TIME

TOPIC

SPEAKER

7:45 am

Registration and Breakfast

8:20 - 8:30 am

Welcome & Introductions

Prof. Dane Ciolino,

LADC Associate Executive Director

8:30 - 9:30 am

Current Strategies for Defending TBI Claims

Donald Armand, Jr., Pettiette, Armand, Dunkelman, Woodley, Byrd and Cromwell, L.L.P. 

Bobby Gilliam, Wilkinson, Carmody & Gilliam

Gerald M. Johnson, Jr., Lunn Irion Law Firm, LLC

9:30 - 10:30 am

Maintaining Professionalism in an Uncertain World

Judge Frances Pitman, Second Cir. Ct. of Appeal and

Judge Mike Pitman, First Judicial District Court

10:30 - 11:45 am

Developments in Federal Procedure and Other Recent Federal Litigation Issues in the Western District

USDC Western District of Louisiana

Chief Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr.

Mag. Judge Mark L. Hornsby

Mag. Judge Kayla D. McClusky

Judge Terry A. Doughty

Judge James D. Cain

11:45 am -12:45 pm

LUNCH

12:45 - 1:45 pm

Practice Group Updates

Dan Lund, Phelps Dunbar, Construction & Commercial Litigation (Practice Group Chair)

 Lori Barker, Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP, Insurance Law (Practice Group Chair)

1:45 - 2:45 pm

Recent Developments in Louisiana Civil Procedure and Tort Law

Erica Durr, Sedgwick CMS

Allison Johnson, Gold Weems Bruser Sues & Rundell

Gemma Zuniga, Thomas, Soileau, Jackson & Cole, L.L.P.

2:45 - 3:00 pm

Break

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Effective Strategies and Techniques in Mediation

Steven D. Crews, Upstate Mediation

Theodore J. Casten, Casten and Pearce APLC

M. Shane Craighead, Davenport, Files & Kelly

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Recent Developments in Legal Ethics

Prof. Dane Ciolino,

LADC Associate Executive Director

Clare S. Roubion 

Louisiana Legal Ethics, LLC