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O2_2011-01_Winter Seminar - Discovery & Evidence

Speakers & Topics 7:30   Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:25   Introduction & Welcome:  Graden Hahn, Helena 8:30   Discovery Strategy in a Product Liability Case     Monte D. Beck, Bozeman  9:30   Discovery in Insurance Bad Faith Cases     Kurt M. Jackson, Great Falls  10:30   BREAK  10:45   Reclaiming Computer Data     Michael J. Mayott, Billings 11:45   LUNCH (on your own) 1:15   Legislative Update     James P. Carey,
Helena
2:00   How to Write, Edit and Review Persuasive Briefs:
Seven Guidelines From One Judge and Two Lawyers
    Leonard J. Feldman, Seattle, WA 3:00   BREAK 3:15   How to Write, Edit and Review Persuasive Briefs (continued)     Leonard J. Feldman, Seattle, WA 3:45   Identifying and Excluding Prejudicial Evidence     Randy K. Dix, Helena 4:45   SEMINAR ADJOURNS     Speaker Bios back to top
Monte D. Beck graduated from the University of Montana School of Law in 1979. He served as a law clerk for the late U.S. District Court Judge Paul Hatfield in Great Falls until 1981. He opened his law practice in January 1982, in Bozeman, Montana. Since that time, he has been an active trial lawyer specializing in civil litigation, primarily representing individuals in personal injury, medical negligence, product liability, environmental and toxic torts, insurance and employment related claims. Recent verdicts and settlements include an $8.2 million wrongful death verdict against a retread tire manufacturer, a $1.2 million medical malpractice verdict involving the wrongful death of a 16 year old, a $2.2 million sexual assault verdict against a Kalispell businessman and a $25 million environmental tort settlement in Colstrip, Montana. He is a partner at Beck & Amsden, a five lawyer firm in Bozeman, Montana. Monte is a past president of MTLA and was honored with its Trial Lawyer of the Year Award in 1991. He has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America in personal injury litigation. He is past president of the Montana Chapter of ABOTA for the years 2001-2003.
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Randy K. Dix is a partner in the plaintiff’s law firm Dix, Hunt and McDonald. He practices exclusively in the areas of medical negligence and catastrophic injury cases. Randy has been a member of the Montana Bar since 1980, when he was admitted by motion because then Chief Justice Frank Haswell believed in the humane concept of full reciprocity. He graduated from law school in 1977 in Washington, D.C. where he was engaged in federal trial practice for 3 years. Randy serves as a mediator for select complex medical negligence cases for select defense counsel, primarily so he can understand their MO’s when they attempt to pay his clients less than fair value in his mediations. He has presented at several MTLA seminars on topics ranging from trial tips to mediation strategies to insurance bad faith issues. His presentation will focus on effective pretrial identification and exclusion of excessively prejudicial evidence in tort cases, with particular emphasis on exclusion of remote evidence of prior substance abuse.

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Leonard J. Feldman is a partner in the litigation group at Stoel Rives LLP, where he is chair of the firm’s appellate practice group.  From 1991-92, he served as a judicial clerk for Ninth Circuit Judge Jerome Farris.  Currently, his practice focuses on appellate work and complex commercial litigation with a strong emphasis on Ninth Circuit appeals.  Mr. Feldman is also a District Coordinator for the Ninth Circuit Pro Bono Program and is the Pro Bono Coordinator for Division One of the Washington Court of Appeals. Leonard is also a lecturer and teaches a course on appellate practice at the University of Washington School of Law, and is a Past Chair of the King County Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee.

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Kurt M. Jackson earned his law degree from Gonzaga University School of Law and was admitted to the Montana Bar in 1981. He has practiced with the Great Falls firm of Hoyt and Blewett for over 25 years and has been instrumental in several trials which resulted in verdicts in excess of $1 million. In 2003 Mr. Jackson earned Montana Trial Lawyer Association’s Trial Lawyer of the Year award. Kurt focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death and complex damage cases including automobile accidents, medical negligence/malpractice, product liability, railroad law and insurance bad faith. He serves on MTLA’s Board of Directors as a State Delegate to the American Association for Justice. Mr. Jackson is listed in Best Lawyers in America and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, District of Montana and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Jackson is a native of Montana and was born in Scobey.

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Michael J. Mayott is a retired Internal Revenue Service computer investigative specialist with a Top Secret security clearance. Mr. Mayott has 15 years of experience teaching and developing courses on computer forensics in Montana, Georgia, Utah and Ottawa, Ontario. His expertise includes computer forensic examinations, computer investigations and criminal financial investigations. He served on the Montana Cyber Crimes Task Force. Mayott worked for the IRS for 22 years, and before his post in Billings he worked for the department in Portland, Oregon. Mike earned his bachelor of science degree in accounting in 1986 from State University of New York - Fredonia. He serves as a parish life coordinator for the Billings Cluster of Catholic Churches.

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Jamie Carey obtained his undergraduate degree in history from Loyola University of Chicago, and his law degree from the University of Montana. Following a clerkship with Montana Supreme Court Justice William E. Hunt, Jamie joined the Helena law firm of Thueson & Lamb as an associate in 1997. He currently practices with Mike Lamb and Graden Hahn in the law firm of Lamb & Carey. Jamie lives in Helena with his wife Lori and daughters Caroline and Eliza.

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