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Promoting Safety. Protecting Rights. 2009 Member Conference June 3-6, 2009 St. Petersburg, Florida Become a fan: Follow us: injuryboard.com/facebook twitter.com/InjuryBoard InjuryBoard 2009 Annual Conference Welcome! Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to attend InjuryBoard’s 2009 conference in beautiful downtown St. Petersburg. Since you made the trip south, you made the conscious decision to learn and understand more about the InjuryBoard network and meet those instrumental in maintaining one of the nation’s ctop publi education websites. For that, we thank you and promise to make this an event you will attend for years to come! Over the next two days, you will continue your legal education through presentations given by the finest plaintiff attorneys practicing today and learn from top online technology experts about how to improve your practice through proper SEO, marketing and the embracement of social technologies. You will also meet and network with like‐minded InjuryBoard members who understand the importance of these concepts and are already using Web 2.0 technologies to expand their practice and make a difference in their communities. Our greatest hope for this conference is that you come to believe what we already know‐ that the ultimate goal of trial lawyers should be to reach out and make a difference in our profession, in our communities and in our country by acting as thought‐leaders and change‐agents in the fight to protect the Civil Justice System. In short, we must do well by doing good. By working together, we can undoubtedly achieve these goals. Thank you again for making the trip to Tampa Bay. We hope you will spend the next few days interacting with the group, learning how to get engaged in the InjuryBoard network and most importantly, having fun! Sincerely, Nicholas Carroll & Thomas Young InjuryBoard Founders 1 | 2009 Annual Conference ‐ Welcome InjuryBoard 2009 Annual Conference Web 2.0 & The Trial Bar Conference Agenda Wednesday, June 3, 2009 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Registration St. Petersburg Yacht Club (Quarterdeck Room, 1st Floor. Use South Entrance) 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Opening Cocktail Reception St. Petersburg Yacht Club (Waterfront Room, 2nd Floor) Thursday, June 4, 2009 st 7:30 am – 8:00 am Registration (Quarterdeck Room, 1 Floor. Use South Entrance) 8:00 am – 8:05 am Welcome & Introduction Tom Young InjuryBoard Co‐Founder & Attorney Member Liaison (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) 8:05 am – 8:55 am Keynote Address Garrett Graff – Author, Lecturer (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) 9:00 am – 10:15 am John Romano: Trial Cross‐ Andy Childers: Hot Topic: Examination in 2009 – The Reglan Litigation Paradigm Shift Brad Henry: The Big Dig: InjuryBoard Staff: Introduction Eric Romano: Risky Business: Use of Media and Internet to InjuryBoard Business Logic Defeating Pre‐Injury Liability Coverage in Modern Waivers Litigation (Quarterdeck Room, 1st Floor) (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) (Harborview Room, 2nd Floor) 10:20 am – 11:35 am Doug Landau: Fatal & Gibson Vance: How National Politics Forgotten: Fractures in Relates to Your Practice Elderly Clients: Fatal, Preventable & InjuryBoard Staff: Introduction Rebecca Langston: Top Essentials Misunderstood to the InjuryBoard Community Needed to Evaluate a Birth Trauma Case Devon Glass: Prescription (Quarterdeck Room, 1st Floor) Drug Errors (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) (Harborview Room, 2nd Floor) nd 11:40 am – 12:40 pm Lunch & Sponsor Introduction (Waterfront Room, 2 Floor) Gary Paul: Paint the Picture‐ 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Mike Ferrara: Jury Selection in this Arguing Damages in the Economic Climate Wrongful Death Case InjuryBoard Staff, IB Members Billy Walker: 7 Deadly Sins in Rick Shapiro & Steve Brandon Smith: Hot Topic: Dealing with Experts Lombardi: Advanced Stevens Johnson Syndrome InjuryBoard Participation Litigation (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) (Quarterdeck Room, 1st Floor) (Harborview Room, 2nd Floor) 1 | 2009 Annual Conference ‐ Agenda InjuryBoard 2009 Annual Conference 2:05 pm – 3:05 pm Jesse Guerra & Bob Hilliard: How to Settle Your Swimming Pool Drowning InjuryBoard Kiosks, Meet and Pete Mackey: 60 Tips in 60 minutes Case in Less Than a Year for Greet InjuryBoard Staff Seven Figures (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) (Quarterdeck Room, 1st Floor) (Harborview Room, 2nd Floor) Tampa Bay Rays vs. Kansas City 3:30 pm – 7:30 pm Buses depart promptly at 3:30pm from the Hampton Inn Royals (Tropicana Field). Additional directly across the street from the St. Pete Yacht Club. Fees May Apply. Friday, June 5, 2009 st 8:00 am – 8:45 am Registration (Quarterdeck Room, 1 Floor. Use South Entrance) 8:45 am – 8:50 am Welcome & Introduction Tom Young InjuryBoard Co‐Founder & Attorney Member Liaison (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) 8:50 am – 9:40 am Greg Cusimano: Winning in Today’s Environment (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) 9:45 am – 10:55 am Jerry Trachtman: Tort Liability in Outer Space: What Every Space Tourist Technology Presentation: Should Know Continual InjuryBoard Theoretical & Practical Blogging Education, IB Kiosks, Meet Techniques Gerry McGill: Avoiding the and