Crash Course on Crash Cases with Tom & Jerry and Friends: Cars, Trucks, Buses, Uber and Lyft
Date: Sep 30, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $177.00
Non-Member Price: $209.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Civil
Earn up to 4.5 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Hon. Marc M. Baldwin, A.J.S.C. (Ret.)
- Baldwin Resolutions, LLC
- Gerald H. Baker, Esq.
- Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, P.C.Certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is Counsel to Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, P.C. with offices in Springfield, Jersey City, Hackensack, Newark, Freehold, Elizabeth and Mt. Laurel, New Jersey; and New York City. He represents plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death cases including automobile, premises, aviation, railroad, construction, products liability and medical malpractice, and was formerly the Managing Partner of Baker, Pedersen & Robbins in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Mr. Baker is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third and Fourth Circuits; and the United States Supreme Court. He is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Automobile Reparations Committee, a past Chair of the Legislative Committee and a former member of the NJSBA Board of Trustees. Mr. Baker has been Treasurer of the Hudson County Bar Foundation for many years and is a past President and member of the Board of Trustees of the Hudson County Bar Association. He has served on the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Association for Justice (NJAJ, formerly ATLA-NJ) and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
Mr. Baker is a frequent lecturer on automobile insurance, premises liability and practice for ICLE, NJAJ, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation and the New Jersey Law Journal, as well as bar associations and other professional organizations. His articles on automobile insurance, premises liability and trial practice have appeared in many newspapers and professional periodicals. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2000 ICLE Alfred C. Clapp Award, the 1994 ATLA-NJ Gold Medal, the 1998 NJSBA Distinguished Legislative Service Award, the Trial Lawyers of New Jersey Trial Lawyer Award and the NJAJ O’Connor Trial Award.
Mr. Baker received his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He was Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert Matthews, Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Hudson County.
(8/23) - Andrew A. Fraser, Esq.
- De Frank Law Group, Woodland Park
- Patricia M. Giordano, Esq.
- Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig LLP, Philadelphia
- Lawrence M. Simon, Esq.
- Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, Springfield
- Thomas J. Vesper, Esq.
- Westmoreland Vesper & Quattrone, PleasantvilleCertified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey and as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, is a Partner in Westmoreland, Vesper & Quattrone in West Atlantic City, New Jersey. He concentrates his practice in serious personal injury and wrongful death cases, and his litigation specialties/trial experience includes professional negligence, premises liability, negligent security, auto negligence and consumer fraud.
Mr. Vesper is Past President of ATLA-NJ (now NJAJ) and a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is also a founder of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and a founder and Executive Director of the Aletheia Institute.
Mr. Vesper is the author of several dozen books or chapters and more than 250 articles, including his book of quotations, Uncle Anthony’s Unabridged Analogies, 3rd ed. (2012) as well as the AAJ Trial Notebook, 6th ed. (2012) and the AAJ Deposition Notebook, 4th ed. (2012). He writes and lectures on wrongful death, products liability, truck/bus accident reconstruction, discovery, case evaluation, settlement, trial techniques, and trial and deposition notebooks.
Mr. Vesper received his B.A., cum laude, from Villanova University and his J.D. from Rutgers University Law School-Camden, where he was a member of the Rutgers Camden Law Review. He also served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve for 23 years.
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Tom Vesper, Jerry Baker and friends again join forces to present two distinct perspectives in the ultimate program on successfully presenting and resolving all types of motor vehicle crash cases.
Motor vehicle crashes or MVCs (not to be confused with “accidents”) can be life-altering events accompanied by physical pain, mental anguish and financial uncertainty. Victims depend on their lawyers for guidance and financial stability during a time their lives were literally rocked by unexpected, sudden injury and damage.
Join two attorneys with decades of experience and countless jury verdicts as they present this program on everything you need to know to successfully present and resolve crash cases.
Program Agenda:
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9:00 | Intro and Overview of Topics: Tom Vesper – On the Road with Tom and Jerry - Thomas J. Vesper, Esq.
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9:30 | How to Combat the Minor Impact Soft Tissue (MIST) Defense: Typically, once an insurer makes a MIST designation, only small settlements will be offered. Presenters will review your best strategy for recovering pain, emotional suffering, disability, impairment, lost enjoyments of life. - Hon. Marc M. Baldwin, A.J.S.C. (Ret.)
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10:00 | Litigation Involving Trucks, Buses, Uber and Lyft: The presenter will delve into the most frequent and vexing issues in cases that involve commercial vehicles and rideshare services. Why these cases are different from automobile cases. - Lawrence M. Simon, Esq.
- 10:30 | Break
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10:40 | Using Inexpensive “Shirt Sleeves Experts” for Liability: Why practical, hands-on experience matters. Obtaining expert witnesses including inexpensive shirt sleeves experts. – Patricia M. Giordano, Esq.
- 11:15 | How to Obtain Maximum Damages: Using the “time unit” rule to prove pain and suffering, and loss of services. Presenting evidence of pain and suffering – Andrew A. Fraser, Esq.
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11:45 |The Last Word on the Verbal Threshold: All attorneys with car crash cases understand the limitations of the verbal threshold. What is the latest information on exceptions and strategies how to recover for your client anyway? Learn how to relieve your pain/suffering when confronting LOL threshold cases – Gerald H. Baker, Esq.
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12:15 | Causation and Defenses: Defendant’s Defense Medical Examiners (DME) almost always look for and report “other causes/pre-existing conditions” as “THE” (not “a”) cause for the plaintiff’s present problems. This segment will explore how these defenses can be successfully rebutted. - Hon. Marc M. Baldwin, A.J.S.C. (Ret.)
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12:45 | Q&A
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1:00 | Adjourn
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