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Upcoming Events
Eileen Garczynski, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough, will provide an update on the state of the commercial insurance market for law firms, Wednesday, March 6 at 8:30 a.m. Her presentation is part of the Hinshaw Legal Malpractice Conference to be held March 5 - 7, 2019 at the Westin Chicago River North, 320 North Dearborn Street, Chicago. For additional information, visit the Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP website.
Prior Events
Rob Hughes, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough will be a guest lecturer discussing professional liability issues for design firms, Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Columbia University. The lecture will be presented during a graduate-level construction law class taught by attorneys Timothy Hegarty and Michael S. Zetlin of Zetlin & De Chiara LLP. To learn more about the Columbia University School of Professional Studies M.S. program in Construction Administration, please click here.
Dan Knise, president and CEO, Ames & Gough, will be among panelists discussing legal malpractice claim trends and insurance Monday, Oct. 24, from 9:20 to 10:35 a.m. in New York. The panel will be part of the American Conference Institute’s LPL/Legal Malpractice Conference to be held Oct. 24 – 25 at the Andaz Wall Street, 72 Wall Street, New York, NY. For details and conference registration information, please click here.
Rob Hughes to Discuss Lessons Learned from A/E Professional Liability Claims at ACEC Fall Conference
Rob Hughes, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough, will present “Balancing Project Risk and Reward: Lessons Learned from Current Professional Liability Claims,” on Thursday, October 20, from 3:45 - 5:00 p.m. during the ACEC Fall Conference at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. For details and conference registration information, please click here.
Mike Herlihy, Executive Vice President and Partner, Ames & Gough will be among the panelists discussing the effect that language in a design professional agreement can have on the outcome of construction defect claims. Mike will focus on how a consideration of the insurability of certain contract clauses during contract negotiations can go a long way later toward achieving a favorable outcome for a design professional involved in project litigation. The discussion will be held on Thursday, October 13 at 12 noon at the Boston Bar Association, 16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA. Additional information is available by contacting Erica Southerland at esoutherland@bostonbar.org or 617-778-1930.
The Virginia CLE seminar – “Trends in Malpractice (for law firms),” originally presented on August 16 – will be rebroadcast as a webinar with live call-in on Tuesday, August 30 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Presenters are: Eileen Garczynski, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough and Dennis Quinn, partner, Carr Maloney P.C. The webinar also will be available live by telephone. For details and registration information, please click here.
Eileen Garczynski, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough and Dennis Quinn, partner, Carr Maloney P.C. will present a CLE seminar on Trends in Malpractice (for law firms), from 12 noon to 2 p.m., Tuesday, August 16 at the Virginia CLE offices, 105 Whitewood Rd., Charlottesville. The seminar also will be available live by webcast and telephone. For seminar details and registration information, please click here.
Eileen Garczynski, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough will present a CLE seminar at the Virginia Bar Association’s 126 Annual Summer Meeting. The seminar, “Cyber Security and Confidentiality for the Law Firm,” will take place Friday, July 22, from 10:40 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. at The Omni Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, VA. It is presented under the auspices of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Section of the Virginia Barristers Alliance, Inc. For additional information and to register for the meeting, which takes place July 21 – 24, please click here.
Eileen Garczynski, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough, will moderate a panel on Lloyd’s of London and its role in the lawyers’ professional liability insurance market during the American Bar Association’s 2016 Spring Lawyers’ Professional Liability Conference. The conference will take place April 27 - 29 at The Roosevelt New Orleans Waldorf Astoria, New Orleans, LA. Details, including time and date of Eileen Garczynski’s panel, and registration will be available in January 2016 on the Events page of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability website. Click here to visit.