MTMP Spring 2026 Seminar Agenda

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

Speaker TBD, Even Up; Speaker TBD, Tavrn.ai

Speaker TBD, Intake Desk

Co-sponsored by Edward Jones Cosentino Wealth Management Team

Building Financial Foundations for Retirement

• Strategic Account Structuring for Today and Tomorrow
• Collaborating with Your Trusted Professional Circle
• Women and the Great Wealth Transfer
• Personalized Action Planning for What’s Next

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

• Why “file-ready” cases reduce fallout, internal friction, and downstream delays
• The compliance principles that matter throughout the lead journey
• How verification and quality controls strengthen case compensability
• What distinguishes The Legal Leads when delivering reliable, compensable case inventory

Co-sponsored by Reciprocity Industries

Co-sponsored by EvenUp

Keep the night going at the XS After Party with live music from Red Penny, casino-style gaming including roulette and blackjack, handcrafted cocktails, and delicious hors d’oeuvres.

Co-sponsored by Grant & Eisenhofer

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

Co-sponsored by Edward Jones Cosentino Wealth Management Team

Building Financial Foundations for Retirement

• Strategic Account Structuring for Today and Tomorrow
• Collaborating with Your Trusted Professional Circle
• Women and the Great Wealth Transfer
• Personalized Action Planning for What’s Next

Co-sponsored by Reciprocity Industries

Co-sponsored by EvenUp

Keep the night going at the XS After Party with live music from Red Penny, casino-style gaming including roulette and blackjack, handcrafted cocktails, and delicious hors d’oeuvres.

Co-sponsored by Filevine

If you are not a skilled cross-examiner, you are already losing. Come listen to some important ideas about how to improve your cross-examinations.

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

Mass tort teams are drowning in deposition transcripts, exhibits, and PDFs—yet critical testimony often remains locked in static documents that are difficult to search, compare, and reuse across a docket.

Disorganized exhibits and incomplete testimony tracking can also increase defensibility challenges, discovery disputes, and even sanctions exposure in high-stakes cases. This session explores how leading firms are modernizing deposition record management by moving from document storage to structured, searchable deposition knowledge. Attendees will learn emerging best practices for building depo libraries, organizing testimony by issue and theme, and using new approaches—including AI—to scale speed, consistency, and risk reduction across high-volume litigation.

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

Co-sponsored by Edward Jones Cosentino Wealth Management Team

Building Financial Foundations for Retirement

• Strategic Account Structuring for Today and Tomorrow
• Collaborating with Your Trusted Professional Circle
• Women and the Great Wealth Transfer
• Personalized Action Planning for What’s Next

Lawyers have always used visuals at trial. But until recently lawyers were limited to using the chalkboard and the flip chart. Now we have amazing technology—like document cameras, Canva/PowerPoint, and AI—to create visuals that helps teach the jury what they need to know about the case. This lecture will teach you how to: (1) create trial ready visuals live in depositions; (2) use visuals (basic ones) in voir dire; (3) create visuals for opening to frame your case themes; (4) create visuals with witnesses live in trial; and (5) incorporate these visuals into your closing argument.

Co-sponsored by Reciprocity Industries

Co-sponsored by EvenUp

Keep the night going at the XS After Party with live music from Red Penny, casino-style gaming including roulette and blackjack, handcrafted cocktails, and delicious hors d’oeuvres.

Co-sponsored by Supio

Attorney Sheryl Berkowitz and Paralegal Carol Moore will be kicking off the MTMP Paralegal College at the Spring MTMP with a presentation on the Active Mass Tort Cases that are being litigated across the United States. The presentation will include discussions regarding the elements of liability, causation, injury, and other key elements of each mass tort. The presentation will include the court venue, the status of the cases and identify the Plaintiff’s MDL Leadership Team.

This session will provide a high-level overview of how client-specific eDiscovery works, from initial data collection through final production.

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

Specifically focusing on clients who go AWOL, can’t be reached, or have inconsistent contact information, and the practical techniques paralegals use to track them down across multiple platforms and data sources. It’s something every case type struggles with, and it’s very skill-based, which tends to resonate well with attendees.

This session will focus on trial and deposition exhibit management in complex cases, as well as authenticating documents for admission at trial.

This session offers practical guidance on qualifying clients’ cases, working with Claims Administrators, and clearly communicating the settlement process to clients. Attendees will also learn best practices for managing expectations and handling non-qualifying cases with professionalism and care.

Co-sponsored by Edward Jones Cosentino Wealth Management Team

Building Financial Foundations for Retirement

• Strategic Account Structuring for Today and Tomorrow
• Collaborating with Your Trusted Professional Circle
• Women and the Great Wealth Transfer
• Personalized Action Planning for What’s Next

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

This session will introduce the MTMP Paralegal Mass Tort Certification Program, a complimentary, comprehensive course series designed to build essential competency in mass tort litigation from intake through settlement. Learn how the program equips paralegals and attorneys with practical skills in MDLs, ethics, legal research, technology, and trial preparation—culminating in a Certificate of Completion that helps launch or elevate a mass tort career.

