BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:90df86dcee0dd15ab89a296419461eb023 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:2022 Spring CLE Conference DESCRIPTION:
The Westin Buffalo
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250 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14202
2:30pm -
3:00pm
Registration or Log On
3:00pm - 3:50pm
Ethical Duties and Electronically St
ored Information (1 Ethics Credit)
Brian
M. Chase, Esq., Digital Forensics, ArcherHall
This Cont
inuing Legal Education presentation covers electronic discovery and the rel
ated ethical duty of competence. Drawing on guidance from the State Bar, re
cent e-discovery cases, and our own experience assisting attorneys, the pre
sentation outlines the main risks to counsel and client of failing to prope
rly understand e-discovery obligations in litigation.
Brian M. Chase, Esq. i s a Managing Director of Digital Forensics at ArcherHall, an expert witness , and an adjunct professor of law. Before joining ArcherHall, he was a prac ticing attorney and the owner of Chase Technology Consulting, a legal techn ology consulting firm providing digital forensics and ediscovery expertise. Mr. Chase is currently licensed to practice in Arizona and New York. Mr. Chase has a diverse education and work background. He spent years working as a network administrator for the University of Arizona. He has a Management and Information Systems degree from the Eller College of Managem ent at the University of Arizona, a top ranked program in the country. Mr. Chase went on to earn a law degree, also from the University of Arizona. He has worked with various sized law firms both in an IT and legal capacity. He has consulted with firms on their use of technology within the office an d has provided expert testimony in criminal and civil matters ranging from misdemeanors to murder to medical malpractice. Mr. Chase has publ ished and spoken on various technology related issues impacting law firms a s well as parties in the civil and criminal justice system. He teaches vari ous topics regarding law and technology, and digital forensics and evidence , at a variety of legal and technical conferences. He was honored by the Tu cson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Arizona Daily Star with a “Tucson ’s 40 Under 40 Award”, which recognizes young leaders who are making an imp act in the community with their professional and charitable work.
3:50pm - 4:00pm
Break
4:0
0pm - 4:50pm
Recognizing and Representing Mild Traumatic Brain
Injury (mTBI/ Post-Concussion Syndrome) as a Potentially Permanently Inca
pacitating Injury (1 Skills Credit)
Geof
frey Schotter, Esq., Schotter Millican and Michael Flomenhaft, Esq. The Flo
menhaft Law Firm, PLLC
Brain injuries can be confounding
for workers’ compensation practitioners. The appropriate WCB-coded special
ists are few and far between.The claimants often have difficulty describing
the circumstances of the accident or their symptoms or are otherwise “poor
historians” due to the very head injuries they are claiming. The doctors w
ith whom they do treat early on often miss critical evidence of profound co
gnitive impairment because they don’t ask the right questions or obtain the
proper diagnostic studies. To make matters worse, the Workers’ Compensati
on Board has now approved new Medical Treatment Guidelines for traumatic br
ain injury (TBI)that will for the first time force claimants and their prov
iders to go through the same cumbersome variance process that currently gov
erns the most common orthopedic injuries.Now, more than ever, a basic famil
iarity with the science and medicine of the brain will be critical for New
York workers’ compensation practitioners handling TBI claims. In this pres
entation, personal injury attorney Michael Flomenhaft will discuss the stru
cture and function of the human brain, the mechanisms by which even “mild”
trauma to it can cause severe and permanent impairment, the diagnostic proc
edures necessary to discover and prove such impairment, and the treatments
that are necessary to help claimants overcome the challenges their TBIs pos
e. Workers’ compensation attorney Geoffrey Schotter will then discuss the
effect that the new TBI Medical Treatment Guidelines will have on the abili
ty of New York workers’ compensation practitioners to obtain these diagnost
ic procedures, obtain authorization for the appropriate treatment, and ensu
re that claimants receive compensation that is commensurate with the severi
ty of their injuries.
Geoffrey Sc hotter, Esq. was born and raised in New York City. He graduated fr om Cornell University with a BA in 2005. Prior to law school, He attended a joint JD/MA program in law and legal history at Case Western Reserve Unive rsity in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 2011. While at Case Western, He was an editor of the Case Western Reserve Law Review and also helped found the Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology and the Internet (JOLTI). After graduating from Case Western, Geoffrey returned home to New York City and began a fellowship at the national office of the ACLU researching the growing crisis of America's aging prisoner population, and worked briefly in the Manhattan office of M eyer, Suozzi, English & Klein P.C. in their labor and employment practi ce. In late 2012, at age 30 , Geoffrey opened his solo workers’ compensation law practice, which grew s teadily over the next 8 years. In 2020, he formed Schotter Millican with th ree other attorneys with whom he had been working.
