| Cutting Edge Courtroom Techniques in Employment Litigation
Cosponsored with the Boston Bar Association & Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Thursday, June 07, 2001
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 04:00 PM - 07:30 PM
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Recent years have witnessed significant innovations in the way evidence is considered, presented to fact finders and evaluated by juries. Cutting Edge Courtroom Techniques in Employment Litigation looks at how those innovations may be utilized in employment litigation and affords practitioners insight into the impact of the changing role of juries in the trial process.
Innovative techniques in presenting evidence to fact finders have been widely utilized in personal injury litigation. Employment litigation presents similar challenges. Certain kinds of evidence, such as statistical evidence, personnel files, other documents and electronic evidence can be presented more effectively than ever using modern technology. Admissible evidence can be gathered using simple technological means. Leading experts in legal technology and employment litigation will share their ideas with you. Both the technologically sophisticated and the technology challenged will find this session illuminating.
As more and more judges use devices like pre-charging, trial notebooks, juror questioning and note taking to more fully assist and engage the jury in the fact finding function, it is critical for the bar to understand their role in the trial process. Numerous judges have conversations with jurors during which those techniques are discussed and assessed. A panel of some of the most innovative state and federal court judges, questioned by leading employment law trial attorneys, will discuss the impact of those techniques on jury deliberations, with particular emphasis on how the lessons learned to date will apply to the trial of employment law claims.
Advocates representing parties in employment litigation will find this program a unique and entertaining way of confronting the challenges resulting from the continuing changes in the adversary system.
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Honorable Nancy Gertner
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U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Invited) |
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Professor Marc D. Greenbaum
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Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA |
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Dorothy Anderson
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Massachusetts Attorney General's Office |
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F. Henry Ellis, III
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Moehrke, Mackie & Shea, PC, Boston |
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Conrad S. Kee
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Jackson Lewis, Stamford, CT |
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Reginald C. Lindsay
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U.S. District Court |
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Alicia Ann McNeil
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Boston |
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Honorable John J. Irwin, Jr., Director
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Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA |
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Judith Fabricant
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Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court |
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Raymond J. Brassard
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Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court |
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Elizabeth A. Rodgers
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Rodgers Powers & Schwartz LLP, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| S C H E D U L E / A G E N D A |
| 4:00 |
Welcome and Introduction |
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| 4:15 |
Cutting Edge Techniques in Presenting Litigation in Employment Cases |
| Technology permits the presentation of otherwise dull and cumbersome evidence in simple and effective ways. It also permits the gathering of evidence by means that are relatively economic and very effective. Technology can also produce evidence that is relevant and admissible in an adversarial forum. During this panel, those technologies will be demonstrated and discussed by lawyers familiar with the technology and active in the trial of employment claims.
Honorable John J. Irwin, Jr.
F. Henry Ellis, III., Esq., Conrad S. Kee, Esq.
Elizabeth A. Rodgers, Esq.
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| 5:30 |
Cutting Edge Techniques in Utilizing Juries in Employment Cases |
| While practitioners are aware that numerous judges are involving juries in the trial process in new ways, there has been little discussion about how those juries are reacting to those innovations or how those innovations may be impacting jury deliberations. A panel of innovative state and federal court jurists, utilizing some or all of these techniques and who privately discussed them with juries after the trial's end, will share the lessons learned in their discussions with jurors, prompted by questions from experienced trial counsel and by questions from program attendees.
Professor Marc Greenbaum
Hon. Nancy Gertner
Hon. Reginald C. Lindsay
Hon. Raymond J. Brassard
Hon. Judith Fabricant
Dorothy Anderson, Esq.
Alicia Ann McNeil, Esq.
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| 7:00 |
Networking Reception |
| An opportunity to meet the program faculty and members of the judiciary.
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| Date: |
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Thursday, June 07, 2001 |
| Tuition: |
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Tuition is $129; $99 for attorneys admitted since 1998 and members of the BBA. Tuition includes course book & refreshments.
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| Walk-Ins: |
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Space is limited. Registrations at the door are welcome, but please register in advance to reserve a seat and your course materials or call to confirm availability.
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| Refunds: |
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Any cancellations received 24 hours prior to the program will be granted a refund, minus a $15.00 charge. If you cannot attend, you can send a substitute, otherwise you will receive the written course materials.
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| Location: |
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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| Credit: |
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Approved for CLE Credit in RI, NH, VT & NY.
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If you have special needs addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act, please notify us as soon as possible.
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