The Pennsylvania Defense Institute

PDI Board Meeting
2021-06-15 10:00 - 11:00 UTC

PDI LUNCH TIME WEBINAR - POST COVID-19 CIVIL COURT PROCEDURES
2021-06-24 12:00 - 13:00
Peter J. Divon, Director of Discovery Court Unit and the Dispute Resolution Center for First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, Emily Rogers, Esquire and Meaghann Porth, Esquire, both from Campbell, Conroy & O’Neil, will discuss the Post Covid-19 Civil Court Procedures in Philadelphia County that have been implemented since the re-opening of the Court following the COVID pandemic crisis.

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WIDENER COMMONWEALTH LAW SCHOOL - 2021 SUMMER/FALL RECRUITMENT PROGRAM
2021-07-01 08:00 - 17:00
Widener-Commonwealth School of Law Summer/Fall Recruitment Program. This program provides employers the opportunity to interview students for summer and post-graduate employment opportunities. It is a pre-screened interview program and takes place on campus. The Career Development Office will advertise the employer’s position, collect resumes from interested candidates and provide a room for you to conduct interviews on campus. The Employer registration ending July 16, 2021 and view student applications beginning August 4, 2021 with on-line interview selections due on August 13, 2021. For more information contact Eden Mandrell, Assistant Dean, Career Development @[717] 541-3958 or via email at cdocwlaw@widener.edu .

PDI ANNUAL CLE AND CONFERENCE - JULY 14, 15, 16, 2021 @ OMNI BEDFORD SPRINGS RESORT
2021-07-14 - 2021-07-16 | Omni Hotels & Resorts, 2138 Business 220, Bedford, PA, 15522, United States
2021 PDI Annual CLE and Conference
July 14, 15, 16, 2021 at the beautiful and historic Omni Bedford Springs Resort, Bedford, Pennsylvania.
This is shaping up to be another fantastic CLE and Social experience. it is intended to be live at the Resort with all COVID precautions taken. This will be an ideal time to get out into the fresh air and experience the facilities at the Omni Bedford Springs Resort and to obtain CLE credits on current topics from excellent speakers. Plan on attending.
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PDI ANNUAL CLE AND CONFERENCE - JULY 14, 15, 16, 2021 @ OMNI BEDFORD SPRINGS RESORT
2021-07-14 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-15 08:00 - 17:00
PDI Annual CLE and Conference is scheduled for July 14, 15, 16, 2021 at the beautiful and historic Omni Bedford Springs Resort, Bedford, Pennsylvania. This is shaping up to be another fantastic CLE and Social experience. it is intended to be live at the Resort with all COVID precautions taken. This will be an ideal time to get out into the fresh air and experience the facilities at the Omni Bedford Springs Resort and to obtain CLE credits on current topics from excellent speakers. Plan on attending. Registration information will be coming out in the near future.

PDI BOARD MEETING AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2021-07-14 18:00 - 20:30

PDI LUNCH TIME WEBINAR - AUGUST 24, 2021 - NEW ISSUES AND CASE LAW RELATED TO "FORUM NON-CONVENIENS"
2021-08-24 12:00 - 13:00
Robert Palumbus, Esquire of Duane Morris will provide a Webinar presentation regarding the important issues and new cases related to the issue of “Foreign Non-Conveniens” Do not miss this important topic and presentation to assist in countering the issues created by parties forum shopping and the inconvenience caused to litigants and witnesses. Registration and other information has been provided via EMail Notice. Be on the lookout for this important information.
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PDI BOARD MEETING
2021-08-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Meeting
PDI Board Meeting will be held on Zoom. Connection information will be provided closer to the meeting

PDI GENERAL LIABILITY COMMITTEE MEETING
2021-08-26 10:00 - 12:00

PDI WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMITTEE MEETING
2021-08-30 10:00 - 12:00

PDI LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
2021-08-31 10:00 - 12:00

PDI WOMEN & DIVERSITY COMMITTEE MEETING
2021-09-07 10:00 - 12:00

MOTOR VEHICLE COMMITTEE MEETING
2021-09-21 10:00 - 12:00

PDI LUNCH TIME WEBINAR - "“The Basics of Construction Defect Litigation: A Primer Following the Champlain Towers South Collapse”
2021-09-27 12:00 - 13:00
Jeffrey M. Stacko, Esquire of Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP, and Thom McAdams, Fleisher Forensics, will present the basics as to prosecution and defense of construction defect litigation in Pennsylvania. This introductory course will provide a history of major construction defect incidents in the United States. It will provide participants with common elements in construction defect cases, such as identities/roles of the parties, theories of recovery, and the use of expert testimony. Do not miss this presentation.
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PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY COMMITTEE MEETING
2021-09-28 10:00 - 12:00

PDI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
2021-09-29 10:00 - 12:00, 2021-11-19 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-01-19 10:00 - 12:00

PDI LUNCH TIME WEBINAR - LET'S TALK PRONOUNS
2021-10-14 12:00 - 13:00
Do not miss this important PDI Lunch Time Webinar. Do you have sufficient knowledge with regard to the modern use of pronouns? Learn about the current use of pronouns, including how and why to use them. Iveliz R. Crespo, Esquire, Reed Smith Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisor, will present an excellent program on this use of language in the current world.. Do not miss this important presentation.
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PDI YOUNG LAWYERS PLANNING MEETING
2021-10-19 13:30 - 14:30

PDI BOARD MEETING
2021-10-27 10:00 - 12:00
PDI Board Meeting will be held in person in Philadelphia with either Zoom or telephone connection. Information will be provided closer to the meeting.

