The Goal of This Video Leadership Seminar is to Provide Lawyers with Essential Information on Settling Personal Injury Claims

Business Wire, Oct 11, 2007

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c71234) has announced the addition of "Settlement & Negotiation Strategies for Personal Injury Law: Video Leadership Seminar with Michael Bogdanow of Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, PC" to their offering.

The goal of this Video Leadership Seminar is to provide lawyers with essential information on settling personal injury claims. The DVD is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 80 minutes of live video with Michael Bogdanow of Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, PC sharing his knowledge and experience with personal injury cases. The Video Leadership Seminar provides specific resources such as the most important laws, strategies to succeed and experiences dealing with different situations.

Topics covered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:

- Trends in personal injury filings

- Different types of personal injury lawsuits

- Steps for handling the settlement process

- Best practices for developing effective negotiation strategies

- Case Studies

Samples of the types of questions answered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:

- How have the claims and the outcomes changed in recent years?

- Who is bringing the cases? What are the plaintiff expectations for financial settlements?

- How are defendants responding to the current cases?

- What would you say are the 5-7 steps in developing a negotiating strategy?

- What are the most effective negotiating strategies for personal injury cases?

- What calculations are made to predict the financial settlement?

- What venue is the most favourable for negotiating a positive settlement?

- What will be the structure of the settlement? How is this determined?

- What motivates the defence? Why is this important to the negotiating strategy?

About the Author

Michael B. Bogdanow follows two professional passions in life: law and art. By day, he maintains a diverse practice at Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, and in his spare time he creates paintings and sculptures in his Lexington home studio. While the two enterprises might seem contradictory - the rationality of law vs. the creativity of art - to Bogdanow, they occupy a common ground. Bogdanow's breadth of interests also manifests itself in the breadth of his practice.

He enjoys tackling many different types of cases, including personal injury litigation for both sides, the plaintiff and the defence, as well as appellate litigation and insurance coverage matters. Over the years, he has become familiar with subjects ranging from medical devices and prescription drugs to amusement park rides and flammable fabrics. He also is a prodigious writer. In 1993, he authored a legal treatise, "Massachusetts Tort Damages," that is widely used as a reference by personal injury practitioners and judges. In 1999 he wrote the second edition of the treatise, which was published by Lexis Law Publishing. He has also published articles on tort and insurance practice on the Lexis Xchange, a website founded by Lexis-Nexis. A native of Houston, Bogdanow has practiced law in Boston since his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1984.

He first worked at one of Boston's larger litigation firms where he met his future Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow colleagues. Bogdanow joined the expanding firm in 1985, and is now its Managing Officer. Like others at the firm, Bogdanow manages to make time to participate in bar activities. He is a former Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association Litigation Section, and formerly served as the Co-Chair of its Tort Committee. He has served as President of the Massachusetts chapter of the Federal Bar Association for the year 1999-2000 and has been a member of a variety of committees of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

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