
Representation of state association of manufacturers and state association of bankers as amicus curiae in various cases in Mississippi Supreme Court and United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Representation of three gaming entities in administrative law appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court regarding interpretation of the Mississippi Gaming Commission's licensing and site approval authority.
Representation in multi-district patent litigation consolidated for pre-trial procedures for proceedings in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
Representation of home health agencies in regulatory and business tort litigation in state trial and appellate courts.
Representation of employers in litigation involving restrictive employment covenants.
Extensive experience in securing or defending against injunctive relief in commercial litigation.
Extensive experience in interlocutory appellate proceedings in commercial litigation.
Extensive experience in litigating federal removal jurisdiction.
Appellate representation in habeas corpus challenges to convictions and death sentences in State and Federal Court.

Cathryn S. Crawford

B.A., University of Texas at Dallas
J.D., Northwestern University

Cathryn S. Crawford is a Clinical Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and a staff attorney at the Children and Family Justice Center of the Northwestern Legal Clinic. She supervises second and third year law students in the representation of indigent defendants in adult criminal and juvenile delinquency proceedings, focusing on cases involving allegations of police brutality and/or prosecutorial misconduct.  She successfully defended Leroy Orange, an inmate on Illinois’ death row for nineteen years until he was pardoned based on actual innocence.  Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, Ms. Crawford represented clients in civil and criminal state and federal courts.

Ms. Crawford has written and lectured extensively on issues including trial practice and techniques, representation of juvenile defendants, indigent defense practice standards, criminal justice and death penalty reform, police misconduct, pro bono obligations of attorneys in private practice and developments in juvenile and criminal law. In the summers of 2004 and 2005, Mrs. Crawford served as a visiting Professor of Evidence in Golden Gate Law School’s Honors Program, San Francisco, CA.  Ms. Crawford is also a member of the faculty for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.  She was recently named by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin as one of “40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch.”

Dale, Michael J.

Mr. Dale directs the following program: Deposition Skills: Florida

Michael J. Dale has been a member of the faculty at the Nova Southeastern University Law Center since 1985, teaching courses in family law, juvenile law and in the family and juvenile clinic. He also teaches litigation courses including civil procedure, conflicts of laws, intensive trial advocacy, judicial administration and international litigation. Before joining the Nova faculty Dale spent time in private law practice in Phoenix and was Executive Director of the Youth Law Center in San Francisco after serving as Attorney in Charge of the Special Litigation Unit of the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society of the City of New York. He has been a practicing lawyer specializing in civil rights litigation for 30 years. He is admitted to practice in the states of Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and New York as well as the United States Supreme Court and numerous federal appellate and district courts.

Professor Dale teaches in National Institute For Trial Advocacy Programs concerning children including trainings held in Denver, in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, in New York at Hofstra University and in Houston at the University of Houston. For the past 12 years he has been program director for the National Institute For Trial Advocacy Florida Deposition program. He has been a consultant to a number of federal and state agencies on civil rights issues and to law firms on litigation issues.
He is the author of over seventy articles focusing primarily on juvenile and children’s law topics. Professor Dale is also the author of the two volume text, Representing the Child Client, published by Matthew Bender Co. He speaks regularly to professional groups on children’s law and litigation topics.

Contact Information:
dalem@nsu.law.nova.edu

Maria Greco Danaher
 
Maria Greco Danaher is a shareholder in the Pittsburgh Office of Atlanta-based Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, and regularly represents and counsels companies in employment related matters.  She specializes in representing management in labor relations and employment litigation, and in training, counseling, and advising human resource departments and corporate management on these topics.

Ms. Danaher’s prior experience includes having acted as in-house litigation counsel for a Fortune 100 company based in Pittsburgh, where she was involved in oversight and management of litigation done by outside counsel in over twenty domestic locations, including general tort litigation and employment law matters.  She also coordinated counseling and training of that company’s management, supervisory, and line employees regarding basic obligations under various employment-related statutes.

Ms. Danaher also has acted as outside counsel for various corporations on labor and employment issues, including participation in defense of claims made to EEOC and state agencies, resolution of grievances, and trials of employment matters in both federal and state courts.  Her current legal work includes formulation and drafting of corporate employment policies and procedures, and training and counseling regarding various labor and employment issues.  In addition, she regularly instructs attorneys in trial tactics and procedures, both through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and through in-house programs. 

In addition to her litigation experience, Ms. Danaher regularly acts as a “neutral” for the local federal court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, and was a co-drafter of the federal court’s local rule related to ADR.  She counsels and trains companies on dispute resolution procedures and facilitative communication.

Ms. Danaher writes regularly for HR News, a monthly publication of the Society for Human Resource Management, and is on the Advisory Board of “You & the Law,” a publication of the National Institute of Business Management.  She is a presenter for Pennsylvania Bar Institute continuing legal education programs, and is an adjunct professor for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

ROY DANIEL

Roy Daniel is a Principal Deputy Los Angeles County Counsel where he serves as a senior trial attorney and lead courtroom attorney. He also serves as the attorney and staff training coordinator for the County Counsel Dependency Division, and conducts training for counsel, staff, and client personnel. As an Associate Professor of Clinical Law at the University of Michigan, he has trained over 500 attorneys in litigation and jury trial skills. Mr. Daniel has extensive experience in civil litigation, juvenile and family law, and immigration.
He has served as an adjunct professor of law at the Wayne State University School of Law and the Glendale University School of Law, and as a faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Northwestern University School of Law and Loyola University Law School.  Mr. Daniel has served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and of the South Bay Bar Association in addition to being a member of the Benjamin Aranda Inn of Court. Mr. Daniel was selected as a Volunteer of the Year in 1997 by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Mr. Daniel has written and published materials in the areas of trial advocacy, criminal law and procedure, mental health, and family law, and has contributed chapters to the high school civics publication Street Law.

HON. GEORGE B. DANIELS

B.A., Yale University
J.D., University of California, Berkley Boalt Hall School of Law

George B. Daniels was appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on February 24, 2000.
Judge Daniels is a 1971 graduate of Suffield Academy. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Yale University in 1975. He obtained law degree in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He has been admitted to practice law as a member of the New York, California, New Jersey, and District of Columbia Bars.
Judge Daniels began his legal career in 1978 as a criminal defense attorney for the Legal Aid Society of New York. In 1980, he clerked for Chief Justice Rose E. Bird, of the California Supreme Court. From 1981 -1983, he was a litigation associate with the New York Law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Florn. He served as a federal prosecutor with the office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York frorn 1983-1989.
In 1989, Judge Daniels was appointed a Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York by Mayor Edward I. Koch. In 1990, Judge Daniels stepped down from the bench to serve as Counsel to the Mayor of the City of New York David N. Dinkins. In 1993, Judge Daniels was re-appointed a Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York by Mayor David N. Dinkins. In 1995, Judge Daniels was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
Judge Daniels is an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. He has also served as a trial advocacy instructor at Hofstra Law School, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, the United Nations International Crirninal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania, and for lawyers and magistrates in Liberia. He is a co-author of Greenberg, Marcus, et aI., New York Criminal Law [West Publishing Co., 1996]
With the support of both New York Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Charles E. Schurner, Judge Daniels was nominated by President Clinton for the Federal bench on August 6, 1999.

PETER R. DAY

B.A., Yale University
J.D., University of San Francisco

Peter R. Day is the principal of Mercer Island Arbitration Chambers International, LLC.  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and on the following arbitration panels:
International Chamber of Commerce
World Intellectual Property Organization
American Arbitration Association
National Arbitration Forum
Construction Dispute Resolution Services

He has received:a B.A. in economics from Yale University,.a J.D. from the University of San Francisco.   As a Fulbright scholar, a graduate degree (Diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées) in management from the University of Grenoble, France.  He also studied European Union and International Law for two semesters at the Europa Institut of the University of the Saar in Germany
Prior to his current practice, he spent 25 years in the Boeing legal department, including 9 years as Chief Counsel for Boeing Computer Services.  His practice ranged from aircraft finance to construction litigation and general domestic and international business transactions.

He is on the adjunct faculty at the Seattle University Albers School of Business and Economics, where he has taught business and international law at the MBA and undergraduate level.  For 10 years he has also taught trial and deposition practice for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. 

He served as a Marine Corps trial lawyer in Vietnam and Court-martial Judge at Camp Pendleton, California, and as a Deputy District Attorney in San Mateo County, California.  His reserve assignments included tours as Assistant Legal Advisor for the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and Information Systems Officer for the 4th Landing Support Battalion. 

Robin de Wilde
Called to the Bar in 1971
Appointed QC in 1993

Robin is a senior QC with extensive advocacy experience, based at 218 Strand, directly opposite the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
He is approachable, hands-on and enjoys a challenge!
Robin commands respect in all the Tribunals in front of whom he appears, assisted by his personal charm. He is particularly adept at taking cases at any stage, marshalling the information available to him, and creating an expert presentation for the Court, tailored to the individual requirements of the case. His academic excellence is demonstrated by his editorial role in leading textbooks and authorities including The Ogden Working Party and "Facts & Figures".
Robin’s particular area of interest is in catastrophic brain damage and as an acknowledged expert in the areas of Professional Negligence, particularly Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence, including cerebral palsy and Product Liability.
After 35 years dealing with a wide variety of cases in the Royal Courts of Justice, in most of the civil divisions, Robin continues to enjoys the challenge of taking on unusual or complex cases and advising on potential settlements.
Robin is always happy to discuss and give an honest opinion, and with regard to his professional clients he will discuss the case pre - instruction. He is also willing to accommodate the needs of his lay clients, meeting them wherever it is convenient to them. In catastrophic cases he is keen to see clients in their own homes, so a better picture is given of their problems and special needs in their own surroundings.
His preparation is meticulous in the management of his case work, utilising all aspects of Information Technology, which has changed and improved preparation and organisation of cases, which he believes is a major part in the process of persuasion.

Associations and Memberships:
Professional Negligence Bar Association (Chairman: 1995-97, Hon. Vice President since 1998), Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, Medico-Legal Society, American Bar Association (Associate member), NITA (UK) qualified trainer, British Neuroscience Association, Chairman of the Ogden Working Party, Council member of BICMA (Bodily Injury Claims Management Association)

Career:
1964-67 Royal Air Force College, Cranwell (90 Entry), 1967-68 Pilot Officer/Flying Officer, Royal Air Force - General duties – pilot, 1971 to date Practice at the Bar, 1996 to date Bencher (Inner Temple), 1996-04 Crown Court Recorder

Other activities:
General Editor since 1996: "Facts and Figures", Tables for the Calculation of Damages, Sweet & Maxwell, to be published August 2009 - 14th Edition. Appointed Chairman of the Ogden Working Party, (Actuarial Tables - Personal Injury and Fatal Accident Cases); November 2002 - 7th Edition of Ogden Tables, published by the Stationery Office, 2011.  Speaker at many firms and conferences on the more esoteric aspects of damages and their calculations, including the charity "Baby Lifeline" on Legal Aspects of Childbirth, both home and overseas.  Elected member of the Bar Council 1985-1990, 1998-1999, 2001 to 2004.  Currently secretary of the Bodily Injuries Claims Management Association (2006-2009).   Ad hoc chair for various professional conferences, including MASS Conference, Central Law Training for 12 years on "Handling Brain Injuries" & BICMA over the last 3 years.  Advocacy teacher of Inner Temple.  Visiting advocacy teacher for National Institute of Trial Advocacy in USA.  A founding member and former Chairman, and now a Vice President, of the Professional Negligence Bar Association (with now over a 1,000 barrister members), during his 7 years of service on the Committee he organised all the Medical Education for the membership.  In 1996 he was proposed for membership of the Royal Society of Medicine, of which he is still a Fellow.

Daniel N. Deasy

B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder
J.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Daniel Deasy received both his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating from the School of Law in 1993.  He was presented with the William O. DeSouchet Award for outstanding trial advocacy while in law school.  Following graduation, Mr. Deasy completed a judicial clerkship with the Jefferson County District Court and worked as a prosecutor in Colorado’s First Judicial District (Jefferson and Gilpin Counties) until 1998.  Mr. Deasy then served as Director of Contracting and Legal Affairs at a medical management group for approximately one year, but in 1999 returned to litigation as in-house counsel for Colorado’s largest insurance carrier.  In 2005, Mr. Deasy became the managing partner at Caplis & Deasy, LLC., where he specialized in personal injury litigation.  In 2008, Mr. Deasy moved to a prominent domestic relations law firm in the metro Denver area as special counsel and then partner, and earlier this year, he again formed his own firm, Ammarell Deasy, LLP.  Today, Mr. Deasy continues to handle a variety of courtroom matters, including family law, personal injury and criminal defense. 

Mr. Deasy’s teaching experience includes advocacy skill instruction at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), the University of Colorado School of Law, the University of Denver College of Law, and the Colorado District Attorneys Council Trial Techniques School.  He has also taught courses in Juvenile Law, Delinquent Behavior, Criminal Investigation and Judicial Function in the college setting.  Mr. Deasy has presented for the Colorado Defense Lawyers’ Association and instructed for the Colorado Bar Association and the First Judicial District Bar Association.  He has also lectured nationally on case analysis, direct and cross examination techniques, expert witnesses, opening statements, closing arguments, visual courtroom persuasion, courtroom technology, investigational strategies and deposition practice.

Mr. Deasy brings a wealth of courtroom experience and advocacy knowledge to the teaching arena, having prosecuted and defended well over 250 trials and contested hearings in criminal, civil and family law courtrooms across the state of Colorado. 

Mark M. Deatherage

Mark M. Deatherage practices in the area of commercial litigation, with an emphasis on trademark and copy right, business torts and contracts, creditors’ rights, lender liability, real estate and construction litigation.

His associations and memberships include being a member of the State Bar of Arizona and of the Civil Jury Instructions Committee.  He is an Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Pro Tem, Arizona State University Adjunct Faculty, and is on the Board of Directors for the Children’s Cancer Center.

Mark enjoys being a member of the All Saints Episcopal Church, as well as, a member of the Phoenix Country Club.

MARY DEFUSCO OCHAL, ESQ.

B.A., University of Pennsylvania
J.D., Temple University School of Law 

EMPLOYMENT

DEFENDER ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA           1982 - Present

DIRECTOR OF TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT 1995 - Present
Responsible for the initial training and continuing legal
Education of all attorneys and summer law interns, including:
 Developing new attorney training program for first three
   weeks and continuing on a weekly basis for the first year;
Monitoring attorneys' assignment progression from entry   through the first major trial assignment;
Supervising initial in-court felony preliminary hearing      training for new attorneys barred in Pennsylvania;
Developing, supervising and managing summer law intern program;
Designing, supervising, and managing the Defender Intensive Jury Trial Training Program
Designing Continuing Legal Education programs for     attorneys;
Scheduling and developing Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education programs;
Organizing and designing various training programs for Defender personnel;
Developing forensic training for attorneys, especially in the field of DNA analysis;
Editing and compiling training books and materials;
Conducting national recruitment program to bring in      diverse, qualified candidates;
Developing necessary recruitment materials;
Selecting and training staff attorneys who serve as        recruitment teams;
Hiring summer law interns;
Maintaining  a limited caseload of trials, including a capital trial.
  
TREATMENT COURT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas   1995- Present
 Serves on the committee which created and continues to oversee the Philadelphia Treatment Court.  The creation of Treatment Court involved extensive research into the concept of courts which completely integrate criminal justice and treatment issues, including studying the methods employed by drug courts in other jurisdictions. This also involved intensive multi-agency discussions on varying and sometimes conflicting issues in order to arrive at an effective system acceptable to all agencies.  Oversight of Treatment Court entails continued discussion and resolution of legal, treatment, and funding issues as they arise.

DNA TESTING PROJECT SUBCOMMITTEE         2003-2004
OF THE ECONOMIC CRIME AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency  
Served as a member of subcommittee which was charged with examining the current state of law and practice in Pennsylvania pertaining to DNA testing, and then making specific legislative and policy recommendations for the improved and enhanced usage of this evidence.

DEPUTY CHIEF, MUNICIPAL COURT UNIT  1987 - 1995
The Deputy Chief of the Municipal Court Unit assists the Chief of the unit with the overall operation of the unit, including:
Supervising unit trial attorneys in the office and the court;
Training new unit attorneys in trial advocacy;
Reviewing unit legal files;
Supervising unit paralegals and secretaries;
Responding to client correspondence and concerns;
Supervising Defender staffing of Preliminary Arraignment Court;
Evaluating unit attorneys, paralegals and secretaries;
Attending Municipal Court judicial conferences;
Maintaining a limited caseload of both jury and bench trials.

