Program Details
2026-09-02 12:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-09-02 12:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ESTThis session teaches plaintiff attorneys how to build a trial theme around safety rules, danger framing, and damages anchoring. Attendees learn how the Safety Rule technique works from deposition through opening statement, where federal and state courts stand on Reptile-based arguments in 2024, and which anchoring strategies, including per diem arguments, are driving nuclear verdicts. The goal is a plaintiff narrative that is persuasive to jurors and defensible in court, even as damage caps and tort reform reshape the landscape.
Mary Simon 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm ESTThis session gives defense counsel practical tools to counter Reptile Theory arguments and inflated damages demands at every stage, from initial discovery, deposition preparation and through closing arguments at trial.
Edward R. Hugo
James C. ParkerEdward R. Hugo is a founding partner of Hugo Parker, LLP in San Francisco. His trial practice spans products and premises liability, toxic torts, environmental claims, construction defect, personal injury, wrongful death, insurance, and professional negligence, and he serves as an expert witness on the duties of defense counsel and on insurance coverage matters.
James C. Parker is a founding partner, principal member, and managing partner of Hugo Parker, LLP. A seasoned litigator and trial lawyer with 38 years of trial experience, he concentrates his practice on asbestos defense, product liability, construction and real estate litigation, and civil appeals, with substantial additional experience in banking law and business litigation.
Mary Simon is a trial attorney at Simon Law PC whose practice focuses on birth injuries, medical malpractice, product liability, and catastrophic injuries arising from trucking and motor-vehicle collisions and from defective and dangerous products.
Edward R. Hugo is a founding partner of Hugo Parker, LLP in San Francisco. His trial practice spans products and premises liability, toxic torts, environmental claims, construction defect, personal injury, wrongful death, insurance, and professional negligence, and he serves as an expert witness on the duties of defense counsel and on insurance coverage matters.
James C. Parker is a founding partner, principal member, and managing partner of Hugo Parker, LLP. A seasoned litigator and trial lawyer with 38 years of trial experience, he concentrates his practice on asbestos defense, product liability, construction and real estate litigation, and civil appeals, with substantial additional experience in banking law and business litigation.
Mary Simon is a trial attorney at Simon Law PC whose practice focuses on birth injuries, medical malpractice, product liability, and catastrophic injuries arising from trucking and motor-vehicle collisions and from defective and dangerous products.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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