Derek’s Presentations
2012 Speaker- “Mentor ObTape and Transvaginal Mesh (TVM) Litigation Update”
American Association for Justice Teleseminar
2010 Speaker – “Weaving Community Safety Standards Through Discovery and Trial”
Kansas Association for Justice Annual Convention, Crown Center, Kansas City, Missouri
2010 Speaker – “Implementing Community Safety Standards in Trail”
Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association Seminar, Bentonville, Arkansas
2009 Speaker – “The Reptile And Trial Techniques”
David Ball and Don Keenan Seminar, Dallas, Texas
2008 Speaker – “Vytorin and Zetia Class Action”
American Association for Justice Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvainia
2007 Moderator/Speaker - “Emerging Hospital Liability Trends”
Missouri Bar CLE, Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri 2005 Moderator/Speaker-“Update on Nursing Home Litigation,” Missouri Bar CLE, Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri
2003 Speaker/Witness – “Prevalence of Medical Malpractice and Its Correlation to Systemic Breakdown in Hospitals”
Missouri Patient Safety Commission
2003 Speaker – “Advanced Nursing Home Litigation Strategies”
Missouri Bar CLE, Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri
2003 Planning Co-Chair/Speaker - “Hot Topics in Medical Malpractice, Hospital and Nursing Home Neglect-Decubitis Ulcers, Malnutrition, and Dehydration”
Missouri Bar, CLE, Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri
2002 Speaker – “Investigation of Nursing Home Resident Abuse and Neglect”
Missouri Ombudsman Program/Northwest Region Winter Training Meeting
2002 Moderator - “Proving Catastrophic Damages”
Missouri Bar CLE, Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri
2002 Speaker - “What is Medical Malpractice?”
American Society of Registered Nurses, ASORN, Annual Meeting, Kansas University Medical Center
2001 Moderator/Speaker – “Evaluation and Prosecution of Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Cases”
Missouri Bar CLE, Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri
2000 Moderator/Speaker – “Nursing Home Negligence: Plaintiff and Defense Perspectives”
Missouri Bar CLE, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 Speaker/Witness - “Understaffing in Nursing Homes”
Missouri Senate Elder Law Committee
1999 Speaker/Witness – “Prevalence of Nursing Home Abuse”
Missouri House of Representatives Sub-Committee on Elderly Abuse
1999 Speaker - “Nursing Home Negligence”
Missouri Ombudsman Program Winter Meeting
