316
South Baylen Street, Suite 600
Pensacola, FL 32501
(SouthTrust Bank building on South Baylen St. just
east of Courthouse in downtown Pensacola)
Accommodations:
Clarion
Suites, 20 Via De Luna Drive, Pensacola Beach, FL 32561
(850)
932-4300
*ALL
rooms are cottage styled suites with queen size beds, a queen size sleeper sofa
and kitchenette. Continental breakfast
is available at the property. For
additional information on the amenities please go to www.expedia.com.
Rates: $108.00, plus tax Non-gulf view
$135.00, plus tax Gulf view
CONTACT the Clarion direct for your reservations.
April 23, 2004
8:30-8:45 Registration and Welcome
Steve Lockman and Jim Harbert.
8:45-9:50 Downloading crash
data from late model vehicles.
Brian Barton, certified Crash Data
Removal technician.
Brian Barton
Brian Barton Investigations, Pensacola Florida
Brian is a retired Pensacola Police Officer. Brian has worked patrol, vice and
intelligence, investigations and traffic.
For the 13 years prior to his retirement he specialized in traffic
homicide investigation and accident reconstruction. Brian has testified for the State’s
attorney’s office as an expert in several high profile vehicle homicide
investigations. Brian is a certified CDR
operator through the Institute for Police Training and Management at the
University of North Florida and has used his Vetronix equipment in many
cases.
10:00-11:30 Preparing and
Presenting Mediation Damages:
Explaining Who Your Client Was When They Aren’t
There!
Virginia
Buchanan, Esquire
Levin, Papantonio Law Firm, Pensacola,
Florida
Virginia Buchanan is a shareholder at Levin, Papantonio. She graduated
magna cum laude from the University of Florida in 1985. She also received her
Juris Doctorate Degree, with honors, from the University of Florida in 1989.
While attending the University of Florida, Ms. Buchanan was a Bickel Scholar,
Scripps-Howard Scholar and received several jurisprudence awards. She was
selected to the University of Florida Moot Court Team and was a Finalist in the
Florida Annual Moot Court Competition and Finalist in Benton National Moot
Court Competition in Chicago, Illinois. She was selected to the Order of the
Coif and to Phi Delta Phi, an honors fraternity, while in school. Ms. Buchanan
is a member of the American Bar Association and the sections pertaining to
insurance, premises liability and commercial litigation. She has been a member
of the subcommittee of the American Bar Association on legislation affecting
litigation and was appointed to a special committee of the American Bar
Association on health care. Ms. Buchanan is a member of the Association of
Trial Lawyers of America and the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, as well as
the Florida Bar Association. She is on the Board of Directors of the Florida
Bar Foundation, the treasurer of ABOTA, chairman of the Civil Process Server
Grievance Committee, and a member of the Chief Judge's Council on Children. Ms.
Buchanan has served on the Judicial Liaison Committee of the Escambia-Santa
Rosa Bar Association, is a member of the Escambia-Santa Rosa County Bar Association
Grievance Committee for attorney complaints, and is a member of the First
Circuit Fee Arbitration Committee. She has served on the Women’s Life Center
Advisory Board to the West Florida Regional Medical Center and to the Board of
Directors to the Shands Home Care Project. She is licensed to practice law in
Florida and Alabama. She is admitted to practice in the Northern and Middle
Divisions of the U.S. District Court. She is a member of the Alabama Trial
Lawyers Association.
11:30-12:50 Working Lunch with
Knights of the Round Table
Steve Lockman, CLI, FCI
Levin Papantonio Law Firm
This will be an open discussion of new investigative techniques, new trends in investigations and product liability theories, along with issues of concern. All Inner Circle members are to bring their topics to the Round Table.
Steve is a Certified Legal Investigator by examination through the
National Association of Legal Investigators (99) and a charter Florida
Certified Investigator (99) through the Joint Committee of FCI Certification in
Florida. During his tenure with the Florida law firm of Levin, Papantonio,
Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor, PA, his knowledge and skills have
expanded in the pursuit of claims investigation for the firm and its clients.
Steve has a vast amount of knowledge and experience in personal injury
investigation through cases involving motor vehicle collisions, commercial
transport vehicles, multiple vehicle collisions and rollover accidents. His
knowledge and experience of product liability cases involves motor vehicles,
after-market motor vehicle add-ons, gym equipment, motorcycle helmets, bicycles
and a host of other products. In addition to personal injury and product
liability investigations, Steve also has extensive experience in the field of
criminal defense and evidence photography.
1:00-1:50 Investigative Photographic Techniques
James Harbert CLI, FCI and Bob Parke CLI,
BCEP
Jim and Bob will split this time to bring you up to date on new investigative photographic techniques.