Greet InjuryBoard Staff Rocks & Shoals in Maritime (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) Cases (Quarterdeck Room, 1st Floor) (Harborview Room, 2nd Floor) 11:00 am – 12:10 pm Morgan Adams: What Every Car Wreck Lawyer Needs to Technology Presentation: Social Know About a Truck Wreck Continual InjuryBoard Media to Drive Traffic & Enhance Case Education, IB Kiosks, Meet Your Brand and Greet InjuryBoard Staff Hank Didier: Innovations in (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) Product Safety (Quarterdeck Room, 1st Floor) (Harborview Room, 2nd Floor) nd 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch & Sponsor Introduction (Waterfront Room, 2 Floor) 2 | 2009 Annual Conference ‐ Agenda InjuryBoard 2009 Annual Conference 1:20 pm – 2:30 pm Peter Mougey: The Subprime Meltdown: Greed at the Expense of Mainstreet Continual InjuryBoard Technology Presentation: Web Education, IB Kiosks, Meet Design & Search Engine Bob Langdon: When is Your and Greet InjuryBoard Staff Optimization Car Crash Case a Crashworthiness Case (Quarterdeck Room, 1st Floor) (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) (Harborview Room, 2nd Floor) nd 2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Networking Refreshment Break (Ballroom, 2 Floor) 2:55 pm – 4:30 pm Stephen Herman: 12 Lessons in Litigation Gary Jackson: Structuring and Managing Co‐Counsel Technology Presentation: Continual InjuryBoard Relationships Analytics & Conversions Education, IB Kiosks, Meet and Greet InjuryBoard Staff Brenda Fulmer: Overview of Various Hot Mass Tort (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) (Quarterdeck Room, 1st Floor) Projects (Harborview Room, 2nd Floor) 4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Closing Remarks Tom Young InjuryBoard Co‐Founder & Attorney Member Liaison (Ballroom, 2nd Floor) Sunset Cruise Aboard Starship. Cruise departs promptly at 6:30 pm from the St. Pete Yacht 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Additional Fees May Apply. Club marina. Boarding will begin at 6:00 pm. Saturday, June 6, 2009 9:00 am – 3:00 pm InjuryBoard Fishing Tournament St. Petersburg Yacht Club – Marina Additional Fees May Apply 3 | 2009 Annual Conference ‐ Agenda InjuryBoard 2009 Annual Conference Keynote Address Garrett Graff – Author, Lecturer As presidential candidate Howard Dean’s first webmaster and the first blogger to be admitted to cover a White House press briefing, author and Georgetown University professor Garrett Graff has had a front row seat to the collision of technology and political power. Garrett’s first book, The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House, details “how the ‘flattening of the world’ has transformed politics – and what it meant for the 2008 election. Garrett first spoke to the InjuryBoard membership at the 2008 conference, discussing his personal experience with the power of social networking and web 2.0, how it has changed the political landscape forever, and how that dynamic of change can and must be put to work in the legal landscape if attorneys want to connect with clients and more importantly, save the civil justice system. The speech was met with rave reviews. In this year’s keynote, Garrett plans to expand on his 2008 speech, discussing how social media and web 2.0 tactics defined last fall’s historic election and what the future of social networking will look like. Garrett M. Graff – Author, Lecturer Garrett M. Graff is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on technology and politics. As editor at large at The Washingtonian, he covers media and politics, edits the Capital Comment section, and serves as internet director. He has profiled Barack Obama, Tom Friedman, and FBI Director Robert Mueller, among others. His first book, "The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House," which examines the role of technology in the 2008 presidential race, was published in December 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux to strong reviews. The New York Times’ literary critic Michiko Kakutani wrote, “The astonishingly young Mr. Graff (who was born in 1981) proves in these pages that he is a cogent writer, willing to tackle large‐scale issues and problems.” Graff also teaches internet and social media at Georgetown University in the school’s master’s in journalism and communications program. As the first blogger admitted to cover a White House press briefing, he is a frequent speaker on blogging and the intersection of politics and technology, and his reporter’s notebook from that first day in the White House hangs in the newly opened Newseum in Washington, DC. His writing and commentary has appeared in publications like the Washington Post, Wired magazine, the Politico, and The Huffington Post, and in 2008, he was named as one of four young “new media” journalists to watch by PRWeek. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox News, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNBC, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English, and various NPR programs, as well as local and regional television and radio channels. He has spoken at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the National Press Club, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Defense Department, and the Google headquarters, as well as universities from Princeton to UT‐Austin, companies, trade groups, and to overseas audiences at the invitation of the U.S.