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.
 
 
 

Duncan, Dwight

NITA Trustee: 2009-present

Education: Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) conferred by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts and the Association for Investment Management and Research (“AIMR”); M.S., Economics, Arizona State University, areas of specialization-Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Finance, International Finance, and Econometrics; B.S., Economics, Arizona State University, Summa Cum Laude

Present position: Managing Director, EconLit LLC (2000-Present)
Mr. Duncan has more than 16 years of experience involving economic consulting generally and the calculation of economic damages in commercial disputes specifically. He has consulted and/or been engaged as an independent expert witness for thousands of companies ranging from sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies in a wide range of industries internationally. Mr. Duncan has provided expert testimony before United States District Courts, State Courts, and regulatory bodies on numerous occasions. Mr. Duncan has also provided economic consulting and expert witness services to the Arizona State Attorney General’s office on multiple matters.

Previous positions: Arizona State University, Adjunct Professor of Economics in the ASU MBA program (2001-2004); PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Director, Financial Advisory Services (Dispute Analysis & Investigations Group/Economics and Statistics Practice, (1994-2000); Arizona State University, Faculty Associate/Teaching Assistant in the Department of Economics
(1992-1993); Orbital Sciences Corporation, and Consultant to the Chief Financial Officer (1992-1994)

Teaching Experience: Graduate Macroeconomics and Microeconomics Principles; Macroeconomic Principles and Intermediate Macroeconomics; and Microeconomic Principles; taught economics-related sections of annual Power Learning Series for Financial Advisory Services (a national training seminar for PricewaterhouseCoopers) in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999. 

Publications:
•         “Business Trends” in Arizona Business Magazine; 3/1994, 6/1994, 9/1994 and 6/1995
•         “Metro Phoenix Blue Chip Economic Forecast”; monthly forecast panel member, 1995-present
•         “Arizona Blue Chip Economic Forecast”; Monthly Forecast panel member, 1995-present
•         “Western Blue Chip Economic Forecast”; Monthly Forecast Panel Member, 1995-present
•         “The Role of the Economist in Litigation and Consulting Services Part I – An Overview”, October 1998
•         “The Role of the Economist in Litigation and Consulting Services Part II – Shareholder (10b-5) Litigation Cases”, Nov 1998
•         “The Role of the Economist in Litigation and Consulting Services Part III, Antitrust Litigation Cases,” December 1998
•         “The Role of the Economist in Litigation and Consulting Services Part IV Intellectual Property,” February 1999
•         “The Role of the Economist in Litigation and Consulting Services Part V – General Lost Profits Cases,” May 1999
•         “Value Assurance Programs: Address Property Value Concerns,” Env. Compliance and Litigation Strategy, May 1999
•         “Economic Theory in Business Disputes”, AWLA Perspectives, December 2000
•         “Damage Analysis in Shareholder Litigation,” AWLA Perspectives, June 2001

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-present

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.

Jo Ann Harris

B.A., The University of Iowa
J.D., New York University Law School

Current position: Professor of Law and Scholar in Residence, Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York.

Previous positions: Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice; Federal Prosecutor, Southern District of New York; Chief of the Fraud Section, Criminal Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Law Clerk to then-United States District Court Judge Lawrence W. Pierce.

Organizations: Served on three Independent counsel staffs: the Washington-based investigation of corruption at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; the 1990 investigation of New York mayor David N. Dinkins; and the 1986 investigation of corruption and conflict of interest involving the Charles Point Resource Recovery Facility in Westchester County, New York.

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.

Krupka, Robert G. 

NITA Trustee: 2002-present

Education: Georgetown University, B.S., cum laude, 1971, Phi Beta Kappa; University of Chicago Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1974, Order of the Coif

Present Position: Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 1974–Present

Organizations: Advisory Board, The United States Patent Quarterly; Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property and Computer Law, John Marshall Law School; American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section:  Council Member (1993-1998), Committee/Division Chairperson (1986-present); American Intellectual Property Law Association
Board of Trustees, Francis W. Parker School (President 1994-97);  Federal Circuit Bar Association; Intellectual Property Advisory Committee, Founder (Dist. Ct. Del.); Intellectual Property Owners Association; The Los Angeles Intellectual Property American Inn of Court (Executive Committee Member 2007-present); International Bar Association, Subcommittee Chair, Committee R- Technology and E-Commerce Law (1999-present); Subcommittee Chair, Committee L -  Intellectual Property and Entertainment (2000-present); International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property; International Trademark Association; International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association; Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Inc.; The Regency Club; UCLA Live; Board Member; Royce Center Circle (2006-present).

Honors/Awards: Named one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” by The National Law Journal in 2006, one of the “Top 100 Attorneys in California” by the Daily Journal, and described as “one of the top trial lawyers in the country, not just LA,” when selected as one of the Top 30 Intellectual Property lawyers by the Daily Journal Extra.  He was chosen as one of the California Attorneys of the Year by California Lawyer in 2005 and named a “Southern California Super Lawyer” by Los Angeles and Southern California Super Lawyers magazines.

In 2006, Chambers Global selected Mr. Krupka as one of The World’s Leading Lawyers in Intellectual Property, describing him as “one of the foremost IP lawyers” in the country with “remarkable knowledge and great international connections” and considerable “skill at presenting a case in an understandable way, even if it is a complex high-tech matter.”

He won what the ITC describes as the “most important” case in the history of the ITC (In re Sputter Carbon Coated Disks), the largest patent infringement case in the ITC’s history (In re Set Top Boxes), the largest verdict in the history of the Western District of Tennessee (Karlin Technology), and the largest patent settlement in history - $1.35 Billion (Karlin Technology).

Loveland, L. Joseph

NITA Trustee: 2008-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

Rubinowitz, Ben

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 

Siemer, Deanne C.

NITA Trustee: 1987–present
NITA Board Chair: 1995-1996
NITA Board Chair Elect: 1993-1994
NITA Board Treasurer: 1992
NITA Faculty: 1972–present

Education: George Washington University, B.A.; Harvard Law School, LLB

Present position: Managing Director, Wilsie Co. LLC

Previous positions: Partner, Pillsbury Madison & Sutro;  Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; General Counsel, Department of Defense; Special Counsel to the President; Economist, Office of Management & Budget, Executive Office of the President.

Organizations: Elected member, American Law Institute; arbitrator, American Arbitration Association; National Association of Securities Dealers; Attorney-Client Arbitration Board of the District of Columbia Bar; Mediation Panel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; and American Bar Association

Offices/Honors/Awards: Appointment in 2004-present by the Presidents of the National Academies of Science to serve on the Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security and rapporteur for study; Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal.

Recent writing: Two history books (National Security and Self-Determination, Praeger; An Honorable Accord, University of Hawaii Press); nine law practice books; a book for the Federal Judicial Center, Effective Use of Courtroom Technology, a Judge’s Guide to Pretrial and Trial, and the companion volume Effective Use of Courtroom Technology, a Lawyer’s Guide to Pretrial and Trial.

