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Elder Abuse Trial Bootcamp with Michael Hill

may 7 - 10, 2025 /

las vegas, nv
Michael Hill
Dan Ambrose

may 7 - 10, 2025

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About the bootcamp

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.



Student Prerequisites

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.



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what strategies you will learn from Michael Hill

Dan Ambrose and Michael Hill will transform the way you present your case by teaching you the art of connection. From the moment you begin speaking, you will learn how to command attention and build trust with jurors, making them feel engaged rather than talked at. Through strategic and intentional eye contact, vocal control, and purposeful movement, you will develop a presence and connection that draws jurors in and keeps them invested. Every gesture, pause, and word will work in harmony to reinforce your message, shaping emotions and guiding perceptions. With coaching, you will strip away distractions, present in the courtroom with confidence and precision, and rewrite your future.Hone and Refine the Micro Skills of Connection

  1. Eye contact
  2. Cadence: pacing/pausing
  3. Emotional state control
  4. Hand gesticulation
  5. Glance control
  6. Creating space
  7. Reflective Listening
  8. Word choice
  9. Economy of words
  10. Congruence

What skills you will acquire from Dan Ambrose

Finding the Winning Story

Every compelling story has 4 things:

  • Hero: Someone the jury can champion
  • Villain: Someone the jury can look to as the antagonistic force, the figure against whom to root.
  • Theme: The central idea or underlying message that demonstrates that the bad acts are bigger than all of us and our client’s injuries are an example of the bad conduct, not the root of the bad conduct.
  • Conflict: The struggle between opposing forces (care vs cash) that drives the stories theme

Without these components, any story is inert and fails to motivate the jury to act.


Case Simplifying and Structuring

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.

Finding the Systemic Case

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.

Jury Selection

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.

Opening Statements

Although the facts change from case to case, the purpose of opening statement remains the same in elder abuse case:

  • What: Tell the winning story of what happened?
  • Why: Show the story of why it happened?
  • Anger: Establish the rules / violations of basic human principles
  • Activate: Set the stage for why the jury needs to do something
  • Undermine: Eliminate the real or perceived defenses

Master persuading the jury to champion your case from the beginning of trial.

Presentation Evidence

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.

Maximizing Damages

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.

Your Instructors

Instructor Michael Hill

Michael Hill

Michael Hill Trial Law
Instructor Dan Ambrose

Dan Ambrose

Trial Lawyers University

I grew up in Birmingham, MI. I am the youngest of eight children and attended an all-boys catholic school my whole life until I went to college at the University of Michigan. I went to night school at Detroit College of Law. My dad, my uncle, two of my brothers, and sister were lawyers. My first job was cutting lawns at age 10. I started working for my brother as a house painter at age 12. When I was 16 I started my own painting business and continued throughout high school, college, and law school, and a few years after until I was 32. I practiced criminal defense for eighteen years in Michigan until ten years ago when my roommate from the Trial Lawyers College, Nick Rowley, encouraged me to move to LA to become a PI lawyer. The California Bar took me four tries. I moved to Las Vegas this past March. I have recently taken up pickle ball, skiing and golf. I also think I'm competitive at connect four, backgammon, chess, and ping pong.