A SAMPLE OF RECENT FACULTY FOR TRIAL SKILLS INCLUDES:

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A graduate of Harvard Law School, Albert P. Zabin practices – for Duane Morris LLP – in the area of civil litigation, including business disputes, partnership and close corporation disputes, trade secrets, intellectual property, mediation and arbitration as a neutral, insurance, and torts. Albert is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a guest lecturer at Tufts University and, previously, has been a visiting instructor at both Boston College Law School and Northeastern School of Law. He has authored many journal articles on product liability, trial practice and civil procedure, and serves on the IOLTA Grant Committee for the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, where he is a life member.

Bruce W. Felmly, a trial lawyer with over 30 years of experience, is co-chair of the Litigation Department at McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, New Hampshire. His practice involves representing companies and individuals in trial in a wide range of commercial disputes including insurance recovery, anti-trust, real estate and other business disputes. Bruce is also well-versed in substantial personal injury matters, and has substantial experience as a mediator and in alternative dispute resolution. He is a former president of the New Hampshire Bar Association and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1972.

Elizabeth Segovis is the director of Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, and director of training, at Rhode Island Legal Services, where she has now worked for 15 years. Throughout more than 20 years in legal services, primarily practicing family law, Elizabeth has garnered extensive trial experience, including many jury trials in Texas, one of only two jurisdictions in the US that permits jury trials in family court matters. Currently enrolled in an MS Taxation program at Byran University, Elizabeth received her J.D. from Southern Methodist University, is a member of the NERTC advisory committee, and a previous trainer for many different CLAE course deliveries. She serves on the Board of Directors of Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island and is an active volunteer with the Rhode Island chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Having been a capital partner and then counsel in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP – where he worked for 16 years until 2007 – James J. Marcellino is now at Hanify & King, where he continues to specialize in business dispute litigation. An adjunct faculty member at Boston College Law School (where he received his J.D.), James’ teaching experience is varied and long, incorporating numerous lectures to client, industry and professional groups on a wide range of litigation matters. James is a former president of the Boston Bar Association and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

A founding partner, Lisa G. Arrowood has been at Todd & Weld LLP for 16 years, specializing in business litigation, employment disputes, medical malpractice and personal injury, and legal malpractice. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Lisa is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, vice chair of the State Committee, co-chair of the Tort Litigation Committee, and, since 1997, a member of the Litigation Curriculum Advisory Committee at MCLE. For the Boston Bar Association, as well as at MCLE, Lisa has periodically been an expert panelist on such subjects as Trial Practice and Discovery Matters.

A director at the Goulston & Storrs Boston office, Richard M. Zielinski is a general trial lawyer who specializes in complex, “bet the company” litigation. He has successfully defended major law firms throughout the United States in legal malpractice cases, partner withdrawals and attorney disciplinary hearings, and has extensive trial experience in a wide range of business and real estate disputes. Richard is a graduate of Harvard Law School, a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and, at present, chair of the Massachusetts State Committee. His teaching experience incorporates Harvard Law School, MCLE, and innumerable lectures and seminars on evidence, trial practice and substantive litigation topics – areas of law that he has also written about in many different contexts.

Stefanie A. Balandis is a senior attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services, where she works in the Housing Unit. At Harvard Law School, where she received her J.D., she served as president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, interned as a public defender, and did human rights work in the former Yugoslavia. After a stint in Guatemala learning Spanish, Stefanie’s first legal services job was in the bay area of San Francisco, before she moved back east in 1996. She specializes in representing tenants with challenging mental illnesses and also represents tenant groups in their efforts to preserve affordable housing. She has served as a trainer for a number of trial advocacy trainings geared toward legal services lawyers, and is on the Board of Directors for the Women’s Bar Association.

Thomas E. Peisch has over 30 years of experience as a trial lawyer, and is a founder and partner of Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch and Ford LLP: a 30+ lawyer firm in Boston. Thomas’ primary areas of expertise are civil and criminal/regulatory litigation; he is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a former prosecutor and vice-chair of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. He is a graduate of both Dartmouth College and Boston College Law School.