June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
With hundreds of millions of dollars recently recovered for clients, Michael Hill has changed the game elder abuse cases against nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Over years, Michael has refined strategies to turn what was long thought to be negatives in elder abuse cases (the old, sick, and dying trope), into attributes that address the punitive aspect of compensatory non-economic damages.
Identifying the winning theme and story in the case. Where there is a catastrophic injury in a nursing home case, there is a systemic failure to be diagnosed and exposed. Finding former employees and proving the behind-the-scenes systems case that can't be found in traditional discovery. Differentiating "good" from "bad" evidence and standard of care concepts using focus groups. Simplifying the case to its core issues allowing you to try a complex elder abuse in days in days by limiting the number of witnesses, ordering those witnesses and evidence, and maximizing damages for consistent 7 and 8 figure verdicts.
To turn your traditional nursing home and assisted living neglect and abuse cases into record setting verdicts.
Students should be prepared to bring a nursing home or assisted living facility case and poised to address all aspects of the case, including case framing and presentation of lay and expert witnesses, with a learning mindset eager to see the case from a new perspective.
Every compelling story has 4 things:
Without these components, any story is inert and fails to motivate the jury to act.
Nursing home cases often have thousands of pages of records, dozens or hundreds of instances of poor care and challenging patient interactions (for example, patient refusals of behavioral problems like spitting, punching, or biting). These records and facts can quickly get out of control, resulting in a chaotic web of distractions leading to juror confusion and even distrust. The essential task is to synthesize this chaos into one or two simple issues, allowing the defense to get marred in the case they are used to using to their advantage.
Bad care is upsetting. Corporate greed at the expense of human life is infuriating. Every elder abuse case has two subcases: The what and the why. The what is the bad care that happened. The answer to why the bad care happened is the systemic failures, done intentionally or in total regard for human life, that motivates the jury to punish.
There are universals that apply to all jury selection: connecting with the jury, gaining the trust of the jury, getting people to feel comfortable discussing sensitive topics, letting jurors open up and do most of the talking, and helping unfavorable juror know this is not the right case for them. But, who the specific jurors who are favorable to this case requires a unique skillset and insights for elder abuse cases.
Although the facts change from case to case, the purpose of opening statement remains the same in elder abuse case:
Master persuading the jury to champion your case from the beginning of trial.
While the story is necessary to win the case, the evidence must drive the story. Not all witnesses are created equal. In a typical elder abuse case, there may be over 100 potential witnesses when you consider the multitude of facility caregivers, treating providers, former employees, corporate representatives, and friends and family. Editing who to call, when to call them, and what evidence to elicit is the difference between a defense verdict or a record judgment.
The purpose of damages in elder abuse cases is different than in many other personal injury cases. Moreso than most other cases, the damages are inherently punitive. Your clients likely have no lost earnings, no future medical bills, had few years to live, and a future life that many of us would not choose. So, what drives large verdicts is one that needs to express the intrinsic value of human life, of righting wrongs, and penalizing the violations of basic human values. Damages are less about your client and more about changing a patter of misconduct that will inevitably continue if the jury does not act now.
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June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
June 4th & 7th | michael hill | Over $250 million recovered
june 4 - 7, 2025 | tlu huntington beach conference | Elder Abuse Masterclass
maximize damages for elder abuse cases | webinar
trial lawyer university | michael hill masterclass | Elder Abuse Masterclass
huntington beach, ca | register now | limited availability
Michael Hill has been described as a generational attorney with numerous 7 and 8 figure trial verdicts and settlements, including records for the highest verdicts in numerous counties and the highest recorded verdict against a nursing home in Ohio history–$26 million. Michael has dedicated his practice exclusively to representing victims of severe nursing home neglect and abuse.
Michael has met the stringent Super Lawyers standard, voted by his peers as one of the top 2.5% of attorneys in 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Michael has been rated by the National Trial Lawyers Association as a Top 40 Under 40 trial lawyer in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 and one of the Top 100 lawyers overall in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The National Trial Lawyers Association has also rated Michael as one of the Top 25 Medical Malpractice Lawyers and Top 10 Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Lawyers.
Michael was selected as one of the "10 Best Attorneys" for the state of Ohio by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys and was given the "Top 10 Under 40 Attorney Award" by The National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys (NAOPIA).
Recently, the international organization AI Legal honored Michael as the "Most Dedicated Nursing Home Prosecution Trial Attorney (Midwest USA)." The Midwest region includes such major metropolitan areas as Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland.
He is a member of the exclusive Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multimillion Dollar Advocates Forum for consistently reaching multimillion dollar settlements and verdicts.
Michael is an invited lecturer across the country on trial tactics and has been published numerous times in peer reviewed academic journals. Michael is a faculty member of Trial Lawyer University, the largest and most prestigious organization in America dedicated to training lawyers on trial skills.
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