Michigan Auto and Truck Accident Lawyers

Lawrence E. Gursten

2004 Annual Rapid Fire Seminar, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, "The Science of Case Evaluation and Mediation"
Highest Score on Michigan Bar Exam - Award
Expert speaker to Michigan Legislature on Michigan No Fault Law, Lansing, MI
Moderator and Speaker, "No Fault Extravaganza " seminar to
Michigan Trial Lawyers Association
Speaker, "Meeting Michigan's Auto Law Threshold," Michigan Trial Lawyers Association
Moderator and Speaker, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, "How to Handle Automobile Accidents," Young Lawyers Case Workshop Forum.
Past Chair, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association Auto Attorney Committee
Past Executive Board Member, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association

Steven M. Gursten

Speaker & Panel Member, "Kreiner Year Two: Fighting Back” Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA), 2006
Speaker, “Avoiding the Threshold Defense in Car Accident Cases”, Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) No Fault Update Seminar, 2005
Speaker, "Third-Party Litigation: Practical Issues from the Plaintiff's Perspective, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2004 No Fault Update Seminar.
Author, "Point/Counterpoint: What does Serious Impairment of Body Function Really Mean? How the Supreme Court will interpret Kreiner v. Fischer." State Bar of Michigan Negligence Law Section Quarterly, Summer 2004.
Speaker, Taking and Defending Effective Depositions in Michigan: the Plaintiff Attorney's Perspective, Lorman Legal Education Seminars, Detroit, Michigan 2004
Moderator, Evidence Seminar, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 2003
Speaker, Winning No Fault Trials, Seminar in the Snow, 2003
Speaker, No Fault Extravaganza "How to Destroy a Biomechanical Engineer" 2003
Speaker, No Fault Extravaganza "Winning Motions for Summary Disposition on Serious Impairment of Body Function," 2002
Speaker, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Expanding Damages in Auto & Premises Liability Cases, 2001
Speaker, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Theories on Damages, 2002
Speaker, Taking and Defending Effective Depositions in Michigan: the Plaintiff Attorney's Perspective, Lorman Legal Education Seminars, Detroit, Michigan 2002
Speaker, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, "Handling No Fault Trials" 2003
Speaker, Negligence Update, State Bar of Michigan 2002
Speaker, Negligence Update, State Bar of Michigan 2001
Speaker, Negligence Update, State Bar of Michigan 2000
Speaker, Negligence Update, State Bar of Michigan 1999
Speaker, "Doubling the Value of your Auto Negligence Cases," Michigan Trial Lawyers Association Seminar in the Snow, 2002
Speaker, "Maximizing Damages in Auto Cases," Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, Seminar in the Snow, 2001
Speaker, "Your Car, Your Rights, Your Ticket to Freedom," Oakland County Bar Association 2004
Speaker, "Your Car, Your Rights, Your Ticket to Freedom," Oakland County Bar Association 2003
Speaker, "Your Car, Your Rights, Your Ticket to Freedom," Oakland County Bar Association 2002
Speaker, "Your Car, Your Rights, Your Ticket to Freedom," Oakland County Bar Association 2001
Speaker, "Your Car, Your Rights, Your Ticket to Freedom," Oakland County Bar Association 2000
Speaker, "Your Car, Your Rights, Your Ticket to Freedom," Oakland County Bar Association 1999
Speaker, "Handling the Low Damage Car Accident Case," Rapid Fire Seminar, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 2000
Speaker, "The Masters Series" - Closing Arguments 1999
Speaker on Meeting Michigan's Auto Threshold Law, 1999
Speaker, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, How to Hammer
Allstate Seminar, "Handling Bad Faith Claims against Insurance Companies" 1999
Executive Board Member, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 1997-present
Representative, State Bar of Michigan Assembly, 2000-2001
Author, "Handling Automobile Accident Cases in Michigan," Michigan Lawyer's Manual, West Publishing, 2002.
Author, "Making and Opposing Motions for Summary Disposition on Serious Impairment of Body Function," State Bar of Michigan - Negligence Law Section, Winter 2001

Leonard Koltonow

Speaker, "Master Trial Lawyer" series on Closing Arguments in Trial
Speaker "Winning Direct Examinations" ABOTA
Guest lecturer on Insurance Law Classes - Lawrence Technological Institute

David E Christensen

Author, Use of SPECT Imaging in Traumatic Brain Injury Cases, Michigan
Trial Lawyers Association, 1997
Speaker, Evidence Issues Involving Traumatic Brain Injury Cases,
Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 1998
Author, "Breaking the Deadlock: Toward a Socialist-Confucianist Concept of Human Rights in China" 13:469 Mich J Int'l Law;
Speaker, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, "No Fault Law" 1999
Guest Lecturer, Trial Advocacy, Wayne State University School of Law, 2000
Guest Lecturer, Trial Advocacy, Wayne State University School of Law, 1999
Guest Lecturer, Trial Advocacy, Wayne State University School of Law, 1998
Speaker, No Fault Extravaganza, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, "Preparing the Traumatic Brain Injury Case" 2003
Moderator, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association Seminar, "Focus on the Jury" 2003
Executive Board, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 1996-1999, 2003- present

Robert M. Raitt

Speaker, State Bar of Michigan, "Trial Advocacy and Strategy" 1997
Speaker, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, Rapid Fire Seminar "Products Liability - A Breach of Implied Warranty Claims" 2000
Moderator, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association Premises Liability Seminar, 2001
Moderator, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, How to Hammer Allstate Seminar II, 2001
Speaker, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Premises Liability 2002
Moderator, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, Handling the Appeal in Personal Injury Cases, 2002
Moderator, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, Understanding Colossus and Expanding Damages with Insurance Companies, 2002
Executive Board, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 1996 to Present.
Treasurer, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 2003
Speaker, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, Seminar in the Snow "How to Get the Most Value Out of Your Case", 2004

Seminars & Honors