2025 Webinar: Tag! You’re It! Tender Strategies & Jurisdictional Considerations
November 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Future Leaders Practice Group is hosting a complimentary webinar on November 18, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. Central Time titled, “Tag! You’re It! Tender Strategies & Jurisdictional Considerations” CLE credit can be acquired in most states for this webinar.
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About the Webinar:
This webinar explores practical strategies for pursuing risk transfer via defense and indemnity tenders. Our panel will discuss the life cycle of a tender from file inception onward, offering insights for crafting a tender that will maximize the potential for shifting risk. Attendees will gain both a nuanced understanding of the common missteps made when tendering and useful strategies for avoiding the quagmire of drawn-out and often expensive tender disputes. The discussion will explore the legal frameworks in a number of United States jurisdictions regarding defense and indemnity obligations with a the aim of empowering attendees to leverage the law to craft a successful tender.
Panelists:
KATHLEEN MORIARTY (MODERATOR) is a partner with Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, LLP, the ALFA International member firm in Los Angeles, California. Her practice is centered in civil and commercial litigation including transportation, personal injury, wrongful death, and premises liability. In addition to litigation, she has extensive experience in insurance coverage matters including both the interpretation of insurance policies and defending carriers in bad faith litigation.
MATT BURKE is a shareholder with Young Moore and Henderson, P.A., the ALFA International member firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. Matt is a trial lawyer and litigator who helps individuals and businesses of all sizes with litigation, pre-litigation, and risk management needs. Matt’s major practice areas include commercial litigation, non-competition and related restrictive covenant disputes, insurance coverage and related litigation, and claims involving employment, construction, products liability, and premises liability. Matt is also a part of the firm’s team that services rural electric cooperatives in North Carolina. Matt is listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America in the areas of Commercial Litigation and Insurance Law (2024-2026), Litigation – Labor and Employment (2026), and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants (2026). He is also named in the 2025 North Carolina Rising Stars list published by Super Lawyers® and recognized among Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite™ in the Young Gun’s category (2024, 2025). Prior to joining his firm, Matt clerked with the Honorable Cheri Beasley on the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He also served as a fellow in the North Carolina Solicitor General’s Office, where he represented North Carolina in significant civil and criminal appeals pending in the Fourth Circuit and North Carolina appellate courts.
REMINGTON HARRIS is an attorney with Brown & James, P.C., the ALFA International member firm in St. Louis, Missouri. Remington has focused primarily in the areas of personal injury, product liability, premises liability, wrongful death, and consumer and business litigation matters. As such, he has quickly built a strong foundation in litigation work. Remington has excelled in taking depositions of plaintiffs, fact-witnesses, and defending depositions of insureds. He has successfully and independently tried multiple small claims trials to completion, receiving several defense verdicts. He has also second-chaired multiple trials where he cross-examined witnesses and argued a plethora of motions across multiple venues in Missouri. Further, Remington has ample experience in arbitration proceedings where claimants have brought a variety of consumer claims.