Speaker:
Lee A. Blitstein, Esquire
Altman & Lunche |
Mr Blitstein is a former Workers' Compensation Judge, and he will speak about the process of adjudicating workers' compensation cases from the eyes of the Judge
• Preparation/the discovery depositions, witnesses and records
• The negotiation process
• Conferences/Status (let's get together and chat)/mandatory settlement conference
• The demonstration/trial: direct/cross, use of depositions/records/sub-rosa/and argument
• Evidence/contemporaneous medical
• Witnesses/bias/poor historians
• Credibility and burdens
• Judicial mindset: Here comes the judge! Black robe fever! Doing the right thing!
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