TRIAL ATTORNEY      1982 – 1987
 Maintained a full caseload of trials, including both jury and bench trials

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW
 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR     1992 - Present
 Trial Advocacy

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW
 LL.M. in TRIAL ADVOCACY
 Instructor:  Art of Advocacy    May 2008
 Instructor:  Jury Selection Program  November 2005- 08

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW
 BEIJING LL.M. PROGRAM
 PHILADELPHIA SUMMER SESSION
 Team Leader      Summer 2005- 2008
 Faculty Member     Summer 2004

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY
 TEAM LEADER     2004 - 2008
 Mid-Atlantic Regional
 CO-TEAM LEADER     1997 - 2003
 Mid-Atlantic Regional      
 ASSISTANT TEAM LEADER
 National Session     1996
 Mid-Atlantic Regional    1992 - 1995
 FACULTY MEMBER
 Mid-Atlantic Regional    1991

HONORABLE VINCENT A. CIRILLO
 The Superior Court of Pennsylvania      Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas    Summer 
LAW CLERK       1980 & 1981          
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA
 GED Program
 HEAD TEACHER      1979 - 1982
 TUTOR      1978 - 1979

EDUCATION

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Juris Doctor        1982
Honors: 
The International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Art and Science of Advocacy;
Winner of the 1981 Sixth Annual Samuel Polsky Moot Court Competition;
Member, The National Moot Court Team;
The Joseph Sloane Award;
The Antitrust Litigation Student Aid Award;
Best Brief in Lawyering Process Section;
Dean's List 1980-1981 

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 
Bachelor of Arts cum laude     1979
Major:    Political Science
Honors: 
Dean's List 1975-1979;
Academic Distinction 1975-1976;
General University Scholarship;
The American Institute for Italian Culture Maria Rosa Award for Excellence in the Italian Language

BAR ADMISSIONS
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania    1982
U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Pennsylvania 1982

AWARDS AND HONORS

Acknowledgement of Contribution    2007
From the Philadelphia Treatment Court on the occasion of its tenth anniversary

International WHO'S WHO of Professionals   2001
(Non-member section) 
From the Who's Who Historical Society  

St. Thomas More Award     2000
From the St. Thomas More Society of Philadelphia in recognition of public service by a Catholic attorney.  Recipients include Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey, U.S. Senator Richard Santorum, and Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia.

Cesare Beccaria Award     1997
From the Criminal Justice Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Justinian Society in recognition for contributions made to the cause of justice and the advancement of legal education.  Recipients include Professors Edward Ohlbaum and James Strazzella of Temple University Beasley School of Law and Professor David Rudovsky of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Citation       1997
From City of Philadelphia, Honorable Edward G. Rendell, Mayor. Citation for work upholding the principles of Cesare Beccaria regarding criminal defense work.

  
Certificate of Recognition     1997
From The Honorable Hardy Williams, Pennsylvania State Senator for contributions made in the field of legal education.

PUBLICATIONS
Article:        1999
"Philadelphia Municipal Court: From Discovery to Appeal"
Justinian Society Manual: What Every Lawyer
Wants to Know But is Afraid to Ask, Part II 
  
Script:        1991 
"Cross-Examination in a DUI Case"
Pennsylvania Bar Institute video script     
        
Article:        1989
"Municipal Court Practice Outline"
Pennsylvania Bar Institute Manual: Criminal Law
Practice and Procedure in Philadelphia      

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS    

Faculty: National Institute for Trial Advocacy Philadelphia, PA
Representing the Accused in a Capital Trial  July 2006/07

Coordinator:  Pennsylvania Public Defender Association Carlisle, PA
Pennsylvania Public Defender Trial Skills    July 2007
Training Program

Faculty: Widener University School of Law  Wilmington, DE
Symposium:       April 20, 2007
Cross Examination: The Great Engine (?)

Faculty:  National Defender Training Project, Inc. Dayton, OH
2005 Public Defender Trial Advocacy Program  June 2005 - 08

Faculty: National Legal Aid and Defender Association  Dayton, OH
Defender Advocacy Institute    1999 - 2003
        Minneapolis 1998
 
Faculty: Pennsylvania Public Defender Association Carlisle, PA
Pennsylvania Public Defender Trial Skills    2001 - 2008
Training Program
 
Faculty: North Carolina Association of Public Defenders    North Carolina
Training Program      2003

Panelist: Pennsylvania Bar Institute    Philadelphia, PA
Program:  Speedy Trial Rules 600 and 1013  2003

Panelist: National Medical Services, Inc.   Philadelphia, PA
“Forensic DNA Technology in the Courtroom”  2003
            
Panelist: Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges   Hershey, PA
“What to Do With Litigants Who Assert Indigency” 2002
           
Panelist: City of Philadelphia Probation Department Philadelphia, PA
Topic: Nature of Treatment Court    2002

Panelist: City of Philadelphia Probation Department Philadelphia, PA
Topic: Use of DNA as A Defense    2001

Faculty: New Mexico State Public Defender  Albuquerque, NM Trial Advocacy and Persuasion Program   2000

Panelist: The Justinian Society       Philadelphia, PA
Program: Municipal Court Nuts and Bolts   1999

Guest  Temple University Beasley School of Law     Philadelphia, PA
 
Lecturer: LLM in Trial Advocacy Program  1999
Topic:  Opening Statements

Panelist: Pennsylvania Bar Institute    Philadelphia, PA
Program: "Keys to Examining Witnesses"   1998
            
Guest   Widener University School of Law        Wilmington, DE
Faculty: Intensive Trial Advocacy Program  1998              
Panelist: Villanova University School of Law            Villanova, PA
Topic: Minority Representation in the    1998
Jury Selection Process    

Guest   Temple University: Criminal Justice Class Philadelphia, PA
Lecturer: Widener University: Criminal Justice Class Chester, PA
Topic: Role of a Defender     1993 - 1996

Guest   Pennsylvania Minor Judiciary Education Board  Chambersburg, PA
Lecturer: 
Topic:  Philadelphia PreliminaryArraignment Court 1989 - 1995
    
Guest   Emory University School of Law               Atlanta, GA
Faculty: Trial Techniques Program   1992 - 1993
 
Lecturer: Philadelphia Bar Education Foundation  Philadelphia, PA
Topic: Municipal Court Practice    1992

Panelist: Pennsylvania Bar Institute            Harrisburg, PA
Topic: The Trial of Drunk Driving Cases    1991

Panelist: Pennsylvania Bar Institute          Philadelphia, PA
Topic: Philadelphia Criminal Law Practice   1989    
 
Guest   WMMR's "It's the Law"   Philadelphia, PA
Speaker: Topic: Prostitution    1989

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
National Legal Aid and Defender Association  1996 - Present 
Member       
National Legal Aid and Defender Association  1996 - Present
Training Sub-committee Member     
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 1996 – Present
Member        
Pennsylvania Association of Drug Court Professionals 1999 – Present
Member

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Dawn’s Place:
A Home for Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Vice President and Founding Member of the Board  2007-2009
      
The Birth Center        
Board Member, Emeritus          1998 - Present
Counsel to Board       1996 – 1998 President of Board       1992 - 1996
Secretary to the Board      1990 - 1992
Board Member       1989 - 1990

Rutgers School of Law Newark:      2009
Symposium on Commercially Sexually Exploited Youths
Panelist

Philadelphia Police DNA Laboratory    2008
Guest Trainer
Topic: Cross-Examination of a DNA Analyst

White House 25 Cities Initiative (Phase I & II)   2003
Office of National Drug Control Policy Task Force 

Tenth Synod of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia   2002
Topical Commission on Social and Moral Issues
Appointed Member

Bench Warrant Clinic:      2001- 2007
Saint John’s Hospice          
Prevention Point 
Trainer/Consultant             
Topic: Resolving Bench Warrant Issues for the Homeless

Philadelphia Police Chemists and Analysts   2002
Guest Speaker
Topic: Role of the Defender

Philadelphia Bar Association Public Interest Law Firms 2001
Guest Speaker
Topic: Role of the Defender

Philadelphia Opportunities Industrialization Center                         2001
Guest Speaker
Topic: Legal Services

Temple LEAP High School Students            1999 - 2000
Lecturer
Topic: Criminal Justice and Public Defenders

Philadelphia County Prisons     1998 - 2000
Lecturer
Topic: Role of the Defender

Homeless Advocacy Project     1998
Project H.O.M.E.
Trainer/Consultant
Topic: Dealing with Summary Arrests of the Homeless
    

Andy Deiss

Andy Deiss has litigated on behalf of numerous Fortune 500 companies and other well-known businesses in disputes, including commercial disputes regarding commercial contracts, intellectual property, business competition, antitrust issues, fiduciary duties and professional liability matters.

Criminal defense law is another area of practice focus for Andy. He has represented clients in cases involving such diverse crimes as assault, forgery, kidnapping, burglary, fraud and manslaughter.

He also has significant experience in healthcare litigation and has represented numerous doctors, hospitals, medical associations and patients in medical malpractice, antitrust and commercial disputes+

AWARDS INCLUDE:
–Utah’s Legal Elite, 2006-2012.
–Martindale Hubbell “Preeminent” lawyer, rating of AV.
–Mountain States Super Lawyer, 2010-2012.
–Best Lawyers in America in the areas of commercial litigation, antitrust litigation, intellectual property and patent litigation.

BACKGROUND:
University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT
Adjunct Professor of Law and History,
Honors Program (Legal History)
University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT
Adjunct Professor Communications Department (First Amendment).
National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Frequent Instructor of trial advocacy at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (“NITA”)
Utah Supreme Court | Salt Lake City, UT
Judicial Clerk for Justice Christine Durham.

EDUCATION:
1992-1995
University of Chicago Law School | Chicago, IL
J.D., June 1995.
University of Chicago Graduate School | Chicago, IL
M.A.
A.B.D., Graduate School of History
Ph.D., Oral Examination fields included United States Legal History
1982-1986
Yale University | New Haven, CT
B.A., Humanities, 1986
Rhodes Scholarship Finalist
MVP Award Co-Winner, Varsity Ice Hockey Team

SCHOLARSHIP:
Albert W. Alschuler & Andrew G. Deiss, A Brief History of the Criminal Jury Trial in the United States, 61 U. Chi. L. Rev. 867 (1994)
CITED AS AUTHORITY by the United States Supreme Court in:
Burghuis v. Smith, 130 S. Ct. 1382 (2010);
Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1 (1999)
U.S. v. Gaudin, 515 U.S. 506 (1995).
ALSO CITED IN:
U.S. v. Lynch, 952 F. Supp. 167 (S.D.N.Y. 1997);
People v. Williams, 21 P.3d 1209 (Cal. 2001);
People v. Marshall, 919 P.2d 1280 (Cal. 1996);
Davis v. State, 809 A.2d 565 (Del. 2002)
People v. Douglas, 680 N.Y.S.2d 145 (1998).
Also cited in over two hundred law reviews and secondary sources, including: Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, U.C.L.A. Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Georgetown Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review,  California Law Review, Texas Law Review, Duke Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal.
Cited in dozens of books including, Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime, and the Law (Vintage 1997); Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, The Majesty of the Law (Random House 2003); David Cole, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (The New Press 1999); Eric K. Monkkonen, Murder in New York City (University of California Press 2000); Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill & Wang 1998); Neil Vidmar, World Jury Systems (Oxford 2001).
Negotiating Justice: The Criminal Trial Jury in a Pluralist America, 3 U. Chi. Roundtable 323 (1996).
• Cited as authority in numerous law reviews including Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, and Stanford Law Review, among others.
Making the Crime Fit the Punishment: Pre-Arrest Sentence Manipulation by Investigators Under the Sentencing Guidelines, 1994 U. Chi. Legal F. 419.
• Cited by and analysis adopted in State v. Steadman, 827 So.2d 1022 (Fla. App. 2002);  People v. Smith, 120 Cal.Rptr. 2d 831, 853 (2002).
• Cited as authority by the University of Michigan Law Review, N.Y.U. Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and Stanford Law Review, among others.
Alschuler & Deiss, American Independence & the Jury, 143 N. L.J. 951 (1993).
OTHER
Third District Court, State of Utah, Small Claims Department judge pro tempore, 1996-1999.
Utah Lawyers for the Arts, President, 1997-2010
ACLU Legal Panel Member, 1997
Member – Utah State Bar
Member – American Bar Association
Barrister – American Inns of Court
Member – American Society of Trial Consultants (ASTC)
National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) instructor, Rocky Mountain Regional program 2007 – present.
West High School Mock Trial Coach, 2011-present.

David A Delman

David A. Delman, a partner at Hogan Lovells located in Houston, Texas, has extensive experience in a wide range of complex litigation and arbitration matters, including successfully prosecuting and defending claims in the engineering and construction industries, joint venture agreements, transportation agreements, insurance coverage and other commercial disputes.  David had tried numerous State and Federal Courts cases around the nation as well as in arbitrations under the applicable laws of Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Lithuania, Saudi Arabia, U.S. and English Law.

David is a graduate of the American University School of International Service (Summa Cum Laude) and the Georgetown University Law Center (Magna Cum Laude.)  David has also served as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary to a large international publically traded engineering and construction company.

Mitch Dembin was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of California on March 18, 2011.  Prior to his appointment, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Diego and served as the Cybercrime Coordinator for the office.  Before that, he was the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Corporation assisting Microsoft’s business customers in creating and implementing strategic security plans.  Prior to joining Microsoft, Mitch was the president of EvidentData, Inc., a firm specializing in computer forensics, digital evidence and computer security.  Mitch served three different terms as an AUSA over 15 years in San Diego and in Boston, Massachusetts, including 6 years as a supervisor.  As a federal prosecutor, Mitch has specialized in prosecuting a variety of white collar crimes and, beginning in 1991, in investigating and prosecuting high technology crimes.  Before his first term as an AUSA, Mitch was a staff attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. 

Mitch is credited with having founded the San Diego Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, a national prototype, which provides assistance to the federal, state and local law enforcement agencies serving San Diego and Imperial Counties. 
 
Mitch was raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a New York City Police Officer, and attended Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (B.A. 1975) and Western New England Law School where he served as Managing Editor of the Law Review (J.D. 1978). 

Rebecca Diaz-Bonilla
Lumen8 Advisors
diazbonilla@gmail.com
571.242.2412

Rebecca Diaz-Bonilla consults with practicing attorneys and executives to improve their oral communication skills by teaching lessons from the theater applicable to oral communication and the law.  Her consulting work ranges from seminars held for groups of attorneys to one-on-one coaching sessions for individuals

Mrs. Diaz-Bonilla is a member of the Virginia State Bar and a professional actress and singer.  From 2002 to 2004, Mrs. Diaz-Bonilla was an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law where she taught communication and advocacy to both potential litigators and non-litigators.  She taught classes with Robert Sayler of Covington and Burling, and their courses were honored by the students with the highest ratings and reviews at the law school.

Mrs. Diaz-Bonilla is a graduate of the University of Virginia where she majored in drama and received awards for her performances in theater both at the university and professional level.  After receiving her J.D. from George Mason University School of Law, Mrs. Diaz-Bonilla practiced litigation at Hirschler Fleischer in Richmond, Virginia.

Gerald G. Dixon

GERALD G. DIXON is a shareholder in the law firm of Dixon, Scholl & Bailey, P.A., where he practices in the areas of commercial litigation, professional malpractice defense and construction disputes. 

Mr. Dixon received his B.B.A. and J.D. degrees from Texas Tech University.  He is a frequent speaker before various professional groups on professional malpractice, construction related issues and risk management.  In October, 2012, Mr. Dixon was a Guest Lecturer at the School of Law at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

He was admitted to the State Bar of Colorado in 1981 and the State Bar of New Mexico in 1986.  Mr. Dixon was elected to the New Mexico Board of Bar Commissioners in 2012.  He was President of the Albuquerque Bar Association in 1994. 

He is married to Deborah Dixon, a consulting civil engineer, has two children, is a member of the First United Methodist Church of Albuquerque and has coached a high school mock trial team in his spare time since 1988.

Dobson, Mark M.

Mr. Dobson directs the following program: Building Trial Skills: Florida Regional

Mark Dobson is a Professor of Law at the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University. He teaches criminal law, trial advocacy techniques, criminal justice, and criminal procedure courses. Dobson is admitted to practice in Florida, Maryland, and Kansas.

Contact Information:
dobsonm@nsu.law.nova.edu

Mary Pat Dooley

B.A., George Washington University
J.D., Hastings College of the Law

Mary Pat Dooley has been teaching with NITA since 1996.  She is a judicial staff attorney for the Honorable Carol A. Corrigan of the California Supreme Court. 

