Our latest featured speaker is Micha Star Liberty from Liberty Law!

Micha will be speaking at our upcoming 15th Annual Federal Court Boot Camp: The Nuts and Bolts seminar in San Francisco on May 17th. This is the first time that Micha will be speaking for us, and we’re so excited to have her insight!

Micha is the owner of the Liberty Law Office — a diverse legal practice primarily representing individuals who have suffered a serious injury or abuse, including child sexual abuse. The firm also represents employees who have been harassed or discriminated against in the workplace. Micha has also assisted businesses with finding a common ground when releasing an employee on best terms.

Ms. Liberty is a frequent lecturer and published author, focusing much of her public speaking on trial practice, discovery techniques, the importance of mentoring, and best practices for opening a law office and law office management.

In 2015, the Consumer Attorneys of California — an organization made up of more than 3,000 lawyers in California alone — presented her with the Street Fighter of the Year award at their 54th annual convention held at The Palace in San Francisco. Ms. Liberty was granted the award after holding the Contra Costa County School District accountable for a child sexual molestation case in which school officials were aware of the abuse and took no action.

Every year since 2005, she’s been given the Presidential Award of Merit. In 2005 and 2006 she was presented the Defender of Justice Award and the Outstanding Service Award, respectively. In 2018, she was awarded the Women’s Advocate of the Year Award for her hard work on legislation and for prosecuting numerous cases in the #metoo era.

Ms. Liberty was a contributing author and editor for the following practice guides: California Client Communications Manual, and California Basic Practice Handbook, both published by Continuing Education of the Bar.

Aside from her thriving law practice, she is a certified mediator with over 40 hours of training, and she has performed private mediations as well as mediations for the Contra Costa Superior Court.

Ms. Liberty has worked at the White House and for two Members of Congress: for U.S. Representative Mel Watt, from North Carolina, and for U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo. She has also served as a judicial extern to Senior United States District Court Judge Thelton E. Henderson. While in law school, she served as a Moot Court Board member, teaching assistant, and an editor for the Women’s Law Journal.

In addition to her work on behalf of injured and aggrieved people, Ms. Liberty is active in her legal and political communities. She served as the President of the Alameda-Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers Association, and was Vice President of the State Bar of California. She is also on the governing boards of several professional legal organizations.

Our latest featured speaker is Seth Miles from Buckner + Miles!

Seth will be speaking at our upcoming The Plaintiff Attorney’s Guide to Handling the Medical Malpractice Pre-suit seminar in Fort Lauderdale on May 10th. He also spoke at our Personal Injury Law in Florida seminar in 2018, where attendees reviewed his presentation very highly. Welcome back, Seth!

Seth is an experienced trial lawyer successfully litigating personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, maritime, class action, commercial tort, and qui tam cases. In each area, Mr. Miles has had clients recover in excess of one million dollars. In total, his recoveries for his clients exceed $250,000,000.

In one of the pivotal cases in his career, Seth received an $80 million verdict on behalf of three Cuban migrants forced to work as modern day slaves at a drydock. As a result of his work on this case, he was honored with the prestigious “Most Effective Lawyer” award given by the Daily Business Review.

Mr. Miles was also selected to serve on the Plaintiff’s Executive Committee for the crash of American Airlines Flight 331, and chosen as Liaison Counsel for nationwide force-placed flood insurance claims against J.P. Morgan Chase that resulted in a $22.5 million settlement.

He currently serves on the Southern District of Florida’s Bar Grievance Committee and the Florida Bar’s Constitutional Judiciary Committee. In addition, Seth was selected by the Florida Supreme Court to serve on the Civil Jury Instruction Committee.

Prior to entering private practice, Seth served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the criminal division of the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida. While serving as an Assistant United States Attorney, he tried numerous jury trials on matters ranging from airplane skyjacking to healthcare fraud and argued before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals multiple times.

Our latest featured speaker is Laura McNally from Loeb & Loeb!

Laura will be speaking at our upcoming 10th Annual Federal Court Boot Camp in Chicago on April 26th! She has been speaking for us since 2015. Her most recent presentation at our Jury Selection program received outstanding reviews from attendees, and we’re so glad to have her again!

Laura has successfully tried complex commercial cases in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration. Her cases have included issues of contract, fraud, employee mobility, trade secrets, insurance coverage, product liability, fiduciary obligations, and legal malpractice. As Co-Chair of her firm’s Retail and Consumer Brands industry group, Laura has significant focus on legal issues facing this important sector of the economy. She has represented leading retailers and consumer product manufacturers on issues relating to consumer protection, defamation, and antitrust issues, and she has been quoted in the National Law Journal and Bloomberg News. In addition, she has filed amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Retail Litigation Center, and the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board relating to issues affecting the retail and consumer products industry.

She is a frequent speaker on mediation advocacy, including at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference, and she has settled cases ranging from small commercial disputes to mass torts involving hundreds of parties to class actions filed against major international retailers.

In addition, Laura has represented many clients on a pro bono basis in civil rights matters, including the first case to establish AIDS-related disability discrimination before the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights. Laura serves as the Chicago chair of her firm’s Pro Bono Committee.

Our latest featured speaker is Scot Wilson from Robinson Calcagnie!

Scot will be speaking at our upcoming 15th Annual Federal Court Boot Camp in Los Angeles on May 3rd! He has spoken for us several times since 2013. At our How to Master the Deposition seminar in 2018, Scot received outstanding reviews from attendees. We’re glad to have you, Scot!