Publications:
•          Digital Projector and Laptop Computer, The
•          Easy Tech: Cases and Materials on Courtroom Technology
•          Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Lawyer’s Guide to Pretrial and Trial Evidence Camera
•          PowerPoint® 2002 for Litigators
•          Homestead Properties, Inc. v. Manhattan Fire and Casualty Co.,  Pretrial Edition (B’s)
•          PowerPoint® 2003 for Professors
•          PowerPoint® 2003: 50 Great Tips for Better, Easier Slides
•          Teaching Legal Strategy
•          Brown v. Byrd
•          Basic PowerPoint® Exhibits
•          Quinlan v. Kane
•          Argument Slides
•          Homestead Properties, Inc. v. Manhattan Fire and Casualty Co., Trial Edition
•          State v. Lawrence
Homestead Properties, Inc. v. Manhattan Fire and Casualty Co., Pretrial Edition (A’s)

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: Habush Habush & Rottier, 1994-current

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

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
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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. 

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.

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.

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

Caldwell, Mark S.

Mark S. Caldwell is NITA's Director for Specialty Programs. In this role Mr. Caldwell designs, administers and serves as an instructor for programs in bankruptcy litigation, child advocacy, and tax litigation. Other programs included under the Specialty Programs banner include NITA's work with other organizations for co-sponsored programs and many of NITA's pro bono courses. His role in NITA's pro bono efforts includes serving as Program Director for many of NITA's courses for lawyers and advocates who represent under-served communities, including Native American lay advocates, legal services lawyers, lawyers and advocates who represent those living with disabilities and the elderly, lawyers and advocates who appear in cases involving children, and lawyers who work in public service positions. In addition to his involvement in these courses, Mr. Caldwell also serves as NITA's Program Director for the Basic Trial Skills and Deposition Programs in Colorado. He is also an instructor at many of NITA's Teacher Training Programs. Mr. Caldwell received his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Denver. At the College of Law he served as an editor of the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. After graduation from law school, Mr. Caldwell began his career at the University of Denver College of Law where he eventually was appointed Assistant Dean. Mr. Caldwell also spent seven years as the Executive Director of Continuing Legal Education in Colorado. Over the years Mr. Caldwell has taught international business transactions, legal research, and advocacy skills to law students, legal assistants, and practitioners. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Legal Center Serving Persons with Disabilities in Colorado, the Shawnee, Colorado Water Board, and as a member of the State of Colorado Department of Education's Advisory Committee for Gifted and Talented Education. Mark Caldwell has been published on a wide variety of topics, including international business, transnational litigation, and adult education. His work in the continuing education world has focused on bringing adult educational theory to continuing legal education. He has also written case files for NITA and contributed to other NITA works, including NITA’s Teacher Training Manual.

Contact Information:
mcaldwell@nita.org

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

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

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

Daniel G. Dowd

Daniel G. 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.

In 2004, The Business Journal recognized Dan as one of the “Best of the Bar – Litigation” as selected by his peers.  In 2007, Dan was selected for inclusion in the inaugural edition of “Southwest Super Lawyers”, a peer-evaluated publication recognizing individuals ranked in the top five percent of lawyers practicing in their state.  Also in 2007, Dan, Ron Cohen and Laura Kennedy were awarded 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.

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.  He is currently co-chair of the Solo and Small Firm Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation.  He served as co-chair of the Section’s Federal Practice Task Force from 2001 to 2005, responsible for monitoring and formulating the Section’s positions on significant proposed changes to the federal rules of civil procedure.  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 program faculty member.  Dan has lectured on a number of diverse litigation topics including: “The Impact of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1993 on Athletic Participation,” Arizona Athletic Trainers Association, 1994 Winter Meeting; “Bridge the Gap: Arizona Legal Skills (Motion Practice and Summary Judgment),” State Bar of Arizona, Continuing Legal Education, May 19, 1995; “The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege and The Rules of Professional Conduct for University Lawyers,” Arizona State University, March 26, 1997; and “Cross Examining the Expert Witness at Deposition and at Trial,” Lorman Education Services, May 16, 2000.  Dan has also served as a group discussion facilitator for the State Bar of Arizona Course on Professionalism (March 21, 2000) and as a Panelist for State Bar of Arizona Fee Arbitration Committee.  He is also active as a volunteer coach for numerous youth sports leagues and as a member of the Finance Committee and a major fundraiser for his children's school.

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 and administrative dispute proceedings.

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.

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

Hoffman, Peter T.

Mr. Hoffman directs the following programs: Deposition Skills: Houston; Deposing the Expert Witness; Building Trial Skills: National Session; Trial Skills for Juvenile and Family Courts

Peter Hoffman holds the Newell H. Blakely Chair in Evidence at the University of Houston Law Center and is also Director of the Law Center's Blakely Advocacy Institute.  Hoffman received his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1971 (cum laude) and his B.S. from Michigan State University in 1968 (high honors).  Following graduation, he practiced in Chicago before entering academia in 1974.  Hoffman is the co-author with David Malone and Anthony Bocchino of The Effective Deposition:  Techniques and Strategies That Work, now in its third edition, as well as a number of other publications.
 
At the University of Houston, Hoffman is in charge of all of the school's litigation skills and clinical courses and teaches Trial Advocacy, Advanced Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Litigation and Evidence.  Hoffman frequently teaches CLE courses on litigation skills and has now taught in over 350 courses in 28 states, 2 territories and 10 foreign countries.  In his long and checkered career, Hoffman has also served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau.

Contact Information:
phoffman@central.uh.edu

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

Hunt, William J.

Mr. Hunt directs the following programs: Advocacy Teacher Training; Deposition Skills: New England

William J. Hunt practices civil Litigation, commercial law, employment law, and personal injury with Clark Hunt & Embry in Cambridge, MA. He is a Suffolk University Law School graduate (1976). Hunt is a member of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bar Associations, and the Commercial Law League of America. He is co-author of "Rhode Island Rules of Evidence with Objections," National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1994. Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter, 1984. Hunt has been an instructor with NITA since 1985, and with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute since 1988.

Contact Information:
whunt@chelaw.com 

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. 

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.

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

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.
 

Leatherberry, Wilbur

Mr. Leatherberry directs the following program: Deposition Skills: Great Lakes

Professor Wilbur C. Leatherberry has been a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University School of Law since 1973. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1992-2000. He is now Director of Skills Courses and Advocacy Programs. In that role, he supervises adjunct instructors who teach courses covering interviewing, counseling, negotiation, pretrial practice, and trial tactics. Professor Leatherberry’s principal field as a teacher and scholar is Insurance Law. He also teaches Contracts, Secured Transactions, and Dispute Resolution. He is active in the field of alternative dispute resolution, particularly as a mediator.

Contact Information:
wcl@case.edu

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

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)

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
 

Neighbors, William

A Colorado native, Bill Neighbors received a Bachelor of Science degree in Farm and Ranch Management and a Master of Science degree in Economics from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Neighbors received his law degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1965. He was in the private practice of law for six years. After serving as the Chief Trial Deputy for the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office for two years, he was appointed to the Boulder County District Court in 1973, serving primarily in a civil division until 1983, when he was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court. In 1985, Neighbors was elected Deputy Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. He resigned from the Court in 1986 to join the Judicial Arbiter Group, Inc.

Bill Neighbors has long been an advocate of judicial education and legal professionalism as demonstrated by his long-standing relationship with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy as a teaching team leader and member. He has taught trial advocacy at Harvard, the University of Denver, the University of Colorado and New Mexico law schools. Neighbors and Justice William H. Erickson have written two books on constitutional criminal law and procedure. While a District Judge, Neighbors served on the Judicial Discipline Commission charged with handling complaints about the Colorado judiciary. He is the former chair of the State Commission on Judicial Performance and former chair of the City of Denver Ethics Code Review Committee. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the American, Colorado and Boulder County Bar Associations.
 

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.

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.

