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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!
​Check out Events & Activities for more.
Friday Sessions & Breakouts
Location information TBA.
7 – 7:45 am
Breakfast
Location: Gore Creek Garden
7:45 – 8:30 am
Welcome & Announcements
Location: Cascade Ballroom
8:30 – 9:45 am
Keynote Speaker, Lou Radja
Dancing in the Rain: Managing People and Performance in Today's Legal Environment
Location: Cascade Ballroom
9:45 – 10:35 am
Data-Driven Reconstruction and Visualization,
Plus Auditing and Challenging Persuasive Graphics
Shawn Kinsey, 4ensic IMPACT; Mike Sutton and Aaron Kiefer, Impact Forensics
Location: Cascade Ballroom
10:40 – 11:30 am
Breakout #1 | Updates in Premises Liability - Location: Gore AB (downstairs)
Heather Salg, SGR
Breakout #2 | Depositions for New Lawyers - Location: Gore CD (downstairs)
Lindsay Dunn, Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons; Brendan Rodman, Messner Reeves
Breakout #3 | How to Defend Against the One-Stop Medical Shop - Location: Cascade Ballroom
Andrew M. LaFontaine, Bradley J. Schulz & Associates; Bryan Schmid, El Paso County; Dylan Lewis, Sutton | Booker
11:40 am – 1 pm
Lunch & Learn: Case Law Update
Jeff Ruebel, RQ Law; Christopher Unger, American Family Insurance
Location: Gore Creek Garden
1:15 – 2:05 pm
Breakout #4 | Failure to Mitigate Lifestyle Factors Like Weight and Mental Health Disorders on Chronic Pain - Location: Gore AB (downstairs)
Dr. Nathan Hammel, MD, ExamWorks; Kristin Caruso, Ritesma Law
Breakout #5 | Excess Exposure from Day 1 - Location: Cascade Ballroom
Jackie Booker and Rachel Jennings, Sutton | Booker
Breakout #6 | Subrogation - Location: Gore CD (downstairs)
Emily Swanson, Lasater & Martin
2:25 – 3:15 pm
Breakout #7 | Identifying and Addressing Emotional Reactions in Witnesses – The Key to Witness Preparation - Location: Cascade Ballroom
Jeff Dougherty, Litigation IQ
Breakout #8 | Colorado's Costly Lawsuit Climate - Location: Gore AB (downstairs)
Mark Hillman, CCJL
Breakout #9 | Colorado’s Highest‑Risk Compliance Traps for 2026: Wage & Hour, FAMLI, PHEW, and HFWA—What Attorneys Must Know Now - Location: Gore CD (downstairs)
Melisa Panagakos, Jackson Lewis
3:20 – 4:10 pm
Our Courts Rule of Law
Justice Richard Gabriel, Colorado Supreme Court; Jen Friedberg, American Family Insurance
Location: Cascade Ballroom
Saturday, August 1
7 – 7:45 am
Breakfast
Location: Gore Creek Garden
7:45 – 7:50 am
Welcome & Announcements
Location: Cascade Ballroom
8:00 – 9:30 am
AI for Civil Defense: Practical Tools to Transform Your Practice
Alexandra Serra, Esq., Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law | AI & Law Fellow, UMKC School of Law;
Megan Daic, Esq., Daic Law | Adjunct Professor, University of Houston Law Center
Location: Cascade Ballroom
9:40 – 10:30 am
Breakout #10 | A Discussion on the New Construction Statute - Location: Cascade Ballroom
Melissa Ogburn, Montgomery | Amatuzio; David McLain, Higgins, Hopkins, McLain & Roswell
Breakout #11 | New Lawyers: Preserving the Objection—Building the Defense Record
Location: Gore AB (downstairs)
Sarah Vogel, Montgomery | Amatuzio
Breakout #12 | The Complexities of Pain - Location: Gore CD (downstairs)
Osvaldo "Os" Baldessari, Oz Dynamic Therapy
10:35 – 11:25
Voir Dire: Starting Your Trial on a High
Judge Sarah Wallace, Colorado 2nd Judicial District
Location: Cascade Ballroom
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Lunch & Learn—Legislative Update
Adam Royval, Messner Reeves; Mark Hillman, CCJL
Location: Gore Creek Garden
1 – 1:50 pm
Judges Panel
Justice Susan Blanco, Colorado Supreme Court; Hon. Sarah B. Wallace, Judge, Second Judicial District Court; and Hon. Jon J. Olafson, Judge, Second Judicial District Court
Location: Cascade Ballroom
2 – 2:50 pm
Breakout #13 | Your AI Toolkit: From Case Management to Courtroom Preparation
Location: Gore AB (downstairs)
Alexandra Serra, Esq., Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law | AI & Law Fellow, UMKC School of Law
Breakout #14 | From Idea to App: How Attorneys Are Building Their Own
AI-Powered Legal Tools - Location: Gore CD (downstairs)
Megan Daic, Esq, Daic Law | Adjunct Professor, University of Houston Law Center
Breakout #15 | Coverage Update - Location: Cascade Ballroom
Brian Kershaw, Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, Drew Lavin, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
3 – 3:30 pm
Exhibitor Raffle Drawings
Location: Cascade Ballroom
3:30 – 4:20 pm
Ethics—Lawyers Behaving Badly
Katherine Kelley Otto, Recht Kornfeld; Emilie Lorden, Wilson Elser
Location: Cascade Ballroom
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