Archived Webinars

TASA ID: 10362

On October 15, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. (ET), The TASA Group, in conjunction with forensic economists Nora Ostrofe, presented a free, one-hour interactive webinar presentation, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Calculating Economic Damages (But Were Afraid to Ask), for all legal professionals. 

During this presentation, Ms. Ostrofe discussed:

• Calculating Present Value, Growth Rates, and Prejudgment Interest
• Determining the Duration of Economic Loss:  Work-life, Life, and Healthy Life Expectancies
• Determining Wage Loss:  Earning History; Earning Capacity; Self-Employed Workers
• All About Fringe Benefits
• Earnings in Retirement:  Pensions, Social Security, Survivor Benefits
• Equity Compensation:  Restricted Stock Units, Stock Options, Stock Shares, Privately Held or pre-IPO Companies
• Incorporating Taxes:  After-tax earnings, tax neutralization calculations
• Atypical Plaintiffs:  Children, Elderly, Unemployed, Self-employed
• Practice Pointers

TASA ID: 10362

Program Description:

On November 12, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), The TASA Group, in conjunction with forensic economist Nora Ostrofe, presented a free, one and a half hour, interactive webinar presentation, Advanced Topics in Valuing Economic Damages in Personal Injury Litigation: Part 2, for all legal professionals. During this presentation, Ms. Ostrofe discussed:

• Projecting post-injury earnings
• Projecting earnings for plaintiffs without an earning history
• Determining the reasonable value of medical expenses
• Measuring personal consumption
• Approaches to valuing household services
• Using actuarial data to project the period of loss
• Valuing income in retirement
• Discounting to present value
• Putting it all together: Reviewing an economist’s report

 Disclaimer: Please remember that if you are applying for CLE credit you must attend for the full 90 minutes of the LIVE presentation, not the ONDemand version. If a participant is seeking credit in states we are not approved to issue credit and the participating party seeking credit incurs a fee to receive said credit, it is not the obligation of TASA to remit payment for such credit. It is the participant's obligation to remit payment to the state in which they would like to receive credit.

TASA ID: 11602

Program Description:

On October 11, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), The TASA Group, in conjunction with certified financial planner Marguerita Cheng presented a free, one-hour interactive webinar presentation, Ethical Considerations for Working With An Aging Population, for all legal professionals.

During this presentation, Ms. Cheng discussed:

• A demographic overview
• Client identification
• Undue influence
• Capacity
  • Mental
  • Financial
• Client waiver
• Elder financial abuse

Disclaimer: Please remember that if you are applying for CLE credit you must attend for the full 60 minutes of the LIVE presentation, not the ONDemand version. If a participant is seeking credit in states we are not approved to issue credit and the participating party seeking credit incurs a fee to receive said credit, it is not the obligation of TASA to remit payment for such credit. It is the participant's obligation to remit payment to the state in which they would like to receive credit.

TASA ID: 10362

Program Description:

On April 24, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), The TASA Group, in conjunction with forensic economists Nora Ostrofe and Mark Falkenhagen, presented a free, one-hour interactive webinar presentation, Calculating Economic Damages, for all legal professionals. During this presentation, Ms. Ostrofe and Mr. Falkenhagen discussed:

Personal Injury

• Types of damages
• Possible outcomes to a personal injury
• Example of how wage loss varies depending on outcome
• Life care plans
• Lost household services

Wrongful Death

• Wrongful death or survivorship actions
• Types of damages
• Personal consumption | maintenance

TASA ID: 826

Program Description:

On April 5, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), The TASA Group, in conjunction with engineering expert David Russell, presented a free, one-hour interactive webinar presentation, Unplanned Events or “Black Swans” and How to Avoid Them, for all legal professionals. During this presentation, David Russell discussed:

• Evaluating, discussing and presenting industrial risk
• Analyzing risks
• The value of fat-tailed statistical thinking
• Predicting various types of events
• The difference between the EU’s approach to risk management thinking vs. the US approach