A Two-Day CLE for Plaintiff's Nursing Home Litigators
The Summit
Nursing Home Litigation at Altitude
SEPT 24–25, 2026 · SHERATON DENVER DOWNTOWN · DENVER, COLORADO
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.
FOUNDING YEAR · SEATING CAPPED AT 50 · 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 opens each segment with the technical layer: staffing data, cost reports, and the corporate structures that hide where the money went — the analysis that finds the truth of an understaffed building.
Layer Two
The Persuasion
Ken Connor follows immediately with the courtroom layer: converting each finding into themes, testimony, and argument — the trial craft that makes twelve strangers care enough to act.
Faculty
Two careers. One summit.
Kenneth L. Connor
Connor & Connor, LLC
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
The program makes the full ascent — intake to verdict.
Across two days, the program climbs the route a case travels — intake to verdict. Each leg pairs Tosh's forensics with Connor's courtroom translation.
Leg 01 · Base
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 uphill 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 full written materials.
ROUTE SHOWN IS THE PROGRAM ARC. THE DETAILED SESSION SCHEDULE AND CLE HOUR TOTALS WILL BE POSTED AS FINALIZED.
The Venue
Downtown Denver, at the foot of the Rockies.
The Summit convenes at the Sheraton Denver Downtown on the 16th Street Mall — in the heart of the city, minutes from Union Station, and an easy flight from anywhere your docket lives.
Sheraton Denver Downtown
1550 Court Place, Denver, Colorado 80202
Room block — now open
Reserve within the Summit's group-rate room block at the Sheraton. The discounted block closed September 14, 2026. Rooms may still be available at the hotel's standard rate.
Book your roomRegistration
Fifty seats. One founding year.
Founding-Year Registration
$1,150 / attorney
PARALEGALS, AND ATTORNEYS PRACTICING FIVE YEARS OR LESS: ENTER CODE PARALEGAL (PARALEGALS) OR FIRSTFIVE (ATTORNEYS, FIVE YEARS OR LESS) AT CHECKOUT FOR $950
- Full two-day program, September 24–25
- The hardbound Summit Field Manual (complete written materials)
- Certificate of attendance for CLE reporting
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If you've already reserved directly with the program, your seat is held — please do not register again here. A payment link will come to you by email. Questions or last-minute seat requests: call or text Casey Gray at 229-292-9487, or email caseygray@helmslaw.com.
Applications for CLE accreditation will be filed in Colorado and in additional jurisdictions based on registrant demand. Credit is pending approval; approved hours and states will be posted here as confirmed.
Cancellations received on or before September 9, 2026 receive a full refund less processing fees. No refunds after September 9, 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.