After graduation from law school, Ms. Dooley clerked for the Honorable William Schwarzer, United States District Court, Northern District of California.  She was a deputy district attorney for eleven years with the Alameda County (Oakland, California) District Attorney’s Office.  Her trial experience included homicides, sexual assaults and major narcotics offenses.  For two years, Ms. Dooley served as the supervising deputy district attorney in the law and motion department.  In an exchange program with the California Attorney General’s Office, she worked for six months in the criminal appeals unit, preparing written briefs and arguing before various California Courts of Appeal.

After leaving the District Attorney’s Office, Ms. Dooley was a litigation associate with Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe in San Francisco for three years, with an emphasis in commercial litigation and employment discrimination.  Since 1998, she has worked with Justice Corrigan, first as her senior staff attorney in the Court of Appeal, and then joining Justice Corrigan at the Supreme Court.

Ms. Dooley has served as program director for trial skills and motion practice programs, and assisted in deposition programs.  She has taught at the NITA National Session and Western Regional programs.  In addition to her work with NITA, Ms. Dooley is an adjunct professor of law teaching trial advocacy at Boalt Hall Law School and Hastings College of the Law, which she has done since 1998.

Robert C. Douglas, Jr.

Bob is chief in-house counsel for the Colorado Department of Health Care, Policy and Financing, a $5B+ health plan delivering medical assistance to the underprivileged. Bob coordinates the defense of complex multi-party and class action litigation through the efforts of 8 assistant state attorneys general.  As a plaintiff/claimant, Bob’s division identified and recovered over $50m last year from third party primary obligors.  He is a former First Assistant Colorado Attorney General and a co-founder of the Health Care Fraud Task Force, a regional effort to coordinate fraud detection and recoveries between public/private health insurers, the Office of the Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. and state’s attorneys general.  Bob drafted and managed the legislative enactment of the Colorado False Claims Act in 2010 resulting in the recovery of over $20m to date.  Before government service, Bob was a trial attorney in private practice for 25 years.  He’s taught NITA programs in Washington, California, Texas, Utah, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana and Colorado. 

John G. Douglass

B.A., summa cum laude, Dartmouth College
J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School

John Douglass is a Professor of Law at the University of Richmond, where he teaches Criminal Law, Evidence and Criminal Procedure and manages a program in litigation skills and trial advocacy.  His principal academic publications have focused on prosecution, the criminal trial process and the Confrontation Clause.  Before joining the Richmond Law faculty in 1996, he practiced law for 15 years.  He served for eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore and Richmond, and was Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in Richmond from 1992 to 1996.  He also served on the staff of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh in the Iran-Contra investigation. As a partner in a Richmond law firm, he specialized in commercial litigation, insurance defense, construction litigation and white collar criminal defense.   He is a faculty member of the Virginia State Bar’s Course in Professionalism, an instructor in trial advocacy and other litigation skills for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education.

Daniel G. Dowd

Dan Dowd is the managing partner of Cohen Kennedy Dowd & Quigley.  Dan attended Iowa State University and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (with an emphasis in finance) with distinction in 1985, finishing with the highest grade point average among finance students.  He received his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1988, where he graduated with high distinction and was a member of the Order of the Coif.  He was admitted to practice in Arizona in 1988.

Dan has received substantial peer recognition during his career.  In 2004, The Business Journal recognized Dan as one of the “Best of the Bar – Litigation” as selected by his peers.  In 2007, Dan, Ron Cohen and Laura Kennedy obtained a $360 million verdict in a multi-week, hotly contested commercial tort trial. This is the second largest verdict in the history of the state of Arizona and the fourth largest in the U.S. in 2007.  Dan has also been selected as a "Super Lawyer" in every edition of “Southwest Super Lawyers”, a peer-evaluated publication recognizing individuals ranked in the top five percent of lawyers practicing in their state.  In 2011, Southwest Super Lawyers identified Dan as a member of "The Top Fifty" recognizing the Arizona lawyers who received the highest point totals in the review process.  Dan is recognized in "Best Lawyers in America" 2010 - 2012 editions and has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.  In 2010, Dan was inducted into "Arizona's Finest Lawyers", a peer-reviewed organization that limits membership to approximately six percent of the Arizona State Bar members.  In 2011, The Litigation Counsel of America ("LCA") selected Dan as a Fellow.  The LCA is an invitation only trial lawyer honorary society and membership is limited to 3,500 Fellows, representing less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers.

Dan is a member of the Maricopa County Bar Association, the State Bar of Arizona, the American Bar Association and a former member of the Sandra Day O’Connor Inn of Court.  Dan currently serves as co-chair of the American Bar Association's Judicial Intern Opportunity Program ("JIOP"). He was co-chair of the Special Committee on the Future of Civil Litigation of the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation from 2009-2010.  He served as Director of Division IV in 2009, co-chair of the Section's Solo and Small Firm Committee from 2006 to 2008 and as co-chair of the Federal Practice Task Force from 2001 to 2005.  Dan is also heavily involved with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, serving as the Program Director for NITA’s Arizona and Nevada Deposition Skills Programs and a NITA faculty member.

Dan is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of Arizona, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Dan concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, ADR and administrative dispute proceedings.

James Eloi Doyle
Partner
Doyle, Restrepo, Harvin & Robbins, L.L.P.

Practice Description
For more than 30 years, James Doyle has handled complex business litigation involving advanced technology, trade secrets, oil and gas matters, employment law, financial institution fraud and white collar crime, deceptive trade practices, securities and antitrust. He also has represented clients before legislative subcommittees and grand juries and has had experience in commercial matters with potential criminal ramifications. James has extensive civil trial experience in state and federal courts, as well as having tried numerous criminal cases in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Representative Matters
• Represented major oil company relating to commercial and royalty claims arising out of their operations in West Africa.
• Represented international bank in Enron litigation involving a $40 billion claim.
• Represented nation's largest developer of destination malls in dispute over competing developments and national joint development agreements.
• Represented the receiver and subsequently the FSLIC in one of the largest savings and loan failures in the 1980s.
• Represented major national trust in a royalty dispute involving coastal reserves and fraud.
• Successfully resolved a major dispute against a global software developer on behalf of a manufacturer and marketer of petrochemicals. The case involved the development, marketing and implementation of an e-commerce software applications product.
• Obtained a significant settlement in suit for fraud against a life insurance company based on its refusal to honor a large life insurance policy. He represented the beneficiaries and, after months of discovery and pre-trial motions, we resolved the case for an amount well in excess of the face amount of the policy.
• Defended Fortune 500 company in $100 million dispute over a joint venture involving specialty chemicals.
• Represented chief executive of national real estate corporation in litigation resulting from sales of numerous apartment developments.
• Messrs. Doyle and Harvin obtained the first jury verdict finding defective engineering services and parts against one of the nation's largest advanced technology and semiconductor companies.
• Represented major oil companies and individuals in variety of mineral lease and surface issues.
• Represented oil company in dispute over offshore concession in Belize.
• Represented one of the largest private international currency traders in claims in excess of $100 million relating to alleged expropriation of software.
• Handled several nursing home cases, including a case in 1998 that resulted in a jury verdict that was described in The Wall Street Journal as one of largest in the nation at the time.
• Assisted in defense and coordinated jury selection in one of the largest criminal antitrust cases ever brought in the Southwest.
• Represented physicians in significant unfair competition/antitrust litigation
• Represented numerous plaintiffs in closed head and wrongful death cases

Activities and Affiliations
• Faculty: National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) at Southern Methodist University, University of Houston, University of New Mexico, and at the Advanced and Masters NITA Programs at the University of Colorado.
• Adjunct Professor: University of Houston School of Law , 1988-90.
• Coauthor: "The Regulator's View of Lender Liability: The FSLIC's Administrative Claims Process," State Bar of Texas Lender's Liability Seminar, 1988.
• Speaker: "Nursing Home Litigation," Houston Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 1999.
Educational and Professional Background
• Admitted to the State Bar of Indiana, 1970 and State Bar of Texas, 1974.
• Education: Rice University, B.A.; University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D. 1970; University of London, CAEL 1969.
• Captain, United States Marine Corps, 1968-1974.
• Member: State Bar Association of Texas, American Bar Association and Houston Bar Association.
• Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Texas, United States Courts of Appeal for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Southern, Western, Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas.

Present or Past Member
• "R" Association of Rice University
• Grievance Committee of the State Bar of Texas
• Interfaith Housing Board
• Houston Philosophical Society

Mark Drummond

A trial lawyer for 20 years before taking the bench as a trial judge, Mark Drummond is one of the highest rated NITA instructors by in-house program participants.  A NITA instructor since 1986, he also teaches others how to be NITA instructors at all three NITA teacher training sites.

Mark was selected by the prosecutor’s office of the United Nation’s War Crimes Tribunal to train prosecutors at The Hague and in Arusha, Tanzania.  He regularly teaches barristers at Oxford and has been asked by the Federated Bar Association of Japan to teach advocacy skills to attorneys in anticipation of their judicial reform in 2009.

He is the author of “The Eight Keys to the Art of Persuasion”, a one-day trial advocacy program and has done numerous training videos for NITA.  He writes an advocacy column for litigation News, a publication of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association.

Sample Comments from in-house participants and other NITA instructors:
“Perhaps the best NITA teacher I have seen in 20 years of teaching NITA.”
“Mark Drummond was easily the most effective instructor I have ever seen.”
“I would come listen to him anywhere, anytime.”
“Fantastic!  When I grow up I want to be a female Mark Drummond.”
“The gem of the program.  Mark Drummond was a star.”

Catharine L. Du Bois

Legal Writing Faculty
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., Indiana University

Catharine Du Bois comes to Colorado Law after practicing at Jenner & Block, LLP, in Chicago and at Jones Day in New York City. At both firms, she specialized in securities law and litigation, but also represented clients on a range of environmental, employment, constitutional, and civil rights law matters. Professor Du Bois clerked for the Honorable Steven D. Merrday, U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Flordia, and she served as a pro bono attorney as part of the Volunteer Appellate Defender Program in New York City and as an intern in the law firm of Aybay and Aybay in Istanbul, Turkey. Ms. Du Bois was Co-chair of the sub-committee for judicial liaisons of the ABA Section on Litigation, serves as a member of the Trial Evidence Committee, and is a member of the Law Community Against Violence.

Courses and Research Interests
Appellate Court Advocacy
Legal Writing

Christopher A. Duggan

 Christopher Duggan is the founding partner of Smith Duggan in Boston, specializing in civil trial work including cases involving product liability, insurance coverage, premises liability, aviation law and related industries.  He is one of the most active civil trial lawyers in Boston, having tried over 50 civil cases to verdict.  His clients include numerous manufacturers, insurers, and several prominent companies in the aviation industry such as the Massachusetts Port Authority, Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines, FBOs and a number of companies that service the aviation industry.  He has also represented a host of aviation insurers including United States Aviation Underwriters, Inc., Global Aerospace, Inc., Chartis Aviation (now AIG Aerospace) and ACE/USA.

 Mr. Duggan was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates in 1997 and has since held leadership positions at the local, regional and national levels.  He was state chapter president, from 2007 until 2009, during which time the chapter drew by over 200%.  He was one of the founders of the eastern regional ABOTA organization, EAST ABOTA, which encompasses 20 chapters from Washington, D.C. to Maine.  He has served on the National Board of Directors since 2008, and is now on the National Executive Committee and will be the National Secretary in 2013.

Through his work in ABOTA and other bar associations, Mr. Duggan has helped develop programs to preserve the 7th Amendment right to a civil jury trial, promote civility and professionalism among all members of the bar, and educate young people about the vital importance of a strong and independent judicial branch in a republican form of government.  He founded the James Otis Lecture Series in 2007, in which prominent scholars, writers, judges and lawyers give a program about the Constitution or courageous lawyers to high school students on Constitution Day each year.   The program, which began in Massachusetts, has now spread to many chapters across the country.

 Mr. Duggan regularly speaks on issues of both substantive law and trial tactics at programs run by ABOTA, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. and others.  He served on the faculty of the prestigious Trial Academy of the International Association of Defense Counsel (2010) and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) in 2012.  He graduated summa cum laude from Boston College (1981) and obtained his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1984.
 

Catherine Ross Dunham

B.A., University of North Carolina
J.D., Campbell University

Dunham came to Elon University School of Law from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she compiled and analyzed research exploring social psychology and legal education. In addition to authoring publications in the area of legal education, Dunham's scholarly publications include works examining aspects of procedural law and gender equality. At Elon, Dunham teaches Civil Procedure, Appellate Advocacy, Pre-trial Litigation and other courses in the Trial Practice Program. Dunham also serves on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and teaches in regional and national advocacy programs. Prior to joining Elon, Dunham served as director of the Legal Research and Writing Program and assistant professor of law at Campbell University School of Law. She also served as a law clerk to Judge Sidney S. Eagles Jr., at the North Carolina Court of Appeals before practicing law, representing clients in trial and appellate litigation in both North Carolina and federal courts. In 2003, she received the American Bar Association's E. Smythe Gambrell Award for teaching professionalism.

Ms. Dunham has a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a juris doctor from Campbell University and a master of laws from the University of Virginia School of Law.

William Durham is an attorney at the Center For Death Penalty Litigation in Durham, North Carolina, where he handles murder cases at the trial, appellate, and post-conviction level.

Tim Eirich

J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Tim Eirich is the Deputy Director at the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law
Center, a non-profit law center dedicated to advocacy on behalf of abused and neglected children. Mr. Eirich is a former trial attorney with the Office of the Colorado Public Defender. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Eirich provided case management and after school programs to homeless youth in Arizona and ran an academic based, residential group home for teenage boys in New Orleans. Mr. Eirich graduated with honors from Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he was recognized as both a Civitas Childlaw Fellow and Philip H. Corboy Fellow.

Larry Elswit

Larry Elswit represents and tries cases on behalf of Boston University, where he has been employed since 1982, in a range of areas including employment and discrimination claims, faculty matters, academic and student affairs, business disputes, athletics, and labor relations. Prior to coming to Boston University he was employed as a Senior Civil Rights Attorney at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Louisville, Inc. in Kentucky. He also taught federal practice at the University Of Louisville School Of Law. After graduating in 1970 with a B.A. from Cornell University, he earned his J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 1973. When he is not practicing law Larry enjoys competitive rowing and cross-country skiing.

Bill Elward is the Criminal Trials Assistance Bureau Chief for the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.  Bill is lead counsel on complex prosecutions ranging from commercial fraud and internet crime cases to first degree murders.  Similar to complex commercial practice, Bill's cases involve extensive pretrial discovery, depositions and experts; however, the vast majority of his cases end up in trial, which has given him the opportunity to try over 100 jury trials to verdict.   Bill is “Distinguished Practitioner in Residence” at Loyola University of Chicago Law School where he teaches Evidence, Advanced Evidence, and Trial Advocacy.  In 2008 he received the Robert Bellarmine Award for Outstanding Law School Alumnus.  Elward also teaches Trial Advocacy at the University of Chicago School of Law each year, and has taught trial advocacy at numerous law schools. 
 
 Elward is the director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Midwest Trials Skills Program Bill teaches deposition practice and trial skills nationally and internationally.  In addition to his law school teaching, Bill supervises deposition training state-wide for the Illinois Attorney General’s office.  In addition to teaching several deposition and trial programs each year for private law firms throughout the United States, the Irish Department of Public Prosecutions has twice invited Bill to teach trial skills in Dublin, Ireland.  Elward also taught evidence and criminal procedure at the Alberto Hurtado University Law School in Santiago, Chile, and taught comparative criminal procedure in Rome, Italy. 

Elward routinely receives the highest evaluations in both his law school classes and in NITA programs.  In 2010 Elward was recognized by the Illinois State Appellate Prosecutor’s Office for Outstanding Instruction in Depositions and Trial Skills. Since 2005 Bill has also taught evidence, criminal law and bar exam preparation for Bar-Bri.  Elward is a cum laude graduate of Loyola University of Chicago Law School where he was the Research Editor on the Consumer Law Reporter.  Bill is married and has four sons.

Paul Enriquez

Paul V. Enriquez is in private practice specializing in criminal defense in state and federal courts in Dallas Texas. In 32 years of practice he has tried hundreds of cases both bench and jury trials. While serving as corporate litigation counsel for a major oil and gas company he was involved in commercial litigation and casualty defense matters throughout the country. Mr. Enriquez graduated from Southern Methodist University, BA (1970); and Southern Methodist University, JD (1973). Mr. Enriquez has been a NITA faculty member since 1993 and has taught as adjunct faculty in trial advocacy at Southern Methodist University since 2000.

