Advanced Anatomy for Trial Lawyers 2013 SDTLA Fall Seminar September 19-20, 2013 Lodge at Deadwood REGISTER TODAY!

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1 Advanced Anatomy for Trial Lawyers 2013 SDTLA Fall Seminar September 19-20, 2013 Lodge at Deadwood REGISTER TODAY! Doctors, lawyers, nurses and experts discuss human anatomy and how to teach a jury the real injuries a client sustains. Also the ins and outs of mediation; brain injuries ---- the aftermath. Tom Vesper of New Jersey will be the keynote speaker at the evening banquet and will be doing a session entitled, All you need to know about the law and just a little bit more. Agenda Thursday, September 19, :30 p.m. Registration and coffee Pine Crest A 1:00 p.m. SDTLA Welcome Stephanie Pochop, President 1:05 p.m. Anatomy 101 for Trial Lawyers Dr. Thomas Quinn, PhD, Professor of Anatomy, Creighton Univ. School of Medicine - invited 2:30 pm BREAK 2:45 pm Neurosurgery and the post-surgical ramifications Dr. Larry Teuber, MD, Neurosurgeon, Rapid City, SD 4:00 pm Medical Records, Finding the Right Expert & Putting a Medical Case Together Jacqueline Colclough, RN, JD, Washington, DC 5:00 p.m. adjourn 5:30 pm Past Presidents Reception Pine Crest D 6:30 p.m Networking Banquet Pine Crest D Keynote Speaker - Tom Vesper, Attorney, West Atlantic City, NJ 8:30 p.m. Poker Tourney Friday, September 20, :30 a.m. Traumatic Brain Injuries 10:00 a.m. Break Steve Smith, Hampton, VA, Brain Injury Law Center 10:15 a.m. All you want to know about the law and just a little bit more..making medicine come alive in the court room Tom Vesper, West Atlantic City, NJ 11:00 a.m. Mediation for all it s worth Noon John Leighton, Miami, FL - invited Adjourn

2 REGISTRATION INFORMATION: The seminar begins at 1 pm on Thursday September 19 and ends at noon on Friday, September 20. Registration fees covers two half days of seminar with course materials, breaks, Past President s Reception and banquet dinner. REGISTRATION FEES: Comp $ $ $ $ $ $ $50.00 $ *must pre-register Sustaining members, Judges and Law Students* members over 3 years in practice members less than 3 years in practice Public attorney members Public attorney Non-members non-members less than 3 years in practice non-members over 3 years in practice Legal Support Staff Legal Support Staff non-member Deadline to register is September 13 th ACCOMODATIONS: Rooms can be reserved by calling the Lodge at Deadwood and ask for reservations in the SD Trial Lawyer Association block. The SDTLA rate is $89.00/night plus tax. The SDTLA room block will be released on August 20th so call today! There is a back-up room block at Cadillac Jack s for SDTLA also when the Lodge block fills up. Please photocopy and use a separate registration form for each registrant. Return this form and the appropriate fees to: SDTLA Office PO Box 1154 Pierre, SD If you have questions, call (605) Name Telephone REGISTER ON-LINE by sending an message with the above information to sdtla@mncomm.com. Please send your registration fee by mail to SDTLA, PO Box 1154, Pierre, SD

3 FACULTY: Tom Vesper Tom is a skilled and respected trial lawyer and legal expert in serious personal injury, TBI (traumatic brain injury), wrongful death, complex litigation, product liability, professional negligence, and consumer fraud cases. One of the few NJ attorneys recognized and published as an authority on wrongful death law, settlement strategies and damages. Tom has handled thousands of serious injury and death cases and tried hundreds of cases to jury verdicts or binding arbitration awards. He is listed as one of "The Best Lawyers in America" in the personal injury category, and Best Personal Injury Lawyers in New Jersey. These peer reviewed list of the nation's and NJ s best lawyers by specialty area are selected by other lawyers and published nationally and statewide. Tom Vesper is credited with helping change the legal rights of fire, police and emergency personnel and their families to recover damages in third party cases when they are seriously injured or killed on the job; also he has developed new ethical techniques for establishing money damages. Member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers; Past President of the New Jersey Association of Trial Lawyers (now NJAJ); Charter member of South Jersey Chapter of American Board of Trial Advocates; Founding member of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice; Sustaining & Stalwart Member of American Association for Justice; Faculty Member of National College of Advocacy; Founding Member, Past President, Past Executive Director of Academy of Catastrophic Injury Attorneys (now ATA); Founding Member and Board of Directors of Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (APITLA); Founding Member and Executive Director of The Aletheia Institute, dedicated to Truth in Advocacy, Full Disclosure in Discovery, and a Fair Measure of Justice. Certified as a civil trial attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Author of 30 books or chapters and more than 200 published articles on damages, wrongful death, trial advocacy, settlement, discovery and trial practice, including, The Trial Notebook, 7th ed. (2013 West Pub. Co.), The Deposition Notebook 6th ed. (2013 West); Uncle Anthony s Unabridged Analogies, 3nd ed. (2013 West); Ante-Mortem Damages, Ch. 20, Medical - Legal Aspects of Pain and Suffering, (2003 Lawyers & Judges Pub. Co., Inc.); Consortium Chapter 25, Vol 2, Litigating Tort Cases (2013 West); The Canadian Settlement Notebook (2012 BC Trial Lawyers; 2009 Alberta TLA) Wrongful Death Ch, Vol 2,VII, Handbook of Death & Dying, (2004 Sage); All About Auto Cases: Winning Trial Strategies (2004 Vermont Trial Lawyers Association); The Ethics Blitz, (2005, New Hampshire TLA) Teaches and lectures nationally and statewide at trial lawyer conferences, Webinars and Video Workshops including the National College of Trial Advocacy at Harvard and Duke University law schools, the New Jersey Judicial Conference of Judges, AAJ, APITLA, and The Aletheia Institute. Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, one of four attorneys in the firm who has tried and settled cases bringing more than one million dollars to the client. Graduate of Villanova University with a BA cum laude; juris doctorate in law from Rutgers University Law School, writer and member of the Rutgers Camden Law Review. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve for 23 years; 27 (b) certification as Trial and Defense Counsel for Courts Martial; retired as CWO4. Born in Philadelphia, PA., raised in Pennsauken, NJ and a homeowner in Margate, NJ since Enjoys watching movies, shows, dining, traveling with his family: Mary Alice and their two daughters Maggie and Catie.

