Agenda
Monday, August 31, 2020
Log Into Webinar: 8:00 – 8:30 am EDT
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am EDT
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:15 pm EDT
Afternoon Session: 12:15 – 4:00 pm EDT
Contract Law Primer for Engineers
A. Reedy
Reviewing the necessary elements of any contract
Understanding contract “legalese”
• Determining performance
• What constitutes a breach of contract?
• What are damages and remedies?
• Liability-shifting contract provisions: warranties, guarantees and indemnities
Making changes to contracts
Professional Liability Law
D. Trevey
Reviewing the grounds for professional liability claims
Identifying who can bring a claim
Examining common sources of professional liability claims
Reviewing defenses to liability claims
Determining damages
Participating in dispute resolution: arbitration, mediation, litigation
Obtaining Insurance coverage for professional liability claims
Managing Cyber Exposure: Cyber Threats and
Insurance for Engineers
J. Wols
Recognize key cyber threats you are faced with on a daily basis
Understand the range of impact depending on the type of cybersecurity incident
Understand the evolution of cyber coverage
First party vs third party coverages
Coverage through your professional liability and cyber liability policies
Identify preventative measures and lessons learned
Intellectual Property Essentials for Engineers: Patents,
Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets
N. Stewart
Securing ownership of your designs through patents, trademarks, copyrights,
and trade secrets
Leveraging your intellectual capital through licenses, franchises, and other
technology agreements
Policing intellectual property rights and preventing infringement
Resolving intellectual property disputes
Developments in Federal and Kentucky Environmental Law
H. Graddy
Reviewing recent changes to and enforcement of:
• Pollution prevention
• Water quality enforcement
• Stormwater permitting
• Watersheds, wetlands, lakes and streams
Reviewing recent and anticipated developments at the US EPA and the Kentucky
Department for Environmental Protection
Land use/climate change
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Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers licensed in Kentucky. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval.
Professional engineers seeking professional development/continuing education credit in other states will be able to claim the hours earned at this webinar, in many cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
Completion certificates will be awarded to participants who complete this event and earn a passing score (80%) on the quiz that follows the presentation (multiple attempts allowed).
Speakers
Hank Graddy
W.H. Graddy & AssociatesAttorney and Founder at W.H. Graddy & Associates
Mr. Graddy is a 1969 graduate of Washington & Lee University (Bachelor of Arts) and a 1975 graduate of the University of Kentucky School of Law (Juris Doctor). He practices law in Versailles, Kentucky. His primary areas of practice include land use planning and zoning proceedings, and environmental, civil, administrative and appellate litigation. Mr. Graddy is currently chair of the Water Committee for the Kentucky Chapter of the Sierra Club. He has served as chair of the Sierra Club Mississippi River Issue Team, which is focused on reducing nutrient pollution loading in the Mississippi River Ecosystem, in order to reduce the hypoxia [or “dead zone”] in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Graddy is the past chairman and current board member of the statewide Watershed Watch in Kentucky, Inc., a citizens water monitoring organization. He served as project director for the Kentucky River Watershed Watch, Inc., from formation in 1997 until 2009, and is currently a board member. Mr. Graddy is admitted to practice in Kentucky, the Eastern and Western Federal District Courts in Kentucky, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
Aaron Reedy
Hurt, Deckard & MayAttorney and Partner at Hurt, Deckard & May
Mr. Reedy has acquired a broad range of legal experience through practicing law in Lexington and central Kentucky over the past nine years. His practice focuses on business litigation, business planning, creditors’ rights, foreclosure law, landlord/ tenant law, insurance defense and personal injury, including car wrecks, workers’ comp, wrongful death and premises liability. Mr. Reedy received his B.B.A. degree summa cum laude, in both Finance and Management from the University of Kentucky, Gatton School of Business and Management. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Kentucky, College of Law in 2004 where he served on the Kentucky Law Journal. Mr. Reedy worked as an associate in the firm until becoming a partner in 2009.
Nick Stewart
Stites & HarbisonAttorney at Stites & Harbison
Mr. Stewart is an intellectual property attorney at Stites & Harbison in the firm’s Louisville office. He is a registered patent attorney and largely focuses his practice in patent preparation and prosecution. With a technical background touching in biotechnology, physics, and computer science, Mr. Stewart regularly assists clients ranging from individual inventors to large- scale corporations obtain patent protection for their innovations in the mechanical, medical, and software fields in the U.S. and abroad.
David Trevey
Kinkead & Stilz, PLLCAttorney with Kinkead & Stilz, PLLCMr. Trevey graduated, cum laude, from the University ofKentucky College of Business with a BBA degree in Finance andManagement in 2000, and he then received his J.D. degree from the University of Kentucky in 2004, the same year that he was admitted to practice in Kentucky. He is also admitted to practicein the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, the Sixth CircuitCourt of Appeal and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. While attending the University of Kentucky, Mr. Trevey was a member of the Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, and the Trial Advocacy Board, where he was named best advocateduring the 2003 Kentucky Mock Trial Tournament. He is amember of the Fayette County Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, and the Kentucky Defense Counsel. Since graduation, Mr. Trevey has focused his practice almost entirely on the defense of professionals.He has defended physicians, nurses, dentists, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, land surveyors and real estate professionals. He also has experience in large-scale cases such as class actions, increasingly popular multi-district litigation (MDL) cases such as Vioxx, Celebrex and Phen-Fen, as well as large-scale disaster consolidation cases such as the Comair Flight 5191litigation.
Jock Wols
RiskDeskCEO and Founder at RiskDesk
Mr. Wols is the CEO and founder of RiskDesk, an insurance broker and technology company based out of Lexington, Kentucky. He has more than 15 years of experience helping professionals such as architects and engineers to manage their risk by delivering market-leading professional and cyber liability insurance solutions. Before he established RiskDesk in 2017, Mr. Wols managed the professional liability portfolio at XL Catlin and was based in London, New York and Lexington. He graduated from Washington & Lee University with a B.S. degree in 2004 and obtained his MBA degree from New York University in 2013. Reach out to Mr. Wols directly at myriskdesk.com