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You can save tens of thousands of dollars in fees for clients by prevailing in discovery. Over 99% of cases today resolve before ever reaching a jury, which makes discovery more important than ever. Successful counsel must carefully consider discovery strategies and techniques to ensure compliance with the latest state and federal rules, while determining how to locate key pieces of evidence. We'll cover specific strategies and solutions, including formulating discovery plans, successful arguments relating to motions to compel and motions for protective orders. The speakers for this program include two leading trial attorneys and one of the country's most distinguished professors of advocacy and skills training. Our distinguished seminar faculty will also cover how to find critical pieces of evidence against exclusion. Registration includes access to complete course and reference materials to outline and diagram the discussed best arguments, practices, and techniques. Register today to learn the most effective plans on Drafting and Responding to Interrogatories, Requests for Production, and Admissions.

Agenda:

1. Drafting and Responding to Interrogatories, Requests for Production, and Admissions:

a. Best Practices on Formulating a Discovery Plan

b. Successfully Limiting the Scope of Discovery

c. Overlooked Permissible Discovery Tools

d. Formulating Expert Witness interrogatories and Request for Production

e. Propounding The Right Kind of Written Discovery

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

2. Effective Tools In Attacking and Defending Discovery Requests:

a. Avoiding the Pitfalls of Objections and Motions to Strike

b. Best Practices on Offers of Proof

c. Removing the Nuisances of Limited Admissibility

d. Making the Best Use of Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs

3. Responding to Discovery, Compelling Discovery, Protective Orders, and Court Ordered Discovery:

a. Overview of the Discovery Rules

b. Handling Privileges to Benefit You While Complying with the Rules

c. Practice Pointers on Responding to Discovery

d. Effective Objections

e. Mandatory Disclosures

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

g. Winning at Discovery Disputes

h. Responding to Opposition Requests

4. Recorded Question and Answer Session

Biography of Seminar Faculty:

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. Phillip Barber practices at Richard A. Harpootlian P.A., where he focuses on complex civil litigation, whistleblower and false claims cases, class actions, civil rights litigation, business disputes, antitrust, and personal injury cases. Mr. Barber is a graduate of Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Mr. Barber received his J.D. and LL.M. from the Duke University School of Law He previously served as a judicial law clerk on the U.S. District Court and also practiced at a large international law firm.

3. Paul J. Zwier II is a Professor of Law at Emory University Law School, where he is one of the nation's most distinguished professors of advocacy and skills training. As director of the advocacy skills program, director of Emory’s program for international advocacy and dispute resolution, and a professor of law, Prof. Zwier comes to Emory from the University of Tennessee Law School. At UT he was professor of law and director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. He is the former director of public education for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and has taught and designed public and in-house skills programs in trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, advocacy in mediation, motion practice, negotiations, legal strategy, e-discovery, supervisory and leadership skills, and expert testimony at deposition and trial for more than 20 years. Prof. Zwier is the author of numerous books and articles, including Principled Negotiation on an International Stage: Talking with Evil, Cambridge University Press; History, Creative Imagination, and Forgiveness in Mediation on an International Stage: Practical Lessons from Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics, Journal of Law and Religion; Moving From an Inquisitorial to an Oral Adversarial System in Mexico: Jurisprudential, Criminal Procedure, Evidence Law and Trial Advocacy Implications (with Alexander Barney); Torts: Cases, Problems, and Exercises 4th ed. (LexisNexis) (with Weaver, Bauman, Cross, Klein, Martin); Mastering Torts (North Carolina Press); Fact Investigation: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Counseling, and Case Theory Development, (with Bocchino) (NITA);Supervisory and Leadership Skills in the Modern Law Practice (NITA); Legal Strategy (NITA); Effective Expert Testimony, 3d. (NITA) (with Malone); Advanced Negotiation and Mediation Theory and Practice (2d.) (with Guernsey) (NITA); Looking to 'Ground Motive' for a Religious Foundation for Law, 54 Emory Law Journal 357; and The Utility of a Nonconsequentialist Rationale for Civil-Jury-Awarded Punitive Damages, 54 Kansas Law Review 403. He has made professional presentations and consulted with dozens of law firms and other organizations. In addition to torts, Prof. Zwier teaches evidence, advanced trial advocacy, and an advanced negotiation seminar.

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