Protecting the Record from Start to Finish at Jury Trials: Perspectives from Appellate Counsel

COURSE DETAILS

Join us to hear important practice tips, highlighting governing law necessary to preserve the record throughout a jury trial, from the pre-trial conference, to voir dire of jurors, trial objections, trial motions, and post-trial motions.

The panelists, who are renowned appellate and trial attorneys, will discuss how to ensure a clean and clear record, and successful trial, by proper and timely motions and objections.

Participants will learn how embedded appellate counsel, on both sides, significantly enhances the trial team’s effectiveness by, inter alia, drafting persuasive written motions and briefs for the trial court, drafting jury instructions, and advising the trial team on trial objections and motions.

The panelists will also discuss appellate counsel’s role, and effectiveness, during mediation and other ADR methods.

FACULTY

Faculty: Hon. Kathleen Waterman-Marshall, Acting Supreme Court Justice, New York County; Jennifer Frankola-Crawford, Esq., Attorney, Arbitrator and Special Master to Hon. Kathleen Waterman-Marshall; Brian J. Isaac, Esq., Partner at Pollack, Pollack, Isaac & DeCicco, LLP; Jeff Korek, Esq., Senior Trial Partner at Gersowitz, Libo & Korek, P.C.; Matthew G. Miller, Esq., Partner at Goldberg Segalla; Christina Pingaro, Esq., Senior Appellate Attorney at Kahana Feld LLP

Program Co-sponsors: NYCLA’s Foreign & International Law Committee; NYCLA’s Civil Court Practice Section; The Columbian Lawyers Association of the First Department; Brehon Law Society; New York Women’s Bar Association; Irish American Bar Association of New York; Puerto Rican Bar Association