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Skills Academy: Winning Without Trial – Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration, Pleading and Motions Practice

Fri, January 27, 2023   |   8:55 a.m. -4:30 p.m.   |  
Virtual
  |   CLE Hours: 6.0 CLE Hours

Topics & Speakers

8:00 a.m. Registration (in person)
8:55 a.m. Welcoming Remarks by Program Chair
  • Ann Ochsner, Whitley Law Firm, Raleigh
9:00 a.m. Negotiation: Effective Use and Timing of Demand Letters
  • Jon Ward, Pinto Coates Kyre & Bowers, PLLC, Greensboro
9:50 a.m. Pleadings: Leveraging a Settlement through Effective Pleading
  • Jeremy Wilson Ward & Smith, Wilmington
  • Taylor Rodney, Ward & Smith, Wilmington
10:35 a.m. Break
10:50 a.m. Motions Practice: Tap into the Power of Rule 12
  • Anna Claire Turpin, Whitley Law Firm, Raleigh
11:35 a.m. Litigation Techniques to Leverage a Settlement/Win Your Case without Submitting Medical Bills
  • Meredith Hinton, Ricci Law Firm, P.A., Greenville 
12:20 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. UM/UIM Arbitration
  • Hunt Willis, Martin & Jones, Raleigh
2:35 p.m. Break
2:50 p.m. Mediation
  • Jon Moore, Brown, Moore & Associates, PLLC, Charlotte
3:35 p.m. Panel Discussion – Things That Have Worked and Things We Wished Had Worked
  • Jackie Clare, Raleigh
  • Jon Moore, Brown, Moore & Associates, PLLC, Charlotte
  • Chris Nichols, Nichols Law Firm, Raleigh
4:35 p.m. Adjourn
Virtual Registration Only
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