Learn the latest on Secrets of Pre-Trial Motions, Interrogatories, Document Requests, and Admissions with this convenient, 24/7 On-demand Seminar and Complimentary Podcast. Register to obtain CLE and MCLE credit, online access to complete course and reference materials, and attend this on-demand seminar. YOU MAY LISTEN FROM ALMOST ANY TYPE OF COMPUTER OR IPOD. ACCESS TO THE RECORDING AND MATERIALS DOES NOT EXPIRE.

Benefits:

From the evolving substantive law to practical aspects of Drafting and Arguing Winning Motions, Interrogatories, Document Requests, and Admissions CLE, this program will cover pre-trial discovery and advocacy to better develop your case, evidence, facts, pleadings, motions, and negotiation. Successful counsel must carefully consider discovery strategies and techniques to ensure compliance with state and federal rules, while eliciting and protecting the evidence needed to prevail. We will cover specific solutions, including formulating discovery plans, successful arguments relating to motions to compel and motions for protective orders. Our distinguished seminar faculty will also cover how to protect critical pieces of evidence against exclusion. The speakers for this seminar include one of the nation's leading trial attorneys and a distinguished professor of trial advocacy. Registration includes access to complete course and reference materials to outline and diagram the discussed best arguments, practices, and techniques.

Agenda:

Drafting and Arguing Winning Motions, Interrogatories, Document Requests, and Admissions CLE:

a. Successfully Arguing and Drafting Pre-trial Motions

b. Overlooked Permissible Discovery Tools

c. Formulating Expert Witness Interrogatories and Request for Production

d. Propounding The Right Kind of Written Discovery

e. Structuring Requests for Disclosure, Production, Admissions, and Interrogatories

f. Avoiding the Pitfalls of Objections and Motions to Strike

g. Effective Objections and Disclosures

h. Effective Approaches to Motions to Compel and Motions for Protective Orders

i. Winning at Discovery Disputes

j. Responding to Opposition Requests

k. Strategies for Fact Development and Investigation

Interactive Question and Answer Session

Biography of Seminar Faculty:

1. Reuben Guttman is a founding member of Guttman, Buschner and Brooks PLLC. 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 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. The International Business Times has called Mr. Guttman “one of the world’s most prominent whistleblower attorneys.” He has served as counsel in some of the largest recoveries under the False Claims Act. 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. 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, Accounting Today, and the Jerusalem Post. 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 School of Law, where he has been appointed as 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 the school's Trial Techniques Program.

2. J.C. Lore III is a Distinguished Clinical Professor and Director of Trial Advocacy at Rutgers Law School. He is the co-author of Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis and Practice, one of the country’s leading books on trial advocacy. Prof. Lore has won numerous teaching awards, including professor of the year and the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He teaches for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and trains law students and attorneys nationally and internationally. Prof. Lore has trained attorneys throughout the country and internationally. Professor Lore's commitment to teaching was recognized by Rutgers when he was awarded the 2012 Chancellor's Award for Civic Engagement, the Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, and Lawyering Professor of the Year. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2006, Professor Lore served on the faculty at Villanova University School of Law and Northwestern University School of Law. Throughout his career, Prof. Lore has litigated hundreds of trials and motions before a wide variety of courts and administrative agencies. He holds a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.



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Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission for 1.5 MCLE credits

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New Hampshire for 1.5 CLE credits ****

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