2019 MAY SEMINARThursday, May 9 – Friday, May 10, 2019

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Thursday, May 9th, 20197:00 am – 8:00 am Registration – Doors Open

8:00am – 8:15 am Welcome/Opening Remarks – Ari Johnson

8:15 am – 8:45 am HOT SHOTS1. Lindsay Wilz – Medicare v. Medicaid:

Navigating the Payer of Last Resort2. Amanda Corey – That’s not how this works…that’s not how any

of this works: Excluding Evidence of Economic Loss Based Upon North Dakota’s “Secured Person Exemption

3. Steven Leibel – $1.4 MM Non-Economic Damage Jury Award for the Death of a 15 Year Old Boy

8:45 am – 9:45 am Chris O’Brien – O’Brien and Ford Building Credibility with the Jury

9:45 am – 10:00 am Mimosa / Bloody Mary Break

10:00 am – 12:00 pm David Wenner – Snyder and Wenner The Psychology of Juror Decision Making and Managing Jury Bias

12:00 pm Light of Justice Luncheon

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Breakouts Personal Injury – Josh Conaway and Richard Hardy – Litigating Oil and Gas Personal Injury Claims Criminal Law – Travis Finck – Creation of the Pretrial Services Pilot Program Family Law – Krista Andrews – Collaborative Law

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Break

2:45pm – 3:45 pm Judges Panel

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm Robert Vogel Scholarship Award Winner TBD

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm NDAJ Annual Meeting and Legislative Update

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Social – Prairie Rose Room, Radisson Hotel

Friday, May 10th, 20197:00 am – 8:30 am Complementary Full Breakfast Buffet

8:30 am – 9:30 am Arthur Bryant – Public Justice Countering Attacks on Trial Lawyers and Access to Justice

9:30 am – 10:30 am Chadrick Mance – Mance Law Firm The Power of a Dynamic Re-Direct Examination

10:30 am – 11:30 am Elise Sanguinetti – AAJ President Using Technology to Work Better, Faster, and Smarter

SEMINAR AGENDA

Chris O’Brien has been a successful trial lawyer for over 25 years. He has represented thousands of people hurt in car crashes, sexual assaults, slip and fall incidents and dog bite attacks. For every client, he gives them the personal attention that they deserve. Chris believes that every client has a

right to understand what is going on in their case at all times; that’s why he gives every client his personal cell phone and often takes calls at night. Chris limits the number of cases handled by each lawyer at the firm to ensure that clients’ calls are returned promptly and to move cases to completion properly.

Besides practicing law, Chris has been a trial technique instructor since the early 1990’s. He knows that teaching law students and other lawyers requires him to stay current on the latest thinking and tactics involved in trial practice. Chris has taught at more than thirty seminars in eighteen states and two countries, from Massachusetts to Georgia to California to Puerto Rico. He is a member of the National College of Advocacy, is Co-Director of Trial Advocacy at the University at Buffalo School of Law, and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He has been named a New York State SuperLawyer for the last seven years and is regularly recognized by Business First as one of the top trial lawyers in Western New York.

In the past fifteen years, Chris has had more than ten verdicts or settlements in excess of one million dollars. Through his national network of trial lawyers and trial consultants who teach at seminars, Chris has access to a wide of variety of experts and demonstrative evidence creators, who help him prepare the best presentation possible of cases for trial. Though less than 2% of his cases go to trial, Chris knows that preparation is the key to success.

Chris lives in Amherst, New York with his two younger children as the two older children have gone to college and beyond. He spends his spare time reading trial technique books and thinking of new ways to teach trial advocacy to lawyers and law students.

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SPEAKERS

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HOT SHOT SPEAKERS

Lindsay Wilz Maring Williams

Amanda Corey Reichert Law Firm

Steven Leibel Germolous Knoll

& Leibel

Krista Andrews is a shareholder in Anderson, Bottrell, Sanden & Thompson, practicing in the areas of family law, estate planning, real estate, and landlord/tenant law. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Dakota, summa cum laude, and her juris doctor

degree from the University of North Dakota. While earning her law degree, Krista served on the North Dakota Law Review Board as the Developments Editor. Prior to joining the firm, she represented the State of North Dakota for seven years as an Assistant Attorney General, and Special Assistant Attorney General for the North Dakota Department of Human Services. She is licensed to practice law in North Dakota and Minnesota.

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Chadrick Alexander Mance is founder of the Mance Law Group, the community’s law firm for the injured in Savannah, GA. He is a trial lawyer who represents clients deceased or seriously injured in automobile accidents, in tractor trailer collisions, in construction accidents, by the

negligence of physicians, by police misconduct, and by dangerous products. Mr. Mance represents clients across the state of Georgia.

In 2017, Mance lectured at the nation’s largest conference on dangerous drugs injuring consumers, Mass Torts Made Perfect. That year, Mance was and continues to be the youngest speaker invited to speak at this national conference, whose speakers include the best lawyers throughout the nation with multi-million dollar and multi-billion dollar verdicts.

