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2008 MTLA Convention
August 7 - 8, 2008
KwaTaqNuk Resort, Polson, MT

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11.5 CLE Credits
Speaker Bios

 

Thursday, August 7, 2008

7:15

Registration & Continental Breakfast

 

 

7:45

Welcome
Joe R. Bottomly, Convention Co-Chair

   

8:00

Proving Credit Damages
Ann L. Moderie, Polson

   

8:30

The Care and Feeding of Your Expert Witness: How to Bullet Proof Your Own Expert and Keep Them From Getting Skewered by the Other Side: Part Deux
Thomas M. Ryan, Phoenix, AZ

   

9:15

Finding the Achilles Heel: Ordinary Ways of Getting Extraordinary Results From the Other Side’s Expert Witness: Part Deux
Thomas M. Ryan, Phoenix, AZ

   

10:00

BREAK

   

10:15

Environmental Torts and Damages
Mark M. Kovacich and J. David Slovak, Great Falls

   

11:00

EEOC 101: Investigation, Conciliation, and Litigation
Molly Küçük, Seattle, WA

   

11:45

Civil Rights Employment Claims: The Interplay Between State and Federal Nondiscrimination Rights, Remedies and Procedures
Timothy C. Kelly, Emigrant

   

12:15

Luncheon Guest Speaker
Hon. Brian Schweitzer, Governor of Montana

   

1:30

Underlying Principles that Motivate Jurors to Give
Frank Costilla, Brownsville, TX

   

2:45

BREAK

   

3:00

ERISA Discretionary Clauses
James G. Hunt, Helena

   
3:30 Advocating for Climate Defense
Prof. Mary Christina Wood,
University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR
   

4:15

Montana Case Law Update: July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008
Hon. Justice Patricia O’Brien Cotter Montana Supreme Court, Helena

   

5:15

Refreshments on KTN Patio

6:15

Depart KTN for Dinner

6:30

Cocktails/Awards Dinner

 

Boettcher Park - Flathead Lake

9:00

Awards Dinner Concludes

   
  Friday, August 8, 2008
   

7:15

Continental Breakfast

7:45

Welcome Amy Poehling Eddy, Convention Co-Chair

   

8:00

Montana Insurance Law Update:July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008
Prof. Gregory S. Munro, University of Montana School of Law, Missoula

   

8:45

Avoiding Defects in the Design and Manufacture of Your Product Liability Case
Randy Bishop, Billings

   

9:30

Coordinating Insurance Policies
Michael E. Wheat, Bozeman

   

10:15

BREAK

   

10:30

Consumer Protection Initiatives
Hon. Mike McGrath Montana Attorney General, Helena

   

11:00

Allstate - Good Hands to Boxing Gloves?
David J. Berardinelli, Sante Fe, NM

   

12:30

Annual Membership Luncheon
President Michael P. Sand Presiding

   

1:30

Program Concludes

   
 

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