Class Action Intensive: Adapting to the Changing Legal Landscape
Level up your class practice through new actionable strategies to handle multi-state pleadings, define your class, and navigate the evolving arbitration landscape. You’ll learn exactly how to identify cases, assemble a team, and structure your filings to avoid common pitfalls—arming you with a hands-on roadmap to run a successful class action practice.
You’ll come away with the tools to challenge arbitration clauses, pursue injunctive relief, and ethically manage mass arbitration, all while understanding the mechanics of settlements and attorney compensation. Whether you’re expanding into multi-state claims or looking to streamline your current class action work, this track gives you the practical guidance and confidence to run a class action practice that works in the real world.
What You Will Learn:
- How to handle multi-state pleadings or prepare multi-state-classes
- How to hit the ground running with eDiscovery for a small- and medium-sized class action
- How to define a class to avoid uninjured class members
- When do you challenge arbitration or bring a case in arbitration
EFTA and Payment Fraud Intensive
Modern payment-fraud cases rarely fit neatly into a single statute - clients walk into your firm with a tangle of unauthorized transfers, wires, crypto movements, closed or frozen accounts, and third-party app transactions that can implicate EFTA, FCBA, TILA, and more. The 2026 EFTA Track is designed for exactly this reality. This year's program emphasizes how to untangle those overlapping violations, determine which legal frameworks truly apply, and chart the best path forward for each case.
Gain the skills needed to conduct an intake that will help you find the evidence you need to litigate your cases against sophisticated banks and payment providers. You'll learn about current scams and how scammers trick victims; how banks use technology, internal policies, and arbitration clauses to shut cases down; and how to frame your client's narrative in a way that makes sense to judges, juries, and arbitrators.
What You Will Learn:
- How to conduct an effective intake
- How to spot EFTA and payment fraud claims
- How to avoid the pitfalls presented by opposing counsel
Winning By Design: A Trial Skills Workshop
Telling the story of your case effectively at trial requires planning that begins the first time you meet the client. At every stage from case selection, to intake, to discovery, to pretrial motions, you need to think about how you are securing the evidence you need to tell the story of your case.
This year's Trial Skills Workshop will provide you with a roadmap to navigate your case from intake to trial. The special intensive provides hands-on learning activities in a small group setting to provide you with the strategies you need to win at trial.
*Please note space is limited to the first 50 participants.
Featured Speakers
Allison Krumhorn, Duran Keller, Ronald Wilcox, Scott Borison
What You Will Learn:
- How to gather evidence you need to set up your case for trial
- How to use discovery to strategically prep your case for trial
- How to plan your pre-trial strategies
- How to get expert witness testimony
- How to overcome pre-trial motions to secure the evidence you need at trial
All of the above will be with an emphasis on the strategies, tactics, and mindset needed to win at trial.
See what your colleagues are saying!
“The trial skills workshop was transformational. It has helped me in all stages of my practice,from choosing cases to conducting intake interviews, taking depositions and of course, trial skills. It’s the type of workshop that I could go back to every year and gain something new to help me achieve the best outcomes for my clients. I highly recommend this workshop to all practitioners!”
"Last year, I had the opportunity to participate in the Trial Skills Workshop at Spring Training. I have previously participated in other workshops put on through different organizations and found that the Spring Training workshop was hands-down one of the most beneficial trainings I’ve done in my career. It wasn’t your run-of-the-mill mock trial, but rather, tailored for consumer practitioners, which allowed me to draw from personal experiences and my own cases so that I can continue to put what I’ve learned to use. The trainers were approachable, non-judgmental, genuine and some of the best trial lawyers in our field. This training transformed how I handle my cases and interact with my clients. I simply could not recommend this training more and only wish that it was available earlier in my career."