In 2016, Mr. Mance served as President of the Port City Bar Association, Savannah’s prestigious African American Bar Association. Mance became one of the youngest to serve as president of this prestigious organization of lawyers. He was also parliamentarian of the Savannah Trial Lawyers’ Association and Chairman of the Savannah Section of the Georgia Trial Lawyers’ Association’s Young Lawyer Division. The same year he was selected to present on wrongful death lawsuits against governmental entities before The State Bar of Georgia’s Annual Convention. Mance was among the youngest presenters selected. Mance has been featured on Magic 103.9’s Gospel Morning Show, Magic 103.9’s R&B Morning Show, W-TOC, WSAV, WJCL, and other Savannah news stations as a commentator or participant concerning high profile legal cases. In 2015, Mance completed the Georgia Trial Lawyers’

Association’s Leadership Education and Advanced Development Program, a program that selects the best and brightest young trial lawyers in the state for its graduates.

In fall of 2014, Mr. Mance served as a visiting professor of law at Morehouse College where he lectured on topics related to his practice. It is believed that Mance was the youngest college professor at Morehouse during that time. He has also lectured on wrongful death civil rights trials at Savannah State University, in addition to conducting community-based workshops on general topics relating to personal injury. In addition, he has presented to groups such as the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency on topics such as workers’ compensation and workers’ rights.

Mance is a cum laude graduate of Morehouse College where he obtained a degree in business administration. While at Morehouse, Mance served as student body president and a member of the college’s board of trustees. During his senior year, Mance toured around the United States conducting panel discussions about civil rights and social justice with Judge Glenda Hatchett, Susan Taylor (of Essence Magazine), Jeff Johnson (of Tom Joyner’s Morning Show), and Emmanuel Lewis.

Mance is also a 2012 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law where his trial team won the largest invitational trial advocacy tournament in the United States in 2011, The Buffalo-Niagra Mock Trial Invitational. While at Georgia Law, Mance was awarded the Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial Outstanding Mock Trial Advocate Award. He was a dedicated member of BLSA and was voted as “Most Likely to Become a Supreme Court Judge”. He also co-founded the Georgia Association of Law and Politics which now hosts an annual conference on legal and political issues across the state. Mance believes that the law is a tool meant to influence people to help others. He has devoted his practice and work to fighting for the seriously injured and down-trodden.

JUDGES PANEL

Justice Jon Jensen

Justice Stephanie Stiel

TBD

Richard Hardy was born and raised in the small town of Paradise, California. He grew up the youngest of six children, learning and growing in a large family environment.

In 1990, Richard graduated from Paradise High School, receiving

honors for both athletic and academic achievements. After High School, Richard attended college at Brigham Young University.

After a year, Richard took a leave of absence from the university for two years to serve as a missionary in Maracaibo, Venezuela. In Venezuela, Richard became fluent in Spanish and developed a love the people and culture.

Richard returned to his education at Brigham Young University, graduating in 1996 with a degree in Political Science. Richard then entered law school at Texas Tech University. In law school, Richard became a member of the Texas Tech Law Review and Texas Tech Legal Research Board.

After his first year on law school, Richard began working for the firm as a law clerk. In 1999, Richard graduated from law school and immediately accepted employment with Sam Fadduol’s firm. Since that time, Richard has worked hard helping individuals and families of those who have been injured or killed through no fault of their own.

Richard is also the father of four amazing children and is grateful to his wife of 20+ years for her love and support.

Elise Sanguinetti’s main focus of expertise is serious injury, wrongful death cases, civil appeals and legal malpractice. She exclusively represents plaintiffs in civil litigation, and holds an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a California Super Lawyer every year since becoming

eligible. For the past five years Elise was named one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in the Bay Area.

Elise graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law where she earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.). She was admitted into the California state bar in 1997. When not in the courtroom, she is a frequent speaker at seminars and writes articles that are featured in various legal publications. Her copious amount of work has been recognized with numerous awards from various organziations.

Elise is the president of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), a past-president of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), and a past president of the Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association. She is a founding partner at Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Montreal.

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David Wenner is a partner in the law firm of Snyder & Wenner, P.C., in Phoenix, Arizona, He has a master of social work degree from the University of Washington and a law degree from Arizona State University. David has tried numerous complex tort cases including many medical negligence

cases. He has been studying juries for the last 35 years and is an expert on jury bias and jury decision-making.

David has written many articles and chapters on trial advocacy and juries. He is the co-author of the 2018 publication of the book Winning Case Preparation.

Wenner is a member of the jury and trial consulting firm Winning Works that includes legendary North Dakota trial lawyer David Bossart. David and David have collaborated on jury research and trial consulting for many of the leading law firms throughout America.

