Richard Alexander :: Invited Presentations

• Stanford University Law School, National Mock Trial Competition Judge, January 2008.
• University of San Francisco School of Law Advocacy Program, May, 2007.
• Stanford University Law School, National Mock Trial Competition Judge, January 2007.
• Stanford University Law School, National Mock Trial Competition Judge, January 2006.
• University of San Francisco School of Law Advocacy Program, May, 2005.
• University of San Francisco School of Law Advocacy Program, May, 2004.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association, January 2001: Managing the Practice of Law: Combining Public and Private Service
• The Recorder - American Lawyer Roundtable, San Francisco November, 2000: Lawyering in the Online Age: Possibilities and Pitfalls
• Mutuelle Familale des Travaeilluers and CGT "Conference: Sante et Travail" Chartres, France, November, 2000: Health Risks of Glycol Ethers.
• San Francisco Bar Association and The Recorder, November, 2000: Ethics and the Internet.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association and the Santa Clara County Barristers, February, 2000: Pro Bono - For the Good of the Public ,Your Profession and Your Career.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association, August, 1999: Ethical and Practical Issues in Practice Development.
• University of San Francisco School of Law, June, 1999: Intensive Advocacy Program Trial Training.
• Kiwanis of West San Jose, June, 1999: Defective Product and Auto Safety Litigation.
• Consumer Attorneys of California, Lake Tahoe, April, 1999: Class Actions by Private Attorneys General to Promote Safe Products and Fair Sales Practices.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association and the Santa Clara County Barristers, February, 1999: Pro Bono - For the Good of the Public ,Your Profession and Your Career.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association, October, 1998: Public Involvement and Advocacy for the Public Good.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association and the Santa Clara County Barristers, February, 1998: Newly Admitted Lawyers Seminar: Serving Your Community - Making a Difference for Yourself and Your Profession.
• National Brain Injury Inter-Disciplinary Medical-Legal and Vocational Economic Workshop, San Francisco, November, 1997: Direct Examination of the Neuropsychologist.
• American Financial Services Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, October, 1997: Class Actions: Public Good or Windfall for Lawyers.
• San Jose Kiwanis Club, September, 1997: The Myth of the Litigation Explosion and Why.
• Sunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association, August, 1997: Advancing Public Education and the Role of Legal Specialization.
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America National College of Advocacy, San Diego, July, 1997: Construction Site Accidents Litigation Group Toxic Exposure in the Construction Field.
• University of San Francisco School of Law, May, 1997: Intensive Advocacy Program Trial Training.
• Consumer Attorneys of California, Lake Tahoe, April, 1997, Motivating the Jurors: Trial Communications.
• Santa Clara County Bar and Santa Clara County Barristers, February, 1997: Making the Best of Your Talents.
• Consumer Attorneys of California, Annual Convention Meeting, San Francisco, November, 1996: Computers and the Internet - A Primer for Lawyers and the Law Office.
• Consumer Attorneys of California, Annual Convention Meeting, San Francisco, November, 1996: The Effective Role of Class Actions to Remedy Corporate Abuse of Consumers.
• Silicon Valley Churchill Club, October, 1996: Proposition 211 Debate.
• National Consumer Law Conference, Washington, D.C., October, 1996: Maximizing Actual Damages in Consumer Litigation.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association, October, 1996: Ethical Issues in Public Education and Business Development.
• The State Bar of California Annual Meeting, Long Beach, October, 1996: Legal Ethics and the Aftermath of a Disaster.
• Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, October, 1996: The Electronic Law Office in the 1990s.
• Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, September, 1996: The Ins and Outs of the Internet for Lawyers.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association, San Jose, September, 1996: Understanding the Internet and Public Education [speaker and moderator].
• Pro Bono Project of Santa Clara County, March, 1996: Consumer Impact Litigation - Class Actions and Unfair Business Practice Suits.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association and the Santa Clara County Barristers, February, 1996: Newly Admitted to Practice Seminar: Rainmaking for Your Community - Making a Difference for Yourself and Your Profession.
• National Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, San Francisco, November, 1995: Effective Strategies in Class Action Litigation.