Bob is the Chief Investigator at Fonvielle Lewis Foote & Messer in
Tallahassee Florida. Bob has written
extensively on the subject of digital photography and has written and lectured
on other investigative topics. Bob is a
Board Certified Evidence Photographer as well as a Certified Legal Investigator
through the National Association of Legal Investigators
James W. Harbert CLI, FCI
Technical Management Services,
Jim has an AS in Law Enforcement (72), a BA in Public Safety (74) and an
MS Degree in Criminal Justice Administration (78). Jim is a Certified Legal
Investigator by examination through the National Association of Legal
Investigators (85) and a Florida Certified Investigator (99) through the Joint
Committee on FCI Certification in
Aviation, Highway and Railroad accidents.
Troy Flemming
Brown and Jennings, Salem, Virginia
Troy has been a legal investigator concentrating in personal injury law and product liability since 1986. He has investigated or participated in the investigation of over 15,000 cases. He worked as a major case director (supervised three investigators) for Taft, Taft and Haigler in Greenville and Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1989 he spoke to the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers regarding investigation interviews. Troy specializes in motor vehicle collision, commercial motor carrier accidents, brain injury, bicycle and product liability investigations. Troy is currently investigating litigation involving 15 passenger vans, tire separation and commercial vehicle rollovers.
3:00-3:50 Unguarded
In-Running Nip Points:
Analyzing the Unreasonably Dangerous
Product
Jeffery H. Warren, Ph.D., P.E., CSP
Unguarded in-running nip points are unforgiving and needlessly injure numerous workers every year. Once a worker is caught in the nip, there is no getting loose as the gap gets smaller and smaller. The safety literature and many codes and standards discuss how to properly guard nip points. With lots of examples, this talk will discuss how to analyze the unreasonably dangerous unguarded nip point and tell you where to find the literature, codes and standards necessary to analyze your case.
The Warren Group, LLC, formerly
Safety Design Analysis, LLC, Columbia, South Carolina. CEO and Chief Engineer
performing specialized consulting and training related to property loss
analysis and the analysis of designs with regard to safety.
Property Loss Analysis
Determine the cause of the loss, establish scope of damage, estimate cost to repair, evaluate replacement cost, establish actual value, estimate salvage value, estimate time required to complete repair.
Safety Design Analysis (Personal Injury and Property Damage)
Industrial accident reconstruction, machine controls, machine safeguarding, warnings, OSHA compliance, standards and codes compliance, maintenance, fire and explosion analysis, products liability, product failures, premises liability, failure analysis, consumer products.
Accident Prevention
Hazards identification, risk assessment, engineering design for safety, component testing, OSHA compliance, standards, codes compliance and products liability.
Training
Hazards identification, risk assessment, engineering design for safety,
standards and codes, machine safeguarding and products liability.
Saturday, April 24, 2004
*For Saturday’s session we will meet at McSwain Engineering located in
Ellyson Industrial Park in Pensacola:
3320
McLemore Dr.
Pensacola, Florida 32514
Phone: (850) 484-0506
Fax: (850) 484-0508
8:30-9:50 Vehicle down load and crash damage analysis.
For this session we will obtain a late model GM vehicle to demonstrate an in vehicle download with Brian Barton. After the down load we will have Brian, Jack Murray and Richard McSwain go over the supporting evidence that an accident reconstructionist can obtain from the vehicle.
Jack Murray CLI
J.W. Jack Murray, Jr. is a Certified Legal Investigator and accident reconstructionist qualified as an expert in State, County and Federal courts, Murray has testified in both civil and criminal cases all over the United States. Combining his investigative skills and training as an accident reconstructionist he has successfully investigated and sent for prosecution, numerous cases of insurance fraud. Award winning author of seven books in his field, Murray is internationally recognized as a lecturer and teacher and has received numerous accolades from his peers. He has twice been a winner of the prestigious Editor-Publisher Award of the National Association of Legal Investigators. In 1998, he was named one of the top five investigators in America by PI Magazine and in 2000 was named one of the Top 25 Investigators of the Century by the National Association of Investigative Specialists. In 1996, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Investigative Specialists and in 1997, received the National Directors Award from the National Association of Legal Investigators. He is a former Regional Director of the National Association of Legal Investigators and former President of the North Texas Private Investigators Association.
Richard
McSwain, P.E., PhD
McSwain
Engineering, Pensacola, Florida.
Dr. McSwain will discuss metallurgy and its application to personal injury litigation and will take us on a tour of his engineering and metallurgy facility that includes:
Materials Failure
Analysis:
Materials
Engineering Investigation:
Material Failures
Investigated:
Dr. McSwain obtain his Bachelors
and Masters degrees in Materials Engineering from Auburn University and his
Ph.D. in materials Engineering from the University of Florida. Following 27 years of metallurgical and
materials engineering analysis, evaluation and testing, Dr. McSwain has
narrowed his focus to materials engineering
and failure analysis and to engineering investigation of failed
components. He is currently the
President and Principal Engineer of McSwain Engineering, Inc. During his tenure as a Materials Engineer and
Expert, Dr. McSwain has been awarded the Department of the Navy Special
Achievement Award, the Department of the Navy Outstanding Performance Award,
and was a Member of Product Oriented Survey Audit Team for the Presidential
Helicopter (1988), and the Naval Air Systems Command Lead Technology Engineer
for Fractography and Scanning Electron Microscopy (1982-1989).