Anatomy of a Trial: The Al Capone Case (Trial Skills Program for New Litigators)

Paul J McGoldrick Related Seminars and Products

Shorall McGoldrick Zerlaut

Paul McGoldrick is Partner at Shorall McGoldrick Brickmann. Paul chairs the firm's litigation practice group along with Tom Shorall. Paul focuses his practice on personal injury and insurance cases. He also has experience as lead counsel in complex business disputes. Paul routinely represents clients in nearly every locale of Arizona, and has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, both in tort cases and in the context of commercial and professional liability suits. Paul is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is the former State Chair for the 2019-2021 term. The American Board of Trial Advocates has elected Paul an associate based upon his many jury trials and peer review. He was the Phoenix Chapter President in 2015. In addition to his litigation practice, Paul is a frequent mediator and arbitrator. He draws upon his broad experience as a trial lawyer in helping to reach resolutions to lawsuits short of more expensive jury trials. Paul is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. Phoenix Magazine recognized Paul as a Top Lawyer in 2022 in the category of Arbitration and Mediation. Before entering private practice in Phoenix, Paul was a law clerk to the Honorable Frank X. Gordon, Jr., the then Vice Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona. Since that time, Paul has been appointed a judge pro tempore of the Maricopa County Superior Court (2002-2015). The State Bar has certified Paul as a Specialist in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation since 1997. He is currently on the State Bar Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Advisory Commission. Martindale-Hubbell, the directory of American law firms, has consistently given Paul its highest "AV" rating since 1995, based upon the reviews of his fellow Arizona attorneys. Paul has been included in Southwest Super Lawyers every year since 2007 and for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021and 2022 is listed among Super Lawyers "Top 50" Arizona attorneys. Paul has been selected for inclusion in Arizona's Finest Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America for Insurance Law, Insurance Litigation and Personal Injury Litigation. Best Lawyers has selected Paul as the Lawyer of the Year (Phoenix) for Personal Injury Litigation - Defense (2023). He has been listed in Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona - AZ Business Magazine, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Michael J S Rusing Related Seminars and Products

, a graduate of Stanford Law School, has practiced law for 41 years. In July 1992, Mr. Rusing, along with his Stanford classmate, Pat Lopez, founded Rusing & Lopez, P.L.L.C. The firm became Rusing Lopez & Lizardi, P.L.L.C. when Oscar Lizardi joined the firm in 2000. Mr. Rusing has tried well over 100 cases in federal and state courts in such areas as breach of fiduciary duty, contract, intellectual property, ERISA, employment, environmental, insurance bad faith, insurance coverage, legal malpractice, medical malpractice, patent infringement, products liability, securities, trusts and estates, will contests, and wrongful death. He has argued cases before the Arizona Court of Appeals, the Arizona Supreme Court, the Nevada Supreme Court, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panels, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He was chosen by Arizona Super Lawyers as one of the top 50 lawyers in Arizona. Chambers USA Survey of America's Leading Business Lawyers recognized Mr. Rusing as a top Arizona litigator and has been listed by Best Lawyers in eight litigation categories: Commercial, Banking/Finance, Labor and Employment, Real Estate, Regulatory Enforcement, Mass Tort/Class Actions, Personal Injury-Plaintiffs and Personal Injury-Defendants.

Laura E Udall Related Seminars and Products

Laura E. Udall PLLC

Laura Udall is a criminal defense attorney in private practice in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona. She attended the University of California at Berkeley for her undergraduate degree and received her law degree from the University of Utah. Following law school she clerked for the Honorable Alfredo Marquez for District Court in Arizona. She then went to work at the Pima County Public Defender for 4 years. In 1992 she and Dan Cooper opened their firm, Cooper and Udall PC, and practiced together until 2021 when she opened her solo firm Laura E. Udall PLLC. Laura has tried over 110 cases to jury verdict. She is qualified as learned counsel for capital work in both Federal and State jurisdictions. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona teaching trial advocacy since 2010. Laura was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2017.

Kevin W Keenan Related Seminars and Products

Peter Akmajian Related Seminars and Products

Attorney

Schmidt Sethi & Akmajian PC

Peter Akmajian is a 1984 graduate (with distinction) from the University of Arizona College of Law. He clerked for the Honorable Frank X. Gordon from 1984-85. He has been in private practice since 1985 with O’Connor Cavanagh in Phoenix and Tucson, the Udall Law Firm and now with Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian, where he represents patients and their families in medical malpractice and other personal injury cases. Peter is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of ABOTA.

Patrick J McGroder III Related Seminars and Products

Partner

Beus Gilbert McGroder PLLC

Patrick McGroder has been a trial lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona for over 45 years, specializing in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Arizona College of Law. He is the former President of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL), a fellow American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. He has been selected as one of the 10 Best Lawyers in Arizona by the AZ Business Journal. Since 2008 he has been selected by Lawdragon as one of the 500 best lawyers in America, and in 2019 he was inducted into Lawdragon’s Hall of Fame. He was named by Best Lawyers in America as Phoenix Personal Injury Litigator of the year 2009, 2015, and 2019. He was a co-finalist for the National Trial Lawyers for Public Justice “Trial Lawyer of the Year” for his work in representing victims of fuel-fed fires in Ford police vehicles. He was awarded the Ken Clancy Memorial Award by ABOTA for his “Unfailing Commitment to the Principles of Professionalism, Decency, and Civility in the Legal Profession. He was a recipient of the Walter E. Craig Distinguished Service Award from the Arizona Bar Foundation for his adherence to the highest traditions of the legal community and service to his community.

