SCHEDULE

We've created an agenda filled with educational
sessions covering a wide variety of legal topics, breakout sessions, lunch & learns, and featured speakers. Oh, and we sprinkled some fun in there as well!

Preliminary tentative sessions are listed below, with more to be added! Locations, dates, and times to be announced.

Keynote Address – Lou Radja

Dancing in the Rain: Managing People and Performance in Today's Demanding Legal Environment

Excess Exposure from Day 1

Jackie Booker, Sutton | Booker

Data-Driven Reconstruction and Visualization: Auditing and Challenging Persuasive Graphics

Shawn Kinsey, 4ensic IMPACT Mike Sutton & Aaron Kiefer, Impact Forensics

Voir Dire: Starting Your Trial on a High

Judge Sarah Wallace, Colorado 2nd Judicial District

Ethics: Lawyers Behaving Badly

Katherine Kelley Otto, Recht Kornfeld Emilie Lorden, Wilson Elser

Colorado Case Law and Appellate Update

Jeff Ruebel, RQ Law

Legislative Update

Ariana Busby, Coombe | Curry | Rich | Jarvis Adam Royval, Messner Reeves

Colorado’s Costly Lawsuit Climate

Mark Hammel, CCJL

Judges Panel

Participants TBA

Colorado's Highest-Risk Compliance Traps for 2026: Wage & Hour, FAMLI, PHEW, and HFWA — What Attorneys Must Know Now

Melisa Panagakos, Jackson Lewis

The Complexities of Pain

Osvaldo Baldessari, Oz Dynamic Therapy

Identifying and Addressing Emotional Reactions in Witnesses

Jeff Dougherty, Litigation IQ

The Failure to Mitigate: Lifestyle Factors Including Weight and Mental Health Disorders in Chronic Pain Cases

Dr. Nathan Hammel, MD, ExamWorks

AI Governance Laws and Ethical Considerations for Lawyers

Daniel Pietragallo, Buchalter

New Lawyers: Preserving the Objection — Building the Defense Record

Sarah Vogel, Montgomery | Amatuzio

A Discussion on the New Construction Statute

Melissa Ogburn, Montgomery | Amatuzio, David McLain, Higgins Hopkins McLain & Roswell

Defending Against the One-Stop Medical Shop

Andrew M. LaFontaine, Bradley J. Schulz & Associates, Bryan Schmid, El Paso County

Depositions for New Lawyers

Lindsay Dunn, Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, Brendan Rodman, Messner Reeves

Updates in Premises Liability

Heather Salg, SGR