PDI LUNCH TIME WEBINAR - "Back to School: A Civil Litigation Update from Tort Talk"
2021-10-29 12:00 - 13:00
Do not miss this PDI Lunch Time Webinar presented by the publisher of Tort Talk, Daniel E. Cummins, Esquire, of Cummins Law, Cummins Mediation and Tort Talk.
Dan will be assisted in the presentation by JP Cardoni of Exhibit A. This is a one hour CLE designed to provide the audience with a summary and analysis of the important cases handed down in Pennsylvania over the past year or so in personal injury civil litigation matters. Important decisions will be covered on the topics of Pleadings, Discovery, Expert Discovery, Trial Issues, Evidentiary Issues, Post-Kokan cases, Auto Law Update, General Liability, Premises Liability, Medical Malpractice, Legal Malpractice, and Products Liability. Practice Tips will be provided based upon the cases Written materials consisting of at least 82 pages of summaries of the important cases of the past year will be provided to the attendees. Do not miss this important and enlightening presentation.
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PDI EASTERN DISTRICT AND PADC - LAW STUDENT ORIENTATION TO DEFENSE PRACTICE - DREXEL LAW SCHOOL
2021-11-03 17:00 - 19:00
PDI Easter District and PADC will host a virtual law student conference to introduce law students to the defense practice for Drexel Law School Students. The panel will consist of members from PDI and PADC. Robert Cosgrove, Esquire of Wade Clark Mulcahy will act as moderator. The remaining members of the panel are to be announced. This has been a successful program that was initiated by the PDI Eastern District Officers and Directors. A similar program was presented by the officers and directors of the PDI Western District this past spring for students from Pittsburgh Law School, Duquesne Law School and University of West Virginia Law School.

PDI BOARD MEETING
2021-12-01 14:00 - 16:30
December PDI Board Meeting will be held in conjunction with the West District Holiday Party. Date, time and place to be announced. Meeting will also be Zoom or telephone connecton.

PDI LUNCH TIME WEBINAR - "ETHICS OF WORKING WITH EXPERTS"
2021-12-02 12:00 - 13:00
Jeffrey Brien, Esquire from Minnesota Lawyers’ Mutual Insurance Company (MLM) and James G Schu, Jr., Esquire of Kane, Pugh, Knoell, Troy & Kramer, will present the important ethics topic related to the ethics of working with expert witnesses. In addition to Mr. Brien and Mr. Schu, an expert, identity TBA, will also participate on the panel. Do not miss this important ethics topic and get 1 Ethics CLE credit.
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PDI LUNCH TIME WEBINAR - WORKERS' COMPENSATION "Exclusivity of the Act, IREs, and Subrogation"
2021-12-10 12:00 - 13:00
Jane A. Lombard, Esquire, Swartz Campbell; Neil T. Dombrowski, Esquire, The Dombrowski Group, Stephen F. Moore, Esquire, Peters & Wasilefski, on behalf of the PDI Workers’ Compensation Committee, along with William A. Rolle, M.D., provided by IME Care Centers and Orthopedic Institute of Pennsylvania will present a webinar on key topics in the Workers’ Compensation arena. Jane Lombard will provide information related to emerging trends regarding the exclusivity provisions of the Act; Neil Dombrowski will provide information related to subrogation interests under the act and protecting the Section 319 lien; and Stephen Moore and Dr. Rolle will provide information on IRE’s after Protz. Dr. Rolle is a physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain management physician who will provide information to assist in understanding the 6th Edition second printing of the AMA Guides to Evaluations of Permanent Impairment under Act 111. Please circulate this Save the date to the attorneys in your firm who practice in the Workers’ Compensation arena so that can take advantage of the information that will be provided at this Webinar.

The presentation will provide key information for workers’ compensation defense practitioners making a difference on behalf of their clients in workers’ compensation cases. Do not miss this Webinar
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PDI EASTERN DISTRICT AND PADC – LAW STUDENT ORIENTATION TO DEFENSE PRACTICE – TEMPLE LAW SCHOOL
2022-01-20 17:00 - 19:00
PDI Eastern District Officers and Directors in conjunction with PADC will sponsor a conference with the law students at Temple Law School for a live face to fact meeting at the Law School. The purpose of the conference is to orientate the law students to a possible career choice to enter into the civil defense practice. The panel, who will be announced in the future, will share with the law students information concerning the defense practice of law in order to have them consider entering the practice of law as civil defense lawyers. This has been a successful program that has been provided in both PDI Eastern District and PDI Western District to students from Drexell Law School, University of Pittsburgh Law School, Duquesne University Law School and University of West Virginia law school.

PDI LUNCH TIME WEBINAR - "Slip, Trip and Fall Cases"
2022-01-28 12:00 - 13:00
The PDI General Liability Committee will present a PDI Lunch Time Webinar on the subject of “Slip, Trip, and Fall Cases”. Joseph V. Lesinski, Esquire, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, will moderate a panel including Thomas E. Brenner, Esquire, Caldwell & Kearns, George B. Faller, Jr. Esquire, Martzen Law Offices and Ronald J. Cohen, PE., Consulting Engineers & Scientists, Inc. The panel will discuss these cases from an attorneys’ and expert’s perspective. Significant information will be shared from a legal and technical standpoint regarding slip, trip and fall cases.
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PDI BOARD MEETING
2022-02-16 10:00 - 12:00
PDI Board Meeting will be held in person in Harrisburg and via Zoom or telephone connection.
