8:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m.

9:15 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

10:45 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m.

1:45 p.m.

3:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

DAY TWO | Friday, April 21, 2023

8:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

11:30 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

Breakfast

Making Your Move: Demand Letter Strategies and Excess Judgements
How do you negotiate on your best cases? We’ll share strategies to get the most for your clients on a consistent basis. 

Huge Verdicts: How You Get Them
In this session, we’ll walk through a $54M verdict from intake to verdict. We’ll share what it takes to get this type of result, including strategies used and best practices for communicating with the client, communicating with opposing counsel, and trial.

Closing Remarks

Conference Ends

*Agenda topics and times are subject to change.

Registration & Breakfast

Welcome and Introductions

Work Out Your Winners: How to Identify Top Cases
What are you looking for in your best cases and how do you spot them early on? We’ll provide tried and true processes for identifying your firm’s top cases.

The Blueprint: Ten Steps to Increase Your Average Fee
We’ll share an overview of the ten things that have helped Dudley DeBosier increase its average fee by over 400% in the past 10 years.  

Break

The Villain is Your Biggest Value Driver 
Big results are driven by bad behavior on the part of the defendant. In this session, we’ll address:

• How do you find out what the defendant did to cause the crash? 
• How do you uncover bad behavior that the defendant is trying to hide? 
• How do you frame this bad behavior in litigation? 

Lunch

The Defendant Company Usually Makes the Best Villain
How do you identify bad corporate behavior? We’ll share top methods to find out what the company did to cause the incident. 

The Implementer’s Guide to the Future: In this session, we’ll share best practices for when to use life care plans and how to frame future medicals and lost wages. 

Break Powered By PILMMA

How to Show Your Client is Worthy of a Big Verdict
Humanizing your client and making them relatable and likable to the jury is key to a case. We’ll share top practices for getting to know your client and telling their story.

Finding Your Top 5
What are the systematic strategies to find your best 5% of your cases? How do you make sure nothing is slipping through the cracks? Chad Dudley shares his top strategies in this session.

How to Show a Jury the Case, Not Just Tell
A picture is worth a thousand words. Learn how to tell your story through visuals from one of the best in the business—Trial Attorney Aaron Broussard. 

Lifetime Value of a Case/Client for Law Firms
When a client hires you, you want to be their attorney for life and the attorney they refer their friends and family to. PILMMA Founder Ken Hardison shares his top tips for accomplishing this. 

Cocktails at Nudie's Honky Tonk: Sponsored by SmartAdvocate 

DAY ONE | Thursday, April 20, 2023

9:30 a.m.

4:45 p.m.

2:45 p.m.

2:30 p.m.