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Approved for 6.0 CLE credit hours, including 1.0 hour of ethics and professionalism in Kansas. Approved for 6.0 CLE credit hours in Missouri. (No ethics approval in Missouri) Course Schedule:
8:30 a.m. Registration &
Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Preparing for Mediation
versus Alternative Dispute Resolution by Jury Trial Jerry R. Palmer, Palmer Mediation LLC, Topeka The Mediators perspective on what an advocate can do
to prepare for the event most likely to resolve the Civil case. How to get the
right persons to attend from the other side, materials to supply the mediator
and the preparation of the client for the Mediation. How to follow up on the
unsuccessful mediation. How to get lien
holders invested in the process so that their interests can also be concluded. 9:50 a.m. Break 10:05 a.m. Voir Dire Panel J. Todd Hiatt, Senior Assistant District Attorney for the Third Judicial District,
Topeka Patrick M. Lewis, Law Office of Patrick Lewis, Olathe Ronald P. Pope, Ralston Pope & Diehl LLC, Topeka This session will explain how to develop awareness
for how to use prevailing societal attitudes and biases to select a jury. We will also review the law surrounding the
process of jury selection, including Constitutional limitations and law
specific to Kansas. We will touch on developing
critical listening skills and developing the ability to read non-verbal cues. We will also discuss how to prepare the
venire for the role of being a juror including the standards of proof
prescribed by law, limitations on evidence, and the process by which they will
judge the facts of a case 11:45 a.m. Lunch (on your own) 1:00 p.m. Legislative Update Joseph N. Molina III, Director of Legislative
Services, Kansas Bar Association, Topeka This course will provide attendees with an up-to-date
list of all legislative proposals that affect the practice of law in
Kansas. The update will briefly explain pending legislation, provide
background information pertaining to the interest group involved in the
legislation and a provide the current status of each proposal. Attendees
can expect to learn more about the legislative process and as well as how to
contact their representative. 1:50 p.m. Use of Technology in Litigation and Trial – Taking Your Presentation to
the Next Level with the iPad Dustin J. Denning, Clark Mize & Linville
Chtd., Salina This CLE presentation will be divided into two parts. The first segment will focus on essential
hardware and configuration for iPad use in the courtroom. In this segment, you will learn step-by-step
details of how to create a private network inside the courtroom or conference
room for wireless use of your iPad. The
second segment will focus on the use of iPad Applications for lawyers to make
compelling case presentations that will bring your case to life and mesmerize
the jury, the judge and opposing counsel. 2:40 p.m. Break 2:55 p.m. The Ethics of Amateurism: Aren't
You Tired of These Whiney College Athletes Wanting to Be Paid? L.J. Leatherman, Palmer Leatherman White & Dalton LLP, Topeka Ethics, sometimes known as philosophical ethics,
ethical theory, moral theory, and moral philosophy, attempt to defend and
recommend concepts of right and wrong conduct, often addressing disputes of
moral diversity. Legal ethics have
evolved overtime to address the traditional protections of clients within the
confines of modern pressures of private practice. Each evolution brings a negotiation of
conflicting interest between the clients, judges and lawyers. Like the modernization of divorce, to no
fault, in our society, legal ethics evolves to meet these new challenges. In codes of conduct, or ethics the rules of
engagement seem to tack a midline of fairness between the conduct being
proscribed and the mission of the profession.
This presentation looks to contract the structure and development of
ethics to evaluate the corruption of “ethical” conduct when the power of the
rule makers completely disenfranchises those who are required to follow the
ethics, using as examples of ethical codes of conduct Pirates and College
Athletics. 3:45 p.m.
Adjourned Biographical Information: Dustin J.
