For years, Plaintiffs pursuing dram shop actions against bars and restaurants were able to pursue their claims under both the common and statutory law. In the matter of Torres v. JAI Dining Services, the Arizona Supreme Court held that Arizona liquor liability statutes abrogated the common law dram shop action and thus, a Plaintiff can no longer pursue their claims under both theories. Ms. Barrett will discuss the current state of the law and the impact on dram shop litigation.

Dominique Barrett is a partner in the Scottsdale, Arizona office of QPWB. Ms. Barrett is a trial attorney with over 25 years of litigation experience focused on the defense of physicians, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, bars and restaurants and other healthcare and long-term care professionals and organizations. Her practice includes the areas of wrongful death, medical malpractice, products liability, dram shop actions, liquor liability defense, premises liability and automobile accidents. Ms. Barrett has extensive first chair jury trial experience in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.

Ms. Barrett received her Juris Doctor from the University of Denver College of Law in 1992 and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Arizona in 1988.

*The State Bar of Arizona does not approve or accredit CLE activities for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education requirement. This activity may qualify for up to 1.0 hour toward your annual CLE requirement for the State Bar of Arizona, including 0.0 hour of professional responsibility.

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When registering, please indicate your choice of REGULAR entrée or VEGAN entrée.

Regular Entrée: Chicken cacciatore with peppers, olives, capers, and white wine tomato sauce on a bed of Spanish rice

Vegan Entrée: Quinoa with roasted vegetables

All meals served with rolls and butter, wedge salad with iceberg, turkey bacon on the side), baby heirloom tomatoes, pear vinaigrette (GF/DF) and double fudge chocolate cake (GF/V).

Coffee station will be in back of the room.

Share the fun! Invite a friend to experience the networking, social and educational opportunities of the Scottsdale Bar Association! Current members may invite a prospective member to attend an upcoming lunch for free. Here are the rules:

1. The guest must be eligible for membership in the Scottsdale Bar Association. See www.scottsdalebar.org, click on Membership Information, then Membership Categories.

2. The guest cannot be a former Scottsdale Bar member.

3. The guest cannot have attended lunch for free in the past.

4. The member must attend the luncheon with the guest.

5. The member must register him/herself for the luncheon, then contact Paige Martin at paigemartinesq@aol.com with the guest’s name and email address, and choice of regular or vegan meal, so that she can register the guest. Member registration and the request for guest registration must be completed before the registration cut-off on the Friday before the luncheon, at noon.

6. The member can only invite one guest to any luncheon.

7. The member is responsible for following up with his/her guest after the luncheon to invite the guest to join Scottsdale Bar.

8. The Board of Directors reserves the right to limit the number of guests attending each luncheon.