Agenda: August 29, 2018 12:00pm – 1:30pm MDT
- The Basics
- Understanding what your federal magistrate judges can and cannot do
- Alaska, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and DC
- Referring to magistrate judges
- Making the Scheduling Conference Work for You
- Managing Discovery
- Informal Discovery Dispute Conferences
- Meet and confer
- What to provide in advance of the conference
- Formal Discovery Motions
- Sanctions
- Settlement Conferences and Early Neutral Evaluations
- What does authority to settle mean
- Trying a Case Before a Magistrate Judge
- Making efficient use of the Final Pretrial Conference and the Final Trial Preparation Conference
- Jury Selection and Voir Dire
Location: Holland & Hart
555 17th Street, Suite 3200 Denver, CO 80202
Speaker(s):
Judge Nina Y. Wang
CLE Credits: Applying for CLE in all H&H states
Cost to attend: $50 for non-H&H attendees
Biography:
Nina Y. Wang
U.S. District Court (D-CO)
Judge Nina Y. Wang is a Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Prior to her appointment to the bench in 2015, she was a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at a private firm, where her practice focused on complex intellectual property litigation. She also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Colorado in the Civil Division from 2000-2004, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Peter J. Messitte on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. She is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, and Harvard Law School. Judge Wang is a past President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Colorado, and former Chair of the IP Section of the Colorado Bar. She currently serves on the Steering Committee for the National Pro Bono Patent Committee and as a judicial advisor for the Sedona Conference Working Group on Patent Litigation.
Contact: Contact Katie Meyer at 303-295-8307 or klmeyer@hollandhart.com