Attorneys Walt Peake, Sean Workowski and Andrew Gerrish were speakers at the 2017 Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys’ Annual Meeting in October 2017.

Walt, Sean and Andy presented on Ethics During Trial. This ethics presentation outlined recent changes to Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct 1.6 and 3.3 regarding the duties of confidentiality and candor towards the tribunal. During this ethics CLE, Sean and Walt also discussed ethics questions that had arisen in their practices; hypothetical ethics questions; and the application of the rules, legal ethics opinions, and case law to those scenarios.

Sean Workowski also served as a panel member for a discussion on defending cases involving traumatic brain injuries titled TBI 101: Investigating and Defending TBI Cases.  Andy also served on the VADA’s Annual Meeting committee.

Walt is a founding member of FA+P.  He specializes in medical malpractice defense and the representation of healthcare professionals in licensing, board and privileges matters, as well as other healthcare matters.  Sean’s primary focus is civil litigation, particularly in the areas of insurance defense, transportation, insurance coverage, products liability, premises liability and subrogation.  Andy focuses his practice on civil litigation, particularly in the areas of insurance defense; insurance coverage; premises liability; legal malpractice; professional liability; community associations; and architect, engineer, and contractor liability.