Bridging the Gap – Litigation | March 2024

Topics to be Included:

• An Introduction to Venue Decisions: State Court, Commercial Division, Federal Court, or Arbitration
• What New Lawyers Need to Know about Trials: “Second Chairing” Your First Trial
• Motion Practice including Motions to Dismiss, Judgment on the Pleadings, and Summary Judgment Motions
• Navigating Disclosure and Discovery
• Expert Discovery in State and Federal Court
• Injunctive Relief: Temporary Restraining Orders, Preliminary and Permanent Injunctions and Orders to Show Cause | Key Skills in Drafting
• Cybersecurity | Ethics and Data Privacy
• Artificial Intelligence | What Lawyers Need to Know
• Key Skills in Drafting Pleadings | What New Lawyers Need to Know
• Civil Appeals and Argument or Mediation 101
• Ethics for Litigators | Pitfalls to Practice

Speakers

Charles J. Moxley, Jr., Arbitrator, FCIArb; Mediator, IMI Certified, AAA Master Mediator Panel CEDR Accredited Mediator Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School Distinguished ADR Practitioner in Residence, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY

Justice Elizabeth Hazlitt Emerson (Ret.), Former Judge, Commercial Division Suffolk County

Frank Raimond, Raimond & Staines, New York, NY

Jonathan D. Lupkin, Lupkin PLLC, New York, NY

Michael B. Smith, Lupkin PLLC, New York, NY

Maryann Stallone, Partner, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, New York, NY

Steven Paradise, Partner, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, New York, NY

Ignatius Grande, Director, Berkeley Research Group, LLC (BRG), New York, NY

Melissa Yang, Founder, Melissa Yang PLLC, New York NY

Nathaniel Marmon, Partner, Baughman Kroup Bosse PLLC, New York, NY

Mark Gottlieb, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, CVA, CBA, MST, Credentialed Business Valuation Expert & Forensic Accountant, MSG, New York, NY

Ross J. Kartez, Partner, Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., Uniondale, NY

Hon. Ronald J. Hedges, Former United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Principal, Ronald J. Hedges LLC

Marissa J. Moran, J.D., Professor, Department of Law & Paralegal Studies, CUNY – New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY

Thomas A. Telesca, Partner, Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., Uniondale, NY

Harold Coleman, Jr., Senior Vice President, American Arbitration Association, New York, NY

Stephen Andersen, Division Vice President, American Arbitration Association, New York, NY

Vincent J. Syracuse, Partner, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, New York, NY

Carl Regelmann, Partner, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, New York, NY