We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming virtual Tressler Talk:
Employment Law Enters the Nuclear Age – When Did That Happen? An Examination of What Happened and How to Cope
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
2:00pm-3:00pm CT Webinar
Join Tressler’s award-winning attorneys for a complimentary webinar to learn about record-breaking employment verdicts. Nuclear verdicts consist primarily of awards of noneconomic damages such as emotional distress, and attendees will learn how to broach this sensitive subject at trial. Half of nuclear verdicts between 2013-2022 were between $10 million and $20 million, and over one third were between $20 million and $50 million. The remaining 19% exceeded $50 million. In 2023, a new record was reached, likely to be broken again in 2024.
Attendees will learn how to stop plaintiffs’ lawyers’ tactics that drive up awards and that widen the gap for negotiating a reasonable settlement, including techniques in advocacy – such as counter-experts, motions in limine, anchoring and mitigation that can be used. Attorneys and Insurance Professionals: Learn how to become a better practitioner and how to mitigate excessive awards. One hour of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credit pending accreditation in CA, IL and NY for newly admitted and/or experienced attorneys.
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Meet Our Speakers:
Bicvan Brown
Partner and Chair of Employment Practice Group at Tressler LLP
Bicvan is a partner and Chair of Tressler's Labor and Employment Group. Bicvan focuses her practice in all aspects of employment matters, including employment trials, arbitrations and mediations. She defends employers while providing advice and counsel against claims such as wage and hour (individual and class actions), PAGA, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and whistleblowing. She defends employers before state and federal agencies such as the EEOC, NLRB, California Labor Commission and California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. She is fluent in Vietnamese and Spanish and she provides advice about as well as translates workplace policies, employee handbooks and agreements. She regularly speaks at seminars, including sexual harassment prevention training conducted in Vietnamese, with the purpose of helping employers and their insurers regarding best practices to minimize risk in California.
Daniel Formeller
Partner and Chairman at Tressler LLP
Dan is Chairman of Tressler LLP. As a trial lawyer based in the firm’s Chicago office, Dan focuses his practice on business litigation and the resolution of business disputes through mediation and arbitration. Dan handles a wide variety of complex business litigation and counseling, including intellectual property, state and federal securities actions, anti-trust, ERISA, class actions and directors and officers liability matters. He has been lead trial counsel in bench and jury trials in state and federal courts throughout the United States.
Karl Schlecht
Partner at Tressler LLP
Karl is a partner in Tressler's Professional Liability and Employment Group in the Orange County office. He provides management-side labor and employment litigation defense before federal and state courts in class actions, single-plaintiff litigation and administrative agency proceedings involving the Fair Labor Standards Act, the ADA, Title VII, the ADEA and OSHA. His practice also includes a variety of other federal, state and local wage and hour, discrimination, breach of contract, wrongful discharge, labor and workplace tort claims. In addition to his active employment practice, Karl's practice encompasses all forms of general liability defense litigation, including premises liability, workplace accidents, automobile/trucking accidents, personal injury defense and business/contract disputes. Karl has extensive experience defending clients in complex litigation including wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases.
Jihoon Kim
Associate at Tressler LLP
Jihoon is an associate in Tressler’s Labor & Employment Practice Group in the Orange County office. He advises employers in management-side labor and employment litigation involving discrimination, harassment and wage and hour claims. Having also established and managed corporate human resource departments, Jihoon has drafted and reviewed personnel policies, employee handbooks and other employment-related materials and has conducted investigations and counseled employers in connection with a broad array of employee relations issues, including wage and hour, disability leave and harassment.
