2018 Winter Conference:
Drive Your Case, Don't Let Your Case Drive You
Day 1: The Road Map
Chairpersons Mallory Allen and Andrew Ackley
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Four Seasons Hotel, Seattle or via Webcast

5.25 Law & Legal Credits  ● 0.5 Ethics Credits

8:50-9:00 Welcome & Opening
Seminar Chairs - Mallory Allen, Peterson Wampold Rosato Feldman Luna, Seattle
                                 Andrew Ackley, Stritmatter Kessler Whelan Koehler Moore, Seattle  

9:00-9:30 Case Plan: Strategy and Structure
Jenna Labourr, Washington Injury Lawyers, PLLC, Seattle

9:30-10:00 Representing Non-English Speaking Clients
Erica Buckley, Buckley & Associates, Seattle

10:00-10:30 E-Discovery, Black Boxes, Texts & Cell Phone Records
Andrew Ackley, Stritmatter Kessler Whelan Koehler Moore, Seattle &
Bryan Jorgensen, NW Casualty Claims Service

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:15 Reconstruction Diagrams and Video Animation:
                      Foundational Facts and Creating the Reconstruction
Meaghan Driscoll, Connelly Law, Tacoma

11:15-1:45 EXCLUDING EXPERT OPINIONS:
                    Liability: Reconstruction
Mallory Allen, Peterson Wampold Rosato Feldman Luna, Seattle

11:45-12:00 EXCLUDING EXPERT OPINIONS:
                      Damages: Wickizer
Andrew Ackley, Stritmatter Kessler Whelan Koehler Moore, Seattle  

12:00-12:45 Lunch (boxed lunches included in tuition)

12:45-1:15 EXCLUDING EXPERT OPINIONS:
                    Damages: Tencer 
Larry Kahn, Lawrence Law Group, P.S., Kirkland

1:15-1:45 Ethics in Dealing with Non-Party Witnesses:
                  Lay Witnesses, Treatment Providers, and Informal Discovery - RPC 4.1, 4.4
Kevin Coluccio, Coluccio Law, Seattle

1:45-2:15 Preparing for and Taking a 30(b)(6) Dep (Hiring, Training, Policies, Maintenance)
Lindsay Halm, Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, Seattle

2:15-2:30 Break 

2:30-3:00 Medical Causation and Preexisting Injury
Nathan Roberts, Connelly Law, Tacoma

3:00-3:30 Pre-Trial Motions, Motions in Limine, and Motion in Trial
Heather Cover, Law Offices of James S. Rogers, Seattle

3:30-4:00 Discovery Abuses and Difficult Opposing Counsel: RPC 3.4 and Burnett Factors
Judge Shelly Speir, Pierce County Superior Court