Rubinowitz, Ben

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 

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
 

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

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

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 has taught the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s basic and advanced trial skills and deposition programs since 1998 and has been a Team Leader at NITA’s National Session in Louisville, CO., the Pacific, Southern California regional’s, and the PowerPoint for Litigators program.  Michael has also been a faculty member at the Western, Southwestern and Mid-Western regionals, Teacher Training in San Francisco, and numerous in-house programs for civil litigation, child advocacy, public service and insurance defense firms.  The past two years, Michael has been a co-presenter of NITA sponsored Closing Argument and Trial Skills seminars for the National Bar Association.

Michael Washington is a senior felony trial attorney with the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office.  He is a member of the training committee and is involved with minority recruitment.  His current caseload includes all types of felony crimes including capital murder cases, and he conducts 2-4 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.  Michael began teaching at Emory University’s Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques in 2002.  He has frequently been named a Team Leader for that program.

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.  He is currently assigned to the South Division Renton (AUKEEN) Courthouse and handles both Criminal and Civil matters.
 
Since 1991 he has served as an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law (University of Puget Sound) teaching both Trial and Pre-Trial Advocacy.  He serves as the Director of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) Northwest Regional Trial Techniques and Deposition programs and has served many terms as faculty team leader at Emory Law School's renowned Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program.

Judge Williams is an active volunteer in the community working with the Northwest Sarcoma Foundation.  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.

He is committed improving access to justice through out the world.  He has led training for judges, advocates, and law enforcement personnel throughout the United States, as well in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.  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 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.

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 in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a member of the Board of the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and an appointed member of the Illinois State Bar Association's Family Law Section Council and Committee on Professional Conduct.

Mr. Ainley is a former Assistant Public Defender with the Cook County Public Defender's Office in Chicago, Illinois, where he handled several hundred bench and jury trials in such areas as domestic violence, child protection, narcotics, and other felony matters.

Mr. Ainley is a frequent lecturer on family law issues including tax, trusts, evidence, trial advocacy, and business and real property valuation including most recently, Business Valuation Guest Attorney "Trying the Domestic Relations Case," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2008 and 2009; "Advanced Evidence," American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 2008; "Issues Affecting the Treatment of Trusts in Divorce," Stout Risius Ross 2007; "Tax Matters and Ramifications in Divorce," National Business Institute, 2007; National Business Institute Seminar on Financial Settlement Strategies for Divorce, 2006; Illinois State Bar Association Family Law Section Seminar on Property Issues in Family Law, 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.

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

Mary Jo Barr

Mary Jo (a.k.a. M.J.) was admitted to practice in 1986.  She graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science degree and from California Western School of law in 1986.

Mary Jo began her practice in 1986 in San Diego, California as an associate with a small plaintiff’s and criminal defense firm in San Diego.  In 1988 Mary Jo was awarded a Prettyman fellowship at Georgetown School of Law School; however, she chose trial work and warm weather over academics and winter. In 1998 Mary Jo joined the newly formed Office of the Public Defender for San Diego County. During her tenure with office she has held numerous positions including the homicide profile team, the director of training and recruitment, and management positions.  Over the nineteen years at the Public Defender’s office Mary Jo has tried hundreds of cases.  She is currently supervising a trial team of thirteen felony lawyers. 

Mary Jo is also an experienced teacher.  She is an Adjunct Professor at California Western School of Law and University of San Diego in the trial advocacy divisions. She is an experienced NITA instructor, teaching at regional programs, at the National session and for in-house programs since 1992.

Mary Jo has been teaching internationally since 1996, most recently for the Canadian Society for Advocacy, the Ontario Centre for Advocacy, the National Prosecutor’s Association in Dublin Ireland, and in Nigeria with the Overseas Prosecutorial Training Division of the Department of Justice.

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.

B.A., Vanderbilt University
J.D., University of Mississippi

Service Areas
Tort Litigation
Commercial Litigation

Practice
Rick is a senior partner in the general litigation practice group in the Jackson office. He practices in the area of complex commercial and product liability litigation. Rick has substantial experience in the representation of financial institutions and the litigation and settlement of class actions, mass tort and other complex matters. He is among a select group of lawyers, recognized in the category of Litigation: General Commercial, listed in a nationwide client survey published in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

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

Memberships/Affiliations
Member: The Mississippi Bar; State Bar of Georgia; American Bar Association (Litigation Section); Mississippi Bar Foundation (fellow); Best Lawyers in America (Commercial Litigation); America's Leading Business Lawyers (Litigation)
Admitted to Practice: Georgia; Mississippi; United States Supreme Court
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, resulting in favorable settlement.
Defense of national bank headquartered on east coast resulting in settlements of over 1,500 individual home improvement loan claims and a statewide class action settlement.
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 settlement of 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, resulting in class settlement of all claims.
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, resulting in favorable settlement.
Defense of Texas-based insurer in multiple putative class actions and individual actions in Mississippi and Louisiana, resulting in favorable settlements of individual collateral protection insurance claims.
Successful 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.
Successful defense of Pennsylvania-based national company in aviation-related electrocution case.             
                               

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.

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.

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

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
 

Donald H. Beskind

J.D., University of Connecticut, 1973
L.L.M., Duke University's School of Law, 1977
Professor of the Practice of Law Donald H. Beskind was a John S. Bradway Fellow at Duke from 1975-1977. He received his LL.M. at the conclusion of his fellowship and joined the Duke Law faculty, first as an Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor and Director of the Clinical Legal Studies Program. In 1981, he returned to private practice, co-founding Beskind, Rudolf & Maher with whom he practiced until 1993. In 1993, he joined what is now Twiggs, Beskind, Strickland & Rabenau, and practiced full-time with that firm until January of 2010 when he returned to full time teaching at the Law School as a Professor of the Practice and became Of Counsel to his firm. While in private practice between 1981 and 2010, as a Senior Lecturer in Law, Professor Beskind directed and taught in Duke’s Trial Practice program and also periodically taught evidence.

A native of Westport, Connecticut, Professor Beskind received his A.B. in sociology from The George Washington University in 1969 and his J.D. with honors from the University of Connecticut. His more than 30 years in practice was devoted to representing plaintiffs in civil cases and defendants in criminal cases. Professor Beskind is a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers and will become its Administrative Secretary and Editor of its Quarterly in 2010. He is also fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has served on the Board of Governors of both national and North Carolina trial lawyer organizations, and has chaired the committees on continuing legal education for both. He was a founding board member of North Carolina Prisoner’s Legal Services and served as its President. Professor Beskind lectures on evidentiary and trial skills topics across the United States, runs trial training programs at major law firms and has trained solicitors and barristers in the United Kingdom.

Professor Beskind is the co-author North Carolina Evidentiary Foundations (Lexis/Nexis 2008); Problems in Trial Advocacy (NITA 2007); and numerous cases files used for professional training including BMI v. Minicom (Advanced, Pretrial and Basic Skills editions – NITA) and State v. Burns (NITA).

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.   

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

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/

Patricia C. Bobb

Patricia C. Bobb is principal of the law firm of Patricia C. Bobb & Associates and Of Counsel to the law firm of Propes & Kaveny LLC.  As a trial lawyer, Patti specializes in plaintiffs’ personal injury law with an emphasis in medical malpractice litigation.

Before starting her own practice, Patti was a partner of the firm Bobb, Kane, Obbish and Propes and an associate at the Law Offices of Philip H. Corboy & Associates.  Prior to working in the private sector, Patti served as an Assistant States Attorney for Cook County in the Felony Trial Division after receiving her law degree from the University of Notre Dame School of Law.

