MDTC Annual Meeting & ConferenceJune 15-15, 2023
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Annual Meeting & Conference
June 15-16, 2023
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Thursday, June 15, 2023 - Friday, June 16, 2023
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Regional Judicial Award Recipient
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Hon. Edward Ewell
3rd Circuit Court, Wayne County
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Please join us for the Judicial/Vendor Reception
Thursday, June 15, 2023, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
All attendees, including family, guests, speakers, and vendors, are welcome.
Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be provided.
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New Member Meet and Greet
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
11:30 am - 12:45 p.m.
The reception will provide an excellent opportunity for new members the opportunity to meet current leaders and members of the MDTC.
Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be provided.
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How to Defend Against Extraordinary Relief
Defending against extraordinary relief requires quick thinking and even quicker action. A defense attorney often starts ten steps behind the plaintiff’s attorney in these types of cases, and a successful defense requires formulating a strong strategy and making the right decisions from the start of the dispute. But if you don’t deal with these types of disputes often, the most likely question is: where do I start? This session will discuss approaches and strategies for defending cases where plaintiff(s) seek extraordinary relief is at play and how to avoid an extraordinarily negative outcome.
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Defend Against Damages
Join us for a discussion of current trends and developments in the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court regarding damages in personal injury litigation. Mike and Tony will update their article on Denney damages (originally published in the MDTC Quarterly Volume 38 issue 1) and will expound on other trends, developments, and technical aspects that are being raised by plaintiffs in personal injury cases with increasing frequency.
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You Got the Complaint, Now What
Panel will discuss how to take a case from the beginning to the end, what to look for
during discovery and how to tailor discovery to what you want to prove at trial.
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Round Table on Civility & Ethics
In an age of impersonal zoom meetings and Court hearings, conscious focus on professional civility and ethics are more important than ever. This roundtable group, including the current and past presidents of ABOTA (the American Board of Trial Advocates), are plaintiff and defense attorneys who have worked with each other, civilly and professionally, over the course of long, distinguished careers. They will discuss not only how to develop a reputation of civility, professionalism, and ethics - but also why those attributes are more important now than ever.
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David W. Christensen
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E-Discovery: A Sword and A Shield
A discussion of how E-Discovery can be used to find information and protect information from being found that is not relevant and/or proportional to the case.
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Depositions Deep Dive
How to target who needs to be deposed, how to prepare an outline for different depositions, how to conduct the deposition and what to do with the information learned
in the deposition.
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Post Pandemic Trials
Panel will discuss what trials look like now as compared to 2019, how juries have
changed and what has stayed the same.
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What Lawyers Can Learn From Rats: An Evaluation of Stress
Do you find yourself feeling thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread? Litigation, almost axiomatically, is difficult and stressful. The nature of post-COVID law practice has only amplified this. Pressures and expectations from clients, supervisors, assistants, Courts, carriers - and even from yourself - often result in you feeling drawn in a million different directions; spinning so many new plates that you fear dropping them all. In this presentation, we’ll confront stress itself and learn what it is, why it happens, and what we as humans can learn from rats about how to deal with the inevitable stress, pressure, and anxiety that are parts of our chosen career.
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3962 Wilkinson Road
Gaylord, MI 49735
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Room reservations should be made in advance by calling 866-348-5249 by
April 30, 2023
Make sure to tell them this is for the MDTC Meeting to get the MDTC discounted rate.
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36th Annual Fun/Talk/Walk aka "Rockwell's Ramble"
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1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. SHARP start time
Outside track
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Take it all in. Over 1,500 acres of green, rough, and bunkers as far as the eye can see. And once you get to that horizon, you’ll see why we’re called Treetops. We get that you’re a little intimidated; that’s understandable. You are in the presence of the Five Wonders of Michigan, and there’s no real way to get over it, but to get into it. You just might get a hole-in-one! Maybe.
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Please call your golf reservation department directly at 866-349-5249 to book a tee time on the Treetops course for 6-16-23.
Ask for the MDTC rate/times to get the MDTC discounted rate.
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Annual Meeting Sponsors
as of 2-7-2023
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Firm Sponsors
Collins Einhorn Farrel PC
Dwada Mann Mulcahy & Sadler PLC
Kitch Attorneys and Counselors
Nemeth Bonnette Brouwer PC
Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge PC
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Cross Xamine Investigations
ESi
Exponent Inc.
LCS Record Retrieval
Nederveld Forensic Engineering & Fire Inc.
Physician Life Care Planning
Shadow Investigations
Subrosa Investigations, LLC
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Committee
Brandon Schumacher, Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC, Chair
Salina Hamilton, Dickinson Wright PLLC
Veronica Ibrahim, Kent E. Gorsuch & Associates
Randy Juip, Foley Baron Metzger & Juip PLLC
Dale Robinson, Rutledge Manion Rabaut Terry & Thomas PC
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