Medical Section Meeting + CLE

 A Paralegal's Guide to Optimizing Oral Discovery

On April 26, 2024 at Noon CST

This presentation will explore the crucial role of Paralegals in Deposition Management, focusing on how strategic organization can optimize case outcomes. The session introduces tools like the depositions index and a deposition abstract template, designed to enhance case organization and optimize your results as a Paralegal.

Speaker

Misty Murray 

This event qualifies for 1.0 hour of General CLE credit through DAPA.

*** For additional questions regarding this event please contact Elena Taylor at medical@dallasparalegals.org

Specialty Section+ CLE

"Preparing for Hearings in Dallas County Family Court"

Your Speaker

Judge Ten Eyck 

Drew Ten Eyck is the Associate Judge of the 301 District Family Court of Dallas County. Judge Ten Eyck received a B.A. in English from the University of Houston in 1995, and received a J.D. from south Texas College of Law in 1998. He worked at the law firms of Short & Jenkins, McCurley, Kinser, McCurley, and Nelson, and Diana S. Friedman, P.C. from 1998 until June 2004.

In June of 2004, Judge Ten Eyck was appointed an Associate Judge in the Dallas County family Court and has worked in the family courts since that time.  Among his awards, distinctions, and community service projects, Judge Ten Eyck is a four-time recipient of the Hartmann Judicial Pro Bono Service Award from the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, having received the award in 2007, 2015, 2017, and 2019. He has served as a Community Court Partner in the Victim Advocate Program Grant with the Family Place in conjunction with the Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against Women.

Judge Ten Eyck  also participated in the trial court which helped plan and implement an initiative with Dallas CASA to ensure that every child in CPS family law cases has a Court Appointed Special Advocate. Judge Ten Eyck has presented and taught at local, state, and national continuing education seminars on topics such as family violence, supervised visitation, and related issues, and numerous judicial topics. He has also been the co-author of family law articles for the Advanced Family Law courses between 1998 and 2004.

In his free time, Judge Ten Eyck enjoys scuba diving, and  cycling.

*******For more information regarding this event please contact Debbie Churchill at mailto:debbie@connatserfamilylaw.com

 Specialty Section+ CLE

"Leadership in Law and Life"

Carolyn Wright-Sanders is a former Chief Justice of the 5th District Court of Appeals (Dallas) (the first African American Chief Justice of any intermediate appellate court in Texas) and served as a Judge in Dallas for 35 years. In 2022, she received the Morris Harrell Professionalism Award. Justice Wright-Sanders taught at the Texas Center for the Judiciary and the National Judicial College during her tenure as a Judge.

THE LOCATION:

The Arts District Mansion

2101 Ross Ave.

Dallas, TX 75201

PARKING 

Cost of Parking $10.00

CLE Credit

1.0 hour CLE credit issued through DAPA. 

***********For more information regarding this event please contact Michele Boerder at michele.boerder@morganlewis.com

Specialty Section+ CLE

Put yourself in the Hot Seat: Considerations when building a trial presentation role in-house.

Your Speaker

Christine Riddell-Booker

Chris Riddell-Booker is an eDiscovery/Litigation Support professional with more than 25 years of experience in Federal, state, and local courts. Her expertise is in the technologies and methodologies to preserve, collect, review, produce and present evidence.

Ms. Riddell-Booker guides paralegal teams and attorneys through managing Discovery obligations for civil litigation at Munsch, Hardt, Kopf & Harr (Dallas, Austin, Houston). She was with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division until 2013, managing civil, merger, and criminal cases from inception to trial.

She is the Meetings Director for the Dallas Chapter of Women in eDiscovery and a Certified member of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS).

When not busy keeping up with all the latest places information is stored online, Ms. Riddell-Booker enjoys travel, theater, and walking her dogs.

This event qualifies for 1.0 hour of General CLE credit through DAPA.

*** For additional questions regarding this event, please contact Cynthia Minchillo at cminchillo@chalkerflores.com

Specialty Sections Meeting + CLE

Due Process – Procedural Due Process and Substantive Due Process

On May 17, 2024 at Noon CST

Via ZOOM

Speaker

John A. Bermingham, Jr., Esq

John A. Bermingham, Jr. Esq. is a licensed Attorney in New Jersey who has over 17 years’ experience as in-house counsel and is currently Associate General Counsel at Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc., where he handles corporate law, transactional matters, business law matters and contract law.  

Attorney Bermingham is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of New Jersey and all other state courts of New Jersey; and admitted to the District Court for the Federal District of New Jersey.  

Attorney Bermingham is a professor where he teaches Constitutional Law, Government Law, Business Law, and various Health Law classes, among others for Purdue University, Saint Leo University, Centenary University and Southern New Hampshire University. Professor Bermingham received his Bachelor of Science in Justice Studies at Arizona State University, his MBA with a Concentration in Criminal Justice at Saint Leo University and his Juris Doctor at Catholic University in Washington, DC.  

Furthermore, John Bermingham was elected by the people of Upper Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania in the November, 2015 General Election to the Board of Supervisors and has been a Supervisor since 2016. John was reelected to the Board of Supervisors in 2022 where he will serve until 2027.

This event qualifies for 1.0 hour of General CLE credit through DAPA.

*** For additional questions regarding this event please contact Elena Taylor, at mailto:etaylor@foxrothschild.com

DAPA is pleased to share the following event from

Wendi Atwood Rogers Foundation

DAPA is pleased to share an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference with the Wendi Atwood Foundation, DAPA's charity of the year.

As you may know, the Wendi Atwood Foundation is dedicated to supporting teens and our local community in various ways, and we are thrilled to announce their latest initiative: creating an off-site clothing "store" for teens and the broader community.

DAPA believes that now is the perfect time to come together and volunteer for this vital project. By organizing an off-space storage unit, the Wendi Atwood Foundation can transform it into a welcoming and accessible space where teens and community members can find the clothing items they need.

VOLUNTEER MEETUP DETAILS

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, MAY 18 AND 19

9 AM - 3 PM

NEXT STEP CENTER

1303 S. STATE HWY121,SUITE 100

LEWISVILLE, TX 75067

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Please click here to RSVP

DEADLINE TO RSVP IS MAY 03, 2024

Please contact Wendi Atwood Rogers Foundation for more information regarding this event. mailto:INFO@WITHWENDI.ORG 

*****For information regarding this event please contact Teresa Casarez at tcasarez2000@yahoo.com