Archives for Meetings and Tradeshows

Our Director of Strategic Solutions, Stephanie Wagenaar and our Vice President of Strategic Solutions Jeff Glueck will be heading to Montgomery, Alabama for the annual Beasley Allen Legal Conference & Expo. The conference this year will be held at the Renaissance Hotel & Spa in Montgomery on November 15th. The conference will have a total of eight...

My colleague Brenda Bunkers and I had the pleasure of traveling to The Lodge of Four Seasons in Lake Ozark, Missouri for MATA’s 60th Annual Convention. Missouri has wonderful plaintiff attorneys and we have enjoyed exhibiting and supporting MATA for several years. This year’s conference did not disappoint. We met so many clients who braved stormy summer w...

Mike Swanson, Buffy Escue and I visited Las Vegas last week for the 2018 Spring Mass Torts Made Perfect Convention hosted at the fabulous Wynn Resort.  Entertainment included an opening reception with Whoopi Goldberg! As always, we visited with several clients, met new prospective clients and found the convention to be a wonderful networking opportunity o...

Our CEO Mike Swanson and I were thrilled and honored to attend the inaugural awards dinner and ceremony for the prestigious Keenan Ball College last week. We visited with several clients, met new prospective clients and found the entire experience both educational and celebratory, as graduates of the Trial College and the Masters College received their di...

Authored By: Candace Whitman On October 28th, CEO Michael J. Swanson and Senior Vice President Donna Jones will be representing Advocate Capital, Inc. at the First Annual Keenan Ball College Banquet and Honors Night in Atlanta hosted by this premiere organization dedicated to the education and development of best-in-class trial lawyers. At the event, this...

Authored By: Barry Epstein Every year, The NJA hosts their annual conference in a different and interesting city. This year, Portland Oregon was the venue and I was privileged to be able to attend the conference and man our exhibit booth along with Jeff Glueck, VP Strategic Solutions. The list of speakers/topics was awesome and a testament to the dedicati...

Authored By: Iris Garrett For the past six years, Advocate Capital, Inc. has sponsored the American Association for Justice Paralegal of the Year Award in the hopes that it will shed light on the crucial role paralegals play in our civil justice system. As the sponsor, our team not only gets the opportunity to see one exceptional individual be nominated a...

What a treat and privilege to attend this year’s annual conference of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association held at the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville North Carolina. The property and surrounding scenery was just beautiful and the perfect spot for the event. I got to meet SO many of  our existing clients including the outgoing Association President Th...

Last week my colleague, Donna Jones and I had the privilege of heading to Hilton Head Island to attend the South Carolina Association for Justice 2016 Annual Convention, held each year at the Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa. It was a fantastic opportunity to visit with existing friends and clients and meet with some of the best trial lawyers in...

It was recently my special privilege and honor to present the Advocate Capital, Inc./American Association for Justice Paralegal of the Year Award to the 2016 honoree, Patti Birdsall. The presentation was made in Los Angeles during the American Association for Justice Annual Convention. Ms. Birdsall is “the linchpin of our office” as noted in the outstandi...