• University of San Francisco School of Law, May, 1995: Adjunct Faculty, Intensive Advocacy Program.
• Consumer Attorneys of California, Lake Tahoe, April 1995, Legal Ethics: Founding the Client Attorney Relationship.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association, February, 1995: New Lawyers Seminar: Making a Difference for the Community.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Francisco, November 1994: Traumatic Brain Injury-Proving a Lifetime Disability.
• 1994 Medical Device CEO Summit, Pebble Beach, September 1994: Anatomy of a Crisis When A Medical Device Product Fails -- Plaintiffs Perspective.
• San Francisco Bar Association, May 1994: Creative Advocacy Training Trial Skills Workshop.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association, February, 1994: Bridging the Gap: A Program for New Attorneys-Developing Your Talents.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, Lake Tahoe, April 1994: Consumer Class Actions: A Primer for P.I. Attorneys.
• Stanford University School of Law, Adjunct Faculty, Advocacy Skills Workshop: Closing Argument and Trial, January 14-15, 1994.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Francisco, November 1993: Cutting Edge Litigation: Computer Modeling in Accident Reconstruction Admissibility and Preventing Misuse.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association, San Jose, 1993: Admissibility of Computerized Evidence: Use and Misuse.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, March 1993: New Vistas and Expanding Horizons, A Review of Developing Areas of Law and Practice: Liability for Wrongful Adoption.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Jose, February 1993: Proposition 51: Survival Techniques.
• MacWorld Exposition, San Francisco, January 1993: The Mac in the Law Office.
• Ethics in Business Forum, Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, May 1992: Breast Implants, L-Tryptophan and Utility Pick-up Trucks.
• Brain Injury Rehabilitation Conference, San Jose, March 1992: Traumatic Brain Injury and the Legal System.
• MacWorld Exposition, San Francisco, 1992: The Mac in the Law Office: A Research Tool in Toxic Tort Injury Cases.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Francisco, November, 1991: Torts of Abuse.
• Brain Injury Task Force of Santa Clara County and the Family Survival Project, May, 1991: Legal and Financial Issues for Head Injury Survivors and Their Families.
• Santa Clara University/Santa Clara County Historical Society Court of Historical Review, Santa Clara, March 1991: Professor John J. Montgomery of Santa Clara College v. Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, A Paternity Suit To Determine The True Father of American Aviation. San Jose Mercury, March 27, 1991.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, Lake Tahoe, March 1991: Products Liability: Ending Secrecy in Defective Product Litigation - New Federal Reporting Rule for Consumer Products.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Diego, November, 1990: Proving Defective Design in Defective Automobile Cases.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Diego, November, 1990: Proposition 51 Complications in Cases of Employer Negligence.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Francisco, September 1990: 7th Annual Advocacy College - Trial Skills By The Masters.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, San Jose, August 1990: Joint and Several Liability Revisited.
• Central Coast Trial Lawyers Association, San Luis Obispo, May, 1990: Maximizing Recoveries for Victims of Personal Injuries.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, Lake Tahoe, March 1990: Demonstrative Evidence in Products Liability Cases.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, San Jose, November 1989: Fundamentals of Personal Injury Litigation, (24 hour course).
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, Sunnyvale, September 1989: Liens on Personal Injury Recoveries.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, Monterey, August, 1989: Liens on Personal Injury Recoveries.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, Fresno, August, 1989: Liens on Personal Injury Recoveries.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, San Jose, April, 1989: Sharpening Your Basic Trial Skills (eight hour course).
• The Rutter Group and the Santa Clara County Bar Association, San Jose, February, 1989: 1989 Update Program: Personal Injury Litigation.
• National Association of Social Workers, San Jose, 1988: Malpractice and Professional Liability.
• The Rutter Group and the Santa Clara County Bar Association, San Jose, January, 1988: 1988 Update: Personal Injury Litigation/1987 Tort Reform Legislation.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, November, 1987: Fundamentals of Personal Injury Litigation (24 hour course).
• The State Bar of California, Los Angeles, September, 1987: Update on Mandatory Legal Malpractice Insurance.
