Pre-Litigation Bootcamp for In-House Practitioners (On Demand - Aug. 17, 2022)
Recorded On: 08/17/2022
- Registration Closed
This Webcast will cover steps that in-house lawyers can take to minimize and, if necessary, handle disputes that could result in litigation. Complete with practical, real-world strategies, participants will learn how to spot a dispute before it materializes and gain helpful advice for drafting and responding to demand letters. Plus, participants will receive a crash course on privilege to protect potentially harmful internal communications and tactics for preserving evidence in case a dispute hits the court system. Other key topics to be explored include when to call outside litigation counsel and ways to discuss litigation-related topics with non-lawyers.
Generously sponsored by Saul Ewing LLP
Aparna Peters
Corporate Counsel
Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company
Christine Cosentino
Senior Counsel, Employment and Litigation
Liberty Tire Recycling
Michael J. Joyce
Partner
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
Michael Joyce assists clients with litigation, including a wide variety of commercial disputes and insurance matters. His commercial litigation experience includes high-stakes contractual disputes, intellectual property and software cases, trade secret misappropriation and other injunction matters, and construction cases. Mike's insurance litigation work includes defending fiduciaries against claims asserted under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). His ERISA experience also encompasses the defense of a global health insurance and health service company against ERISA benefit claims.
Mike also represents media industry clients, including professional sports teams, news media agencies, and television producers, on matters ranging from defamation to privacy issues to government open records/Right to Know Law disputes. Mike includes in his First Amendment experience one of Pennsylvania's most significant open records cases, which included a record-setting sanctions award in favor of the client.