Ellen Chubin Epstein

Ellen has spent more than a decade as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., where she has prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases in both the local and federal courts.  She has tried 30 criminal cases and directed scores of grand jury investigations, involving charges such as murder, bribery, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice.  She has authored more than a dozen appellate briefs and argued nine direct appeals in the local and federal courts. 

For the last four-and-a-half years, Ellen has served in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section, where she is a Senior AUSA.  Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ellen was a Senior Trial Attorney in the Office of Special Investigations of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.  There she investigated and prosecuted individuals who assisted the Nazis in persecuting civilians during World War II. 

During her 15 years total with the U.S. Department of Justice, Ellen has earned seven special achievement awards for superior performance and one meritorious award.  Before joining the U.S. Department of Justice, Ellen spent four years in private practice at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.  She received her law and undergraduate degrees from Harvard University.  Ellen has taught in trial advocacy skills workshops sponsored by NITA since 2004.  

K. Stewart Evans

Since 1973, K. Stewart Evans, Jr. has focused on resolving complex legal issues through negotiation, alternative dispute resolution resources, and litigation relating to business planning, business disputes, contract formation and disputes, protection of intellectual property, business torts, and securities. 

In addition to serving as outside general counsel to several businesses and counseling clients on difficult matters on a project basis, Mr. Evans is a seasoned trial lawyer who has been particularly successful in jury trials. However, he understands the business reasons for clients to avoid the time and expense of litigation, if possible. Mr. Evans uses his trial experience to help clients develop pro-active strategies to avoid litigation, to reduce risks when disputes occur and to achieve their objectives through negotiations and, if necessary, through litigation.

Mr. Evans has successfully represented clients in matters relating to contract formation and disputes, software, an attack against an entire line of computer products, patent infringement claims based upon biological products, misappropriation of trade secrets, trademarks, interference with contract claims, breach of fiduciary duties, restrictive covenants, conspiracy, securities fraud, wrongful termination and Title VII claims, breach of warranty, and defamation.

Mr. Evans received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1968. He was a three-year letterman in baseball, a member of the Raven Society and, in 1967-1968, the historian of the College. After receiving his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1972, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Robert J. Kelleher of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. Because Judge Kelleher was under consideration for appointment to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and sat by designation quite often, Mr. Evans also had the opportunity to participate in the work of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Evans is a member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. Mr. Evans has lectured extensively on commercial litigation matters, business torts and securities, and has written articles for PC Magazine. 

Michael J. Faber

Michael J. Faber was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on October 4, 1954.  He graduated with High Honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1975, and earned his Juris Doctor degree (cum laude) from Northwestern University School of Law in 1979.

Mr. Faber was admitted to the California Bar in 1979.  He began his practice with Lillick, McHose & Charles, which is now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
 
Since 1987, Mr. Faber has been a sole practitioner in Santa Monica and West Los Angeles where he specializes in representing employees in employment related disputes.  He also regularly counsels corporate executives in severance negotiations.  He has tried nearly 40 jury trials in state and federal courts, together with numerous bench trials and arbitrations.  He has argued more than 10 appeals in the California Courts of Appeal and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Faber has served on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and regularly teaches at MCLE seminars on employment litigation. He enjoys an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell, and he has been named a "Southern California Super Lawyer" by Los Angeles Magazine for six consecutive years, from 2006 to 2011. Additionally, Mr. Faber has been selected for inclusion in the 2011 edition of "The Best Lawyers in America".

KIERAN P. FALLON, ESQ.

B.A., Boston College
J.D., Boston College Law School

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Law Clerk             1980-1981
United States District Court District of Massachusetts for United States District Judge David S. Nelson

Law Clerk            1981-1982
State of Rhode Island Supreme Court for the Associate Justice Thomas F Kelleher
  
Assistant State Attorney          1982-1985
Miami Dade County Court, Florida - Narcotics Division, Police Corruption / Organized Crime Division
Division Chief: Robbery Division & Organized Crime Division

Principal Attorney           1988-Present
Law Firm of Kieran P. Fallon, P.A.         
Complex Civil Litigation and Criminal Defense

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES:

U.S. District Courts:        
Massachusetts District Court
Florida Southern District Court
Florida Middle District Court
Florida Northern District Court
North Dakota District Court
Ohio Northern District Court
Michigan Eastern District Court
Virginia Eastern District Court

U.S. Court of Appeals:
First Circuit,  Third Circuit,   Fourth Circuit,   Seventh Circuit,   Ninth Circuit,   Eleventh Circuit, 
US Supreme Court

EDUCATION:

Boston College           B.A. - 1977
Major:  Philosophy and Political Science,  Magna Cum Laude

Boston College Law School          J.D. - 1980

John M. Farrell

B.A., Indiana University
J.D., University of Chicago

John Farrell is a principal at Fish & Richardson, P.C.  John is a trial attorney, handling both intellectual property cases and commercial litigation.  Mr. Farrell is an experienced trial lawyer, having tried over 90 jury trials.  He served as a head attorney in the homicide unit of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where he worked from 1987-2001.  He served as a law clerk to the Honorable S. Hugh Dillin, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.  He also has taken and defended hundreds of depositions and regularly argues motions in both state and federal court.  In addition to teaching trial advocacy, he often is called on to lecture on how to take and defend depositions and how to prepare witnesses to be deposed. He also lectures on rules of hearsay and the art of cross examination.

 Mr. Farrell is a veteran teacher of advocacy skills and has taught for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for over 15 years, in regional programs, the national program in Boulder and numerous in house programs around the country.  He regularly is one of the top ranked instructors for NITA

Elizabeth Fassler

B.A., Brandeis University
J.D., Syracuse University College of Law

Elizabeth Fassler is a Litigation Supervisor at the Center for Family Representation, Inc. (CFR) and has worked in the child welfare field since 1996.  She represents parents in CFR’s interdisciplinary legal teams and supervises CFR’s staff attorneys, paralegals, fellows and legal interns.  She also conducts training sessions and provides technical assistance to assigned counsel seeking practice support.  Ms. Fassler has also been a faculty member at the New York State Judicial Institute. 

Prior to joining CFR, Ms. Fassler was an attorney at the Juvenile Rights Practice of The Legal Aid Society (JRP), where she served as a Law Guardian representing and advocating for children involved in child welfare-related court matters, including child abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, custody, visitation, delinquency and PINS proceedings.  Additionally, Ms. Fassler worked at the JRP Safe Families Project, a pilot project designed to front load services to children and families who have Family Court cases where the only allegation is domestic violence.  She also supervised law student interns in conjunction with the Columbia Law School Child Advocacy Clinic in all aspects of Family Court proceedings, including interviewing clients, legal research, case strategy, and court appearances. 

Ms. Fassler graduated from the Syracuse University College of Law and interned at JRP, the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc., and the Syracuse University College of Law Children’s Rights/Civil Clinic.  She received a B.A. from Brandeis University. 

Susan G. Feibus

Ms. Feibus is a partner with more than 25 years of significant civil and criminal trial and appellate experience in the state and federal courts.  Prior to joining Ungaretti & Harris, she headed the litigation department for Sam Zell’s defunct “captive” law firm, which was associated with the parent company of Zell’s private investments and his publicly-traded REITs. 

Ms. Feibus’ experience includes:

Trial and Appellate Advocacy

Ms. Feibus has tried many cases, including jury trials, to verdict.  Her notable criminal cases include obtaining an acquittal for a holiday court bailiff in the “Greylord” investigation into judicial corruption in the Circuit Court of Cook County and representing the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County in a ten-week federal jury trial arising from the public corruption investigation “Operation Incubator.”

Ms. Feibus has written 85 civil and criminal appeals in the state and federal courts.  These appeals, involving a wide range of issues, include several cases of first impression.  She successfully argued a case involving important First Amendment issues before the Illinois Supreme Court.

Commercial Litigation/Class Action Defense

Ms. Feibus has substantial experience in a broad range of commercial disputes.  This experience includes representing receivers and defendants in class actions cases, including those in regulated industries.  She also represented federal agencies in investigations arising out of the failure of financial institutions. Additionally, she routinely represents clients in “high dollar” contract, real estate and construction disputes.  Ms. Feibus also represents clients in commercial mediation and arbitration proceedings.  

Bankruptcy Litigation

Ms. Feibus has extensive experience in bankruptcy litigation.  She has represented trustees, debtors and creditors in a wide array of complex bankruptcy cases.  She also has handled many appeals from the bankruptcy courts to the federal district courts and courts of appeals. 

Employment Counseling and Litigation 

Ms. Feibus handles cases before the Illinois and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, Illinois Department of Labor and other administrative agencies. 

Ms. Feibus’ experience includes cases involving Title VII, ERISA, state court wrongful discharge claims and defending and enforcing restrictive covenants.  She also counsels clients in a wide array of employment matters, drafts employee handbooks and corporate compliance plans and assists with implementation by providing employee training.  

Health Care Litigation

Ms. Feibus represents a wide array of health care clients including hospitals, federally qualified health centers, nursing homes, insurers and physicians. Her experience includes representing a major healthcare insurer in antitrust litigation against a large provider of hospital and physician services. She also represents hospitals in a variety of commercial disputes. 

Ms. Feibus has extensive experience in medical staff issues, including litigating the propriety of actions taken under hospitals’ medical staff by-laws.  She also represents hospitals in employment matters.    

 
Distinctions
Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers™
A/V Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
Illinois Super Lawyer, 2009

Teaching Experience
Northwestern University School of Law, Adjunct Professor, Clinical Trial Practice (1992–present); Legal Writing Fellow (1980-1981)
National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Faculty, Midwest Trial Practice, Deposition and Teacher Training Programs (1995–present)
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, Adjunct Professor, Legal Research and Writing (1984–1985)
ITT-Chicago Kent College of Law, Adjunct Professor, Legal Research and Writing (1983–1984)

Courts
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Illinois
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (trial bar),
Central District of Illinois, Middle District of Pennsylvania, District of Colorado and District of Columbia

Memberships
American, Illinois and Chicago Bar Associations
Appellate Lawyers Association
Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Civic
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation, Panel Attorney
Society for Human Resource Professionals
The Chicago Inn of Court
TASC (Treatment Alternatives Safe Communities), Philanthropy Committee Member

Admissions
Illinois; Pennsylvania

Education
Northwestern University School of Law (J.D.)
University of Pennsylvania (B.A., summa cum laude); Phi Beta Kappa

Mr. Feinberg
Mr. Feinberg focuses his practice on civil rights litigation and criminal defense.  He is an experienced trial lawyer and appellate litigator, having successfully tried cases and argued appeals in both state and federal court.  Mr. Feinberg has developed expertise in numerous areas of law in the civil rights and criminal defense fields.  In the civil rights arena, he specializes in cases involving wrongful convictions and prosecutions of innocent persons, the excessive use of force by police and correctional officers, the unconstitutional denial of medical care to prisoners, and the unlawful incarceration of persons in immigration custody.  In the criminal defense practice area, Mr. Feinberg has extensive experience litigating habeas corpus matters challenging convictions and prison sentences and in the handling of complex federal sentencing proceedings.

Mr. Feinberg frequently lectures at continuing legal education courses and to law students on a variety of issues related to civil rights law and criminal defense practice.  In the 2007-08 academic year, Mr. Feinberg served as an adjunct faculty member in the University of Pennsylvania Law School Civil Practice Clinic.
Since 2008, Mr. Feinberg has been a member of the Legal Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania’s Philadelphia office.  Mr. Feinberg regularly consults for and co-counsels with local public interest organizations, including the ACLU, HIAS Pennsylvania, the Women’s Law Project, and thePennsylvania Immigration Resource Center.  Mr. Feinberg is an active member of two projects affiliated with the the National Lawyers Guild: the National Police Accountability Project and the National Immigration Project.
Mr. Feinberg is a 2001 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he was awarded the Best Oralist prize in the prestigious Edwin R. Keedy Cup moot court competition.  After completing a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Jan E. DuBois of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Mr. Feinberg joined the firm in September 2002 and was promoted to partner in 2006.

Bibianne Fell

Bibianne Fell directs the following programs: Deposition Skills: Pacific; Deposing the Expert Witness.

Ms. Fell graduated magna cum laude from USD law school in 2004 where she was a member of the Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.  She previously attended UCSD, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

After law school, Ms. Fell worked at an insurance defense firm practicing in the areas of professional malpractice and employment law.  From 2005 to 2008, she worked in the business litigation and employment law departments at Baker & McKenzie LLP.  Ms. Fell now practices business litigation and employment law at Fleming & Fell PC.

From early in her career, Ms. Fell has integrated teaching into her practice.  She has been a faculty member for NITA since 2008, teaches trial skills as an adjunct professor of law at her alma matter, and has assisted with ABOTA’s bi-annual Trial College.

Ms. Fell has received a number of professional awards and recognition including being twice named a Top Young Attorney by the San Diego Daily Transcript, a Rising Star by the Philippine American Business and Industrial Development organization, and being selected as the 2012-2013 Official Representative and Ambassador for the Filipino-American community in San Diego.

Aimee Ferrer

Aimee Ferrer is an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender, Southern District of Florida.  Aimee graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. She began her legal career advocating for low-income victims of domestic violence at Ayuda, Inc. in Washington, D.C.  She then worked as an associate at Allen & Overy, LLP in New York, where her practice focused on white-collar criminal
defense and complex civil litigation.   She returned to her hometown of
Miami in 2008 to serve as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul C. Huck, United States District Judge in the Southern District of Florida.  After completing her clerkship, she joined the Office of the Federal Public Defender.

Gaetano Ferro is a past president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a diplomate of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers, a past chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Family Law Section, and a past president of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Mr. Ferro was named the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers’ Fellow of the Year in November of 2012.  He has been named one of Super Lawyers Magazine’s top ten lawyers in Connecticut three times.  He has continuously been listed as one of Super Lawyers’ top one hundred lawyers in New England.  He has been listed in Naifeh and Smith, THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA each year since 1989 (Lawyer of the Year, 2013).  He frequently appears in other listings of top lawyers including those in Worth Magazine, New York Magazine, Westchester Magazine, Connecticut Magazine, New Canaan, Darien & Rowayton Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, Westport, Weston & Wilton Magazine, and Stamford Magazine.

Mr. Ferro served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and of the Connecticut Family Lawyer.  He was the Connecticut Bar Journal’s Senior Topical Editor for Family Law and was Executive Editor of the Connecticut Law Review.

Mr. Ferro has authored more than forty-five published articles on a wide variety of family law topics.  Those articles have appeared in the Connecticut Law Tribune, the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the Connecticut Bar Journal, the Connecticut Family Lawyer, the Family Advocate, and other publications.  His most recent articles are The Rich & Famous; How to maintain your balance when working with a heavyweight; 34 Family Advocate No. 4 (Spring 2012), and Reflections of Past Editors, 42 J. of A.A.M.L. 356 (2012).

Mr. Ferro has lectured and given demonstrations on more than eighty-five occasions to many different professional organizations including, most recently, the New Mexico State Bar Association Family Law Institute (Psychological tests; Demonstration of Direct and Cross- Examination of a Child custody evaluator)(Albuquerque, October 2012); the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers’ / the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,’ Sixth National Conference on Divorce (Concentrated Stock Positions; Liquidity) (Las Vegas, May 2012); the New York State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting (Family Law Section, Keynote speaker: Connecticut’s Experience with Same-sex Marriage) (New York, January 2012); and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts’ / the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers,’ Advanced Issues in Child Custody Conference (Demonstration of Cross-Examination of a Psychologist-child custody Evaluator)(Philadelphia, September 2011). 

Mr. Ferro served on the State of Connecticut Judicial Task Court which created the Connecticut’s Family Rules of Court and serves on the Connecticut Judicial Branch’s Family Commission.

Mr. Ferro frequently serves, pro bono, as a Special Court Master in family and custody cases in the Stamford and Middletown Superior Courts.

MARK FICKES

Mark Fickes is a partner of BraunHagey & Borden. He has tried nearly 70 cases to verdict before judges and juries in state and federal court.  Mark joined BraunHagey after serving for seven years as an investigator and senior trial counsel at the San Francisco Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

While at the SEC, Mark successfully lead the trial team in the first stock option backdating case to go to a jury.  Mark also obtained a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in a $400 million fraud case, the largest case brought by the San Francisco Regional Office. At the SEC, Mark litigated a wide range of cases including complex financial fraud, insider trading and Ponzi schemes. He has extensive experience working with state and federal regulators including the U.S. Department of Justice and the United States Attorney's Office.

