A Two-Day CLE for Plaintiff's Nursing Home Litigators
The Summit South
Nursing Home Litigation in Charleston
JANUARY 14–15, 2027 · CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
The money trail, plus the jury story, equals the complete nursing home case. Two of the nation's leading litigators teach it together: the forensics and the persuasion, side by side for two days.
SEATING CAPPED AT 75 · ATTORNEYS AND PARALEGALS · FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED
Why This Program Exists
Most seminars teach half the case. This one refuses to.
Financial forensics without persuasion is a spreadsheet. Persuasion without the money trail is a speech. The Summit pairs both disciplines in every session, so each finding you dig out of the records leaves the room as something a jury will carry into deliberations.
Layer One
The Forensics
Ernie Tosh brings the technical layer: staffing data, cost reports, and the corporate structures that hide where the money went. It is the analysis that finds the truth of an understaffed building.
Layer Two
The Persuasion
Ken Connor brings the courtroom layer: converting each finding into themes, testimony, and argument. It is the trial craft that makes twelve strangers care enough to act.
Faculty
Two careers. One summit.
Kenneth L. Connor
Jehl Law Group · Charleston, South Carolina
Trying cases since 1972 and licensed in fourteen states, Ken is one of the nation's most accomplished nursing home trial lawyers: a master of voir dire, cross-examination, and the jury story that turns institutional neglect into verdicts.
Trial lawyer since 1972 · Aggregate client verdicts exceeding $200 million
Ernest "Ernie" Tosh
Tosh Law Firm · Grapevine, Texas
The attorney credited with bringing Medicare and Medicaid cost-report analysis into nursing home litigation. Ernie's work tracing staffing data and facility financial structures has reshaped how plaintiff's lawyers prove what a building really spent, and what it chose not to.
150+ jury trials · Congressional testimony on private equity in healthcare
The Program
One route, intake to verdict.
Across two days, the program follows the route a case travels, from the first file review to the verdict form. Each leg pairs Tosh's forensics with Connor's courtroom translation.
Leg 01 · Intake
The case file opens
Intake, records, and the first read: what a strong case looks like on day one.
Leg 02
Staffing & the data
What the facility's own staffing numbers admit, and how to make them testify.
Leg 03
The corporate structure
Following the money upstream through related entities to the parties who profited.
Leg 04
Damages & the money trail
Turning cost reports and financial proof into the value of a human life.
Leg 05
The jury story
Themes, voir dire, and openings: making the room care before the first witness.
Leg 06 · Summit
Verdict
Proof at trial, cross-examination, and the closing that brings the case home.
Both faculty present both days. The Summit's paired format means you never learn a financial finding without learning how it wins in front of a jury. Registration includes the hardbound Summit Field Manual, the program's complete written materials.
THE ROUTE SHOWN IS THE PROGRAM ARC. THE DETAILED SESSION SCHEDULE AND CLE HOUR TOTALS WILL BE POSTED AS FINALIZED.
The Venue
Charleston, in January.
The Summit South convenes in Charleston, South Carolina, on Thursday and Friday, January 14 and 15, 2027. Two working days with the best in the field, in one of the South's great cities.
Hotel details to follow
We are finalizing the host hotel and a discounted group room block for The Summit South. Hotel details and booking instructions will be posted here and emailed directly to every registrant as soon as they are confirmed.
To make sure you receive the group rate, please wait for that email before booking your room.
Charleston, South Carolina
The program venue will be announced with the hotel details.
Registration
Seventy-five seats. First come, first served.
Choose the registration that fits you. Your seat is confirmed when payment goes through.
Attorney Registration
$1,150 / attorney
For attorneys practicing more than five years.
- Full two-day program, January 14–15, 2027
- The hardbound Summit Field Manual (complete written materials)
- Certificate of attendance for CLE reporting
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Paralegals & Newer Attorneys
$950 / attendee
For paralegals, and for attorneys practicing five years or less.
- Full two-day program, January 14–15, 2027
- The hardbound Summit Field Manual (complete written materials)
- Certificate of attendance for CLE reporting
SECURE CHECKOUT · RECEIPT EMAILED AUTOMATICALLY
One registration per attendee, in the attendee's own name. Please enter the name and email of the person who will be in the room, not the person paying, so the attendee receives the confirmation, hotel details, materials, and certificate of attendance. Sending more than one person? Complete a separate registration for each.
CLE accreditation details, including approved hours and jurisdictions, will be posted here as they are confirmed. Every attendee receives a certificate of attendance for CLE reporting.
Cancellations received on or before December 1, 2026 receive a full refund less processing fees. No refunds after December 1, 2026.
Substitution of another member of your firm is permitted at any time at no charge. If the program is canceled by the organizers, registrants receive a full refund of the registration fee; the organizers are not responsible for travel or lodging costs.
Group registrations and seat questions: Casey Gray at caseygray@helmslaw.com or 229-292-9487 (call or text), or Lisa Pittman at lisapittman@helmslaw.com.
Sponsorships: Casey Gray at caseygray@helmslaw.com, or Becky Cummings at beckygriffis@helmslaw.com.