Trial Lawyers Section Virtual Summer 2021 Meeting
This program will include presentations on how the courts have managed their dockets since the onset of COVID, maintaining confidentiality in a Post-COVID World, the implications of the newly adopted Commercial Court Rules, the increasing influence of FRCP 30(b)(6) on state court depositions, and the impact of the 91st Street crane collapse on wrongful death suits and settlements.
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- August 12, 2021
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New York State Bar Association
The Trial Lawyers Section
Virtual Summer Meeting
Thursday, August 12, 2021
1:00pm – 4:00pm EDT
3.0 MCLE Credits | 2.0 Areas of Professional Practice | 1.0 Skills
This program is transitional and is suitable for all attorneys including those
newly admitted.
1:00pm – 1:10pm Welcome & Introductions
Speaker:
William S. Friedlander, Esq. Chair, Trial Lawyers Section, Friedlander & Mosher P.C.
Ithaca, New York
Program Moderator:
William S. Friedlander, Esq. Chair, Trial Lawyers Section, Friedlander & Mosher P.C.
Ithaca, New York
1:10pm – 1:35pm Trial Advocacy: ADR Post COVID
Speaker:
T. Andrew Brown, Esq.
President, New York State Bar Association, Brown Hutchinson LLP
Rochester, New York
0.5 MCLE Credit Skills
1:35pm – 2:00pm Maintaining Confidentiality in a Post COVID World
Discussion of the practical and technological issues attorneys need to be aware of to protect confidences and comply with rule 1.6 when working remotely.
Speaker:
Andrea Bonina, Esq., Bonina & Bonina, P.C.
Brooklyn, New York
0.5 MCLE Credit Ethics
2:00pm – 2:25pm FRCP 30(b)(6) and its use in NYS State Litigation
How the newly adopted Commercial Court Rules for civil actions will provide for a state version of the FRCP 30(b)(6) deposition and how its use will change discovery.
Speaker:
Mark Kosieradzki, Esq., Kosieradzki Smith Law Firm, LLC
Plymouth, Minnesota
0.5 MCLE Credit Areas of Professional Practice
2:25pm – 2:35pm Break
2:35pm – 3:30pm Virtual Court Proceedings: A Conversation Between the Bench and Bar
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the court system in New York has had to reimagine how the courts could continue to serve the public. There was an immediate transition to virtual proceedings in a variety of contexts. Now that we are thankfully transitioning out of the health emergency, we take this opportunity to discuss what worked and what the pitfalls were. In addition, we will discuss whether the future of court proceedings has been permanently transformed with the advent of virtual court proceedings.
Speakers:
Hon. J. Judith Gische, Associate Justice, Appellate Division, First Department
New York, New York
A. Michael Furman, Esq., Furman Kornfeld & Brennan LLP
New York, New York
1.0 MCLE Credit Areas of Professional Practice
3:30pm – 3:55pm Current Wrongful Death Settlements Post In Re: 91st St. Crane Collapse
A brief discussion about wrongful death and how settlements, based on conscious pain and suffering damages, fear of impending death and punitive damages in New York, have changed since In Re: 91st St. Crane Collapse.
Speaker:
Marc Pillinger, Esq, Pillinger, Pillinger Miller Tarallo, LLP
Elmsford, New York
0.5 MCLE Credit Areas Professional Practice
3:55pm – 4:00pm Q&A
Closing Remarks
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Virtual Mixology Networking Event
Trial Lawyers Section Officers:
William S. Friedlander, Esq., Chair, Friedlander & Mosher P.C., Ithaca, New York
Daniel G. Ecker, Esq., Vice Chair, Lever & Ecker, PLLC, White Plains, New York
Christian J. Soller, Esq., Secretary, Hodgson Russ LLP, Albany, New York
Angélicque M. Moreno, Esq.,Treasurer, Avanzino & Moreno, Brooklyn, New York
- William S, Friedlander, Esq., Moderator, Chair, NYSBA Trial Lawyers Section
- T. Andrew Brown, Esq., Speaker, President, New York State Bar Association
- Andrea Bonina, Esq., Speaker, Bonina & Bonina, P.C.
- Marc H. Pillinger, Esq., Speaker, Pillinger Miller Tarallo, LLP
- Hon. Judith J. Gische, Speaker, Associate Justice, Appellate Division, First Department
- Mark R. Kosieradzki, Esq., Speaker, Kosieradzki Smith Law Firm LLC
- A. Michael Furman, Esq., Speaker, Furman Kornfeld & Brennan LLP
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