About the Course
Introduction
This CLE webinar will provide counsel in nursing home injury cases with practical strategies and tactics for getting in or keeping out critical evidence, emphasizing authentication, relevance, and hearsay challenges with medical records and charts, statements of parties, photographs, regulatory documents or references, and more. The panel will also provide their insights into selecting evidence, proving or defending against the relevancy or prejudicial effect of introducing nursing home statutes and regulations, and making or overcoming hearsay objections.
Description
Nursing home injury cases are very document-intensive. The information contained in patient or resident records and medical charts, staff assignments, audit trails, photographs, and other materials is critical to proving or defeating negligence claims. Counsel will also frequently seek to admit federal and state statutes and regulations as evidence to support the standard of care for nursing homes.
Admissibility arguments mostly center around whether evidence is relevant, prejudicial, or constitutes hearsay. The proper foundation for authenticating the evidence—electronic discovery, social media sites, timelines, diagrams, and other demonstrative evidence—is critical.
Listen as our authoritative panel of personal injury and medical malpractice litigators discusses practical strategies for getting evidence admitted in nursing home injury cases or keeping it out, including tactics related to authentication, relevance, and hearsay.
Presented By
Mr. Conley has significant experience in litigation in a variety of areas with an emphasis in health care litigation involving hospitals, long-term care facilities, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. He also is experienced in health care regulatory matters, including issues involving federal and state regulations and licensing, survey and certification.
Ms. Valentino is a member of the firm’s Long-Term Care and Elder Law, Healthcare, and Medical Malpractice Practices. She has engaged in numerous arbitrations and mediations and successfully tried to verdict multiple medical malpractice cases on behalf of physicians, nurses and hospitals, long-term care facilities and its employees. Ms. Valentino is the past President of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois.
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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Date + Time
- event
Thursday, May 14, 2026
- schedule
1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
I. Types of critical evidence in nursing home injury cases
II. Arguing for or against the admissibility of evidence: plaintiff and defense perspectives
A. Authentication
B. Relevance
C. Prejudicial nature
D. Hearsay
The panel will review these and other noteworthy issues:
- Types of evidence counsel for patients in nursing home injury cases frequently seek to admit or keep out of evidence
- Types of evidence counsel for facilities in nursing home injury cases often try to admit or bar from evidence
- Best practices when arguing for or against relevancy, prejudice, and hearsay when seeking to admit or keep out evidence
