Change & Prosper: Personal Injury 2009

Friday, April 17, 2009

Profitability Overview - Your Practice from 100,000 Feet

Jonathan Katz, Esq., Jacobs Grudberg Belt Dow & Katz, PC, New Haven

  • Why It's Tougher Than Ever to Make a Buck at This Business
  • Understanding and Measuring Profitability
  • Avoiding the Unprofitable
  • Bombproofing Your Practice

Finding Your Marketing Niche and Holding Clients

Michael A. Stratton, Esq., Stratton Faxon, New Haven

  • How to Identify Your Niche
  • Marketing With Style and Impact
  • Initial Interview
  • Post-Retainer Relations:  Keeping the Client

Beware the Pitfalls

Steven D. Jacobs, Esq., Jacobs Jacobs & Shannon, PC, New Haven

  • Cash Advances
  • Spend Money to Make Money
  • IOLTA Accounts
  • Statutes of Limitations

Maximizing the Value of the Case - Both to Your Client and Yourself

Douglas P. Mahoney, Esq., Tremont & Sheldon, PC, Bridgeport

  • Developing the Medical Proof
  • Pretrial Preparation:  Client; Discovery / Depositions; Demonstrative Evidence; Witnesses
  • Relationships With Doctors, Adjusters and Defense Counsel
  • Offers of Compromise

Potpourri of Practical Tips

Harold L. Rosnick, Esq., Miller Rosnick D'Amico August & Butler, PC, Bridgeport

  • Don't Reinvent the Wheel - Forms
  • Identify Potential Liens
  • How to Handle Clients With Prior Injuries
  • Bad Faith Letters When You Have Limited Coverage
  • Protecting the UM / UIM Case
  • Collateral Sources - Know the Facts
  • AND 20 MORE TIPS YOU NEED TO KNOW

This program is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys.

Speakers

Charles B. Price, Jr., Esq. (chair) Miller Rosnick D'Amico August & Butler, PC
Harold L. Rosnick, Esq. (chair) Miller Rosnick D'Amico August & Butler, PC
Steven D. Jacobs, Esq. Jacobs & Jacobs, LLC
Jonathan Katz, Esq. Jacobs & Dow, LLC
Douglas P. Mahoney, Esq. Robinson Mahoney PLLC
Michael A. Stratton Stratton Trials

CLE Credits

This Continuing Legal Education program is appropriate for both newly-admitted and experienced attorneys, and has been approved for the following credits in accordance with the rule requirements of these states:

Skills
Connecticut 4.50 cr

Venue

441 Clark Ln., Orange CT 06477