Sexual Assault Litigation College

Registration and Welcome Networking Breakfast
Breakfast Provided

Welcoming Remarks and Introductions

Crafting Creative Discovery Requests (With a Little Help from AI)

Working With Adult Survivors vs. Child Plaintiffs

Morning Break

Sword And Shield: Dealing With E-Discovery (Navigating Client’s Electronic Data In Sex Abuse Cases)

• Electronic Image Abuse

Lunch Provided

Premises Liability in Your Sexual Assault Case

Deposing The 30(b)(6) Corporate Designee

Workshop #1: Case And Discovery Planning for a Sexual Assault Case

• Identifying legal proof requirements
• Identifying viable duties and legal theories in your jurisdiction and how those relate to the factual proof requirements
• Creating proof grids for elements of the claims
• How discovery planning varies between vicarious liability and direct negligence claims

What We Learned: Q&A With All Faculty

Welcome Back Networking Breakfast
Breakfast Provided

How To Navigate Mental Health Treatment Records and Ongoing Care

Preparing Clients for Their Defense Medical Exam

Morning Break

Litigating The Scope/Protections for Our Clients in DMEs and Different Creative Approaches Lawyers Have Taken to the Issues

Workshop #2: Subject Matter Focused

Lunch Provided

Workshop #3: Pleading Tactics

• How to plead yourself into a case without pleading out of it (difference between notice pleading and fact pleading jurisdictions)
• Use of language early to assist in case framing (should you call your perp a "predator"? Who does your pleading focus its attention onto? Are you over-pleading legal theories?)

What We Learned: Q&A Panel with All Faculty

Welcome Back Networking Breakfast
Breakfast Provided

Presenting Damages in a Sexual Abuse Case

AI Focus Groups and Theming in Sex Abuse Cases

Workshop #4: Client Coordination and Communication Tactics