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Continuing Education Program December 5, 2017 PARTICIPATING LAW FIRMS Brown & James P.C. (St. Louis) Walking The Fowler White Burnett, P.A. (Ft. Lauderdale/Miami) Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Los Angeles) Line Without Hall & Evans, LLC (Denver) Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP (Atlanta) Johnson & Bell (Chicago) Stepping Off Leake & Andersson LLP (New Orleans) Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP (New York) Hyatt Regency Plunkett Cooney, P.C. (Bloomfield Hills/Detroit) Riverside Room Renaud Cook Drury Mesaros, PA (Phoenix) Two Exchange Place ALL FIRMS ARE MEMBERS OF ALFA INTERNATIONAL Jersey City, New Jersey PLEASE REGISTER THROUGH Debbie Allbritton Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP 303 Peachtree Street, Suite 4000 Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Direct 404-614-7489 | Fax 404-614-7500 Email: [email protected] Continuing Education Program December 5, 2017 Walking The Line Without Stepping Off PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The program offers two hour-long presentations by seasoned litigators from ten law firms who will REGISTRATION address the ethical, legal, practical and strategy issues and problems that often arise both before INFORMATION and after litigation commences. The panelists will offer their perspectives and comments on the best Please complete the registration to practices for handling and resolving claims and disputes that involve risks and matters for which insur- confirm your participation and to ance coverage is or may be available. Audience questions and participation is encouraged and welcome. provide part of the information that will be needed to obtain Georgia, New Hampshire and/or Texas continu- COURSE MATERIALS ing education credit as a claims Course materials in electronic form will be sent by email to all participants who register for and partici- adjuster or New York continuing legal pate in the program. education credit as a lawyer. You will also need to verify your participa- tion by signing and dating the forms PROGRAM SCHEDULE & TOPIC DESCRIPTIONS and documents that will be available FINAL REGISTRATION during the seminar. 2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., December 5, 2017 MEETING LOCATION FIRST SESSION Hyatt Regency Riverside Room 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Two Exchange Place Jersey City, New Jersey “Truth or Consequences” Ethics Challenge for Insurance Professionals and Attorneys QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT Richard Granofsky will moderate a panel consisting of Hank Cooney, Jeff Hunter, Mike Leahy and Todd Lubben, who will present a multiple-choice, inter-active question and answer “game” that explores Debbie Allbritton ethical dilemmas facing attorneys and insurance professionals when handling claims or litigation in Hawkins Parnell Thackston various fields of practice. The topics will include confidentiality and disclosure issues regarding or & Young LLP involving email communications, production of client documents, confidential communications, social 303 Peachtree Street, Suite 4000 media, and conflicts between the corporation and its officers and board of directors. Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Direct 404-614-7489 SECOND SESSION Fax 404-614-7500 Email: [email protected] 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. CLE & CE CREDIT Is It Time For “What’s My Line” or “Jeopardy?” The program offers 2.0 hours of New George Fagan will moderate a panel consisting of Matt Barr, Avery Dial, Joe Marconi and Kevin O’Brien, York CLE credit for attorneys (2.0 hour of who will address and discuss how insurers may avoid or deal with problems and issues that typically ethics). Approval for 2.0 hours of Texas arise when competing, concurrent, conflicting or joint interests arise or exist between or among CE credit for claims adjusters (ethics). insurers, insureds with single or multiple primary or excess or other policies or coverages, additional Approval for CE credit by Georgia and insureds and indemnitees, brokers representing insureds, panel and non-panel lawyers representing New Hampshire has been requested one or more insureds and reinsurers and subscribers. The presentation will consider and explore the and is pending. actual or apparent conflicts of interests that may arise or be prevented based on four different scenarios. WHAT IS ALFA INTERNATIONAL? The attorneys with the ten law firms who are participating in the seminar are all members of ALFA International, a premier network of indepen- dent law firms that was founded in 1980. ALFA International has over 150 member firms throughout the world, including 80 U.S.