Patti has also been actively involved in many professional organizations including serving as President of the 22,000 member Chicago Bar Association and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Illinois State Bar Association.  She was elected to the American College of Trial Lawyers and served as a Regent for Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana on ACTL’s Board of Regents.  She is also a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and currently serves on ITLA’s Board of Managers.

Patti was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to serve on the Supreme Court Rules Committee and also served as the Chair of that committee for a number of years.  The Illinois Supreme Court also appointed her Commissioner of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.  Patti continues to serve as a member of the ARDC, today.

Patti is involved in the training of other lawyers as a member of the Board of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy having previously served as its Chairman.  She is a former Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy for Northwestern University Law School, and has taught, spoken and written for various bar associations and advocacy programs for over 30 years including the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, the American Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and many others state and national organizations.

In 2004, Patti was selected by the Sun Times as one of the 100 most influential women in Chicago and one of ten of Chicago’s most influential women attorneys.

In 2007, Patti was selected in a survey of her lawyer peers in Illinois, through the Leading Lawyers Network, as the #1 Leading Woman Lawyer in Illinois and the #1 Leading Woman Consumer Lawyer.

Thomas J. Bois

A.B., St. Michael's College
J.D., St. Louis University School of Law

Thomas J. Bois represents and counsels public and private businesses on a wide range of environmental, construction, real estate and business law issues. Mr. Bois' primary practice focus is representing clients in: defense and prosecution of environmental cost recovery suits, environmental compliance counseling,  "Brownfields" transactions, and construction defect, delay and cost overrun litigation.

Mr. Bois has litigated and tried to verdict or judgment over 100 matters. He has tried numerous cases in the fields of environmental law, construction law, commercial and labor law. He has earned the distinction of Master Advocate from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has been a member of the NITA Faculty since 2008.

Mr. Bois is a member of the California, District of Columbia, Missouri and u.s. Supreme Court Bars. He is also a Registered Environmental Assessor (REA), licensed by the California Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Bois has authored and co-authored four recognized legal treatises:  Expert Witnesses: Environmental, 1st Ed. 2008, Thomson West; Environmental liability Allocation: law and Practice, 1st Ed. 2007, Thomson West; * Groundwater and Soil Contamination: Technical Preparation and litigation Management, 1st Ed. 1996, Aspen/Wiley law Publications, Supp. 1998; and, * California Groundwater & Soil Contamination: Technical Preparation & litigation Management, 1st Ed. 1994, Wiley law Publications.
 
Mr. Bois has published articles in the American Bar Association's Tort and Insurance Practice Journal and The Brief, as well as numerous trade and business journals. Mr. Bois has spoken before the ABA, CEB, BIA, AEHS and numerous other organizations.
 
Prior to forming his own firm in 2001, Mr. Bois was a Partner at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold where he headed the firm's southern California Environmental Practice Group. Mr. Bois is currently an adjunct professor at the University of California-Irvine.

Mr. Bois received an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, in political science and history from St. Michael's College in Vermont in 1977. He received his J.D. degree from St. Louis University School of law in 1981, where he was the Hosser-Wagner Scholar. Mr. Bois has been awarded the "AV" rating by the Martindale Hubbell legal Directory, and his firm Bois & Macdonald has been awarded the "Preeminent" rating by Martindale Hubbell.

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 Bourque

Jude D. Bourque is an Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice in Louisiana.  He specializes in Medical Malpractice Defense.  He graduated with honors from Tulane Law School after serving on the Maritime Law Review, Moot Court Board and winning the Appellate Moot Court competition.  He is also an honor graduate of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (Outstanding Graduate-1983).

Mr. Bourque has taught trial advocacy and given numerous CLE presentations since 1989.

Mr. Bourque has served on many civic organizations 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 Leadership Alumni Board.

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.

Geraldine A. Brimmer

B.A., Smith College
J.D., University of Denver

Ms. Brimmer, a partner of Holland &Hart, practices natural resource, environmental and commercial litigation She joined the firm in 1984, after having clerked for the Honorable Robert H. McWilliams, U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has handled commercial, natural resources and environmental cases in federal and state courts (both jury and non-jury). Her recent practice has focused on complex litigation involving coal contract disputes and natural resource damages claims under CERCLA.
 
In addition , she h as represented clients in major litigation involving financial institutions and professional liability matters. She has represented the FDIC and RTC in various litigated matters involving claims against officers, directors, attorneys and a ceo unta nts of failed financial institutions. Ms Brimmer also has experience handling complex fraudulent conveyance claims in federal court

Commercial Litigation Experience
Contractual dispute s of all kinds, including lease disputes
Contractual disputes involving complex securitization issues, including bond financing, force majeure issues, utility and coal production issues and complex damage issues
Business torts, including misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, concealment and conversion.
Corporate disputes, including management leveraged buyouts, mismanagement, investment banking issues, officer/director duties and shareholder issues Real estate valuation jury trial.    

Environmental Litigation Experience
Complex litigation against a potential responsible party for natural resource damages under CERCLA involving compensable value damages based on the contingent valuation methodology and on random utility modeling
Trial to a federal court involving the determination and
quantification of in j ry to aquatic, terrestriaI and, groundwater natural resources at four Superfund sites

 
Natural Resource Litigation
• Oil and gas disputes
• Coal contract disputes
 
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Member , American Bar Association
• Board of Governors, Colorado Bar Association
• Member, Denver Bar Association
 
EDUCATION
University of Denver JD 1983 - Editor, Law RevieN
Smith College BA 1979

Michael B. Brohman

B.A., University of Illinois
J.S., Northwestern University

Michael B. Brohman joined Kamensky Rubinstein Hochman & Delott, LLP as a Partner in May of 1989. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Brohman was a Partner in the Litigation Department of a major Chicago law firm. Mr. Brohman has extensive national trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts with particular concentration in commercial litigation, civil rights litigation, white collar criminal defense, employment discrimination, real estate and eminent domain litigation. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of health care disputes, including issues involving restrictive covenants, licensing, hospital staff privileges, practice dissolutions, practice valuations, false claims, qui tam claims, billing and reimbursement disputes, employment and labor matters, discrimination claims, contract breaches, breaches of fiduciary duties, insurance bad faith issues, antitrust matters, fraud and abuse matters, fee splitting matters, HMO and managed care disputes and white collar criminal defense matters. He is a member of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He has taught trial practice courses to practicing lawyers and law students offered by numerous Chicago area law schools and various branches of the Illinois judicial system. Mr. Brohman has served as a volunteer attorney for various Chicago not-for-profit organizations, including, among others, the Chicago Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under the Law and the Uptown People's Law Center. Mr. Brohman was the Editor-in-Chief to the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1978-1979, and the Author of a Note on "Habeas Corpus" in Volume 68 of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Mr. Brohman has been admitted to the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and is admitted to practice before the state courts of the State of Illinois, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Brohman is a current member of the Chicago, American Bar and American Health Lawyers Associations. He is a member in the Trial Practice Committee and the Health Law Committee of the American Bar Association. Mr. Brohman is an arbitrator for the American Health Lawyers Association and for the Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program.

