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Welcome the new leadership team for the USLAW NETWORK Complex Tort and Product Liability Practice Group: Chair Jack J. Laffey Laffey, Leitner and Goode LLC, Vice Chair Steve Marshall Franklin & Prokopik, PC; Secretary Nick Rauch Larson • King, Educational Coordinator Catherine Bryan Connell Foley LLP. Special thanks to Chris Cotter Snyder Burnett Egerer LLP for his leadership while serving as chair these past few years. https://lnkd.in/dv2vSTvE

New leadership named for USLAW Construction Law Practice Group: new Chair is Caryn Boisen of Larson • King, Louis J. Vogel, Jr. of Sweeney & Sheehan, P.C. is vice chair, Tom Ped of Williams Kastner is the new secretary and Matt Bouchard of Poyner Spruill LLP is the educational coordinator. Big thanks to Joe Moore of Hanson Bridgett LLP, who now steps into an advisory role as the immediate past chair of the practice group.

Congratulations are in order for Ed Hochuli, past chair of USLAW NETWORK and a founding partner of Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, USLAW’s Arizona member firm, as the 2024 O’Hagan-Carr Award recipient. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/edvhUVbc

Congratulations to Anne Loucks Umberger, director, associate general counsel of Nordstrom, Inc., for being named the 2024 USLAW NETWORK Bill Burns Award recipient. USLAW created the award to annually recognize a client who has shown outstanding service and dedication to USLAW. The award is named after Bill Burns, a longtime transportation risk management and litigation leader for Landstar System, a Jacksonville, Florida-based transportation company. https://lnkd.in/e4ViWkS3

Congratulations to Chris Martin, divisional vice president, innovation and special projects at Great American Custom (GACIS), for being named the 2024 USLAW NETWORK Champions Award recipient. The award annually recognizes an individual/organization who has shown outstanding service and dedication to the philanthropic efforts of the USLAW NETWORK Foundation. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eMRQhPJZ

USLAW NETWORK announces 2024-25 board of directors. The leadership includes Kenneth B. Wingate, Chair, from Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A. in Columbia, South Carolina; Jennifer Tricker, vice chair, from Baird Holm LLP in Omaha, Nebraska; and Tamara Goorevitz, secretary/treasurer, from Franklin & Prokopik, PC in Baltimore, Maryland. Earl W. Houston, II, of Martin, Tate, Morrow & Marston, P.C. in Memphis, Tennessee, has been selected to move to the USLAW Executive Committee. Dan Longo L. Longo from Murchison & Cumming, LLP in Los Angeles moves off the USLAW Executive Committee to the board as chair emeritus. New members of the board include Sandra Rappaport of Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco and David Wilck of Rivkin Radler LLP in Uniondale, New York. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eAyvHmGK

Ken Wingate of Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A. in Columbia, South Carolina, has been named Chair of USLAW NETWORK for 2024-25. Ken succeeds Oscar Cabanas of Wicker Smith in Miami. The leadership change occurred at USLAW NETWORK’s fall member meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada. https://lnkd.in/enKeZA-3

USLAW Magazine spotlight | The Evolving Test for Deliberate Indifference in Correctional Healthcare by Taylor Brewer of Moran Reeves & Conn PC, Attorneys at Law in Virginia. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ehkv_Qtp

USLAW Magazine spotlight - Defending Product Liability Claims When Compliance with Standards is Inadmissible by Michael Kunsch of Sweeney & Sheehan, P.C. https://lnkd.in/eEYBxMzP

USLAW Magazine spotlight | Browsewrap v. Clickwrap: How Enforceable Are Your Terms of Service? by Tiffany Fearing of Wicker Smith https://lnkd.in/e7djTXsK