Currently, Mark represents clients in civil and criminal matters.  Some of his representative clients include:
Broker-Dealers in confidential FINRA enforcement investigations.
Accounting Firms in confidential SEC investigations.
Investment advisers, private equity funds and hedge funds in litigation before the SEC and CFTC.

Robin F. Fields

B.A., Old Dominion University
J.D., University of Oklahoma College of Law
 
Robin Fields concentrates her practice in complex business litigation matters. Ms. Fields is an experienced trial attorney who represents clients as lead trial counsel in complex business litigation, oil and gas litigation, qui lam litigation, multi-state class action litigation and environmental matters. A major focus of Fields' practice involves litigating environmental issues arising from all aspects of oil and gas operations. Her experience includes dealing with issues relating to groundwater, soils, removal and clean-up activities and CERCLA cost recovery. Fields also has extensive experience in litigation oil and gas contract disputes, including underground/natural gas storage gas measurement, Joint Operating Agreement, gas marketing, oil and gas pricing, balancing and royalty issues.
Ms. Fields has devoted substantial time to litigation in state and federal courts, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution processes. She has been a member of the faculty at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has spoken at litigation and environmental seminars.

Education:
University of Oklahoma College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1984) Old Dominion University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1977)

Bar Admissions & Years:
Oklahoma - 1984 Texas ~ 2007
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma - 1984 U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma - 1984 U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

Memberships & Affiliations:
American Bar Association American Trial Lawyers Association Oklahoma Bar Association
Texas Bar Association
Oklahoma County Bar Association Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association
Practice Areas
Alternative Dispute Resolution Commercial Litigation
Energy
Environmental
Litigation
Industry Expertise
Energy Retail  
 
Other Distinctions:
NationalInstitute of Trial Advocacy Faculty Member
University of Oklahoma College of Law Trial Advocacy Program Law Clerk, Justice Opala. Oklahoma Supreme Court
Order of the Barristers
Board of Advocates
National Trial Competition Regional Champion

Judge Michael Finkle

Judge Michael Finkle joined the King County District Court (Seattle, WA) in 2010, and currently presides over Regional Mental Health Court and Regional Veterans Court.  He holds a BBA from Loyola Marymount University (1978), a JD from UCLA School of Law (1981), where he served as Managing Editor of the UCLA Law Review in 1981, and an MBA from Seattle University’s Albers School of Business (1995).

Judge Finkle began his legal career in 1981 as a business lawyer at a medium size private law firm. In 1986 he entered public service as a Deputy City Attorney with the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office. He was assigned to the Criminal and Special Operations Divisions. Judge Finkle’s duties included trying criminal cases, handling writs and appeals, and working on a large-scale civil unfair business practice lawsuit.

In 1990, Judge Finkle became an Assistant City Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Seattle City Attorney's Office, and was promoted to a supervisory role that same year. Over the next 20 years his broad range of duties included prosecuting high profile or complex criminal cases, supervising his office’s participation in Mental Health Court, and general criminal prosecution.

Judge Finkle has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law since 1998, teaching Trial Techniques and Law, Policy & Mental Health.  He is also a member of the faculty of the National Judicial College.  From 1991-2000, Judge Finkle served as faculty and senior faculty for the Washington State Bar Association’s Trial Advocacy Program, and received a special recognition award from the State Bar in 1997.

Judge Finkle is highly respected for his legal expertise. He has published articles nationally and on a statewide level.  He has also given over 100 solo and panel presentations locally, nationally and in Canada, and will be presenting on Mental Health Court and Veterans Court to an international audience in Amsterdam in 2013.

Judge Finkle served as President (2000) of the Washington State Association of Municipal Attorneys. In 2010 he received that organization’s highest honor, the Ernest H. Campbell Award, for sustained excellence in the practice of municipal law, and in 2003 was one of the recipients of its inaugural “Outstanding Service Award”.

James E. Fitzgerald

B.S.B.A., Georgetown University School of Business
J.D., Fordham University School of Law

James E. Fitzgerald has a broad-based business litigation and insurance practice. He has been involved in numerous class action, complex litigations and jury and non-jury cases in state and federal courts and arbitrations regarding insurance coverage and bad faith, business disputes, professional liability and fraud. Mr. Fitzgerald practices before the NASD on broker issues and employment matters. During his career, he has also been involved in internal corporate investigations concerning both civil and criminal liability. Other substantive areas of Mr. Fitzgerald’s practice include the representation of financial services companies, directors and officers liability and trade secrets litigation.
Some of his notable representations include:
Prosecution of federal fraud cases (on behalf of major insurer) and coordinated defense of several hundred bad faith lawsuits (tried seven to verdict) arising out of Northridge earthquake.
Defense of class action lawsuits alleging discrimination on grounds of race and national origin on behalf of major insurer.
Representation of insurers in large multi-phased environmental first and third party coverage and bad faith case in Texas.
Representation of major insurer in connection with its Collateral Asset Protection Program and arbitration against Program Manager and Claims Servicing Agent.
Successful prosecution of insurance coverage case on behalf of policyholder drug manufacturer for coverage of 3000 DES product liability cases (two trials, five appeals and final California Supreme Court decision).
Representation of Insurers in prosecuting rescission and fraud claims.
Representation of major Wall Street brokerage firm in NASD trade secret/employment cases and customer complaint matters.
 
Membershops
American Bar Association
 New York State Bar Association
 California State Bar Association
Los Angeles County Bar Association
 
Admitted to Practice
 
New York; California; U.S. District Courts, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, and Central, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second and Ninth Circuits
 
Education
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1979
B.S.B.A., Georgetown University School of Business, 1976

Jane FitzGerald

Jane is a barrister at the private Bar in Queensland, Australia. She began her association with NITA in 2008 and aims to complete her NITA Master Advocate Designation in 2011.

Admitted to practice in both the Queensland Supreme Court & the High Court of Australia, her practice focuses on commercial litigation for statutory and private sector clients, with particular expertise in professional indemnity insurance advising solicitors, accountants & medical professionals. In 2003, as the senior Legal Counsel for a leading software provider, she advised on a gamut of legal issues including intellectual property, licensing, mergers & acquisitions & risk management as well as a wide range of commercial, contractual, industrial, litigation & corporate issues.

Jane has also managed to entwine into her legal career her love of sport (especially rugby union) and advised corporate clients on a broad spectrum of issues which impact upon office holders, administrators, players & spectators. In addition, Jane worked with sporting organisations, administrators & coaches to provide risk management advice & training seminars to sporting bodies & non-profit organisations. She has also lectured & tutored at the Centre for Physical & Sports Education & the Centre for Rugby Studies on issues including contract law, torts, consumer principles, the Trade Practices Act & risk management. She has published in many of these areas & presents at seminars, conferences & universities, before various corporate bodies, clients, special interest groups, school groups & students.

In addition to her practice at the Bar, she has lectured in advocacy for a number of years at the College of Law teaching legal practitioners entering the profession and at the Bar Practice Course for those wishing to qualify to be called to the Queensland Bar. She also offers consultancy services to firms and individual practitioners focussing on advocacy skills.

Education and Memberships
• B. Business (Accountancy)/ LLB (Queensland University of Technology, 1997)
• Advanced Diploma Stage & Screen Acting (The Actors Conservatory)
• National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) post graduate summer intensive

• Member Queensland Bar Association
• Associate Member American Bar Association
• Member LEADR – Association of Dispute Resolvers

Frank M. Flansburg III

Frank M. Flansburg III is an attorney at the law firm of Marquis Aurbach Coffing where he practices primarily general civil litigation for a client base ranging from Fortune 500 companies to local business owners. Mr. Flansburg has represented his clients in strategic planning and trial, addressing diverse areas of the law including real property contracts, UCC contracts, construction contracts, and business disputes.
Mr. Flansburg joined Marquis Aurbach Coffing following his tenure as a law clerk to the Honorable Mark Gibbons, Eighth Judicial District Judge. While in law school, he also worked as a law clerk for the Washington Attorney General’s Office and was awarded several individual and team moot court competition awards, including placing at the Northwest Regional Jessup Competition. Mr. Flansburg earned his B.A. degree, with distinction, from the University of Nevada, Reno and his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law and was appointed to the Order of the Barristers.

Education
University of Nevada
Seattle University
School of Law

Marion D. Floyd

B.A.., Louisiana State University
J.D., Loyola University School of Law 

PRACTICE AREAS:
CIVIL personal injury, bankruptcy, family law, employment, Title VII, child custody, wrongful death, successions, corporate 

CRIMINAL Assistant City Prosecutor - Kenner Mayor's Court
Member, Criminal Justice Panel, Eastern District of Louisiana

FACULTY: National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1999 until present

EDUCATION:
Loyola University School of Law, New Orleans, LA  12/93
Evening Civil Law Curriculum
National Moot Court Team, Fall 1993, Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team National Best Oralist, 1993, Phi Delta Phi, A. T.L.A., Associate Editor, National Bar Association Journal 

American University, Washington, D.C.
Graduate Certificate, Management Information Systems 15 graduate hours, one-half of M.S. program
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA M.A. - Romance Philology
12/83
12179 

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA  05177
B.A. - Spanish (completed in 3 years)
Who's Who Among College Students, Student Government Association, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Sigma Iota 
 
EXPERIENCE: ADMITTED TO BAR -- APRIL 1994
Currently working as sole practitioner, engaging in a thriving general civil and criminal practice.
Extensive state court motion and trial experience, as well as state appellate and federal court appearances. Additional experience as contract attorney for various local firms.
Assistant City Prosecutor. Kenner Mayor's Court - April 2000 to present Prosecute in municipal court on traffic and misdemeanor offenses.

Flynn, Michael F.

Mr. Flynn directs the following programs: Child Advocacy; Deposition Skills: Florida

Michael Flynn is a professor of law at the Nova Southeastern University Law School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Professor Flynn hails from the State of Washington, where he received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, and his law degree, cum laude.

Contact Information:
flynnm@nsu.law.nova.edu

Adrienne M. Fox

Adrienne Fox is an associate dean and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law and the author of Admissibility of Evidence in North Carolina and North Carolina Rules of Evidence with Objections.  She is a frequent NITA teacher in programs and law firms throughout the country.  In addition, she has lectured and consulted on evidence, procedure and trial practice matters for many other CLE programs and at the University of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mitchell Dean Franks

B.A., Cornell University
J.D., University of Florida

Mitchell Dean Franks is an Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Franks teaches Trial Advocacy, Florida Civil Practice, and Advanced Legal Writing, and also serves as the Trial Team Coach and Faculty Advisor. He came to the Law School in 1998 as an Adjunct Professor, and became a full-time faculty member in 1999. His prior experience consists of 19 years in private practice and as Managing Attorney for Travelers Insurance Company, handling over one thousand contested personal injury, insurance defense, and discrimination cases. He lectures on discovery techniques in personal injury litigation, and has been published in the Trial Advocate Quarterly (a publication of the Florida Defense Lawyers Association).

He has been a Florida Bar Board Certified Trial Lawyer since 1986, a Board certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and a Certified Circuit Court Mediator since 1998. He is admitted to practice before all courts in Florida, as well as the United States Supreme Court, the Sixth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Stephen Freccero

Stephen Freccero is a trial lawyer with 25 years of courtroom experience handling complex civil and criminal cases.  His expertise is rooted in commercial litigation and antitrust, with particular experience handling civil litigation with parallel criminal or enforcement proceedings. He has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of White Collar Criminal Defense, and in Super Lawyers in the category of Business Litigation.

Mr. Freccero’s experience includes the defense of civil and criminal antitrust proceedings, patent, copyright and trade secret litigation, and complex commercial disputes in diverse industry sectors.  He has also represented both corporations and individuals in criminal matters involving allegations of antitrust violations, securities, commodities, and health care fraud, tax evasion, and alleged violations of customs and public contract regulations. 

He is a noted former federal prosecutor, having served for nearly a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California.  As a prosecutor, Mr. Freccero directed the nation-wide UNABOM investigation and represented the United States in the successful prosecution of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.  He is a past recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, one of the highest distinctions accorded to federal law enforcement officials.

Thomas French

Thomas R. French is a long time NITA teacher with extensive
experience in both civil and criminal law.  After obtaining his JD from
the University of Colorado, Tom worked for the Denver District
Attorney’s Office, rising to become the Chief Deputy District Attorney
and the Director of Training for that office.  Moving to private practice
in 1983, he has focused on general civil litigation, with an emphasis on
insurance defense and general business litigation.

Tom has taught and written about trial advocacy extensively, both at universities and the Law Education Institute, Inc.; PESI, Inc.; Colorado Trial Lawyers Association; Colorado District Attorney's Association; Denver District Attorney's office; Colorado Insurance Defense Lawyer's Association; Wyoming Bar Association; Wyoming Insurance Defense Lawyer's Association; and Colorado Continuing Legal Education.  He has written for the Colorado Lawyer, Trial, and the Trial Diplomacy Journal.

Pamela A. Gagel
pgagel909@comcast.net

Pamela A. Gagel is currently working as an independent consultant on domestic relations and court caseflow management projects.  She was the Assistant Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver from January 17, 2006 to December 31, 2011.
Gagel served as a Denver District Court magistrate from June 1995 to December 1998 and as an Arapahoe District Court magistrate from February 2002 through June 2002. During the January 2000 through June 2004 time frame, she worked for the Colorado State Court Administrator’s Office on projects to implement improved practice, policies and procedures in the handling of family cases.

Gagel’s private practice experience includes mediation, representation, and child and family investigator services in domestic relations cases.  Her civil litigation experience includes practice in the areas of environmental and employment law as a staff attorney with Holme Roberts & Owen, and as an associate with Kobayashi and Associates practicing primarily in federal court.

Gagel has taught classes at the Sturm College of Law and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and has given numerous presentations on Colorado family law procedures to judges, family court facilitators and attorneys.

Gagel presently serves as Chair of the Law Alumni Council of the Sturm College of Law and on the Colorado Supreme Court Judicial Advisory Council.  She previously served on the boards of Parenting After Divorce Denver, the Colorado Judicial Institute, and on the Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on Family Issues from November 2002 through June 2005.

Gagel received a J.D. degree from the Sturm College of Law in 1985.

Judge Janet E. Garrow

Judge Garrow was initially elected to the King County District Court in 1998. She presides over criminal and civil cases on a daily basis and is committed to the philosophy that all cases should be handled fairly, with respect for all participants, and efficiently.  Judge Garrow has served several terms as the Presiding Judge of the District Court’s East Division and as a member of the Court’s Executive Committee.  Her judicial duties have included working as a portability judge for King County Superior Court and serving as an inquest judge.

Judge Garrow serves as an elected member of the Washington state Board for Judicial Administration.  She chairs the District and Municipal Court Judges Association Rules Committee and serves on the District Court Budget Committee.  She has a passion for judicial education, having served as dean and faculty for the Washington Judicial College, as a member of the Board for Court Education, and as faculty for the District Court’s pro tem judge training program.  She volunteers her time as a judge in moot court programs.

Prior to her election to the bench, Judge Garrow was a principal with Cairncross & Hempelmann, P.S. in Seattle, practicing in the areas of land use, environmental law, forest practices and civil litigation.  She worked as an Assistant Director/Land Use Manager and Assistant City Attorney for the City of Bellevue, and began law practice as a public defender in Seattle.

Judge Garrow received her BA degree in psychology from Marquette University, a MS degree in counseling and personnel services from Purdue University, and a JD degree from the University of Puget Sound School of Law.

Marian Gaston
B.A., Emory University
J.D., University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Los Angeles

Marian Gaston was first introduced to trial work while still in law school at Boalt Hall, when she prosecuted for the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco.  After graduating in 1996 she embarked on a career in public defense for the County of San Diego, where she has belonged ever since.

Ms. Gaston has defended clients on an array of criminal charges from capital homicide to petty theft.  She has also had the unique pleasure of litigating many California complex civil commitment trials, which involve the deposition and trial examination of competing experts.  

 Ms. Gaston teaches trial and deposition skills to diverse audiences of attorneys, from law firms to solo practitioners to deputies with the Department of Homeland Security.  She has taught substantive law courses and litigation skills, including Advanced Trial Advocacy, at multiple law schools, and is regularly sought as a speaker for the California Bar Association, the California Public Defenders Association, and other organizations.  Ms. Gaston trains new lawyers in her office on the practical skills necessary for litigation, with a special emphasis on good storytelling.