Mr. Brohman received his law degree, cum laude, from Northwestern University in 1979, and was the recipient of the William Jennings Bryan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Oral Advocacy and the Lowden Wigmore Prize for Achievement in Appellate Advocacy. Mr. Brohman received his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, with highest distinction in political science from the University of Illinois in 1976. While at the University of Illinois, he also received Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and the Bronze Star Tablet Scholar honors.

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

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.

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

Caldwell, Mark S.

Mark S. Caldwell is NITA's Director for Specialty Programs. In this role Mr. Caldwell designs, administers and serves as an instructor for programs in bankruptcy litigation, child advocacy, and tax litigation. Other programs included under the Specialty Programs banner include NITA's work with other organizations for co-sponsored programs and many of NITA's pro bono courses. His role in NITA's pro bono efforts includes serving as Program Director for many of NITA's courses for lawyers and advocates who represent under-served communities, including Native American lay advocates, legal services lawyers, lawyers and advocates who represent those living with disabilities and the elderly, lawyers and advocates who appear in cases involving children, and lawyers who work in public service positions. In addition to his involvement in these courses, Mr. Caldwell also serves as NITA's Program Director for the Basic Trial Skills and Deposition Programs in Colorado. He is also an instructor at many of NITA's Teacher Training Programs. Mr. Caldwell received his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Denver. At the College of Law he served as an editor of the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. After graduation from law school, Mr. Caldwell began his career at the University of Denver College of Law where he eventually was appointed Assistant Dean. Mr. Caldwell also spent seven years as the Executive Director of Continuing Legal Education in Colorado. Over the years Mr. Caldwell has taught international business transactions, legal research, and advocacy skills to law students, legal assistants, and practitioners. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Legal Center Serving Persons with Disabilities in Colorado, the Shawnee, Colorado Water Board, and as a member of the State of Colorado Department of Education's Advisory Committee for Gifted and Talented Education. Mark Caldwell has been published on a wide variety of topics, including international business, transnational litigation, and adult education. His work in the continuing education world has focused on bringing adult educational theory to continuing legal education. He has also written case files for NITA and contributed to other NITA works, including NITA’s Teacher Training Manual.

Contact Information:
mcaldwell@nita.org

Michael E. Canges

B.A., University of Denver
J.D., University of Denver

LECTURER: 
Faculty Member, National Institute of Trial Advocacy since 1988;   
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:
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!
“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 And AWARDS:    
Fellow: American Board of Trial Advocacy (ABOTA);
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; Colorado Judicial Institute, Director: 2005 – 2010; 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; Colorado Trial Lawyers Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys; Faculty of Federal Advocates; National Judicature Society.  Listed in Best Lawyers of America (all editions). Listed in Colorado Super Lawyers (all editions).

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. 

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.

James E. Casados

Mr. Casados is semi retired.  He was born December 4, 1937, in Gallup,
New Mexico.  James was admitted to practice in all state courts in New Mexico and Colorado (inactive status), Federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and New Mexico Federal District Court.  He is a member of American Bar Association, New Mexico Bar Association, has been a faculty member of NITA 15+ years, and judged/coach high school mock trial 25+ years.

Martindale-Hubbell rating AV.

He graduated from University of New Mexico law school June, 1965.

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. 

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.
 

Andrew Cheng

Andrew Y.S. Cheng is a Superior Court Judge in San Francisco.  Since his appointment in September, 2009, Judge Cheng has presided over felony and misdemeanor trials at the San Francisco Hall of Justice.  Prior to becoming a judge, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California from 2003-2009 and served as Deputy Chief of the Civil Division from 2006-2009.  Prior to 2003, he practiced for six years as a Deputy City Attorney at the San Francisco City Attorney's Office.

As a practicing attorney, he tried numerous civil cases to verdict or judgment in employment, tort, energy, tax, and civil rights cases, argued four times before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and three times before the California Courts of Appeal, and served as lead counsel in over 100 federal cases.  As deputy chief of the civil division, he was responsible for supervising the trial of numerous federal civil cases.

Prior to working at the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, Professor Cheng was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Sarah Evans Barker, United States District Judge, Southern District of Indiana.  He also practiced as an associate attorney at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro and Steinhart & Falconer in San Francisco.  Professor Cheng taught as a lecturer in legal writing at Boalt Hall School of Law from 1996-1997.
Professor Cheng received his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1992, where he served on the Moot Court Board. He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in history from Columbia University.

Judge Cheng has served as a faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy since 2008 and has taught trial advocacy as an adjunct professor of law at University of California, Hastings School of Law since 2006.

Suzanne Chester

Suzanne is a managing attorney at the Raleigh Office of Legal Aid of North Carolina. She graduated from UNC law school in 1995. Suzanne spent three years working as a staff attorney for North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, representing clients in post-conviction litigation, and a class-action lawsuit to improve access to health care for women in prison.

Since 1998, Suzanne has worked at the Raleigh Office of Legal Aid of North Carolina, She has represented numerous victims of domestic violence in a range of family law proceedings in Wake County.  Suzanne supervises the attorneys in the Domestic Violence/Family Law Unit at the Raleigh Office of Legal Aid. Suzanne has served on a variety of committees addressing laws related to domestic violence and sexual assault, and improving access to the judicial system for low-income people in general.  Suzanne is currently chair of the Government Action Committee for the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys. 

Suzanne is chair of Project Together, a group of volunteer attorneys from Wake County representing victims of domestic violence in 50B hearings. Suzanne organizes and participates in annual CLE trainings where the attorneys are trained on how to advocate in court on behalf of a victim of domestic violence.

Suzanne’s practice also focuses on other areas of the law which have a major impact on low-income clients, including landlord tenant law, public and subsidized housing benefits, unemployment benefits, defenses to mortgage foreclosure, and education law. Suzanne represents clients in district and superior court, before the Employment Security Commission, and in hearings at the Raleigh Housing Authority. Suzanne’s practice also includes appeals to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

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.”

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.

F. Stephen Collins

F. Stephen Collins practices commercial litigation, with an emphasis on natural resources, employment/business relationship matters, and intellectual property. His clients range from sole proprietors to multi-national corporations. In addition to acting as an advocate, Mr. Collins has served as an arbitrator in a number of cases. He is a director of the firm.

Mr. Collins' natural resource litigation focuses on oil and gas matters and also involves a variety of real estate and environmental issues. Mr. Collins also represents clients on a full spectrum of intellectual property litigation issues, including copyright, trademark and trade name, patent, and trade secrets. His employment/business relationships practice includes wrongful discharge, wage claim, covenant not to compete, duty of loyalty, and breach of contract cases, as well as the many issues necessarily associated with the dissolution of business groups.

Recent significant cases include the successful prosecution through the Colorado Supreme Court of claims resulting from a wrongful attempt by Keystone Resorts to terminate the Peak 9 restaurant lease; and the successful defense against fraudulent conveyance claims arising out of Mickey Monus' sale of his interest in the Colorado Rockies.

Mr. Collins has been very active in teaching and other pro bono matters. Each year since 1992, Mr. Collins has served on the faculty of the Rocky Mountain Regional Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Mr. Collins also has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law since 2001, and currently is teaching both Secured Transactions and Commercial Paper. Mr. Collins presently is on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Colorado Lawyers Committee and is a member of the Hate Violence Task Force. Mr. Collins also works with the US Department of Justice's Hate Crimes Task Force. Mr. Collins 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. Mr. Collins has been listed in The Denver Business Journal's annual listing of Who's Who in Professional Services in Denver each year since 1998, as a 5280 Magazine "Super Lawyer" each year since 2005, and in the Best Lawyers in America each year since 2005.

