A Practitioner’s Guide to Handling Wrongful Death Cases
Date: Oct 22, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $177
Non-Member Price: $209
Areas of Law: Civil
Earn up to 4.5 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- K. Raja Bhattacharya, Esq.
- Certified By the New Jersey Supreme Court As a Civil Trial Attorney
Bendit Weinstock PA
Presenters
- Hon. Owen C. McCarthy, P.J.Cv.
- Monmouth County Courthouse
- William S. Bloom, Esq.
- Methfessel & Werbel, Edison
- Diane L. Cardoso, Esq.
- Brady Reilly & Cardoso, LLC, KearnyCertified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is a Partner in Brady Reilly & Cardoso, LLC in Kearney, New Jersey. She concentrates her practice in civil litigation involving automobile negligence, premises liability, construction site negligence, medical malpractice and legal malpractice.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, Ms. Cardoso is First Vice President of the Hudson County Bar Association and Treasurer of the New Jersey Association for Justice (NJAJ). She is a member of the Hudson County Bar Association’s Civil Arbitration Selection and Civil Practice Committees, and is the co-founding Chair of the Association’s Women in Law Section. Ms. Cardoso is Secretary of the American Association for Justice’s Women Trial Lawyer Caucus and is a member of the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association. She is a 2017-2018 Fellow of the New Jersey State Bar Association Leadership Academy.
Ms. Cardoso was the recipient of the 2021 American Association for Justice Women Trial Lawyers Caucus Excellence in Leadership Award, the 2021 American Association for Justice Distinguished Service Award, the 2017 Professionalism of the Year Award from the Hudson County Bar Association and several other honors. She has lectured for ICLE, the Hudson and Essex County Bar Associations, and the New Jersey Association for Justice.
Ms. Cardoso received her B.A. from Seton Hall University and her J.D. and Certificate in International Law from Pace University School of Law. Upon graduation from law school she served a Judicial Clerkship with the Honorable Dennis F. Carey, III and the Honorable John C. Kennedy, Judges of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
(9/23) - Kristin Kucsma, MA
- Sobel Tinari Economics Group, Livingston
In personal injury law, wrongful death and survivor actions require particular skills. Preparing for a case and knowing what questions to ask are integral to getting the best possible result for your client. In this seminar, a panel of learned personal injury practitioners will lend their decades of experience and offer their unique perspectives into this area of practice.
Topics to be discussed include:
- An overview of The Wrongful Death Act (N.J.S.A. 2A:31-4) and related case law, and the elements of proof required to prevail on this unique cause of action;
- Understanding the interplay between wrongful death and probate actions;
- What types of damages are available and how do you calculate them?
- Preparing your wrongful death case:
- Statute of limitations
- Expert testimony
- Jury verdicts
- Trial strategies
- Mediation
Additional speakers will be announced soon. Check back for updates.
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