-based firms and 70 international firms are located throughout Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Africa, Canada, Mexico and South America. The ALFA model enables its members to use their local expertise to deliver highly effective legal solutions, often drawing upon the collective wisdom and experi- ence of other member firms. ALFA clients benefit from a geographically comprehensive network of exceptional law firms and accomplished trial and business counsel. Our member firms meet high standards to be part of the ALFA network and are well respected by their peers in the legal and business community. ALFA International is headquartered in Chicago, and has a full-time staff to administer the various programs and services that ALFA offers. For more information about ALFA International, please visit the website (www.alfainternational.com) or contact Jessica Bauer: Tel. 312-642-2532 and Email: [email protected]. www.alfainternational.com FACULTY BIOS MATTHEW BARR is a Senior Partner magni ommolor emperfe rchicia quunto ma ipitati RICHARD GRANOFSKY is the with Hawkins Parnell Thackston & istota de nam nem sus.Ossint facersperum, et int lab Chair Emeritus of ALFA Interna- Young LLP in Atlanta. Matt has over ipictib usamus. tional’s Professional Liability Group. a decade of experience as a litigator He is a partner of the New York and trial lawyer, concentrating on City ALFA International firm Lester the representation of healthcare and AVERY DIAL is a partner with Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP. He heads other professionals, as well as retail- Fowler White Burnett in the firm’s the firm’s Professional Liability and ers and landowners. Matt has tried numerous cases Fort Lauderdale office. Avery Labor and Employment Practice Groups. He is a throughout the state and federal courts of Georgia focuses his practice on commer- senior trial lawyer and has extensive experience and has argued before the United States Court of cial, professional liability, insurance, defending lawyers, accountants, miscellaneous Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Matt has repre- intellectual property, product liabil- professionals and employers in state and federal sented physicians, nurses, pharmacists, midwives, ity, and wrongful death litigation. court, administrative proceedings, and arbitration. psychiatrists, physical therapists, counselors, archi- Avery defends and prosecutes business matters He has defended attorneys in disciplinary proceed- tects, engineers, real estate brokers and agents, and including breach of contract, civil theft, conversion, ings. He counsels employers in all aspects of the numerous facilities, including hospitals and mental breach of warranties, statutory violations, fraudulent employment relationship including employment health treatment facilities. He also represents several business practices, data privacy, and professional agreements, employee handbooks and termina- of the nation’s leading retailers in premises liabil- liability (including attorneys, directors and offi cers, tion decisions. He received his Bachelor’s degree ity matters. Matt received a B.S. in Management at and insurance brokers). He litigates complex insur- from Columbia University and his J.D. from Boston Georgia Institute of Technology, and his law degree ance coverage matters involving business litigation, University. Email: [email protected] & Tel. from Florida State University College of Law. He is data privacy, transportation, intellectual property, (212) 341-4320. a member of DRI, Georgia Defense Lawyers Asso- and professional liability claims. Also, Avery litigates ciation, Litigation Counsel of America, ALFA Inter- commercial and residential real estate matters national, and the Atlanta Bar Association. Email: including title claims, foreclosures, landlord tenant JEFF HUNTER is a Shareholder with [email protected] & Tel. (404) 614-7453. disputes, and breaches of contract on behalf of title the Arizona ALFA Firm, Renaud Cook insurers, banks, tenants, and property owners. Email: Drury Mesaros, PA. His main areas [email protected] & Tel. (954) 377-8179. of practice are medical malprac- HENRY COONEY urepeditas aut tice and healthcare, professional res voluptis re, consed esequo liability, commercial and business beation serspedi ommoluptur GEORGE FAGAN is a founding litigation, accident and personal saperia con prempor porestrum partner of Leake & Andersson LLP, injury litigation, and product liability litigation. Jeff conem faccaest, imolesci temperro and works in the New Orleans office. has been defending various professionals for more inci corenie ndisciusamet arum He is the Firm’s the lead partner for than 25 years, including accountants, chiroprac- et quodicius vidus re omnimodi business, employment, insurance tors, doctors, engineers, insurance adjusters, and arum que nem ex ea voluptati corrum quia nonse coverage, executive, miscellaneous more. He has a successful track record of more than apiciaspis re, ommos sinctio opta dit dollaturitia and professional liability, and secu- 45 jury trials to verdict as well as numerous arbitra-