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 and forensic accounting issues in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Florida.

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 in 2006-2008.

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 Chair of the AICPA's Family Law Task Force and is a member of its Forensic and Litigation Services Committee. She is also a member of the Expert Resource Connection.

Durwood Conque

DURWOOD W. CONQUE received his J.D. degree from the Paul M. Hebert
Law Center at Louisiana State University in 1972 and practiced law until his election to the Louisiana Fifteenth Judicial District Court for the Parishes of Lafayette, Acadia and Vermilion in 1987. He has been re-elected for five consecutive terms.  Judge Conque has served on the Board of Governors of the Louisiana Judicial College,  the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics, the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Rules for District Courts, and is a past president of the Louisiana District Judges’ Association.  He is an Adjunct Professor at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center teaching Pretrial Litigation Skills and is a faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.  He lives in Abbeville, Louisiana with his wife, Rusti.

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. 

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.

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. 

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
    

Richard J. Dehncke

B.A., University of Michigan
J.D., University of Denver College of Law

A graduate of the University of Michigan and University of Denver College of Law, Mr. Dehncke has been an active trial lawyer since 1973.
In addition to his full time legal practice, Richard Dehncke has been a frequent instructor in the University of Colorado Law School Trial Advocacy Program.  He created the “Law and Psychology” course at the University of Colorado-Denver.  He is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy Instructor course, and has taught NITA programs for several years.
He has attended the prestigious Harvard Law School Center for Legal Negotiations. 
He is an active member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, the Brain Injury Association of Colorado, and the Colorado Bar Association.  Throughout his career, he has held the highest "AV" rating for legal abilities and ethical standards issued by Martindale-Hubbell. He has been selected for inclusion in Colorado Super Lawyers.
Mr. Dehncke has served as First Assistant Attorney General of Colorado, and on active duty as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Education:
University of Denver, College of Law
1973 Juris Doctorate
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 
1970 B.A. in English/Psychology
University of Colorado-Denver
 Post Graduate Courses - Psychology
Harvard Law School, Center for Legal Negotiations
National Institute of Trial Advocacy – Instructor Program

Classes/Seminars Taught:
National Institute for Trial Advocacy
University of Colorado Law School Trial Advocacy Program
"Law and Psychology", CU-Denver

Professional Associations and Memberships:
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
Colorado Bar Association
National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Brain Injury Association of Colorado
"AV" Rating by Martindale-Hubbell
 

Andrew Deiss

B.A., Yale University
M.A., University of Chicago
J.D., University of Chicago Law School

Andrew Deiss has significant trial, appellate, arbitration, and mediation experience. His practice includes litigating commercial disputes involving commercial contracts, class actions, securities, fiduciary duties, antitrust, professional liability issues. He has represented Fortune 500 companies as well as many well-known businesses in the Western United States.

In addition, Andy has significant experience in healthcare litigation and had represented numerous doctors, hospitals, medical associations, and patients in both medical malpractice and commercial disputes.

Andy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and attended Yale University where he received his B.A. in 1986. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of History in 1991. He then matriculated in the University of Chicago Law School where he served as Comment Editor of the University of Chicago Legal Forum, and was a member of the University of Chicago Roundtable. Andy received his J.D. in 1995. Andy served as judicial clerk for the Honorable Christine Durham, Chief Justice of the Utah State Supreme Court. Andy has also authored several publications that have been cited by numerous courts across the nation, including the United States Supreme Court.

Andy also serves as an adjunct Professor at the University of Utah in both the Honors Program and the Communications Department, where he teaches courses in United States Legal History and the First Amendment. He is a member of the America Society of Trial Consultants.

Andy was listed in Utah Business Magazine’s listing of Utah’s Legal Elite for the areas of business litigation and personal injury in 2005 and business litigation in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He has an AV Peer Rating which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics awarded by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.

REPRESENTATIVE LITIGATION
Successfully resolved litigation regarding a joint venture involving ownership of an $80 Million Dollar resort development.

Represented an individual defendant in a racketeering and securities fraud litigation with alleged damages in excess of $12 Million Dollars, defeating the racketeering charges on summary judgment and favorably resolving all remaining claims.

Successfully defended a major department store in a personal injury claim with a demand in excess of $10 Million Dollars resulting in a confidential settlement favorable to the client.

Defended a professional engineering firm against allegations of negligence in the development of a multi-million dollar municipal water project resulting in a favorable settlement agreement for the engineering firm.

Successfully defended a law firm against a multi-million dollar claim involving allegations of elaborate real estate fraud and other fraudulent investments.

Successfully represented the CEO of a Japanese entity which is a major international clothing manufacturer in severance dispute.

Obtained a favorable settlement on behalf of a real estate developer in a multi-million dollar action involving breach of a management agreement.

Successfully tried a case involving a dispute between a real estate seller and would-be purchaser.

Successfully resolved an imminent domain dispute between the State of Utah and a business owner.

Prevailed at trial in the defense of a securities transfer company in a case of securities fraud and related claims.

Related News & Articles:
02.09.2009 - 45 Attorneys at Jones Waldo Named as 2009 Legal Elite

05.20.2008 - Andrew Deiss Cited as Authority by Law Reviews

04.18.2008 - Andrew Deiss Cited as Authority by Books

04.14.2008 - Andrew Deiss Cited as Authority by Courts

12.10.2007 - Utah Business Magazine Names 36 Jones Waldo Attorneys to Legal Elite

01.03.2007 - 30 Attorneys at Jones Waldo Named to Utah Business Magazine’s Annual List of “Legal Elite”

David A Delman

David A Delman has extensive experience handling complex civil commercial trial and arbitration experience in a wide range of 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 cases numerous State and Federal Courts 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). 

Lisa DewBerry

B.A., University of San Francisco
J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law

Lisa DewBerry is an attorney licensed to practice by the State Bar of California.  She is a recognized criminal law specialist with twenty-five years experience representing adults and youths.  She is also a cofounder and CEO of Legal InCite, LLC, a California State Bar certified continuing legal education provider.  Legal InCite, LLC produced the ‘Legal InCite Talk Show”,  a weekly live broadcast, over CNET Radio in  San Francisco.  The Legal InCite Talk Show is the only continuing legal education program broadcast over commercial radio..

MANUEL L. DOBRINSKY

B.A., Vassar College
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law

EXPERIENCE:
1998-Present          
FREIDIN • Dobrinsky, P.A., Miami, Florida
Equity Partner, AV Rated
Represent individuals in medical malpractice, consumer fraud and personal injury cases
1994-1998              
FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE, Miami, Florida
Assistant Federal Public Defender
 Represent clients in all aspects of federal criminal litigation and appellate work including white collar, RICO, and conspiracy cases.  Tried over thirty trials to verdict, handled numerous evidentiary hearings, selected by Administrative Office to represent American citizens arrested and convicted in Panama regarding their transfer to the United States pursuant to the Prisoner Treaty between the United States and Panama.
1988-1994              
HOLLAND & KNIGHT, Miami, Florida
 Litigation associate with experience in a variety of areas including white collar criminal matters, civil RICO, trademark litigation, employment discrimination, divorce proceedings, and personal injury.  Selected as associate assigned to the Community Service Team and worked on numerous civil rights cases, including Rosewood, and large housing discrimination matters.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1997 - Present        
National Institute of Trial Advocacy Instructor, 1997, Nova Southeastern
 University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Instructed and evaluated lawyers in trial
techniques and skills.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
President  Miami Dade Justice Association; Ad Hoc Committee for Peer Review, United States,  District Court, Southern District of Florida                             Member Board of Directors, Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.

HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS
Million Dollar Advocate
Best Lawyers in America                        
Florida Legal Elite
Super Lawyers                        
                   

EDUCATION:

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, Charlottesville, Virginia
J.D., May 1988
VASSAR COLLEGE, Poughkeepsie, New York
 Bachelor of Arts, Biopsychology, 1985
Honors:  Tri Beta Biology Honors Society; Junior Class President.

LANGUAGE:  Fluent in Spanish   
.
PERSONAL:  Wife Annette T.  Dobrinsky  and daughters Renee and Alissa

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.

Mr. Douglas is a solo-practitioner in Centennial, Colorado.  His practice includes civil litigation in construction, products liability and insurance matters.  His NITA experience began in law school at the University of Notre Dame where he was taught trial advocacy using the NITA method by NITA’s then executive director, Jim Seckinger.

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

Daniel G. 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.

In 2004, The Business Journal recognized Dan as one of the “Best of the Bar – Litigation” as selected by his peers.  In 2007, Dan was selected for inclusion in the inaugural edition of “Southwest Super Lawyers”, a peer-evaluated publication recognizing individuals ranked in the top five percent of lawyers practicing in their state.  Also in 2007, Dan, Ron Cohen and Laura Kennedy were awarded 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.

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.  He is currently co-chair of the Solo and Small Firm Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation.  He served as co-chair of the Section’s Federal Practice Task Force from 2001 to 2005, responsible for monitoring and formulating the Section’s positions on significant proposed changes to the federal rules of civil procedure.  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 program faculty member.  Dan has lectured on a number of diverse litigation topics including: “The Impact of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1993 on Athletic Participation,” Arizona Athletic Trainers Association, 1994 Winter Meeting; “Bridge the Gap: Arizona Legal Skills (Motion Practice and Summary Judgment),” State Bar of Arizona, Continuing Legal Education, May 19, 1995; “The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege and The Rules of Professional Conduct for University Lawyers,” Arizona State University, March 26, 1997; and “Cross Examining the Expert Witness at Deposition and at Trial,” Lorman Education Services, May 16, 2000.  Dan has also served as a group discussion facilitator for the State Bar of Arizona Course on Professionalism (March 21, 2000) and as a Panelist for State Bar of Arizona Fee Arbitration Committee.  He is also active as a volunteer coach for numerous youth sports leagues and as a member of the Finance Committee and a major fundraiser for his children's school.

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 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.”

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

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.

Bob Dupuy is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball, a former Professor and Lecturer on Ethics at Cornell and Northwestern Law School, and in the past has been NITA faculty member for the National Session as well as NITA regional programs. Bob is a partner at the New York office of Foley & Lardner, LLP in the firm’s “Sports Industry Team.”

Paul H. Duvall

B.A., Cornell College
J.D., Northwestern University

Paul H. Duvall is a partner in the La Jolla office of the law firm of King & Ballow.  Mr. Duvall earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell College where he graduated cum laude.  Mr. Duvall received his law degree from Northwestern University where he was the Notes and Comments Editor for the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 

Mr. Duvall formerly served as law clerk to the Honorable Howard B. Turrentine, U.S. District Court in the Southern District of California.  He is a Faculty Member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and former President of the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program.  He is also co-author of Open Courts In California: A Reporter=s Handbook.

Mr. Duvall=s practice is concentrated in the areas of Business Litigation, Communications, and Employment Law.  Mr. Duvall is admitted to practice in California and Illinois and before the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Ninth Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.  He is a member of the San Diego County and American Bar Associations and The State Bar of California.

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.

WILLIAM X. ELWARD

Bill Elward is an Assistant Illinois Attorney General in Chicago where he 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 an adjunct professor 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. 
 
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 and he teaches frequently for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA).  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.

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.

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 Feibus

J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 1980
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, 1977

Susan has more than twenty years of significant civil and criminal trial and appellate experience in the state and federal courts. Additionally, she headed the litigation department for Sam Zell's now defunct "captive" law firm which was associated with the parent company for Zell's private corporate and real estate investments as well as his publicly traded REITs.  For many years, Susan has taught trial advocacy, pretrial litigation skills, and legal research and writing to college students, law students, and young lawyers.

Susan's litigation practice is focused in the areas of commercial, healthcare, and employment law with a particular emphasis on litigating commercial and employment disputes, representing healthcare providers in regulatory matters, and counseling employers. Her experience includes a broad range of civil and criminal trials and appeals.

Susan has tried many cases to verdict and written at least 75 civil and criminal appeals in the state and federal courts. These appeals, involving a wide range of issues, include several cases of first impression.
Admissions

Bibianne Fell,

Ms. Fell has substantial experience handling business litigation, employment disputes, and employment counseling matters.  She has also defended industry leaders in breach of contract and antitrust disputes.  Ms. Fell was twice named a Top Young Attorney by the San Diego Daily Transcript.  She has been teaching with NITA since 2008 and has been an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Diego since 2010.  She is actively involved in the legal community, having served on the Board of Directors for the New Lawyers Division of the San Diego County Bar Association and as the Vice-President of the Filipino American Lawyers of San Diego. 

Ms. Fell graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Diego, School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. During law school, Ms. Fell received the 2004 CALI Award for Excellence in Advanced Trial Advocacy and the Outstanding Oral Advocate Award.

Ms. Fell spent her early years in the commercial litigation department of a large law firm and now practices with a partner at Fleming & Fell PC.

Gaetano Ferro is a past president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a diplomate of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers, and a past chair of the Connecticut Bar Association's Family Law Section.

Mr. Ferro is one of Super Lawyers Magazine's top ten lawyers in Connecticut and one of its top one hundred lawyers in New England. He has been continuously listed in Naifeh and Smith, The Best Lawyers in America since 1989. He frequently appears in other listings of top lawyers including those in Worth Magazine, New York Magazine, Westchester Magazine, and Connecticut 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 sixty-five published articles on a wide variety of family law topics. Those articles have been published in the Connecticut Law Tribune, the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the Connecticut Bar Journal, the Connecticut Family Lawyer, and the Family Advocate.

Mr. Ferro has lectured or delivered more than seventy family law presentations to many different professional organizations including, most recently, the American Bar Association Family Law's Trial Advocacy Institute (Denver, 2009), the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers' annual meeting (Chicago, 2008), the Association of Divorce Financial Planners' 6th annual conference (New York City, 2008), the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers / the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' biennial conferences on divorce (Las Vegas, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002), and the Section of Family Law of the American Bar Association's Fall CLE conference (Memphis, 2007).

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

Anna Jett Fletcher
dagnyjd@yahoo.com

EDUCATION:   University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
                             J.D., May 2002
                           Honors and Activities:
• Dean's List (5 semesters)
• Street Law Volunteer Instructor (Spring 2002)
Communities In Schools Academy, Durham, NC
                         
     University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
        B.A. in Political Science, December 1998
        Honors and Activities:
• Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Fraternity
• Pi Sigma Alpha, Political Science Honor Fraternity
• Philip and Betsey Davis Scholarship

EXPERIENCE:   Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
   Campbell University, Raleigh, NC
   Adjunct Professor
Trial Advocacy, Spring 2010
Legal Research and Writing, Spring 2008 – Spring 2010
• Developed writing assignments and lectures
used by all sections of Spring 2009 Legal Writing course.
• Completed National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Teacher Training Course, January 2009.