Michael Flomenhaft, Esq. is a gradu
ate of Boston University School of Law and the Trial Lawyers College. The v
ast majority of his practice involves trying cases for victims of traumatic
brain injury (TBI) and severe chronic pain. His chronic pain cases frequen
tly involve Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)/Reflex Sympathetic Dystro
phy (RSD) or other traumatically caused changes in the nervous system produ
cing agonizing, unrelenting pain and potentially adverse brain consequences
. He is renowned for his va
st knowledge of neurosciences encompassing neuroimaging, neuropsychology, n
eurobiology and the neuroanatomy of brain trauma and chronic pain and trial
skills related to these subjects. He is also distinguished for his knowled
ge in spinal neurology, the psychologically fragmenting consequences of tra
uma including Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), and the evidentiary ch
allenges entailed in the courtroom presentation of these claims.
em>Mr. Flomenhaft has won landmark evide
ntiary rulings from New York state courts establishing the scientific valid
ity of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), which shows white matter/axonal brai
n damage not infrequently seen in victims of motor vehicle whiplash and con
struction accidents, Quantitative Electroencephalography (qEEG), which can
profiles deterioration in the brain’s electrical activity following traumat
ic brain injury, and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), showing
brain changes demonstrating severe pain. Additionally, he is the first New
York lawyer to put into evidence: diffusion tensor imaging, quantitative MR
I analysis showing brain atrophy, electrical evidence of sleep disturbance
as a consequence of traumatic brain injury, and fMRI to objectively demonst
rate severe chronic pain by showing associated brain activation.
8:00am - 9:00am
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span>Registration and Breakfast
9:00am -
9:50am
e-FIling Changes for Notice of Appeal to 3rd Departmen
t (1 Skills Credit)
Robert C. Brucato, E
sq., Counsel Press and Holly Schoenborn, Esq., Dolce Firm
A discussion of the new E-filing requirements f
or Workers Compensation cases at the Appellate Division, Third Department.
We will discuss the process of fling a notice of appeal, as well as the s
teps that are necessary in order to initiate a case for e-filing with the a
ppellate court.
Robert C. Brucato, Es q. opened Counsel Press's Buffalo Office in 1992 and has managed i t continuously since then. During his more than 25-year career, he has been personally involved with several thousand appeals, primarily to the N.Y.S. Appellate Courts and the U.S.C.A. for the Second Circuit. Prior to joining Counsel Press, Mr. Brucato worked for a short time with the U.S. Small Bus iness Administration and was also in private practice. Mr. Brucato is a mem ber of the Board of Directors of the MedLaw Cancer Partnership of Western N ew York. Mr. Brucato is act ively involved with multiple legal organizations and associations in the up state NY region. He has presented CLEs on appellate topics to the Bar Assoc iation of Erie County, the Monroe County Bar Association, the Western New Y ork Chapter of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York (WBASNY ), the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys (GRAWA), SUNY Buff alo Law School Law Alumni GOLD Group, the Western New York Paralegal Associ ation and the Paralegal Association of Rochester. Mr. Brucato is a member o f the Bar Association of Erie County, the Monroe County Bar Association, th e WNY Chapter of WBASNY and GRAWA.
Holly L. Schoenborn, Esq. is a proud life-long resident
of Western New York. A first generation college graduate, she attended SUN
Y Binghamton. Holly graduated in 1999 with dual Bachelor’s Degrees in Phil
osophy and Political Science, and then went on to the State University of N
ew York at Buffalo Law School. Upon finishing law school in 2002, Holly wen
t to work for Christopher Galasso Esq. doing general practice work, however
in January 2005, she moved to Gielowski Federice & Caliguiri, LLP, sta
rting a career in the area of Workers’ Compensation Law, representing both
injured workers and insurance carriers. Working on both sides of the table
gave Holly great experience, but she found working for clients who had been
affected by workplace injuries to be the most fulfilling. As a result, in
2006, she went to the law firm of Lewis & Lewis where she focused exclu
sively on representing injured workers. In 2013, Holly joined The Dolce Fi
rm where she continues to assist hard working men and women who have suffer
ed work place injuries.
9:50am - 1
0:00am
Break
10:00am-10:50am
Business Meeting (Members Only)
10:50am
- 11:00am
Break
11:00am - 11:50am
Social Security Disability & Workers' Compensation (Areas of ProfessionalPractice)
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em>Michael C. Panebianco, Esq., Lewis and Lewis, P.C.
< em>Michael Panebianco, Esq. has returned to the Southern Tier, a place he has called home his enti re life, to represent injured workers. Michael is passionate about counseli ng injured workers because his father suffered a career ending work injury many years ago. As a result, he has a keen understanding of the physical, e motional, and financial toll that a serious physical injury may have on a f amily. Michael will also fo cus his practice on criminal defense. He understands the negative effect th at a criminal conviction can have on a person’s life. In law school, he int erned at The Center for Community Alternatives, where he counseled individu als in an effort to help them overcome the barriers to employment and educa tion that they faced due to their prior criminal convictions. Michael worked as a law clerk with Lewis and Lewis, P.C. during the Summer of 2015, and he is excited to return as an associate attorney. In h is free time, Michael enjoys golfing, fishing, and spending time with his f riends and family.
11:50am
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Conference Registration Deadline: Friday, April 1, 202
2 by noon.
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an IWBA profile, please sign in and register under your profile.
20 22 Spring Member Full Registration | $325.00 |
2022 Spring One Day Only Member Registration | $225.00 |
Non-Mem ber Registration Fees | |
2022 Spring N on-Member Full Registration | $400.00 |
$300.00 |