Ned Gelhaar

B.A., University of California at Davis
J.D., University of California at Davis School of Law

Ned Gelhaar is Of Counsel to the firm.  His practice focuses on civil litigation, emphasizing business, intellectual property, and insurance coverage litigation.  He has acted as lead or co-counsel in over a dozen trials and arbitrations of cases involving claims of trade secret misappropriation, trade dress infringement, breach of contract, unfair competition, investment and business fraud, and partnership dissolution.  Mr. Gelhaar has handled appeals in state and federal court and has experience with inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.  Mr. Gelhaar also counsels clients in the engineering, securities, sales, and legal fields concerning the many issues that arise when employees depart to start or join competing firms.

Mr. Gelhaar's representative cases include:
International Billing Services, Inc. v. Emigh, 84 Cal. App. 4th 1175 (2000), a trade secret misappropriation case involving an electromechanical mail processing device.  Mr. Gelhaar acted as co-counsel during an eight week court trial which resulted in a defense verdict for his firm's clients, and an attorney's fees award of nearly $1,000,000.  Mr. Gelhaar also argued on behalf of the successful respondents on appeal of that award.

Pacific Coast Building Products v. Chivers, a trade secret misappropriation case involving a materials recycling process.  Mr. Gelhaar acted as co-counsel during a four week jury trial and argued the successful motion for directed verdict disposing of a $350,000,000 counterclaim for fraud and slander of title to a patent.

River Valley Fruit Company v. Campos, a partnership dissolution and fraud case involving an agricultural development company.  Mr. Gelhaar acted as co-counsel during a six week jury trial leading to recovery of all compensatory damages sought as well as a substantial punitive damages award.

Snow v. McDonald, a business fraud case involving a commercial real estate development company.  Mr. Gelhaar was co-counsel during an eight week court trial resulting in full recovery of compensatory damages and attorney's fees for his firm's clients.

Decorations for Generations v. The Home Depot, a Lanham Act unfair competition case involving the alleged "knocking off" of a consumer product.  Though reversed on appeal, Mr. Gelhaar was lead trial counsel during a two week jury trial that resulted in a $13,600,000 verdict for his client, $10,000,000 of which was for punitive damages.

Schlesinger v. The Walt Disney Company, a contract and copyright case involving rights to the Winnie The Pooh characters.  Mr. Gelhaar worked with a team of attorneys led by famed trial lawyer Johnnie Cochran on this high profile case.

Mr. Gelhaar graduated with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from University of California at Davis in 1987, and received his law degree there in 1992.  He is a former Adjunct Professor of trial advocacy at University of California at Davis School of Law and has taught trial practice as a faculty member of National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) since 2005.  He has also taught seminars and continuing legal education courses on trade secret law, Internet law, business litigation, and Internet legal research.  Mr. Gelhaar has been retained and testified as an expert on the standard of care for business litigators.

Mr. Gelhaar is admitted to practice before all courts in California, before the Ninth Circuit and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal, and before the United States Supreme Court.  (do you have to mention District Courts?)

David Geneson

David F. Geneson is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in the White Collar and Civil Fraud Defense practice group.

Mr. Geneson's practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense and civil enforcement litigation. His areas of experience include: numerous significant federal and state criminal and civil trials; domestic and international internal investigations; SEC investigations and enforcement proceedings; criminal and civil environmental enforcement; Medicare and Medicaid fraud; litigation of monetary transactions, including tax and securities transactions; customs inquiries; civil and criminal forfeiture proceedings; Independent Counsel and Congressional inquires; and proceedings before international tribunals.

Douglas Gerlach

B.A., Arizona State University
M.A., Arizona State University
M.B.A., Arizona State University
J.D., Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law,

Mr. Gerlach has practiced law for more than 25 years. His practice emphasizes complex civil and commercial litigation, dispute resolution and advice to clients ranging from start-up entities to Fortune 500 companies. He also has experience handling intellectual property and criminal defense matters. His background includes representing clients in health care, financial services, computers and technology, telecommunications, mass media, retail, travel, leisure and a variety of other industries.  From 1993-95, Mr. Gerlach took a leave of absence from private practice to join the Office of the Maricopa County Public Defender, where he handled criminal trials ranging from DUIs to major felonies. Mr. Gerlach is also a television and radio sportscaster who has broadcast sporting events (including
NCAA championship games) for local network radio affiliates and a major cable television entity. Prior to entering the field of law, Mr. Gerlach was Assistant Sports Information Director at Arizona State University, where he was involved in radio and television broadcasts of college athletic games and won five national awards for writing and editing. During that time he was also a finalist for Arizona Sports Broadcaster of the Year.

Education
J.D., Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, 1981
cum laude
Executive Editor, Arizona State Law Journal, 1980-1981
M.B.A., Arizona State University, 1981
Joint J.D./ M.B.A. Program
M.A., Arizona State University, 1977
B.A., Arizona State University, 1972
With High Distinction
Phi Kappa Phi National Scholastic Honorary

Representative Engagements
Successfully represented land purchasers at trial, recovering a 15 million dollar section of property after the seller tried to withdraw from the sales contract
Successfully represented a Fortune 500 computer company in a lawsuit involving copyright, unfair competition, and trademark issues
Successfully represented a business in stopping misappropriation of its trademark
Resolved claim asserted against a business for copyright infringement and unfair competition
Successfully defended an international retailer at trial against a breach of contract claim and then successfully argued the appeal of the case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Obtained dismissal of claims against an international franchisor for unfair business practices
Successfully defended nursing home operators who were sued by the Arizona Attorney General's office for alleged violations of antitrust laws
Successfully defended a large bank against a $500 million claim for alleged improper lending practices
Played a substantial role in uncovering an international money laundering scheme and, as a result, obtained a judgment of more than $600,000 on behalf of a private investor client
Saved an art gallery business from losing its lease on the property where it had operated for more than 20 years despite the client's waiving right of first refusal to buy the property
Successfully defended a major insurance company against a multi-million dollar breach of contract claim
Successfully defended an automobile dealership against breach of employment contract claims asserted by former employees

Professional Affiliations
National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Faculty Member
American Bar Association
State Bar of Arizona
Fee Arbitration Committee, Former Member
Civil Practice and Procedure Committee, Former Member
Maricopa County Bar Association
Volunteer Lawyers Program
Arizona State University College of Law
Adjunct Professor

Publications
Douglas Gerlach, "Offering Multi-Product Package Discounts: Let the Seller Beware," (March 1, 2008

Presentations
Mr. Gerlach has given presentations on many different legal topics at National Institute for Trial Advocacy, State Bar of Arizona, and Maricopa County Bar Association programs

Community Activities
City of Mesa Human Services Advisory Board, 2008-present
Friends of the City of Mesa Library, Co-Founder and Past Director
City of Mesa Library Advisory Board, Member, 2002-2008, Chairman, 2006-2008
Mesa American Little League, Past Director, Officer, and Coach
Marcos de Niza High School, Softball Coach, 2004-2005
Sports Broadcaster (including NCAA championship games) Local radio, cable, and television stations
Arizona Town Hall, Member, Former Reporter
Mesa Leadership Training and Development, Member
Honors, Appointments and Awards
AV Rating®, Martindale-Hubbell
Included in The Best Lawyers in America®, published by Woodward/White, Inc. in the categories of
Antitrust Law and Commercial Litigation.

Bar Admission
Arizona, 1981
Court Admission
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1981
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1981

Dominic Gianna

Dominic J. Gianna, founding partner of Middleberg, Riddle & Gianna with offices in New Orleans, Dallas and Austin, is recognized as one of America’’s master advocates. He is a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers, has experience from both sides of the bench, and has been successful as a trial lawyer from both sides of the courtroom. He has tried cases throughout the United States in a wide variety of areas, including products liability, toxic tort and mass tort class actions, employment law and commercial matters for both corporate and insurance defendants and plaintiffs. He brings incredible creativity, energy and enthusiasm into the courtroom. On the other side of the bench, Mr. Gianna has been appointed as Special Master in complex mass tort class actions, has experience as a District Judge pro tem by appointment of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and has served as arbitrator and mediator in complex disputes.

Mr. Gianna is also recognized as one of America’s outstanding teachers of advocacy, persuasion and trial techniques. He is Program Director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Gulf Coast Regional Trial Advocacy Training Program and NITA’s Gulf Coast Deposition Program. He was the recipient of the 1998 Hon. Robert Keeton Award from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for his contributions to the teaching of advocacy. He has served as faculty member and Team Leader for NITA’s National Session since 1985 and has been Team Leader and faculty member at many NITA Regional Programs throughout the USA. Dominic has lectured throughout the world in the fields of advocacy, persuasion and trial techniques, and thousands have enjoyed his insightful and entertaining lectures. He is consistently rated as one of the most entertaining and energetic lecturers in American law. He has also demonstrated trial techniques to numerous bar and professional groups throughout North America and captivates audiences with his creative expertise and unmatched energy. Mr. Gianna serves as Director of Trial Advocacy at the Louisiana State University School of Law, has been a member of the Trial Techniques Faculty of Tulane and Emory Universities, and was selected Program Chair of the 1994 ABA Section of Litigation Meeting. He is the author of Opening Statements 2d :Winning the Beginning published by West\Thomson Publishing Co. and has written many articles on the arts of advocacy and persuasion

Dominic Gianna received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Organic Chemistry from Manhattan College and his law degree from Loyola University School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.

Ginsberg, Michael
 
NITA Trustee: 2004-present
Chair Elect: 2011-present
Treasurer: 2008-2011

Education: Rutgers University (B.A. magna cum laude with general honors and highest honors in Political Science 1982); Harvard University (J.D. cum laude 1985)

Present Position: Partner, Jones Day
Mr. Ginsberg is a commercial trial lawyer who has concentrated his practice during the past two decades in the area of insurance coverage litigation, focusing primarily on environmental, product liability, and bad faith, E&O, and D&O insurance claims. He also has substantial experience representing policyholders with insurance issues arising in bankruptcy settings. He has served as insurance counsel for debtors and creditors in asbestos-driven bankruptcies and has represented policyholders in insurer insolvencies proceedings. Mr. Ginsberg has handled insurance coverage claims and lawsuits in more than 30 jurisdictions.

In addition to insurance coverage litigation, Mr. Ginsberg practices in the area of environmental litigation. He tried the first P.R.P. arbitration under the California Superfund Law and has represented clients in numerous Superfund matters. He served as liaison counsel for third-party defendants in a major Superfund case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and was lead counsel for one of four P.R.P’s in litigation arising from a major environmental problem in Fresno, California. Although not the focus of his practice, he also represented clients in product liability and personal injury cases.

Organizations: Mr. Ginsberg is Jones Day’s Firm Training Partner and is a member and treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for teaching trial and other litigation skills. He frequently teaches litigation training programs for NITA, including NITA’s National Trial Program, regional trial and deposition programs, and Emory Law School’s Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques (team leader 2007).

Writings/Presentations: Mr. Ginsberg has written a number of articles and seminar presentations on insurance coverage topics, including first-party and third-party insurance coverage for environmental claims, the assessment of environmental liabilities for insurance coverage, and "Issues of Ripeness and Prematurity in Insurance Coverage Disputes" (presented at the 1994 ABA Convention). He recently completed a chapter on insurance coverage mediation in the book Insurance Law Settlements and Negotiations for Aspatore Books’ series “Inside the Minds.” Mr. Ginsberg has chaired several national conferences on insurance coverage for toxic tort and environmental claims and has been a panelist at numerous other programs. In addition, he has written on the topic of alternative dispute resolution.

Paul N. Gold

Mr. Gold is a partner in the firm of Aversano & Gold, a trial law firm that concentrates in medical malpractice and catastrophic injury cases all over the State of Texas.  Mr. Gold graduated from the University of Texas-Austin with high honors and obtained his law degree from Southern Methodist University.  He is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.  He is an Associate Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and has received the AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale Hubbell.  He is a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum and a Platinum Member of Elite Attorneys of America, having obtained recoveries over $2,000,000.00 in more than twenty cases.  He has been voted a Super Lawyer by his peers every year (10 years) since the inception of the designation in 2003 (2003 - 2012).  He has been selected as a member of Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury (2013).  Mr. Gold served on the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Board Subcommittee on Discovery Reform.  He is a Fellow of the State Bar of Texas College of the State Bar.  He has served as Chairman of the State Bar of Texas Administration of Justice Committee and as Chairman of the State Bar of Texas Litigation Section.  He also was a member of the Vol. 2 (Medical Malpractice, Product Liability and Premises Liability) Pattern Jury Charge Committee from 1984 – 1988.  He is a Sustaining member of The American Association for Justice and a member of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association.  He is a Past President of the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association.  He serves as a Director of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association, and was awarded Director of the Year in 2010.  He is a Director and Sustaining Member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, which in 2009 awarded Mr. Gold the John Howie Award for Mentorship.  Mr. Gold also is the 2007 recipient of the State Bar of Texas Gene Cavin Award for outstanding contributions to continuing legal education in Texas, the 2010 recipient of the Dan R. Price Award by the Texas Bar Foundation for excellence and contributions to continuing legal education in Texas, and the 2010 recipient of the College of the State Bar of Texas Jim D. Bowmer Professionalism Award.  Mr. Gold has spent over 30 years successfully representing people harmed by the wrong-doing of others and dangerous products. However, he is most proud of the fact that his success as a trial attorney notwithstanding, he has been married to the same woman for 37 years, has two wonderful children who are well-adjusted and happy, and three phenomenal grandchildren.

David Goldberg is a trial attorney with experience in virtually all phases of complex commercial litigation and arbitration, including cases of first impression. Over the last 30 years, David has tried numerous multi-week, multi-jurisdictional trials and arbitrations involving a broad range of business torts, contracts and statutory claims. He represents companies, financial institutions, owners, developers and ski resorts in business and commercial real estate disputes. He also represents clients in disputes involving employment agreements, covenants not to compete, trade secrets and proprietary information.
David brings diverse business and legal experience to his practice, having owned an Internet company with offices in Denver and Chicago. David’s business background has allowed him to develop a genuine understanding of financial and business issues in litigation. This experience enables him to act effectively as outside general counsel for several companies, including the largest sightseeing and tour company in the world with operations in more than 60 countries.
David has taught at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy since 1993. He is also an instructor in the firm's national in-house trial program. He is a frequent participant in Continuing Legal Education programs on complex civil litigation, employment law, trade secrets and intellectual property. In addition, David acts as a neutral for the American Arbitration Association.
Prior to joining the firm, David ran his own law firm. In addition, he was formerly the managing partner of an international law firm’s Moscow office, where his practice focused on international transactions, financing, and licensing and distribution agreements. He also negotiated and drafted outsourcing agreements for large multinational companies.

Ms. Goldblatt is the founder of the The Goldblatt Law Firm. She has over fifteen years of civil trial and litigation experience in the federal, state and administrative courts throughout the United States. She has represented individuals and corporate clients in both individual lawsuits and class actions. She has litigated cases in a wide range of areas, including: civil rights law, employment discrimination, First Amendment law, defamation law, sexual harassment, consumer fraud, false advertising, copyright and trademark infringement, contract law, banking law, environmental law, antitrust law, commercial litigation, shareholder derivative lawsuits and securities law.

Before founding The Goldblatt Law Firm, Lisa Goldblatt was a partner in the Washington, DC, office of Sanford, Wittels & Heisler, LLP, litigating civil rights and discrimination cases. Prior to that, Ms. Goldblatt was a litigation associate in the Washington, DC, offices of Kelley Drye Collier Shannon, LLP, and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, LLP. She also was an intern for the Honorable Gladys Kessler in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Ms. Goldblatt was an Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University Law School where she taught Introduction to Advocacy and Legal Research & Writing.

She received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.

Lisa Goldblatt is admitted to practice law before the Maryland and District of Columbia bars, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Robert Goldman

Bob Goldman is a partner at Ropes & Gray.  His practice centers on trials and appeals in intellectual property matters.

In 34 years of practice, Bob has tried patent, copyright and trade secret cases in technologies ranging from Polaroid photography to medical devices to computer hardware and software to pharmaceuticals.  His work most often involves the presentation of complex scientific and economic evidence to courts and juries that lack any prior technical background.  He has led trial teams in Federal courts in Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, Texas and California and has helped his clients coordinate litigation efforts internationally as well.  Bob’s team’s $873 million judgment for Polaroid Corporation in 1990 remains one of largest patent infringement recoveries in American litigation.

Bob is the co-author, of Patent Law & Practice, 7th Edition (BNA 2011), a standard reference work created originally for the Federal Judicial Center as an introduction for judges and their clerks to patent law.  He has taught Patent Law and Patent Litigation as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Fordham University in New York and as a Lecturer in Law at Stanford University. 

