The Pennsylvania Defense Institute
Professional membership for lawyers
Join PDI Officers, Directors, Committee Co-Chairs and Members at this annual event featuring great education opportunities, social gatherings with friends and colleagues, and the amenities of the historic and beautiful OMNI Bedford Springs Resort.
Wednesday – July 13th, 2022
5-6PM – Young lawyers and first time attendees mixer
6-8PM – Board or directors meeting
8:30PM-12AM – PDI welcome reception
Thursday – July 14th, 2022
7:30-8:30AM – Registration and breakfast-first ladies lounge
8:30-8:45AM – Welcome-colonnade room
8:45-9:45AM – Qualified immunity and its significance in civil rights cases
9:45-10:45AM – Bad faith avoidance for the defense attorney
10:45-11AM – Break, constitutional hall and ladies first lounge
11AM-12PM – Updates on legal developments in civil defense law
12-1:15PM – Lunch-PDI business meeting and awards ceremony in the colonnade room
1:15-5PM – Gold tournament/spa time/pool time
6-9PM – President’s reception and dinner (The Mill)
9-12PM – Network depositions’ reception-indoor pool terrace
Friday – July 15th, 2022
7:45-8:45AM – Registration/breakfast-first ladies lounge colonnade room
8:45-9:45AM – Fostering an inclusive workplace-implicit bias, microaggressions, and self awareness
9:45-10:45AM – Negotiating tactics and strategies for the defense attorney
10:45-11AM – Break, constitutional hall and ladies first lounge
11AM-12PM – Litigating traumatic brain injury cases