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Presented by: The Velvet Hammer: Karen Koehler & Mo Hamoudi
Time: 12 -1 pm, 60 min.
Audience: Open to all.

Karen Koehler and Mo Hamoudi bring their Velvet Hammer Podcast style to another important CLE.  Learn why you should not take Amazon’s word for how much insurance is available in a delivery crash case.  And why Amazon cannot insulate itself from liability by claiming its drivers are independent contractors. 

Outline of Syllabus:  

1. How Amazon controls the narrative about its delivery services.
2. Why Amazon cannot claim its DSPs, flex drivers and other “third party” delivery services are independent contractors.
3. The applicable rules of vicarious liability.
4. How to advocate against Amazon and its legions of lawyers.

CLE Update 🎉 The Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl!

With the Seahawks parade taking over the city (as it should), we’re rescheduling this CLE to February 17 so everyone can celebrate and still join us. As a bonus, we’re expanding the program into a 1.5-hour presentation, with 1 Law & Legal CLE Credit approved and an additional 0.5 credit pending. Same great content, more depth, more credit, and worth the wait.

Description: Finding liability on a government entity requires both legal and factual pieces to fall into place. Some of these pieces come from the documents, but many come from deposition testimony of government employees and representatives. Join Gemma and Lisa as we discuss our strategies, techniques, and preparation designed to extract “critical breadcrumbs” from the government’s own witnesses. 

The burden for establishing that a defendant has not only committed spoliation, but under circumstances warranting an adverse inference instruction, is great. In this webinar we will discuss strategies that have recently succeeded in unwinding this Gordian knot – to great strategic pre-trial advantage.