Bob has taught in deposition and trial skills programs for NITA since the early 1990's.

Hon. Marc L. Goldman

B.A., University of Michigan
J.D., Wayne State University Law School
United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; BA, 1969, University of Michigan; J.D., 1973, Wayne State University Law School.

Judge Goldman was appointed to the position of United States Magistrate Judge in the Central District of California on July 3, 2001. From 1983 until July, 2001, he served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, serving both in Flint, Michigan and then in Detroit. From 1997 through 2001, he was the chief magistrate judge of the Michigan court.

After graduating from law school in 1973, Judge Goldman was a criminal defense attorney at both the appellate and trial levels. He first practiced with the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office in Detroit Michigan, and then with the Washtenaw County Public Defender Office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. From 1976-1980, Judge Goldman taught law full time in the clinical law programs at the Wayne State University and University of Michigan law schools. He was director of the misdemeanor defense clinic at Wayne State from 1977 to 1979. Judge Goldman served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan from 1980 until 1983, when he was appointed to the bench.

Judge Goldman served as an adjunct professor of law at Wayne State University from 1985 to 2001, teaching courses in pre-trial practice and trial advocacy. Since, 2003, he has been an adjunct professor at Chapman University Law School, teaching a course in trial advocacy. He regularly participates as a faculty member in advocacy programs sponsored by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in Chicago, San Francisco and Boulder, CO. He has also been a faculty member at the United States Attorney General's Advocacy Institute.

Mark Goldstucker

J.D., University of Texas

Mark Goldstucker has been a trial and appellate attorney since 1981. He is presently a partner at Brown & Hofmeister. Mark practices in state and federal courts of all levels, focusing on litigation of commercial and governmental matters such as business disputes, contracts, real estate, civil rights, land use and zoning, fair housing, labor and employment, and personal injury.  He has extensive experience as lead counsel in jury and bench trials and has been involved as trial or appellate counsel in a number of high-profile cases.

Prior to joining Brown & Hofmeister in February 2003, Mark spent seven years as an assistant city attorney for the City of Dallas, where he was head of the Civil Rights Litigation section. He has been a trial attorney in both small and large law firms, and he served as an assistant district attorney for Dallas County from 1982-84. 

Mark received his law degree from the University of Texas at Austin in December 1980 and was licensed to practice law in Texas in May 1981. He is also admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas. 

Mark has an AV® Peer Review Rating from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. He has been a faculty member at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Annual Southern Regional Program in Dallas since 1998 and has received the NITA Faculty designation for having consistently maintained a highly rated teaching level. Mark regularly gives written and oral presentations on trial practice, civil rights law and litigation, and governmental liability.

Cynthia Goode-Works

B.S., Texas A&M University
J.D., The American University, Washington College of Law
L.L.M., Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law

Cynthia Goode Works brings a unique blend of education, training and experience to the practice and teaching of law.  Her trial and appellate experience in both criminal and civil proceedings, teaching as a law professor, and Master of Laws in Trial Advocacy has equipped her with the skills needed to provide the highest caliber of legal representation and advocacy training.

She received a Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M University, a Juris Doctor from The American University, Washington College of Law, and a Master of Laws, (LL.M) in Trial Advocacy, with highest honors, from Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law. An accomplished trial attorney, Works holds bar memberships in the state and federal bars of both the District of Columbia and Maryland.

Following her graduation from law school, Works was a law clerk for the Honorable Henry Francis Greene, District of Columbia Superior Court. Following her clerkship she worked as a criminal defense attorney at the D.C. Public Defender Service (PDS) representing individuals in both misdemeanor and felony matters in bench and jury trials and at the appellate level.  Following her tenure at PDS, Works left criminal litigation and worked as a corporate and civil litigator for law firms specializing in corporate, insurance and medical malpractice defense.  Prior to opening her own law office, she served as the Director of Training and Education for the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) the national membership association for legal aid and public defenders.  At NLADA, Works had responsibility for the content, direction and development of educational training programs for civil legal aid attorneys and public defenders across the country.  Currently, Works maintains a law private law practice located in Maryland where she provides representation in civil, employment and criminal matters.

In addition to the practice of law, Works has a solid background in the academic arena.   She has held academic appointments at The George Mason University School of Law, The Howard University School of Law, and The American University, Washington College of Law.  During her tenure as professor at Howard, the team compiled an impressive number of accolades and titles. A few of them include: being named as one of the top sixteen trial advocacy programs in the nation from 1999, 2000 and 2001.  In 1991, the team she coached won the National Championship at the NITA Tournament of Champions Competition. Works was visiting professor at Howard University School of Law during which time she taught in and managed the Criminal Justice Clinic component of the Law School's Clinical Law Center. Works concentrated her legal research agenda and teaching activities in the fields of criminal law and procedure, evidence, and clinical education. For her writing in the area of trial advocacy and evidence, Works received the Distinguished Faculty Author Award from the president and provost of the university. She also served as a guest lecturer at the Howard University School of Medicine, presenting lectures to physicians regarding medical malpractice defense. Her work was also published in the Howard University Hospital Newsletter.

She also served as a guest lecturer at the Howard University School of Medicine, presenting lectures to physicians regarding medical malpractice defense. Her work was also published in the Howard University Hospital Newsletter.

Works specializes in the development of trial advocacy training programs across the United States to law firms, government agencies, legal aid attorneys, public defenders, and corporations.  She has also served as a faculty member and program director National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) in both their public and in-house training programs for many years.

 
Andrew Gordon

Mr. Gordon is a partner in the Las Vegas office of McDonald Carano Wilson LLP. His practice focuses on Commercial Litigation, including general business disputes, shareholder derivative actions, construction, real estate and title disputes, landlord/tenant issues, employment disputes and securities claims. His practice also includes significant alternative dispute resolution experience. He is a Commercial, Construction, and Employment Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, and serves as a private arbitrator and mediator.

Mr. Gordon served as Chair of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' Lawyer Representative Coordinating Committee, was one of seven Nevada Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Conference (2001-2007), and has served on several federal court committees. He is Chair of the State Bar committee drafting the Nevada Recommended Jury Instructions (Civil).  He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Nevada and Arizona, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.  Mr. Gordon has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America, Mountain States Super Lawyers, and The Chambers USA Guide, and has an “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell.  He is a court-appointed Mediator for the United States District Court of Nevada’s Early Mediation Program for Pro Se Inmates.

Mr. Gordon graduated from Claremont McKenna College, cum laude, in 1984, and received his JD from Harvard Law School in 1987.  He coaches high school lacrosse, is a Trustee of the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame, and was a member of the Leadership Las Vegas Class of 1995.

Cunyon Gordon

J. Cunyon Gordon was of counsel at Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg LLP as of April 2008. She brings a rich and varied legal history. After attending Yale Law School on a Navy scholarship, Cunyon served for six years as a Navy Judge Advocate, practicing before courts martial, the military courts of appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court.
She came to Chicago in 1988 and joined the firm Jenner & Block, where, in 1991 she became that firm's first black female partner. She came to specialize in construction litigation, products liability, toxic torts and represented such clients as General Dynamics, Wendy's International and Waveland Associates.

Cunyon joined Elimer Stahl Klevron & Solberg LLP after having taught at fine law schools such as Boston University, Boston College, and the University of Oregon, where her subjects included Evidence, Criminal Procedure and Trial Advocacy. Cunyon is currently in her second year as a member of the ABA's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, and a frequent writer and speaker on issues of professional diversity.  She now describes her position as private practice and counseling small law firms on litigation.

Scott Gordon
505.768.7264
sgordon@rodey.com

Education
Columbia University (J.D., 1985)
Claremont McKenna College (B.A., 1983)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mr. Gordon is a Director in the Albuquerque office and the Chairman of the Litigation Department.  He is a board-certified specialist in Civil Trials and in Employment and Labor Law.
Since 1986, Mr. Gordon has been the first chair trial attorney in numerous jury trials and bench trials including the trials of discrimination, wrongful termination, breach of contract and personal injury claims. He is certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Trial Advocate and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is certified by the New Mexico Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in Civil Trials and in Employment and Labor Law.   Mr. Gordon is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law where he teaches Pretrial Practice.  He also serves on the faculty for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Mr. Gordon has been listed in Chambers & Partners-America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2004 and has been given a #1 ranking in Labor and Employment Law.  Also since 2004, Mr. Gordon has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for his expertise and experience in Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, Litigation-Labor and Employment, and Commercial Litigation.  Since 2007, Mr. Gordon has been listed in Southwest Super Lawyers for his expertise and experience in Employment and Labor Law.  Mr. Gordon is also listed in Benchmark Litigation-The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys for his experience and expertise in commercial litigation, labor & employment and medical malpractice law. 

Mr. Gordon was selected by New Mexico Business Weekly as one of New Mexico’s “Best of the Bar” for 2011.

Mr. Gordon was named Albuquerque Litigation – Labor & Employment Lawyer of the Year-2012 by Best Lawyers in America.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES
State Bar of New Mexico
State Bar of Nevada
American Bar Association
Certificate in Civil Trial Advocacy (National Board of Trial Advocacy)
Trial Specialist - Civil (New Mexico Board of Legal Specialization)
Employment and Labor Law Specialist (New Mexico Board of Legal Specialization)
Member, American Board of Trial Advocates
Has achieved highest Martindale-Hubbell rating
Co-Author: New Mexico Employment Law Desk Reference (Xlibris, 2010)

Jon R. Gray

B.A., Grinnell College
J.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

After more than 20 years of serving as a circuit judge in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of Missouri, Jon R. Gray joined the Kansas City office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon as a Partner in the General Litigation Division.  He is licensed to practice before the Missouri Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
In August 2007, Judge Gray will become chair of the Judicial Council of the National Bar Association.  He is also active in The Missouri Bar, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and the Jackson County Bar Association.  Judge Gray has served as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in regional and national seminars since 1987 in addition to serving as faculty for the Kessler-Edison Program in Trial Techniques at Emory University School of Law and the Missouri Judicial College.  His reviews and commentaries have appeared in legal and non-legal publications.
Judge Gray is a 1973 graduate of Grinnell College, where he majored in American Studies, and a 1976 graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.  He is a life member of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Alumni Association and the NAACP.
Memberships
Missouri Bar
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Jackson County Bar Association
Judicial Council of the National Bar Association – Chair (August 2007)

Licenses
Judge Gray is admitted to practice before the Missouri Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Education
1976    J.D., University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law
1973    B.A., Grinnell College

Community Involvement
Judge Gray is active in a wide variety of community endeavors and currently serves on the executive committees of the Truman Medical Centers and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.  His past board affiliations include the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance, Friends of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and ReStart, Inc., an interfaith program for the homeless.
He is active in both United Methodist Church and ecumenical affairs, having served as a member of the Missouri United Methodist Foundation, the Missouri West Board of Trustees and the National Council of Churches (USA).  Judge Gray was elected to serve as a delegate to the United Methodist Church’s General and Jurisdictional Conference in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004.  He was elected to an eight-year term on the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church in 2004.
Teaching
Faculty member, National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Faculty member, Kessler-Edison Program in Trial Techniques, Emory University School of Law and the Missouri Judicial College. 

Ron Graziano

B.A., Fordham University
J.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law - Camden,

Ron Graziano has been an attorney in the Southern New Jersey area for over thirty years. He attended Rutgers-Camden law School earning a Doctor Jurisprudence degree in 1973. While at Rutgers, Ron received the "Corpus Juris Secundum Award" for Most Significant Contribution to Overall Legal Scholarship at the law school. He was also appointed as an Associate Editor of the Rutgers-Camden Law Journal. In September 1973 Ron accepted a position as judicial clerk with the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey now bears that judge's name.

When his clerkship term ended Ron Graziano began his litigation career in 1974 as an associate with the law firm of Tomar, Parks, Seliger Simonoff & Adourian. By 1979 Ron had become partner and became the firm's managing partner in 1990. He held that position for ten years during which time the firm grew to over sixty lawyers. All the while Ron maintained his litigation practice taking ever more complicated cases to trial. In 2003 Ron began the law firm of Ronald A. Graziano, A Professional Corporation. Ron is proud of the highest possible ranking provided to him by his peers for integrity and legal ability. Ron has been listed in the publication "The Best Lawyers in America."

During the early 1980's Ron began a career of public service while still practicing law. He was elected as a Councilman in Mount Laurel Township serving as Deputy Mayor and ultimately as Mayor. During this period he also served on the Township Planning Board.

Ron's public service interests and community involvement have not been entirely political. He has served as the Chancellor of the Rutgers-Camden Law School Alumni Association, as a member of the Board of Directors for Camden Regional Legal Services, as an Executive Committee member of the New Jersey Association of Trial Lawyers of America and as a member of the Merit Selection Panel for the United States District Court of the District of New Jersey.
Ron's community work has also included youth of his community. For seven years he served as a baseball coach. For two of those years he was the director of a baseball program that involved nearly seventy coaches, forty teams and five hundred youngsters.

For nearly a decade Ron has taught seminars for other lawyers on various legal topics under the auspices of the Institute for Continuing Legal Education. As part of those seminars, he has published monographs on topics ranging from products liability to business litigation. Actually, Ron's legal publishing career began in law school when he published a case comment entitled "Constitutional Law-School Desegregation."

Areas of Practice:
Personal Injury
Product Liability
Matrimonial Law
Employment Discrimination Law
Business Litigation

Certification/Specialties:
Civil Trial Attorney, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Board on Trial Attorney Certification
Civil Trial Attorney, Board of Trial Advocacy

Bar Admissions:
New York
New Jersey
District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

Education:
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law - Camden, Camden, New Jersey, 1973
J.D.
Honors: Corpus Juris Secundum Award, Recipient, 1971-1972
Law Journal: Rutgers-Camden Law Journal, Associate Editor, 1972 - 1973
Fordham University, New York, New York, 1970
B.A.

Published Works:
Constitutional Law - School Desegregation"

Classes/Seminars Taught:
Taught Seminars for Other Lawyers on Various Legal Topics, Institute for Continuing Legal Education

Honors and Awards:
The Best Lawyers in America

Professional Associations and Memberships:
Rutgers-Camden Law School Alumni Association
Chancellor
Camden Regional Legal Services, Inc.
Member, Board of Directors
Mount Laurel Township
Planning Board
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Member, Merit Selection Panel
New Jersey Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Member, Executive Committee
Mount Laurel Township
Councilman

Green, Donald

Donald H. Green is a litigation of counsel resident in the Washington, D.C. office of Pepper Hamilton LLP. His practice covers a wide spectrum of substantive areas, including antitrust, financial, corporate, contract, constitutional, environmental, intellectual property, construction, and tort law. He has been lead counsel in major antitrust cases in the entertainment, telecommunications, and advertising fields. Major cases in other areas include Indian law, highway construction, civil liberties, employment, product liability, and professional malpractice. He has considerable litigation experience against the federal government, being a former Department of Justice trial attorney, and for many years has been on the faculty of the Department of Justice Legal Education Institute.

In addition, Mr. Green concentrates in mediation and arbitration. He has regularly been appointed as a mediator by the federal and local courts of the District of Columbia. He is experienced in arbitrating cases as counsel for a party and as an arbitrator. Mr. Green has been an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association since 1968. He has been retained by various federal agencies to resolve disputes through ADR procedures. Mr. Green also conducts training and teaches courses in mediation and arbitration techniques.

Mr. Green has written and lectured widely on civil litigation and discovery techniques, with articles appearing in the ABA Journal, the D.C. Bar Journal, the ABA TIPS Journal, and the Federal Bar Journal. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching courses on trial practice and civil discovery.

Active in firm management, Mr. Green was managing partner of the Washington, D.C. office from 1993-1999, and was a member of Pepper’s executive committee from 1993-2000, including serving as vice chairman from 1997-1998. Before joining Pepper, Mr. Green was a partner for more than 20 years in another law firm in Washington, D.C., including several years as managing partner. Before entering private practice, Mr. Green was a trial attorney for the U.S. Justice Department. He joined the Justice Department after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps as a trial attorney and defense counsel.

Mr. Green retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a colonel in 1985 after more than 30 years of service. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work in international public law, particularly the law of war, and also earned the Meritorious Unit Citation. In 1999, Mr. Green was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, where he serves on the executive committee and chairs the equality management committee. He also is a member of the Defense Joint Services Committee on Professional Ethics, the Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association and several other Marine and military organizations.