• The Rutter Group and the Santa Clara County Bar Association, San Jose, July, 1987: Settling Personal Injury Cases With Your Eyes Open - Settlement Law and Practice.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, San Jose, June, 1987: Trial Skills Workshop.
• Children's Hospital Mental Health Symposium, San Francisco, February, 1987: Prescription for Recovery of the Abused Child: An Inter-Disciplinary Approach.
• Central Coast Claims Association, San Jose, February, 1987: Effective Investigation - A Special Case Study.
• American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Northern California Chapter, San Francisco, January, 1987: Recovering Damages For Child Abuse.
• Santa Cruz County Bar Association, October, 1986: State Bar Board of Governors' Report.
• Redwood Empire Trial Lawyers Association, Santa Rosa, 1986: Meeting the Challenge of the Child Sexual Abuse Case.
• California Trial Lawyers Association Annual State Convention, Newport Beach, 1986: Direct Evidence in Civil Trial Practice.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, Los Angeles, May, 1986: Advanced Advocacy College - Demonstrative Evidence.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Jose, July, 1986: A Day in Court.
• Western Section Radiologists Educational Seminar, San Francisco, 1986: Medical Malpractice and Today's Insurance Environment.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, December, 1985: Fundamentals of Personal Injury Litigation (24 hour course).
• Joint Meeting of the Certified Family Law Specialists and the Palo Alto Bar Association, 1985: New Developments in Providing Compensation for Victims of Crime - The Molested Child.
• Child Advocacy Council, Redwood City, 1985: Child Abuse and The Law.
• Santa Clara County Victim Witness Assistance Center, 1985: Civil Remedies for Victims of Crime.
• San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, San Francisco, 1985: Remedies for Victims of Crime While Avoiding the Intentional Tort Insurance Exclusion.
• State Bar of California Conference of Bar Leaders, San Jose, 1985: Increasing Professional Visibility Through the Media.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Diego, 1984: Bad Faith Litigation, Establishing Insurance Coverage in Child Molestation Cases.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, November, 1984: Fundamentals of Personal Injury Litigation (24-hour course).
• San Francisco Women in Criminal Justice, 1984: Epilogue to Amelia.
• Santa Clara Law School Alumni Association, 1984: Representing the Victim of Sexual Assault.
• Santa Clara County Bar Association, 1984: Tort Damages for Child Abuse.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, 1983: Fundamentals of Personal Injury Litigation (24 hour course).
• Georgetown University Law Center, Continuing Legal Education Division, Washington, D.C., 1982: A Multimillion Dollar Judgment, From Beginning to Settlement.
• Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association, 1982: Advanced Discovery Techniques: Modern Information Sources.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, 1982: Fundamentals of Personal Injury Litigation (24 hour course).
• Georgetown University Law Center, Continuing Legal Education Division, Washington, D.C., 1981: Anatomy of an $8.5 Million Settlement, Throop v. Conrail.
• Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association, 1981: Computerized Discovery and the Information Explosion.
• Redwood Empire Trial Lawyers Association, 1981: Creative Approaches to Discovery.
• University of California, Continuing Education of the Bar, 1981: Fundamentals of Personal Injury Litigation (24-hour course).
• Bay Area Legal Secretaries Forum, San Francisco, 1981: Products Liability, an Overview.
• Bay Area Legal Secretaries Forum, Sunnyvale, 1980: Advanced Trial Preparation.
• American Society for Quality Control, San Jose, 1978: Developments in Product Liability Law.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, San Francisco/Los Angeles, 1978: Products Liability, Preparation and Proof of the Plaintiff's Case.
• School of Law, University of Puget Sound, 1978: Products Liability.
• Continuing Legal Education of the Bar, Moderator, San Francisco, 1975: Search and Seizure and Eyewitness Identification.
• California Trial Lawyers Association, Newport Beach, 1973: Constitutional Developments: The Fourth Amendment.
• Chicago Military Conference, Chicago, 1970: Habeas Corpus and Mandamus as Remedies for Denial of Administrative Discharges.
• Guest Lecturer: San Jose State University Administration of Justice Program; Foothill Community College; Santa Clara University School of Law; Stanford University; Stanford University Law School; Middlebury College.

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