9/14/2008

ISBA Advanced Seminar on Illinois Workers Compensation

9-14-08

The ISBA Workers Compensation Section will be hosting a CLE program on Advanced Illinois Workers Compensation on October 13, 2008 offered both in Chicago at the ISBA Regional Office (map and directions) and in Collinsville, Illinois (map and directions). The course will include current topics facing Illinois workers' compensation attorneys, including repetitive trauma in carpal tunnel cases, workplace slip and fall injuries, parking lot cases, qualifications and obligations for vocational rehabilitation and job retraining, Medicare Set Aside future medical expense accounts – avoiding pitfalls, ethical practice considerations at the Illinois Workers Compensation Commission and an update on recent Illinois workers compensation case law.

John B. Adams,moderator, Roddy, Leahy, Guill & Zima, Ltd, Chicago

Speakers:

David Barish, Katz Friedman Eagle et. al., Chicago (Chicago program)
Deborah Benzing, Law Offices of Lauren Meachum, Chicago (Chicago program)
Brad Bleakney, Bleakney and Troiani, Chicago (Chicago program)
Richard Hannigan, Mundelein (Chicago program)
Carol Hartline, Williams and McCarthy, Rockford (Collinsville program)
Jennifer Kieswetter, Ottawa (Chicago program)
Michelle Lafayette, Ganan & Shapiro, PC, Chicago (Collinsville program)
Kevin Meckler, Carbondale (Collinsville program)
David Menchetti, Cullen, Haskins, Nicholson & Menchetti, Chicago (Chicago program)
Robert C. Nelson, Nelson & Nelson, Belleville (Collinsville program)
Bradford Peterson, Urbana (Collinsville program)
Lawrence Scordino, Chicago (Chicago program)
Kristen Wadiak, Beatty and Motil, Glen Carbon (Collinsville program)
Kenneth Werts, Craig & Craig, Mt. Vernon (Collinsville program)

ISBA members $135 in advance and $150 the week of seminar. 5 MCLE credits For online registration

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