This registration form is for Tuesday, June 24, 10:00 a.m.–Noon ET
This program was also presented on May 8, 2025.
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| Live-Interactive Credit: | 2.0 (all formats) |
| Designation Credit: | 2.0 Trial Practice/Litigation (Designations Information) |
This seminar drills down on advanced strategies to elevate your personal injury practice to maximize recovery for your clients. Stephanie Grana and Bruce Russell cover critical topics such as preparing your case for trial from intake forward, maximizing insurance coverage, conducting effective voir dire, and crafting compelling opening statements through the art of storytelling.
Registration Deadlines:
Webcast: | 10 minutes prior to seminar. If you register for a webcast the day of the seminar, your e-mail receipt will include a link to launch the seminar and download the materials. |
Telephone: | Online registration ends at 11:59 p.m. the day preceding the seminar |
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation/transfer requests will be honored until 5:00 p.m. the day preceding the seminar. You will, however, be charged $40 if you cancel or transfer your registration to a different seminar after the link to the materials has been e-mailed by Virginia CLE®.
Full refunds or transfers are available up to two days after a webcast in the unlikely event that you experience technical difficulties.
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MCLE Credit Caveat: The MCLE Board measures credits by the time you spend in attendance. If you enter a seminar late or leave it early, or both, you must reflect those adjustments accurately in the credits you report on your credit reporting form. A code will be given at the end of the seminar, which must be written on your MCLE form.
Private recording of this program is prohibited.
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10:00 | Winning the Battle: Mastering Personal Injury Law for Maximum Impact |
12:00 | Adjourn |
Stephanie E. Grana, Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci / Richmond
Bruce H. Russell, II, Bruce H. Russell, II, PC / Lebanon
Stephanie E. Grana, Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci / Richmond
Stephanie E. Grana’s professional integrity and ability to secure results for her clients have earned her an AV® Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®, a leading lawyer rating directory. She has been lead counsel on numerous high-profile, high-stakes personal injury cases, and has successfully guided her clients to victory. She has been selected to Best Lawyers in America® specifically for her excellent work in handling medical malpractice (2009–current) and was recognized as Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs’ Lawyer of the Year for 2020 and Products Liability Litigation—Plaintiffs’ Lawyer of the Year for 2022 and 2023. She is included in the Virginia Business—Virginia 500 in the Law category, received the RVA 2022 Power Women award in the Law category, and was named to the inaugural class of “Women Who Drive Richmond” by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (2023). She was also selected into the Class of 2019 Influential Women of Law by Virginia Lawyers Weekly, and then, in 2024, was chosen as a Circle of Excellence honoree.
Ms. Grana has often been recognized for her incredible track record including being selected by her peers to the Super Lawyers® list every year since 2007. She has also consistently appeared in its list of the Top 100 Super Lawyers® in Virginia, Top 50 Women Super Lawyers® in Virginia, and Top 50 Women Super Lawyers® in Richmond.
Ms. Grana is deeply committed to service to her profession and has been voted by her peers to numerous leadership positions in both local and statewide organizations. On July 1, 2022, she was elected president of the Virginia State Bar. At the request of the Virginia Supreme Court, she has served on the Virginia Model Jury Instruction Committee since 2015. She is a proud recipient of the 2019 Civility and Professionalism Award from the VADA.
Ms. Grana is currently an active member of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Virginia Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, American Association of Justice, and the Commonwealth Community Trust board of directors. She is currently serving as the Secretary on the Community Brain Injury Services board, and served as a member of the Boyd-Graves Conference for 13 years.
She is a past President of the following: Virginia State Bar, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Virginia Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. American Inn of Court, and the Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association. She also served as the Chair of Commonwealth Community Trust.
In addition to her trial work, Ms. Grana is often selected to teach other lawyers on various topics, including personal injury litigation, brain injury, trial practice, jury selection, and medical malpractice at conferences around Virginia. Her expertise has also led to her invitation to serve as a faculty member for the Virginia State Bar Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course for a three-year term from October 2023 to September 2026.
Bruce H. Russell, II, Bruce H. Russell, II, PC / Lebanon
Bruce H. Russell, II, has practiced law for more than twenty years, mainly in the courts of his native Southwest Virginia. In that time, he been a prosecutor, law professor, member of a small firm, and solo practitioner, and is proud of his service to his Commonwealth and community in each of these roles.
Currently, Mr. Russell has a large and diverse general practice, and represents both individuals and businesses in numerous matters, from business formation to contract disputes and beyond. In recognition of his extensive and continuing service to the bench, bar, and public, he was named the 2023 Virginia State Bar Local Bar Leader of the Year.
Mr. Russell graduated from Richlands High School, the University of Virginia (where he served on the Honor Committee and its Executive Committee as Chairman of the Bad Check Committee), and the University of Richmond’s T.C. Williams School of Law. He began his legal career in Charlottesville at the turn of the century with the boutique firm of Thompson & Hagy, focusing on representing small high-tech companies, primarily start-ups. He soon returned to the hills of his youth in Southwest Virginia, pursuing an opportunity to join the Buchanan County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office as that office’s only full-time assistant. While there, he prosecuted everything from murder to the theft of fighting roosters. Shortly after arriving in Grundy, the Appalachian School of Law brought him onboard as an adjunct faculty member at the then-fledgling school.
Returning to private practice in 2003, Mr. Russell joined the law firm of Bolling & Hearl (eventually Bolling Hearl Russell), working out of Abingdon and Richlands, plus parts in-between. He established his own firm in 2009, sharing space in Lebanon with the Hall-of-Fame attorney Steve Quillen. Currently, Mr. Russell serves as President of the Russell County Bar, the 28th Circuit Criminal Defense Bar, and the Patrick Henry American Inn of Court. He is also Chairman of the Southwest Virginia Law Foundation and serves on the Board of Southwest Virginia Legal Aid. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar Council, as well as that body’s Executive Committee. Additionally, he serves on the VSB Special Committee on Bench-Bar Relations and is a faculty member of the Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course. He is a member of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
Mr. Russell has been named a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation, and a Virginia Lawyers Weekly Leader in the Law. He is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.
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