Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard Managing Partner Patrick A. Salvi will present at Trial Lawyers University Live in Huntington Beach, California

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard Managing Partner Patrick A. Salvi II will give multiple presentations during the Trial Lawyers University Live Conference in Huntington Beach, California. The event will be held from June 4 – June 7 at the Pasea Hotel.

TLU Huntington Beach is a combination of four lecture tracks and seven breakout rooms for small-group skills training workshops. The workshops will take place Wednesday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

A standard admission ticket includes access to the four lecture tracks, breakfast, lunch, and nightly after-parties.

Please click here to learn more or register for the event.

Information on Mr. Salvi’s presentations is below:

Wednesday, June 4:

• Med Mal Masterclass

Thursday, June 5:

• Lecture on ABCs of Big Damages: Always Be Closing from Voir Dire to Rebuttal

Friday, June 6:

• Lecture on ABCs of Big Damages: Always Be Closing from Voir Dire to Rebuttal
• Live voir dire session

See below or click here for Mr. Salvi’s presentation outline for Wednesday, June 4’s Med Mal Masterclass:

Med Mal Master Class Outline:

• Case intake
  • Overall thoughts on case intake
  • Approach to specific cases (e.g., surgical error, delayed cancer diagnosis, emergency room, birth injury, vascular)
  • Efficiently deciding what cases to obtain records, get expert review, and file
• Assembling your experts
  • Which experts do you need?
  • Where to find them
  • How to best engage the experts and communicate with the experts
  • Difficult to find experts
• Complaint drafting
  • Naming defendants to prevent empty chairs
  • Maximizing collectability
  • Drafting the complaint to ensure relation back in the future
  • Institutional negligence
• Maximizing your evidence through discovery
  • Obtaining important discovery outside the medical records – policies and procedures, communications not in the records, insurance policies
  • Audit trail discovery
  • Depositions – defendant doctors/nurses, treating physicians, plaintiff experts, defense experts
  • Literature – good literature to support your case
• Trial preparation
  • MILs
  • Demonstrative exhibits – education of medical concepts, right way wrong way, effective timelines
  • Order of witnesses
  • High tech, low tech – using flip charts, models, and animations
• Voir dire
  • Deselecting bad med mal jurors
  • Doctors are just like the rest of us
  • Who has courage?
  • No such thing as “poisoning the well” (with a couple exceptions)
• Adverse examination of the Defendant
  • Kill shots
  • No oxygen
  • 80/20 rule
• Direct of the Plaintiff’s expert
  • ABC – always be closing
  • Locking in your proofs
  • Dos and don’ts – prepping the witness to be his or her best
• Cross of defense experts
  • Using literature
  • Using evidence at trial
  • Focus on the facts
  • Credibility and impressions
• Closing and rebuttal
  • Lowering the burden
  • Boiling the complex down to its essence
  • Connecting with jurors
  • Predicting defendant’s closing – being armed for rebuttal