
Interested in improving your discovery skills in your auto cases? This seminar will address pre- and post-filing discovery techniques and provide tools to maximize the chance of success. This webinar is geared to attorneys with at least an intermediate level of experience in auto cases.
Following the one-hour webinar, attorneys are invited to join an online discussion on discovery. Meet your fellow attorneys and discuss best practices on auto discovery.
What You Will Learn
- How to use pre suit discovery and investigation
- When to send third party subpoenas
- What questions to ask car dealer reps in depositions
- How to amass pattern and practice evidence and net worth discovery
- When to use motions to compel
- How to time discovery requests
- How to handle discovery abuse
- How to seek sanctions
Speakers
Elliot Conn is the founder of Conn Law, PC, a California consumer protection law practice headquartered in San Francisco. Elliot has successfully litigated hundreds of consumer cases, both individual and class actions. Through his class actions and other complex cases, Elliot has been successful in eliminating over $1 billion in consumer debt on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Californians. Elliot’s cases have also put millions of dollars back in consumers’ pockets nationwide. Elliot is AV Martindale-Hubbell rated. Elliot is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and received his Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University.
John Cole Gayle, Jr. is a nationally known expert on Consumer Law. His practice primarily involves Lemon Law, fraudulently induced contracts, debt settlement, and the FCRA. He is author of the 1988, 1990, 1998, and 2022 legislative amendments of the Motor Vehicle Warranty Enforcement Act (Virginia’s lemon law), and he has been involved in amendments to the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. He has authored articles on Virginia’s Lemon Law for various periodicals, wrote the chapter on Consumer Statutory Remedies in the Virginia Product Liability Treatise (to be published). He was chair of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Legislative Subcommittee on Consumer Law and is the past Virginia State Chair of NACA. He received his B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College, cum laude, and his J.D. from the T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond in 1979, where he was on the National Moot Court team. He is past vestryman of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, was instrumental in initiating and developing St. Stephens’ Prison Ministry to the Richmond City Jail, and he has facilitated adult Christian education classes.
September 20, 2023
2:00 pm EDT-4:00 pm EDT
Cost
Members: $Free
Nonmembers: $Free