2012
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
2012 Trial Themes
January
Law Office Technology
• Keep law office data secure
• Watch your online reputation
• Pros and cons of cloud computing
• Bridging the technology generation gap
• Staying on top of the e-discovery process
Submissions due: 9/15/11
February
Transportation
• Dealing with misperceptions in rear-impact collisions
• Common challenges in cruise ship cases
• The nuts and bolts of a dram shop case
• Fighting preemption in design defect claims
• The ins and outs of a bicycle case
Submissions due: 10/15/11
March
Countdown to Trial
• How to build a healthy client relationship
• Focus groups: an essential trial preparation tool
• Avoiding deposition disasters
• The paralegal’s pretrial role
Submissions due: 11/15/11
April
Damages
• What to look for in jury selection
• Reduce liens to maximize recovery
• Elements of a compelling settlement brochure
• Coping with caps on damages
• Making your damages case to the insurance adjuster
Submissions due: 12/15/11
May
Medical Negligence
• Induced-labor birth injuries
• Using clinical trials to your advantage
• Failure to diagnose breast cancer: the lost chance at life
• Fight the reasonable explanation defense (in misdiagnosis cases)
• Liability of nurse practitioners
Submissions due: 1/15/12
June
Drugs and Devices
• Using the FDA's stepped-up enforcement actions in court
• The growing problem of off-label drug use
• How the FDA's 510(k) system fails consumers
• An update on Zimmer knee implant litigation
• Generic drug litigation after Mensing
Submissions due: 2/15/12
July
Ethics and Professionalism
• E-mail and attorney ethics: what you need to know
• Resources to help answer your most pressing ethics questions
• How trial lawyers are giving back and building their professional reputations
• Professionalism and your online presence
Submissions due: 3/15/12
August
Recreational Torts
• Cruise ship liability
• Beat the assumption-of-the-risk defense
• Inadequate security: Finding evidence of prior incidents
• When your client was injured abroad (jurisdiction issues)
• Defeat that liability release
Submissions due: 4/15/12
September
Science and the Law
• The battle over junk science
• Presenting scientific evidence to juries
• Understanding clinical testing/misuse of clinical trials
• Lies, damn lies, and statistics
• Is that medical literature reliable?
Submissions due: 5/15/12
October
Representing the Elderly
• Fighting fraud on the elderly
• Discovery abuse in nursing home cases
• Family feuds: Protecting your client's interests
• Fighting arbitration clauses in nursing home cases
• End-of-life decision-making
Submissions due: 6/15/12
November
Products Liability
• Daubert-proofing your experts
• Is our food safe?
• What the new cell phone science means for litigation
• Getting the foreign manufacturer to court
• The future of asbestos litigation
Submissions due: 7/15/12
December
Battling Tort 'Reform'
• In the trenches: a state legislative roundup
• Overcoming jurors' antiplaintiff bias
• Spreading the pro-civil-justice message in your community/legislature
• Why we need a strong civil justice system
• The medical error epidemic
Submissions due: 8/15/12