Scot has been an attorney since 2002. He has over 17 years of experience representing clients in personal injury‚ wrongful death, consumer protection, employment, business, and class action cases. In addition to personal injury and wrongful death cases, Mr. Wilson also handles class action cases. Scot was one of the trial lawyers in the landmark In re Tobacco II class action trial on behalf of California consumers in which Philip Morris was found to have fraudulently and deceptively marketed Marlboro “Light” cigarettes as being safer and healthier than regular cigarettes.

Before joining Robinson Calcagnie in 2010, Scot was previously a shareholder at a business litigation firm in Newport Beach for six years where he represented clients in business, employment, and class action litigation. Before that, he was an associate at an international law firm in Irvine for two years. Mr. Wilson previously clerked for Judge William J. Rea in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He also served as a pro bono Deputy District Attorney with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office Trial Attorney Partnership Program.

Mr. Wilson has been admitted to practice in California since 2002 and has been admitted and handled cases in state and federal courts throughout the country.

In addition to being a member of the State Bar of California, he is a member of the Western Trial Lawyers Association (“WTLA”), Consumer Attorneys of California (“CAOC”), Orange County Bar Association (“OCBA”), Association of Business Trial Lawyers (“ABTL”), and Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (“OCTLA”). In 2015 and 2016, Scot was on the Board of Directors for the OCTLA. He is the author of the Recent Cases column in the CAOC’s Forum Magazine and is a member of the OCBA’s Administration of Justice committee

Scot has been named a Super Lawyer by Los Angeles Magazine for his work. In 2018, Mr. Wilson was a recipient the prestigious California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (“CLAY”) Award.

He frequently gives presentations to other lawyers regarding trial advocacy, deposition techniques, and emerging issues in personal injury, consumer protection, and class action lawsuits.

Our latest featured speaker is Danielle Gould from Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella!

Danielle will be speaking at our upcoming 10th Annual Federal Court Boot Camp in Chicago on April 26th. This will be her first time speaking for us, and we’re looking forward to her presentation!

Danielle is an experienced litigator and practice leader in her firm’s Class Action Defense group. She represents companies and individuals in litigation matters involving commercial and business disputes, consumer fraud, false and deceptive advertising, unfair business practices, appraisal fraud, mortgage lending and loan servicing practices, employment disputes, and claims of negligent hiring and retention of employees. This includes having defended clients in more than fifty class action matters nationwide involving a variety of claims based on state common law, consumer fraud statutes, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the Truth in Lending Act, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and Chicago’s Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance.

Danielle has also represented individuals requiring pro bono representation in immigration matters. Prior to joining her firm, she practiced law at the Chicago office of Jenner & Block.

Our latest featured speaker is Ian Fisher from Hahn Loeser & Parks!

Ian will be speaking at our upcoming 10th Annual Federal Court Boot Camp in Chicago on April 26th! He also spoke at last year’s Federal Court Boot Camp. Welcome back, Ian!

Ian represents commercial clients ranging from small entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 companies. He has successfully litigated cases involving real estate, antitrust, trade secret misappropriation, consumer and business tort disputes.

Ian has substantial experience with class-action and multi-district litigation proceedings and has successfully defended on appeal several trial court victories. He is skilled at identifying strategies that align with his clients’ business goals.

Having served as a general counsel for both a law firm and a small company, Ian has a unique understanding of in-house counsel’s perspective.

Illinois Super Lawyers has repeatedly ranked Ian as one of its “Top 100 Attorneys.” For more than 15 years, the Leading Lawyers Network has named Ian as a “Leading Lawyer” in both Commercial Litigation and Class Action/Mass Tort Defense, and he has been ranked more recently in Trade Secrets/Unfair Competition Law. He is also rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell, its top rating for ethical standards and legal ability.

Our latest featured speaker is Gary Guzzi from Akerman!

Gary will be speaking at our upcoming Insurance Bad Faith Cases program in Miami on April 12th! This will be his first time speaking with us. Welcome, Gary!

Gary serves as chair of Akerman’s Insurance Litigation Practice, a national team of 45 lawyers representing leading domestic and foreign carriers, self-insured corporations, municipalities, and related entities in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. He protects the interests of national and international insurance carriers in bad faith disputes, coverage claims, rescissions and ERISA-governed policies.

With comprehensive experience in insurance disputes, Gary litigates life, disability, commercial general liability, directors and officers, errors and omissions, homeowner, business interruption, and auto claims. His bad faith experience includes both first-party claims such as wrongful denial, delay, improper appraisal invocation, and lowballing, as well as third-party claims such as failure to tender limits, failure to proactively negotiate, and improper settlement communications.

Gary also represents carriers in litigation pertaining to carriers’ rescissions of policies, including misrepresentations in applications, failure to update applications, and Stranger-Owned Life Insurance. Gary litigates cases involving life, disability, and similar policies governed by ERISA, including claims for breach of fiduciary duty and claims for benefits. Additionally, Gary advises carriers on proper techniques for claim handling, rescissions, and other aspects of carriers’ businesses.

Our latest featured speaker is Rochelle Wilcox from Davis Wright Tremaine!

Rochelle will be speaking at our upcoming Understanding SLAPPs program in San Francisco on April 5th. This is her first time speaking for us, and we’re thrilled to have her!

Rochelle, a California State Bar Certified Appellate Specialist, focuses her litigation and appeals practice on media law, including extensive experience with California’s anti-SLAPP law, defense of defamation, invasion of privacy and newsgathering claims, and access and reporter’s shield issues.

Rochelle’s practice also includes a full range of employment litigation on behalf of employers and general business litigation issues. She has broad experience in federal and state appellate courts in a wide array of issues and disputes.

Rochelle’s California Supreme Court experience includes participating in drafting six successful petitions for review, all of which had successful outcomes. She has been counsel for the winning party in her last eight cases before the California Supreme Court.