National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Deposition Skills:  Southeast Regional Program, Raleigh, NC
Director, March 2010

National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Building Trial Skills:  Southeast Regional Program,
Chapel Hill, NC
Faculty Member, May 2010
Assistant Team Leader, May 2009
• As Assistant Team Leader:
o Led case theory session.
o Assisted Director in administration of program.

Huron Consulting Group, Morrisville, NC
   Contract Attorney (through Synergy Legal Professionals),
June – October 2007
June – August 2009
May 2010 – Present
   McDowell Technical Community College, Marion, NC
   Instructor, American Government, Fall Semester 2006

South College, Asheville, NC
   Instructor, Legal Research and Writing, Summer Quarter 2006
       
      Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office, Asheville, NC
        Assistant District Attorney, September 2003 – March 2006
      Certified Law Student, May – August 2001
      Victim/Witness Assistant, December 1998 – June 1999
Summer Intern, May – August: 1994 – 1998, May – August:  2000
• As Assistant District Attorney:  Prosecuted cases in Superior, District, and Juvenile Courts; tried 23 cases to juries; assisted in homicide trial preparation; and supervised District Court operations as Misdemeanor Chief.
• As a certified law student:  Prosecuted misdemeanor cases.
• As a summer intern:  Assisted in capital case trial preparation involving organizing evidence, managing discovery, assisting victims and witnesses, and serving as support for prosecutors in the courtroom throughout trial.
• As a victim/witness assistant:  Coordinated compliance with victims’ rights legislation, assisted victims with the pre-trial process, and wrote grant proposals.
    
     Heller Ehrman LLP, Los Angeles, CA                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
        Temporary Case Assistant, August 2002 – August 2003
• Assisted in civil litigation matters.  Focused primarily on trial preparation in the representation of a major software developer.

UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC
      Research Assistant, January – May 2001,
        August – September 2001
• Supervising Professor:  Dr. Buckner F. Melton
• Conducted research for Dr. Melton’s private publications.
• Created assignments for first-year legal research and writing course.
  
     Writing and Learning Resources Center
UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC

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

Carl E. Forsberg

B.A., Gonzaga University, magna cum laude, 1980
J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law, 1983

Mr. Forsberg is a shareholder at Forsberg & Umlauf, P.S. His litigation practice emphasizes insurance defense, bad faith and coverage issues for first and third party insurance. He also practices personal injury litigation, including seamen, longshore and harbor workers, and other general liability claims. Mr. Forsberg is a past President of the Northwest Environmental Claims Association and Northwest Insurance Coverage Association.  He is also a past co-chair and current member of the King County Bar Association, Judicial Screening Committee.

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.

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.

Marian Gaston

B.A., Emory University
J.D., University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Los Angeles

Office of the Public Defender, County of San Diego, Deputy Public Defender September 1996 to Present
Handle a caseload which includes primarily Sexually Violent Predator trials and petitions for the release of those previously deemed to be Sexually Violent Predators. 

National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Instructor
June 2003 to Present
Teach trial and deposition skills to lawyers with varying levels of litigation experience emphasizing learning by doing and practice followed by constructive criticism rather than classroom lecture. 

California Western School of Law, Adjunct Professor
Summer 2004 to Present
Teach trial skills classes which culminate in mock jury trials or mock trial competition utilizing an interactive teaching method with students, practicing various aspects of trial, making appropriate objections, and receiving constructive criticism. 

Intraoffice Training, Office of the Public Defender, County of San Diego
Regularly lecture on topics ranging from file management to various trial skills to Sexually Violent Predator cases.  Developed and implemented a six month training program for new lawyers which includes trial skills, time and calendar management, and substantive issues including domestic violence law, driving under the influence trials, and California evidence.   

California Public Defenders Association
December 2008, Palm Springs, California
Lecture on “Anticipating the Consequence of ‘Jessica’s Law’, Sexually Violent Predator Laws, and Other Punishments”

Leadership Against Sexual Offending
 June 2008, San Diego, California
Lecture on “Partnering for Success:  The Importance of Community  Collaboration”

State Bar of California
 January 2008; San Diego, California
Lecture on “The Sexually Violent Predator Law:  Current Situation and Future Directions”

California Public Defenders Association
December 2006, Palm Springs, California
Lecture on “Negotiation and Sentencing with Sex Offender Cases”

State Bar of California
October 2003; Anaheim, California
Lecture on “Conducting Effective Cross-Examination.” 

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?)

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-present

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.

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.

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)

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)

Andrew P. Gordon

Mr. Gordon is a partner in the Las Vegas office of the law firm 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 and Employment Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, and serves as a private arbitrator and mediator.

Mr. Gordon has served as Team Leader and faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) “Deposition Skills” programs in Phoenix (Faculty 2002 - 2004; Team Leader 2005 - 2008) and Las Vegas (Team Leader 2007, 2008). He has lectured on a variety of topics, including Federal Court Practice, Civil Discovery, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Construction Law.
Mr. Gordon was Chair of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' Lawyer Representative Coordinating Committee (2007), and served as one of seven Nevada Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Conference (2001-2007). 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 the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions of Best Lawyers in America and The Chambers USA Guide.

Mr. Gordon received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1984, and his J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1987. He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Nevada and Arizona.

Stacey F. Gottlieb

Stacey F. Gottlieb is of counsel in the Phoenix office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, focusing her practice on complex commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense.  Ms. Gottlieb’s white-collar practice includes defense of corporations and individuals against state and federal indictments, as well as in pre-indictment investigations and negotiations.  She has extensive experience in cases alleging securities violations, environmental crimes, conspiracy, money laundering, fraud, racketeering, and obstruction of justice.  Her diverse complex commercial litigation experience includes cases alleging corporate and individual liability arising from the business affairs of corporate officers and directors, brokers/dealers, accountants, and other financial professionals, as well as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary obligations, insurance bad faith, theft of trade secrets, and various other business torts. 

Ms. Gottlieb has first-chaired numerous jury trials and has argued cases before the Arizona Supreme Court and Arizona Court of Appeals. As a result of her extensive jury trial and courtroom experience, Ms. Gottlieb has served as a panelist or speaker at various seminars for professional organizations, the judiciary, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), and the Arizona State University College of Law. 

Ms. Gottlieb currently serves as a member of the State Bar of Arizona Criminal Rules Committee and as Chair of the American Bar Association Pretrial Practice & Discovery Website Development Subcommittee. She has previously served as a member of the Arizona Bar Foundation Board of Directors,  the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice Board of Governors, the Maricopa County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors, and as the Executive Council Secretary to the State Bar of Arizona Criminal Justice Section.  Additionally, Ms. Gottlieb has served as an appointed member of the State Bar of Arizona Criminal Jury Instructions Committee, the State Bar of Arizona Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct, Chair of the Maricopa County Bar Association Criminal Law CLE Committee, Chair of the Maricopa County Bar Association High School Teaching Committee, and a member of the Project Citizen Legislative Advisory Committee.

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

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

Judge Christina M. Habas was appointed to the Denver District Court in December, 2003 and is currently assigned to the Civil Division. She graduated from the University of Denver College of Law in 1982, and while in private practice, she represented various governmental entities, members of the law enforcement community, and also did significant work in employment law, civil rights law, insurance and personal injury.  She is a member of the American Board of Trial Advoca