Lance Locke & Michael Stahler to be Speakers at 1st Annual Construction Defect & Dispute Conference

SANDY, Utah - Feb. 12, 2015 - PRLog -- Lance Locke has several years of experience defending clients in construction and transportation cases. He works with clients to deal with transportation matters related personal injury, property damage defense, and first party and third party automobile issues. He he also handles a variety of construction issues, including work-site injury claims and construction defect litigation.

Michael has over five years experience as an associate attorney at a general practice firm in Vermont, a boutique insurance defense firm in Salt Lake City, and now at Strong & Hanni. He has handled civil litigation matters for individual and business clients in the areas of tort liability, premises liability, construction defect, products liability, personal injury, commercial disputes, coverage matters, and professional liability. He has successfully represented parties in both state and federal courts in Vermont, New York, and Utah. Michael has experience working with individuals, small businesses, regional and international companies, manufacturers of all sizes, and many different insurance carriers. He has successfully handled cases from start to trial and/or alternative dispute resolution.

The 1st Annual Intermountain Construction Defect & Dispute Conference will cover an array of topics relating to construction defects, construction insurance disputes, paralegal and property management issues.  This conference will provide up to 6 CLE and CE credits for attorneys, paralegals, insurance personnel and property managers.

A sample of our speakers and topics:

Michael Wales and Eugene Peterson – The Art & Science of taking and preparing expert depositions

Rob McNealy – Federal Commercial Floor Inspection Law coming into effect.

Reed Pruyn – Creative Writing

Russell Brown – Defending GC, developer, design and sub in CD cases.

David Mefford – Construction Defects and water intrusion

Melissa Brumback, Darren Barker & Dean Vlahos—Panel discussion on Design Professional issues and future litigation

Craig Coburn— Mediation: Why cases don’t settle

Andrew Morse—Battle of the expert reports

Michael Stahler and Lance Locke—Construction Law update

Carma Harper – Streamlining Billing

Mark Brown—What constitutes an “occurrence” on multi-building projects

Kevin Meade - CA, NV, and UT Construction Law updates

Heather Allen - HIPPA compliance

Depreciation in Insurance Claims

CD Claims handling, templates, checklists, timelines, etc.

Top Insurance trends

Document management, and getting documents to your experts

The conference  will start with check-in and a continental breakfast at 7:00 a.m. followed by four hours of class prior to lunch and two hours after lunch. Lunch will also be provided and will include an awards program and a special guest speaker.

Cost will be $97 online prior to the event and $147 at the door.

For more complete conference and speaker information and to register go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/construction-defect-dispute-c...

The event will be hosted by Advise & Consult, Inc.  Advise & Consult, Inc. specializes in providing litigation support services, including expert witness, for a wide spectrum of residential and commercial construction defect resolution cases, insurance claim disputes, OSHA violations, estimates, insurance appraisals and umpire services, and construction injuries.