Medical Malpractice (2012)

This practical seminar provides an overview of the key issues in medical malpractice litigation through a combination of lectures and practical demonstrations. Learn how to determine the relevant standard of care, how to prepare your case, how to avoid common pitfalls and how to examine expert witnesses.

Faculty members examine critical skills involved in analyzing medical records, fact gathering, defense strategies, finding and making effective use of experts, proving the standard of care and preparation and cross-examining of physician defendants and experts.

Panelists take you step-by-step through the trial and offer invaluable insight on pre-suit activities, discovery, and depositions. Opening statements, closing arguments and trial strategies involved in medical malpractice cases are also discussed. In addition, you will receive an update on hot topics in the substantive law, as well as a “View from the Bench” relative to medical malpractice trials.

This seminar is filled with valuable tips and useful information.

Program Contents

• Developments in the Substantive Law

• Discovery (By Defendant of Plaintiff)

• Discovery (By Plaintiff of Defendant)

• Deposition and Trial Examination of the Defendant

• Cross of Expert

• Openings and Summations

• View from the Bench

Program Speakers

William D. Yoquinto, Esq.(Chair)
Carter, Conboy, Case, Blackmore, Maloney & Laird, P.C.
Albany

Adam H. Cooper, Esq.
Carter, Conboy, Case, Blackmore, Maloney & Laird, P.C.
Albany

Hon. Mae A. D-Agostino
U. S. District Court Judge
Northern District of New York
Albany

Timothy J. Higgins, Esq.
Lemire Johnson, LLC
Malta

Nancy E. May-Skinner, Esq.
Fager & Amsler LLP
Latham

Daniel R. Santola, Esq.
Powers & Santola, LLP
Albany

David J. Taffany, Esq.
Anderson, Moschetti & Taffany, PLLC
Latham

Total MCLE Credits 7.0
Ethics MCLE Credits 0.0

This archived webcast is a video online program that you will view and listen to on your computer screen.

Total Credits: 7.00 | Skills: 3.00, Areas of Professional Practice: 4.00