Akerman is a sponsor of the American Bar Association's Spring 2025 National Legal Malpractice Conference. John Dicks will speak on a panel at the conference titled "Can This Witness Be Saved? How to Deal With Problematic Lawyer Clients As Witnesses." The panel will cover the challenges that can arise from having a bad (attorney) as your star witness when defending a legal malpractice claim. Panelists will discuss challenges in defending cases with a bad witness, effective witness preparation techniques to prevent challenging witnesses from giving bad testimony, and ways to rehabilitate a witness who has already testified poorly, all within the context of a lawyer’s ethical duties with respect to witness preparation as guided by, among other things, ABA Formal Opinion 508.