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11:am | Virtual Platform Opens |
11:30am - 11:45am | Welcome & General Business Meeting |
11:45am - 1:15pm |
2020 Year in Review Worried you may have missed an important new precedent? In your own practice area or another important to defense work? The ADC has you covered, with this review of key legal developments. Top attorneys Michael Brady, Don Willenburg and Jill Lifter will lead the presentation – with a little help from our special guests! Be there to see and learn. (MCLE - 1.5 hours general credit) |
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Michael Brady Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley ADR Services |
Don Willenburg |
Jill Lifter Ryan & Lifter |
1:15pm - 1:30pm | Break |
1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Arguing Non-Economic Damages A lively theatrical presentation by Randy Andrada, Chris Beeman, and Cynthia McGuinn. "Judge" Andrada presides over closing arguments by Beeman and McGuinn. (MCLE - 1.0 hour general credit) |
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Randall Andrada Andrada & Associates |
Christopher Beeman Clapp Moroney Vucinich Beeman Scheley |
Cynthia McGuinn Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn |
1:30pm - 2:30pm | The ADC Confessional - Coverage Disasters I Have Known The world of insurance coverage is sometimes unpredictable. In this presentation, you will hear two practicing coverage attorneys describe their experience with the good -- and the bad -- that can come from insurance coverage litigation. (MCLE - 1.0 hour general credit) |
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Mark Bonino Hayes, Scott, Bonino, Ellingson, Guslani |
Maria Quintero Hinshaw & Culbertson |
2:30pm - 2:45pm | Break |
2:45pm - 3:45pm | Police and the Use of Force in 2020 (Part 1) Never has one year provided so much focus on the role of police in our society. Our panel of 4 experienced attorneys, including one current and two former peace officers, analyze the legal issues which confronted law enforcement and our society in 2020. (MCLE - 1.0 hour general credit) |
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Moderator: David Levy Law Office of David Levy |
James Arendt Weakley & Arendt |
Edward Obayashi Plumas County Sheriff's Office |
Michael Rains Rains Lucia Stern, PC |
2:45pm - 3:45pm |
Achieving the Work/Life Balance |
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Dr. Patricia Bay | Click Here for Info on Dr. Bay's Books |
2:45pm - 3:45pm | There's an Employee Complaint! Do We Investigate? What managing partners, business owners, and counsel for employers need to know about workplace complaints and the duty to invesigate. This presentation will walk attendees through a variety of common employee complaints, with a focus on determining whether an investigation is required by law or otherwise warranted in each situation, and if so, what a prompt, thorough, and effective investigation looks like. Finally, this presentation will address how to efficiently conclude the investigation process and get back to focusing on business. (MCLE - 1.0 hour general credit) |
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Christina Bucci Hamilton Duggan McHugh |
3:45pm - 4:00pm | Break |
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Police and the Use of Force in 2020 (Part 2) See 2:45pm session for details. (MCLE - 1.0 hour general credit) |
4:00pm - 5:00pm | COVID Update - Current Status and Where We Go From Here Dr. Michele Carbone, MD, PhD, a professor of pathology and the Director of Thoracic Oncology at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, will bring us up-to-date on the latest developments surrounding COVID-19, including what we have learned about a vaccine, treatment, and contraction of the disease. |
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Dr. Michele Carbone |
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Equitable Subrogation RE-Revisited Kim Arnal and Jill Lifter will provide the latest on equitable subrogation issues, moderated by Wakako Uritani.(MCLE - 1.0 hour general credit) |
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Jill Lifter |
Kimberly Arnal The Aguilera Law Group |
Wakako Uritani Lorber, Greenfield & Polito |
5:00pm - 5:30pm | Cocktail Party/Trivia Contest Who will be declared the "smartest" ADC member? |
8:00am | Virtual Platform Opens |
8:15am - 9:15am | Women's Section Meeting Breakfast meeting for ADC's women's section. |
9:30am - 10:30am | Young Attorneys' Meet & Greet Breakfast meeting for ADC's young lawyers. |
11:30am - 12:00pm | Day Two Welcome with New ADC President, Chris Johnson |
Christopher Johnson Morgenstern Law Group |
12:00pm - 12:30pm | Keynote Address Don't miss Judge Janice Rogers Brown's keynote address, when she will share her inspiring views on "Making a Living or Making a Life." Judge Janice Rogers Brown, former United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (ret. 2017), former Associate Justice of the Third District Court of Appeal, and former Associate Justice on the California Supreme Court. Judge Brown, who grew up in rural Alabama and attended college in California during the turbulent 1960’s, is known as an expert on constitutional law and judicial restraint. During her 23 years as a judge, her rulings were not easily pigeonholed, and her passionately written dissents are well-known. |
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Hon. Janice Rogers Brown (Ret.) United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (2005-2017) Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1996-2005) |
12:30pm - 12:45pm | Break |
12:45pm - 1:30pm | Legislative Update In addition to providing great education, your ADC membership gives you and your clients a voice in government. Other than the plaintiff personal injury bar, the only other attorney group that has a voice in Sacramento is the ADC. Among other things, the ADC provides input into proposed Code of Civil Procedure changes as well as jury instructions. California Defense Counsel Legislative Advocate, Mike Belote, will present an interesting review of legislation impacting defense practice in California. Mike will bring you up-to-date on what has happened over the past year and what may surprise us in 2021. (MCLE - 0.75 hours general credit) |
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Michael D. Belote California Advocates, Inc. |
1:30pm - 1:45pm | Break |
1:45pm - 3:15pm |
Civility Matters |
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Hon. Angela Bradstreet San Francisco Superior Court |
Wilma Gray McNamara Ney Beatty Slattery Borges & Ambacher |
Niall McCarthy Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP |
Moderator: Dominique Pollara Pollara Law Group |
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This Annual Meeting has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bars of California and Nevada. The total available credit is 6.75 hours, including 1.5 hour specialty credits sufficient to satisfy the California Triennial Specialty Credit Requirement for 1.5 hours of legal ethics and 1 hour specialty credits sufficient to satisfy the California Triennial Specialty Credit Requirement for 1 hours of competence issues.