Co-sponsored by Reciprocity Industries

Co-sponsored by EvenUp

Keep the night going at the XS After Party with live music from Red Penny, casino-style gaming including roulette and blackjack, handcrafted cocktails, and delicious hors d’oeuvres.

Co-sponsored by Supio

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

This session will explore best practices for staying current on evolving case criteria and effectively communicating requirements to clients. Attendees will gain practical strategies for managing updates, setting expectations, and ensuring clear, consistent client communication throughout the life of a case.

Co-sponsored by Broughton Partners and Business Funding Group

This session will explore practical strategies for managing stress and preventing burnout in the fast-paced legal environment.

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

Successful law firms understand the critical moments of any complex litigation come at the very beginning of every case with time tested and case savvy prelitigation investigation and science vetting. Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of not knowing all the facts of the case, including the background of your client, understanding the theory of liability, the statute of limitations, picking the right venue, and naming the proper and solvent defendants. Having a thorough understanding of how a defective product or environmental containment causes harm to your client is critical before spending thousands of dollars and countless hours on litigating a case that does not bring value to your clients and your firm.

Rejecting cases is an inevitably,  but how you handle this process can make or break your relationship with co-counsel. This session will explore best practices to reject cases without losing relationships.

Co-sponsored by Lexitas Legal

Co-sponsored by Eve

Depo-Provera Moving At Lightning Speed: Between the FDA’s approval of Pfizer’s second request for a warning label, a significant increase in filings, trial settings, and coordinations between the MDL in the Northern District of Florida and multiple litigations across the country, Depo-Provera is moving rapidly. Come and hear the details about the Depo-Provera events that could impact your practice.

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

• Judicial Guardrails; AI challenges including evidence authentication and hallucinations
• Aligning existing and proposed Federal Rules with digital age technology.
• Proposed Rule of Evidence 707 in response to machine generated evidence that utilizes AI
• Proposed Rule of Evidence 901(c) in response to deepfakes and digital deception (See Haung v Tesla and U.S. v Reffitt)
• Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43 (a) Conducting remote proceedings; proposals for relaxing restrictions
• Navigating early MDL Case Management through Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 16.1
• Judicial intimidation: recognizing, addressing, and responding
• The evolution of Special Masters in the AI landscape
• Cybersecurity: Exposure risk and mitigation
• Monitoring Litigation Finance; A $16 Billion industry

Co-sponsored by Broughton Partners and Business Funding Group

• NEW NAION MDL 3163 Update
• GI MDL 3094 Update
• NAION and GI State Court Litigation Update
• Current Case Criteria
• Status of Science/Causation and Drug Labels

This session will examine emerging litigation focused on holding online platforms accountable for their role in enabling child sexual predation.

Co-sponsored by National Record Retrieval

This session will examine 1,4-dioxane, a critical emerging contaminant classified as a likely human carcinogen and known for its high mobility in groundwater and resistance to conventional water treatment methods. Historically used as a solvent stabilizer, it creates widespread, persistent, and hard-to-remediate contamination plumes and is often found in groundwater near industrial sites. Detected in over 20% of U.S. water supplies tested, 1,4-dioxane could be the next PFAS in environmental litigation.

Co-sponsored by Lexitas Legal

Co-sponsored by Eve

Co-sponsored by A Case for Women

Co-sponsored by Supio

This session will cover practical task checklists and common pitfalls paralegals should be aware of when supporting cases as they move toward trial.

Co-sponsored by Tavrn.ai

How to communicate with clients in a clear, ethical, and compassionate manner when working with individuals facing severe, life-altering injuries, as well as language and cultural barriers.

Co-sponsored by Business Funding Group

Representing public entities in complex litigation requires more than traditional plaintiff-side strategy—it demands navigation of procurement rules, public records laws, contingency structures, and political oversight. This session breaks down the practical and ethical considerations of serving as private counsel to governmental clients and building durable, transparent litigation partnerships.

If it isn’t too late, we may want to think about adjusting the title to “Public Clients, Private Counsel: Strategy and Structure for Government Representation in Complex Litigation” rather than “mass torts.” It is not the end of the world, but often these entity cases are consumer protection claims rather than a “tort.” Sorry I didn’t pick up on that earlier—but honestly people use it interchangeably so not the end of the world.

This interactive roundtable discussion will bring paralegals together to share insights, experiences, and practical strategies for achieving long-term success in the legal field. Attendees will engage in an open dialogue focused on professional growth, skill development, and navigating the evolving demands of their roles.

Co-sponsored by A Case for Women

Sponsored by the National Legal Vendors Assn. (NLVA)

Co-sponsored by Tavrn.ai

This panel will discuss the latest developments in the Uber/Lyft sexual assault litigation, including details on the incredible $8.5 million verdict they just received in Arizona. They will explore emerging and ongoing litigation involving rideshare companies, including accountability, evolving legal theories, and the challenges of litigating against powerful platform-based corporations.

Co-sponsored by Business Funding Group

Panelists will give a comprehensive recap of science day and discuss important discovery updates

• Oxbryta
• Paragard
• Bard IPC
• Paraquat
• NEC