4 Jacqueline T. Colclough 1919 M Street, NW, Suite 350 Washington, D.C Jacqueline Colclough is a magna cum laude graduate of St. Anselm College, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in After receiving her license to practice as a registered nurse in Virginia, she received her law degree from the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, in She is admitted to practice in the State of Maryland, the District of Columbia, the State of New York and the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia and District of Maryland. Prior to joining Regan Zambri Long & Bertram in 2005, Ms. Colclough worked as an associate with Thompson Coburn LLP, Washington, D.C., and Lamb & Barnosky, LLP, Melville, New York, where she represented corporate clients in transactional and regulatory matters for more than ten years. It was during this time that she developed and refined her negotiating and litigation skills as the lead attorney in multimillion dollar transactions. With a goal to ultimately combine her medical and legal expertise, Ms. Colclough returned to the practice of nursing to strengthen her clinical skills. She worked as a staff nurse at a Northern Virginia hospital in the area of obstetrics and neonatology for several years. Ms. Colclough then chose to join Regan Zambri Long & Bertram in order to use her many years of nursing and legal experience in medical malpractice actions for the benefit of those who have been seriously injured due to the careless and preventable errors of others. Ms. Colclough's practice is rooted in her belief that patient safety considerations should never be compromised in the health care setting and that victims of medical negligence are entitled to fair and just recompense for their injuries, particularly when those injuries are life-altering. Her practice is further focused on achieving justice for patients who have been severely injured and families who have tragically lost loved ones through no fault of their own. Ms. Colclough is a member of numerous professional and other organizations, including the American Association for Justice, the District of Columbia Trial Lawyers Association, The Maryland Association for Justice, The American Health Lawyers Association, The American Association of Nurse Attorneys, the American Nurses Association, the Maryland State Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association and the alumni associations of St. Anselm College, the Columbus School of Law and Thompson Coburn LLP. Ms. Colclough was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and lives in Northern Virginia with her family. Stephen M. Smith The Best Lawyers in America ~ 2013 Super Lawyers ~ 2013 President of the National of Brain Injury Trial Lawyers of America Past President of the Brain Injury Association of Virginia Internationally recognized expert in traumatic brain injury litigation Martindale-Hubbell Preeminent A/V Rated Only attorney from Virginia to ever be awarded Diplomate status by the American Board of Trial Advocates Past Chairman of the Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group of the American Association of Justice Licensed to practice in Virginia, New York and the District of Columbia and all other states by permission Won the largest mild traumatic brain injury verdict ever awarded in the world

5 Won the largest personal injury verdict ever awarded in Virginia Public Justice national board member Belli Society national board member Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum member Listed in Who s Who in American Law Law Dragon ~ 500 Leading Lawyers in America Leaders in the Law Washington Post DC s Best Lawyers Graduate of Marquette University, College of Health Sciences, in Neuro Anatomical Dissection of the Human Brain and Spinal Cord EDUCATION: Larry Teuber, M.D. South Dakota State University (SDSU) B.S. Economics, Business, 1981 University of South Dakota (USD) B.S. Medicine, 1983 M.D. Medicine, 1985 POST GRADUATE EDUCATION: Medical College of Wisconsin General Surgery Internship, 1986 EXPERIENCE: Neurosurgery Resident, June 1991 Extensive experience spinal surgery instrumentation Clinical Instructor Spinal Instrumentation Course Med. College of Wisconsin, July 9-21, 1990 Neurosurgery Chief Resident Children s Hospital of WI Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor Advanced Cardiac Life Support Aviation Medical Examiner Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Provider June 2012 Medical Review Officer June 2012, Civilian-Medical Emergency Medicine Staff Physician Good Samaritan Hospital, Brookfield, WI St. Joseph s Hospital, West Bed, WI Manitowoc Memorial Hospital, Manitowoc, WI Two Rivers Memorial Hospital, Two Rivers, WI Civilian- Medical Management ( Currently active) Physician Executive Black Hills Surgical Hospital Managing Director and Medical Director Black Hills Urgent Care