Denning, Clark Mize & Linville
Chtd., Salina
Denning is a Salina native and shareholder in the
Salina law firm of Clark, Mize & Linville, Chartered. His primary focus is trial practice,
including the defense of medical malpractice, general liability, insurance and
employment claims. He served as
President of the Kansas Association of Defense Counsel in 2012, and is a past
President of the Saline-Ottawa County Bar Association. Denning has obtained his “AV® Preeminent™”
peer review rating by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. He has also been peer nominated and selected
as a Kansas Super Lawyers Rising Star in the area of medical malpractice
defense since 2009. This designation is
awarded to no more than 2.5% of the eligible attorneys in the state of Kansas
who are under the age of 40. J. Todd Hiatt, Senior Assistant District Attorney for the Third Judicial District,
Topeka Hiatt attended the University of Kansas and
graduated with a BSW in 1997. He then attended Washburn University School of
Law and graduated magna cum laude in 2005. He is admitted in Kansas and was
formerly a member of the US District Court of Kansas. Currently, he also serves
as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the purposes of representing the
State of Kansas under the Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act. Hiatt formerly
worked in private practice handling mainly medical malpractice cases at Ralston,
Pope & Diehl, LLC before starting his career as a prosecutor in 2010. He
has served as the Secretary-Elect, Vice-President of Education, and President
of the Young Lawyers Division for the Kansas Association of Justice. He
currently serves on the Media Bar Committee and the Access to Justice Committee
for the Kansas Bar association. And he is also an Adjunct at Washburn Law where
he has taught Intensive Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Civil Procedure, and Voir
Dire. Between 2006 and 2013, he has also presented at CLE programs hosted by
the National District Attorneys’ Association, the Kansas Association for
Justice, and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. L.J. Leatherman, Palmer Leatherman White & Dalton LLP, Topeka Leatherman is a partner in Palmer Leatherman White
& Dalton LLP. He specializes in plaintiff’s tort litigation in automobile
negligence, wrongful death, third-party claims against insurance companies and
insurance bad faith. He is a graduate of Washburn Law School, 1992. He is an
active member of the Kansas Association for Justice, American Association for
Justice, Topeka and American bar associations, and Trial Lawyers for Public
Justice. He serves as a member of the Topeka/Shawnee County Ethics Committee. Patrick M. Lewis, Law Office of Patrick Lewis, Olathe Lewis
has defended the criminally accused for 25 years in all venues from the
smallest municipalities to federal district court. He earned his J.D. from the University of
Kansas and his LLM in Litigation from Emory University in Atlanta. Lewis began his career with the public
defender in Wichita, ran the district defender’s office in Johnson County and
has been in private practice for the last six years. He limits his practice exclusively to
criminal defense. Lewis is the Executive
Director of the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a member of
the Criminal Law Advisory Committee to the Kansas Judicial Council. He is on the Municipal Bench Bar Committee of
the Johnson County Bar Association and has chaired the Criminal Bench Bar
Committee. Lewis has taught at the
Intensive Trial Advocacy Program at Washburn Law School for over ten
years. Jerry R. Palmer, Palmer Mediation LLC, Topeka Palmer is a full time mediator who has completed
over 1,500 mediations. He is certified by the Kansas Supreme Court in core and
civil mediation. He has been admitted to Fellowship in the International
Academy of Mediators and also the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. He
mediates contract, tort, construction, and virtually every other kind of civil
case in the Kansas City Metropolitan area, Wichita area and North East Kansas.
He has a substantial history of litigation, jury trials and State and Federal
appeals. He is also a Fellow of The American College of Trial Lawyers and the International
Academy of Trial Lawyers and has been certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by
the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1980 and recertified 6 times. Joseph N. Molina III, Director of Legislative Services, Kansas Bar Association, Topeka Molina is the director of legislative services for
the Kansas Bar Association. Prior to joining the KBA, he was chief legal
counsel for the Topeka Metropolitan Transit Authority, where his practice
involved insurance subrogation, labor and employment law. He also previously
served as an assistant attorney general, acting as the director of the Kansas
No-Call Act. Molina holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science, philosophy,
and economics from Eastern Oregon University. Molina is a native of Hawaii, moving
to Kansas in 1999 to attend law school at Washburn. Ronald P. Pope, Ralston Pope & Diehl LLC, Topeka
Pope attended Emporia State University and graduated
in 1980 with a B.S. He then attended Washburn University School of Law and
graduated in 1983. He is admitted in Kansas and Nebraska and is a member of the
US District Courts of Kansas, Nebraska and Michigan. His practice areas include
general trial work, personal injury, products liability and medical
malpractice. Mr. Pope has tried well in
excess of 100 cases to a verdict in 13 states. He has recovered over 40 million
dollars for clients in his corner. Ron is also an Adjunct Professor at the
Washburn University School of Law. He has taught Pre-Trial Techniques, Trial
Techniques and Litigation Strategies. He is the former Vice President of
Education, KTLA, Chairman of Medical Malpractice & Products Liability
Committee, a current Member At Large of the KTLA, Treasurer of the KTLA,
Consultant for the Peoples Law School for ATLA, a current member of the American
Board of Trial Advocates and the Million Dollar Forum for Attorneys with
Million Dollar Verdicts. He is also a former President of the American Board of
Trial Advocates. To view a copy of the marketing brochure, CLICK HERE.
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