Contact Information:
greendh@pepperlaw.com

Alyson Grine

Alyson Grine has trained North Carolina public defenders and appointed counsel as the Defender Educator at the UNC School of Government since 2006. Prior to that, Grine worked for five years as an assistant public defender representing many non-English speaking Hispanic clients in Orange and Chatham counties. She served as a judicial clerk for Chief Justice Henry Frye of the NC Supreme Court in 2000 and Judge Patricia Timmons-Goodson of the NC Court of Appeals in 1999. Grine earned a BA with distinction from UNC-Chapel Hill, a MA in Spanish from the University of Virginia, and a JD with honors from UNC-Chapel Hill. She holds the Albert and Gladys Hall Coates Teaching Excellence Award for 2013-2014.

Reuben Guttman

Reuben Guttman is a director at Grant & Eisenhofer. His practice involves complex litigation and class actions.  He has represented clients in claims brought under the Federal False Claims Act, securities laws, the Price Anderson Act, Department of Energy (DOE) statutes and regulations, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and various employment discrimination, labor and environmental statutes. He has also tried and/or litigated claims involving fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, antitrust, business interference and other common law torts.

Mr. Guttman has been counsel in some of the largest recoveries under the Federal False Claims Act, including U.S. ex rel. Johnson v. Shell Oil Co., 33 F. Supp. 2d 528 (ED Tex. 1999), where over $300 million was recovered from the oil industry. He also represented one of the six main whistleblowers in litigation resulting in the government’s September 2009, $2.3 billion settlement with Pfizer Pharmaceutical.  Cases brought by Mr. Guttman under the False Claims Act on behalf of a European whistleblower resulted in a $13 million settlement with a Department of Defense contractor. He is currently lead counsel in three pending False Claims Act cases where the United States Department of Justice has intervened on the side of his whistleblower clients.  

Mr. Guttman served as lead counsel in a series of cases resulting in the recovery of more than $30 million under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Cases brought by Mr. Guttman on behalf of nuclear weapons workers at “Manhattan Project” nuclear weapons sites resulted in congressional oversight and changes in procurement practices, and dread disease compensation legislation, affecting the nation’s nuclear weapons complex and its workforce. In addition, he served as lead counsel in litigation brought on behalf of prison workers in the District of Columbia, which resulted in injunctive relief protecting workers against exposure to blood-borne pathogens. Mr. Guttman served as lead counsel in a mediation before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, resulting in work place standards and back pay for minority employees at a large Texas oil refinery.

Mr. Guttman is the author and/or editor of numerous articles, book chapters, and technical publications and his commentary has appeared in Market Watch, American Lawyer Media, AOL Government, and Accounting Today. His article, Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States; A Confluence of Influences, was published in Chinese by the Peking University Public Interest Law Journal, Vol 1, Page 187 (2010).  He is co-author of Gonzalez v. Hewitt, SEC v. HG Pharmaceutical, and U.S. ex Rel Rodriguez v. Hughes which are case files published by the Emory University Law School Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution (2010) and used to train law students and practicing attorneys. He has appeared on ABC Nightly News, CNN, Bloomberg News, and has been quoted in major publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News and national wire services including the Associated Press,  Reuters and Bloomberg.

In addition to his writings, Mr. Guttman has testified before committees of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate on the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA). In 1992, he advised President-elect Clinton’s transition team on labor policy and worker health and safety regulation.

Mr. Guttman earned his law degree at Emory University Law School graduating in 1985, and his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Rochester in 1981. He is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Emory University School of Law Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution and has been a Team Leader for Emory Law School’s Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program. As part of a U.S. State Department program in conjunction with the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, he has been one of five visiting professors at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City training Mexican Judges and practitioners on oral advocacy and trial practice. He is a contributing editor of a soon to be published text book on trial practice for Mexican practitioners.

Mr. Guttman is a faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He has been a guest lecturer at a number of universities including Jao Tong University in Shanghai, Peking University in Beijing and Renmin University in Beijing. In 2006 he was invited by the Dutch Embassy in China to share his expertise with experts in China about changes to the nation’s labor laws.  He is a Co-Founder of Voices for Corporate Responsibility, www.voicesforcorporateresponsibility.com,
and founder of www.whistleblowerlaws.com and www.thecorporateinsider.com.   

Christina M. Habas

J.D., University of Denver College of Law

Christina M. Habas was born in Denver, Colorado and received her undergraduate degree and Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver.  She became licensed to practice law in October, 1982 in all Colorado State Courts, as well as the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.  She was admitted to the United States Supreme Court Bar in 1994.

She began her legal career with the law firm of Watson, Nathan & Bremer, P.C., and there represented many governmental entities, school districts and worked in the fields of general litigation, employment law and civil rights.  Beginning in April 1998, she moved to the offices of Bruno, Bruno & Colin, P.C., where she specialized in representation of members of law enforcement in the administrative, civil and criminal arenas.

In December, 2003, she was appointed by then-Governor Bill Owens as a Denver District Court Judge.  She served in the Domestic, Civil and Criminal Divisions of that Court until her resignation in July of 2012 to resume her work as a trial lawyer.  During her time on the bench, Ms. Habas was also Presiding Grand Jury Judge for 5 years.  She served on the Judicial Ethics Advisory Board and the Supreme Court Committee on Civil Procedure Rules, was a mentor judge for newer appointees and also taught at training for judges throughout the State of Colorado.  She also had the honor of being among a list of 6 finalists for a vacancy in the United States District Court, District of Colorado.

Ms. Habas has been a frequent lecturer and teacher.  She has taught with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy since 1991, and serves as senior faculty and Program Director on many programs.  She has also lectured in the areas of civil rights, employment law, trial advocacy, jury selection and storytelling for many groups.  She also values her time volunteering as a coach for Aurora Central High School's CBA High School Mock Trial Competition.  She has served as an adjunct professor with the University of Denver College of Law on Advanced Trial Practice.  She has also participated in many Masters in Trial throughout the United States, on both the Plaintiff's and the Defendant's side.  She is currently a National Board Representative for the Colorado Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

KERRY STEVEN HADA

B.S., University of Colorado College of Business
M.S., Colorado State University
J.D., University of Denver College of Law
                                 
EXPERIENCE:

2008-present DENVER COUNTY COURT                
 Denver, CO
 Denver County Court Judge.

1989-2008 LAW OFFICES OF KERRY S. HADA, P.C.                   
 Englewood, CO
 Private practice law firm with emphasis on federal and state   criminal defense, civil litigation, plaintiff personal injury, divorce and family law . . . admitted in Colorado and Hawaii . . . admitted to Colorado Supreme Court . . . admitted to Hawaii Supreme Court . . .  admitted to U.S. District Court of Colorado, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court.

1986-1989         Law clerk, Manville Corporation . . . management, Merck Corporation . . . prosecutor, Jefferson County District Attorney's office,  First Judicial District . . . assistant to athletic director, Bill Marolt, University of Colorado, Boulder.

1976-1986 CF&I STEEL CORPORATION  Pueblo and Denver, CO
 (Subsidiary of Crane Corporation, New York)

1981-1986:   tubular and rail products regional sales manager for a 10 state marketing area. 
                                                                      
1979-1981:   management, tubular products group. . .   co-author of "Oil Country Handbook". 

1976-1979:   general products sales representative for a three state marketing area.

1974-1975 PERSONNEL PLACEMENTS   Denver, CO
                       Personnel Counselor . . . planned, budgeted, and executed advertising strategy.

1971-1974 UNITED STATES ARMY          
Airborne Ranger infantry officer . . . platoon leader . . .   company commander . . . special operations team leader . . . training included infantry officer basic; airborne; Ranger; special operations; nuclear, biological, chemical warfare; air transportability . . . highest scores on Army physical training tests . . . expert infantry badge . . . numerous medals, commendations and awards. 

ACTIVITIES/ASSOCIATIONS:
 
Volunteer work with Easter Seal handicapped people, 1968-1971 . . . Volunteer work with underprivileged children, 1970-present . . . Big Brother to Sean McDuff, 1986-present . . . Founder and officer, Asian Pacific Law Students Association of Colorado, University of Denver College of Law, 1986- 1988 . . . Member, Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, 1986-present . . . Vice Magister, Phi Delta Phi law fraternity, 1987-1988 . . . Founder, past president, judiciary co-chair and board of directors, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Colorado (APABA), 1990-present . . . Charter member, Criminal Justice Act (CJA) panel to handle federal court appointed criminal cases, 1991-present . . . Member, Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), 1992-present . . . Mentor, DU College of Law, Partners at Law, 1992-present . . . Panelist, “Starting Your Law Practice,” DU College of Law, 1992 . . . Judge, mediation competition, DU College of Law, 1992- present . . . APABA Board of Governors’ representative to the Colorado Bar Association, 1992- 1995 . . . Aurora Municipal Court teen mentor, 1992-1997 . . .  Judge, Thomas Tang regional and national moot court law students’ trial competition, 1993-present . . . Denver Paralegal Institute and Denver Career College graduation commencement speaker for paralegal graduates, 1993-present . . . JACL pro bono award for assisting U.S. citizens with redress claims, 1993-1995 . . . Colorado Bar Foundation fellow emeritus, 1994-present . . . Chair, Colorado minority bar presidents’ coalition of the Colorado Bar Association, 1994-1995 . . .  Member, Minoru Yasui Community Volunteer Award (MYCVA) Committee, 1995- present . . . Lecturer, Colorado Bar Association ethics CLE Programs, 1995-present . . . National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) faculty member, 1995- present . . . Lecturer, Colorado Bar Association ethics CLE programs, 1995- present . . . Judge, Hoffman Cup moot court trial competition, DU College of Law,1995-present . . .  National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) national judiciary committee, 1995-1997 . . .  Member, committee that established Camp Amache and Governor Ralph Carr memorial plaques at Colorado state capitol, 1995-1998 . . .  Channel 9 News Lawline volunteer, 1996- present . . . Judge, U.S. national high school mock trial championships, 1996-1997 . . .  Member, Colorado Supreme Court Multicultural Commission, appointed by Justice Gregory Scott, 1996-1997 . . . Commissioner, Eighteenth Judicial District Judicial Nomination commission (Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties), 1996- 2001 . . . Founder and executive council board member, Minoru Yasui American Inn of Court, 1996-present . . . Mediator, Colorado Supreme Court attorney grievance commission, 1996-1997 . . . Faculty instructor, NITA, Rocky Mountain Child Advocacy Program, 1997-present . . . Judge, negotiation competition, DU Law School 1997-present . . . Mentor of the Year, University of Denver College of Law APALSA award, 1997-1998 . . .  Diversity chair, Arapahoe County Bar Association, 1997-1998 . . .  Member, Japanese Association of Colorado, 1998-present . . . Judge, Arapahoe County regional high school mock trial championships, 1998-present . . . Director and officer, Arapahoe County Bar Association, 1998-2005 . . .  Member, Asian Chamber of Commerce, 1998-present . . . Co-author, article on “Minoru Yasui, One of the Greatest,” Colorado Lawyer, July 1998 . . . Lecturer, National Inns of Court national conferences, 1999-present . . . President, Minoru Yasui American Inn of Court, 1999- 2000 . . . Member, summit leadership group of Colorado Inns of Court, 2000- present . . . Colorado Supreme Court committee member for ethical and advocacy issues in family law, appointed by Justice Michael Bender, 2000-2003 . . .  Arapahoe County Bar Association pro bono post dissolution divorce clinic, 2001-present . . . Judge, client counseling competition, DU College of Law, 2001-present . . .  Faculty instructor, Christopher Miranda Trial Practice NITA program, 2002- present . . . Criminal Justice Act (CJA) standing committee panel member, appointed by Chief Judge Lewis Babcock, U.S. District Court, 2002-2003 . . .  MYCVA sponsor ID co-chair, 2001-2003 . . . Minoru Yasui Plaza mural committee member, 2003-present . . . Panelist, “Getting Benched”, Colorado Women’s Bar Association, 2003 . . . Judge, natural resources appellate competition, DU College of Law, 2003-present . . . Denver Bar Association professionalism committee, 2004-present . . . Faculty instructor and demonstrator, NITA Tribal Courts Program (evidence and procedures for Tribal Courts) 2004-present . . . Co-author, “A Twelve Step Guide to Program Development,” Bencher, American Inns of Court, May 2004 . . . President, Arapahoe County Bar Association, 2004-2005 . . . Instructor, ethical issues in family law, CU College of Law, 2004 . . . Colorado Bar Association executive council member, 2004- 2006 . . .  Panel chair, Colorado Inns of Court presentation to University of Denver College of Law, 2004- present . . . Conciliation Coordinating Committee member of the Metropolitan  Conciliation Panel (MCP), 2005- present . . . Instructor, ethical issues in criminal law, CU College of Law, 2005 . . . Instructor, “Ethics in Family Law,” Arapahoe County Bar Association 2005 CLE program . . .  Denver Kids supporter, 2005- present . . . Arapahoe County Bar Foundation fellow emeritus, 2006-present . . . Special delegate to Japan, named by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, to strengthen U.S. & Japan relations, 2006 . . . Denver Bar Association Board of Governors’ representative to the Colorado Bar Association, 2006- present . . . Member, Metropolitan Conciliation Panel (MCP), 2006- present . . . MYCVA fund development committee co-chair, 2006-2007 . . . Charles B. Dillion Award of Merit, for extraordinary service in the public interest, 2006 . . . Colorado Supreme Court award for pro bono commitment achievement, 2006 . . . Co-author, “Colorado Inns of Court Visit London Inns,” Bencher, American Inns of Court, March/April, 2007 . . . Advisor, Dragon Boat Festival, 2007-present . . . Faculty instructor for NITA, Public Service Attorneys Program, 2007-present . . . Board of Governors, Japanese American National Museum (JANM), based in Los Angeles, California, 2008- present . . . Sponsor, Minoru Yasui Community Volunteer Award, 2009-present.

William Murray Hake

A trial attorney with national counsel, litigation management and mediation experience, Mr. Hake is the Managing Partner of Hake Law, a California based trial practice firm.  Bill has worked primarily in commercial litigation including product liability, construction defect, director and officer, white collar criminal, catastrophic injury, toxic tort, class action and complex litigation defense. Mr. Hake’s experience includes several years as lead Trial Counsel for Cooley Manion Jones Hake Kurowski LLP and fourteen years as lead Trial Counsel at Prindle Decker and Amaro in San Francisco.  For several years he was a Trial Attorney and Partner at Hassard, Bonnington in San Francisco, California. Mr. Hake also served in the role of a prosecutor as an Assistant District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco. Mr. Hake’s practice includes Trial, Arbitration and Mediation in state and federal courts across the United States.

A graduate of McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, Bill has taught Trial Practice, Evidence, Civil Litigation and Mediation for the California State Bar Continuing Education Program and for the University of San Francisco School of Law.  For the past 23 years he has taught at Harvard University School of Law in the Trial Advocacy Workshop (TAW).  He has also taught at Stanford University School of Law (Trial Advocacy) and for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.  He has taught ADR and Mediation for the Department of Justice and in the Federal Practice Program for the Federal Court in Northern California.  He is a member of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern and Southern California, the Defense Research Institute and the Bar Associations of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sonoma Counties.

Mr. Hake is rated "AV", Martindale, Hubbel’s highest rating for attorneys.

Bill resides with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently serves on the Board of Valley of the Moon Natural History Association.  In addition Bill has served on the Board of Ross Valley Soccer Club (Past President), the Tidalwave Swim Club (Past President) and as a Board member of the Central Marin Soccer League (Vice President).  He enjoys bicycling, tennis, sailing, volleyball, and golf.
 

Amy Halbrook

B.A., University of California at Berkeley
J.D., Northwestern University School of Law

Amy Halbrook is the Salisbury Clinical Teaching Fellow in Loyola University Chicago’s Civitas ChildLaw Clinic, where she assists with course instruction and supervises law students representing young people in court.  She has also taught in Loyola’s Intensive ChildLaw Trial Practice course. 

Ms. Halbrook has represented clients in delinquency, school expulsion, special education, child welfare, custody and civil rights matters.  She has experience representing clients at trial, conducting witness examinations and depositions, preparing and arguing motions, and participating in mediations and arbitration proceedings. 

Ms. Halbrook has worked with young people in and out of court.  Prior to law school, she was the Director of Youth Services for the Donald P. McCullum Youth Court, a diversion program for youth offenders in Oakland, California.  During law school, she worked on initiatives related to the juvenile death penalty and community-based alternatives to incarceration for juveniles. 

Ms. Halbrook is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (B.A. 1997) and Northwestern University School of Law (J.D. 2005).  Prior to joining the Civitas ChildLaw Clinic, she was a litigation associate at a major Chicago law firm.