December Conversations & Cocktails

“Maximizing Your Potential in Mediation”

presented by Douglas Furlong, Esq. of Furlong ADR

Wednesday, December 20, 2023
5:00 PM, EST

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The Spring 2023 Defense Line is here!

Featured articles include:

• President’s Message
  
• The Depositions of Today: In-Person, Remote and Everything In-Between
• Setting the Table for Success in Mediation
• Life Care Plans: Fundamental Methodology
• Editor’s Corner
• Goodell DeVries is pleased to announce that Jessica Ayd, James Phelan Robinson, and Justin E. Tepe have been elected partners of the firm, effective January 1, 2023
• Carrie J. Williams Joins Goodell DeVries’s Appellate Practice
• California Court of Appeal Affirms that Federal Impossibility Preemption Defeats Prop 65 Warning Claims for Over-the-Counter Generic Ranitidine
  
• Spotlights
  
• MDC Sponsors

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PUBLISH AN ARTICLE and/or HIGHLIGHT YOUR VICTORIES

The next edition of The Defense Line is right around the corner and we want to showcase our members! We are soliciting substantive articles, practice pointers, and case updates as well as personal victories. Do you have some news to share about yourself or a colleague? Let us know!

Submission deadline (EXTENDED): October 15, 2023

Please send all submissions, questions or suggestions to Nicholas Phillips.

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MDC volunteers with Happy Helpers for the Homeless Food Bank

John Sly attended the investiture of Gregory Sampson on October 15, 2018

MDC issued lifetime achievement awards on March 19, 2018

The Honorable Herbert F. Murray Lifetime Achievement Award

The Murray award will be for a Dean of the Bench — This award is given to a sitting or retired judge who has demonstrated the highest attributes of intelligence, character, impartiality, judicial sensitivity and temperament, and enjoys the respect of the bar.

John H. Mudd Lifetime Achievement Award

The Mudd award will be for a Dean of the Bar — This award is given to an individual who has demonstrated dedication, service, and leadership throughout their career as well as professional presence and commitment to MDC.

“The Associate’s Handbook: A Resource for Aspiring Trial Lawyers” »
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