John P Ager Related Seminars and Products

Sandweg & Ager PC

John Ager attended The University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate and the Arizona College of Law. He recently completed the Pepperdine Law School, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, “Mediating the Litigated Case” program. John has been litigating personal injury cases involving catastrophic injuries and death representing both plaintiffs and defendants for more than 25 years. He has successfully tried many cases to verdict. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, where he currently serves on the Arizona State Committee, as well as a national grant review committee. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and past president of the Arizona Chapter, where he continues to serve on the Executive Committee. He is a member of the American Association for Justice and the Arizona Association for Justice, where he currently serves on the Executive Committee. He is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. Since 2016, he has been recognized annually by Best Lawyers in America for his work in personal injury cases and was awarded lawyer of the year in 2022 and 2024. Since 2015, he has been recognized annually by Southwest Super Lawyers for his work in medical negligence cases. He served as chair of the State Bar of Arizona College of Trial Advocacy for eight years. He currently serves on the State Bar of Arizona Civil Practice and Procedure Committee, where he has chaired many subcommittees. He is a frequent lecturer and author on issues related to civil practice and medical negligence claims.

Ron Mercaldo Related Seminars and Products

Marco B Mercaldo Related Seminars and Products

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Mercaldo Law Firm

Marco Mecaldo was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in 2001 and to the State Bar of California in 1998. He has been "AV" rated by Martindale Hubbell every year since 2009. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America, Southwest Super Lawyers, and LawDragon Top 500 Plaintiff lawyers in America. He has previously acted as Western Regional Catastrophic Loss Counsel for several major insurance companies and has personally handled more than 100 wrongful death and brain injury cases in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah. He is a prior President of the Tucson chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates ("ABOTA") and is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers.

Hon. Sean E Brearcliffe Related Seminars and Products

Honorable Sean E. Brearcliffe was appointed to the Court of Appeals on September 20, 2017. At the time of his appointment, he had been serving as a trial judge on the Pima County Superior Court for nearly five years. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University, Hayward, and his law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. Before becoming a Judge, Judge Brearcliffe was in private practice as a senior litigation partner with Rusing Lopez & Lizardi, PLLC, in Tucson. His private practice for over 17 years was as a general commercial litigator, focusing on contract, insurance, construction, class-action, agriculture, and employment litigation. Judge Brearcliffe is the immediate past president of the Arizona Judges Association, past national Chairman of the Federal Bar Association’s Professional Ethics Committee and of the American Judges Association’s Ethics and Professionalism Committee, past President of the William D. Browning Tucson Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, past Chairman of the Pima County Bar Association’s Rules Committee, former member of the United States District Court’s Local Rules Advisory Committee, and an alumnus of the Morris K. Udall American Inns of Court.

Howard Ross Cabot Related Seminars and Products

David S Shughart III Related Seminars and Products

Beale Micheaels Slack & Shughart PC

specializes in the areas of personal injury and insurance litigation. He primarily represents injured individuals and insurance policyholders. Mr. Shughart became a partner in the law firm of Beale, Micheaels, Slack & Shughart, P.C., in 2013. From 2000 to 2012, Mr. Shughart had his own firm, David S. Shughart P.C., and handled personal injury and insurance-related cases. Prior to that, from 1993 to 2000, he was a partner in a Phoenix law firm representing civil defendants and insurance companies. Throughout his more than twenty years of practice, Mr. Shughart has successfully tried more than 25 cases to verdict and arbitrated hundreds of others in the areas of insurance bad faith, insurance coverage, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, products liability, and medical malpractice. He has argued many cases in the Arizona Court of Appeals and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Shughart holds an AV Preeminent rating in the Martindale-Hubbell national registry of preeminent lawyers, and has been listed annually for several consecutive years in Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, and Arizona's Finest Lawyers. He is certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a specialist in injury and wrongful death. Barrett's Honors College, B.A. (English), 1990. (6/2019)

Georgia A Staton Related Seminars and Products

Partner

Jones Skelton & Hochuli PLC

Georgia Staton has more than 50 years of experience representing governmental entities, including state, counties, and cities, as well as school districts and privately-held corporations. She is committed to defending clients on issues involving governmental liability, employment law, personal injury, and civil rights. Georgia has tried more than 75 cases to verdict in state and federal court in matters involving wrongful death and claims brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, Title VII discrimination, and sexual harassment claims and retaliation, as well as false arrest and excessive force allegations against law enforcement including pursuit cases and SWAT actions.

Georgia is a Certified Specialist in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death, an Advocate member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), and a Fellow and Past-Chair of the Arizona Chapter of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL).

Away from the office, Georgia enjoys traveling the world, reading novels, and learning Russian.

Thomas P Burke Related Seminars and Products

Thomas P. Burke is a highly respected trial and appellate attorney who has actively practiced law since graduating from the University of Arizona, College of Law in 1984. Mr. Burke has had success for many clients (individuals, companies, and governmental agencies) in a variety of cases in both trial and appellate courts and at the state and federal levels. Tom’s practice is primarily in tort matters which includes serious personal injury, wrongful death, insurance claims, product liability claims, premises liability claims, motor vehicle claims (automobile and trucking), liquor liability claims, and governmental claims. Tom is involved in various attorney associations, having served on the boards of a state organization and two national organizations, and has been a seminar speaker on many trial practice topics. In 2012, Tom was the only nominee in the state of Arizona to the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers where he was inducted as a ‘Fellow” in 2013.

Michael R McVey Related Seminars and Products