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Josh Conaway was born in Plainview, Texas, but grew up in Farmington, New Mexico. His family ran an oil and gas business, where Josh became very familiar with the oil and gas industry. After graduating from high school, he went to college at the University of New Mexico but spent a summer working for

an oilfield service company.

Josh attended law school at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. After graduating with honors from Gonzaga, he worked at a large civil defense firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he litigated cases involving oilfield injuries, refinery explosions, medical malpractice claims, and trucking accidents. As a result of Josh’s hard work and excellence in litigation, he was made a partner in 2009.

Josh ultimately decided that he preferred to work on behalf of injured persons and families whose loved ones were killed as a result of corporate misconduct. He joined Fadduol, Cluff, Hardy & Conaway, P.C., to further his goal to help people injured and killed as a result of corporate misconduct. After continuing his excellence in vigorous litigation on behalf of victims, he was made partner in the firm. Josh continues pursuing justice for injured persons and families who have lost loved ones because of corporate greed and indifference to safety.

Josh has been married to his wife, Janae, for 21 years. He enjoys spending his free time with Janae and his three children, Parker, Aleigha, and Madeline.

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Travis W. Finck is a 2007 graduate of the University of North Dakota School of Law. Travis has devoted most of his professional career to helping individuals and families who are deemed to be indigent through his work with the North Dakota Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigents. He has

served as a contract attorney, full-time public defender, supervising attorney of the Bismarck-Mandan Public Defender Office and now serves as Deputy Director for the Commission. Throughout his work with the Commission, he has had the privilege of representing thousands of individuals in the Court system. He has handled all matters ranging from unruly/delinquent to deprivation to Termination of Parental Rights in Juvenile Court to Murders in Criminal Court. He has taught numerous Continuing Legal Educations for lawyers.

Arthur H. Bryant is the Chairman of Public Justice, the only national public interest law firm in America created by trial lawyers. Supported by – and able to call on and work with – over 2,700 of the top plaintiffs’ lawyers in the country, he and Public Justice use cutting-edge litigation to fight for consumers’ rights,

workers’ rights, civil rights and liberties, environmental protection, the poor and the powerless, and access to justice for all. The National Law Journal has twice named him one of the 100 Most Influential Attorneys in America.

A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, Arthur joined Public Justice as its sole staff attorney in 1984, became its Executive Director in 1987, and was named its Chairman in 2014, his 30th anniversary with the organization. Working with lawyers throughout America, he has made new law and helped win justice for millions.

Arthur has been honored by, among others, the American Association for Justice, the American Bar Association, Harvard Law School, Mass Torts Made Perfect, the Consumer Attorneys Associations of Los Angeles and San Diego, the New Jersey Association for Justice, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Western Trial Lawyers Association. The Oregon Trial Lawyers Association has named its public service award the Arthur H. Bryant Public Justice Award.

robert vogelSCHOLARSHIP

Robert Vogel, the attorney for whom this scholarship is named, played a pivotal role in North Dakota legal history. His career was a mix of private practice, government service and academia spanning more than 60 years. He was a United States Attorney, a Justice of the Supreme Court and a Professor at UND Law School. But his heart always belonged to private practice at the trial and appellate levels.

In his law practice, he most enjoyed representing the underdog and the underprivileged, not the privileged and powerful; a preference that originated in his upbringing in the North Dakota Nonpartisan League. He was noted for being a clear thinker and a persuasive writer in private practice and on the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Gerald Vande Walle described him in a funeral elegy as “one of the best, if not the best, writer the court has ever had.”

After five years on the Supreme Court, he left the court to become a law professor at UND Law School, where he taught trial and appellate advocacy to many students, quite a few of whom are now members of the Association for Justice. Even as a law professor, he could not resist the practice of law, and started the Robert Vogel Law Firm, from which he eventually retired to focus on writing

an accurate history of the infamous Langer trials of the 1930s. This history was published in 2004 as Unequal Contest: Bill Langer and His Political Enemies.

After his death in early 2005, the Robert Vogel Scholarship was established to assist a second year UND law student who intends to use his or her legal skills to make the world a better place, promote civil liberties and preserve the right to a trial by jury.

ROBERT VOGEL SCHOLARSHIP WINNERCassandra Frederickson grew up in Manitoba, Canada and is currently a rising 3L at the University of North Dakota School of Law. She is presently amongst the top students in her class and enjoys researching and writing on human rights issues. She is also looking forward to taking on the roles of Research Editor for the North Dakota Law Review and President of the International Human Rights Organization next year.

Cassandra discovered her passion for human rights while volunteering in India which motivated her to pursue an undergraduate in Human Rights and Global Studies at the University of Winnipeg where she was the recipient of the Gold Medal Achievement Award for her major. Before attending law school, she had the opportunity to research development programs in Mozambique, Africa, and volunteered at the Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties. Wherever her legal career takes her, Cassandra hopes to positively impact the world around her.

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