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Eileen Garczynski, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough, will participate in a panel – along with Marian C. Rice, partner, L'Abbate, Balkan Colavita & Contini, L.L.P. and moderator Noah D. Fiedler, partner, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP – presenting “A Year in Review: Significant Developments in Legal Malpractice Claims,” Wednesday, March 6 at 8:40 a.m. The panel 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 https://www.lmrm.com/schedule.html.
Eileen Garczynski, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough and Jonathan V. Gallo, Of Counsel, Vandeventer Black LLP will present a CLE seminar, “What Attorneys Should Know About Cyber Risks: Ethical Duties to Prevent Them, and What a Good Cyber Insurance Policy Will Do to Cover Them,” Friday, March 15, from 12 noon – 2 p.m. The seminar, which will take place at the Virginia Bar Association offices, 105 Whitewood Road, Charlottesville, is also available online as a webcast. For additional information, click here
Eileen Garczynski, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough, and Dan Knise, president and CEO, will be among the presenters at the ABA Spring Legal Malpractice Conference, April 3 - 5 in Miami Beach, FL. Garczynski, along with panelists Thomas McCally, partner, Carr Maloney P.C. and Scott Gagliardi, vice president, Sompo International,will discuss management liability issues for law firms, on Thursday, April 4 at 2 p.m. Subsequently, on April 5, at 10:15 a.m., Knise will participate in a panel on ethics for law firms along with Sashi Bach, Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner, Linley Jones, Founder, The Linley Jones Firm P.C., Timothy Gephart, Vice President of Claims, Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, and moderator, Matthew Marrone, Partner, Goldberg Segalla. For conference details and registration, click here.
Join Brian Lynch as he attends the Xperience Design Project. To learn more click here.
Brian Lynch, client exeuctive at Ames & Gough, will be attending the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) XDP event April 11-12 at The Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center in Washington DC. He looks forward to meeting you there. Click here for more information.
Eileen Garczynski, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough will present a CLE seminar for the Virginia Bar Association on “Avoiding Ethical Mistakes, Malpractice, and Cyber Liability Claims,” Friday, September 6, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. The seminar, which provides 2.0 hours of MCLE Ethics Credit, will be held at the Virginia Bar Association, 105 Whitewood Road, Charlottesville. The program is intended to give law firms an overview of the most common legal malpractice claims (and related risks, such as cyber, management, and employment-related claims), and how to avoid them. For more information, visit www.vacle.org.
Prior Events
Rob Hughes, senior vice president and partner, Ames & Gough will be a panelist discussing insurance and risk management best practices for A/E firms involved in M&A, Thursday, Dec. 8 at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, Miami, FL. The panel is part of the Southeast States M&A Symposium, Dec. 7-8, 2016, presented by Morrisey Goodale LLC. For details and registration information, please click here.
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.