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  • videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month May 14, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Personal Injury and Med Mal
  • schedule 90 minutes

Admissibility of Evidence in Nursing Home Litigation: Proving or Challenging Authentication, Relevance, and Hearsay

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will provide counsel representing plaintiffs or defendants 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

Craig Creighton Conley
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Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC

Mr. Conley chair of Baker Donelson's Health Care Litigation Group 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. Mr. Conley has served as lead counsel as well as co-counsel in jury and non-jury trials in state and federal courts in Tennessee and throughout the United States. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, He was in house counsel for Federal Express Corporation within the litigation department with a focus on labor and employment. Mr. Conley also served as law clerk to the Honorable W. Frank Crawford of the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Western Section.

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Karie Valentino
Partner
Lewis Brisbois

Ms. Valentino is a partner in the Chicago and Albuquerque offices of Lewis Brisbois with 29 years of experience. She has experienced defending hospitals, physicians, nurses, home healthcare agencies and their employees. Ms. Valentino has also successfully handled and defended multiple general liability and products liability cases. She has engaged in numerous arbitrations, mediations and successfully tried to verdict multiple medical malpractice cases on behalf of physicians, nurses, hospitals, long-term care facilities and its employees.  

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Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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    On Demand

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