Jesse M. Reiter J.D. - Bloomfield Hills, MI

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1987
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Michigan, 1984
    A.B.
    Honors: with High Honors
    Major: Political Science

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Classes and Seminars

• Co-moderator – Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ) 20th Annual Medical Malpractice Seminar, 2022
  
• Presenter – “Myth Busting – How the Facts Refute Common Misbeliefs about Electronic Fetal Heart Monitoring (EFM),” Birth Trauma Group Litigation (BTLG) Seminar, American Association for Justice (AAJ) Winter Convention, 2022
  
• Co-moderator – Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ) 19th Annual Medical Malpractice Seminar, 2022
  
• Presenter – “Myth Busting – How the Facts Refute Common Misbeliefs about Electronic Fetal Heart Monitoring (EFM),” American Conference Institute’s 20th Anniversary Obstetric Malpractice Claims, Virtual Conference, 2021
  
• Co-moderator – Michigan Association for Justice 18th Annual Medical Malpractice Seminar, 2021
  
• Presenter – “Exploring Obstetrical Catastrophes: Placental Abruption, Uterine Rupture and Breech Presentations,” American Conference Institute’s (ACI) 19th Annual Advanced Forum on Obstetric Malpractice Claims, 2020
  
• Co-moderator – Michigan Association for Justice Annual Medical Malpractice Seminar, 2016 - 2020
  
• Presenter – Michigan Lawyers Weekly: Hall of Fame, 2019
  
• Presenter – Michigan Lawyers Weekly Presents: Leaders in the Law, 2019
  
• Speaker – Panel Discussion “Daubert Challenges in Birth Trauma Cases,” AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Association 2018 Winter Convention
  
• Speaker –“How to Survive an Amniotic Fluid Embolism (AFE),” American Association for Justice (AAJ) Annual Convention, Professional Negligence Section, 2017
  
• Panel speaker – Michigan Association for Justice 71st Annual Seminar: “Expert Testimony, Witness Preparation and Daubert Challenges after Ehler: Expert Panel”, 2016
  
• Co-moderator – Michigan Association for Justice Med Mal Seminar: “Medical Records in the Electronic Age and Finding Ways to Win Medical Malpractice Cases in Any Age”, 2015
  
• Co-moderator: Professional Section CLE program, AAJ Convention, 2014
  
• Moderator – Michigan Association for Justice’s Medical Malpractice seminar, 2014
  
• Moderator – Birth Trauma Litigation Group seminar at the American Association for Justice’s Winter Convention in Miami, FL, 2013
  
• Moderator – Birth Trauma Litigation Group seminar at the American Association for Justice’s Summer Convention in Chicago, IL, 2012
  
• Moderator – Birth Trauma Litigation Group seminar at the American Association for Justice’s Winter Convention in Phoenix, AZ, 2012
  
• Speaker, MAJ New Lawyers “Expert Deposition Workshop” Presentation titled “Cross-Exam of Defendants – Getting Admissions”, 2011
  
• Moderator – Birth Trauma Conference in Amsterdam, held jointly by the American Association for Justice’s Birth trauma Litigation Group and the Pan European Organization of Personal Injury Lawyers, 2011
  
• Speaker, AAJ Annual Convention, Birth Trauma Litigation Group Seminar Presentation entitled “Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Section (“VBAC”)”, 2010
  
• Co-moderator, MAJ Medical Malpractice Seminar entitled “Seeking Recovery for Medical Malpractice in Michigan: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?”, 2009
  
• Co-moderator, MAJ Medical Malpractice Seminar entitled “Your Medical Malpractice Case Still Needs Critical Care: The Essential Updates”, 2008
  
• Guest lecturer, University of Detroit Mercy Law School, Lecture entitled “Admissibility of Scientific Evidence: Daubert; Davis-Frye.”, 2007
  
• Co-moderator, MAJ Medical Malpractice Seminar entitled “The Medical Malpractice (ISN’T) For Dummies Seminar”, 2007
  
• Speaker, Rapid Fire Seminar, Using Focus Groups Early in Discovery: Learning your Strengths and Weaknesses in Time to Make a Difference, 2007
  
• Featured speaker, MAJ 2007 Deposition Workshop – a Legal Workshop for New Lawyers and Student Members, 2007
  
• Guest lecturer, University of Detroit Mercy Law School, Lecture entitled “Admissibility of Scientific Evidence: Daubert; Davis-Frye”, 2006
  
• Co-moderator, MAJ Medical Malpractice Seminar entitled “Michigan Medmal Law Update Caution: Not for the Faint of Heart”, 2006
  
• Speaker/participant in Mock Trial Presentation – “American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners 6th Annual Educational Conference”, 2006
  
• Speaker, MAJ Evening Forum: “Daubert/Frye: Using Science to Prove Your Claim.” – Topic: Birth Trauma and Daubert/Frye., 2005
  
• Speaker, MAJ Annual Rapid Fire Seminar entitled “Focus Groups: Not just for Trial Anymore”, 2005
  
• Co-moderator, MAJ Medical Malpractice Seminar entitled “Medical Malpractice: Winning in a Hostile Environment”, 2004
  
• Co-moderator, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA) Seminar entitled “Medical Malpractice”, 2002
  
• Speaker, MAJ Rapid Fire Seminar entitled “Medical Record Alterations”, 1998

Published Works

Articles

• Co-Author, “Did the ACOG 2014 Consensus Recommendations on Labor Management Achieve Anything?” Birth Trauma Litigation Group Journal., 2021
  
• Co-Author, “Birth Asphyxia Cases: The Impact of Cooling,” American Association for Justice Trial Magazine, 2019
  
• Co-Author, “The Impact of Therapeutic Hypothermia on Newborns with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2019
  
• Co-Author, “Understanding Fetal Monitoring Evidence,” American Association for Justice Trial Magazine, 2018
  
• Co-Author, “Timing Hypoxic-Ischemic Fetal Brain Injury,” Michigan Bar Journal, 2018
  
• Author, “HR 1215: Stripping Rights From Our Most Vulnerable Michigan Medical Malpractice Clients,” Michigan Association for Justice Journal, 2017
• Co-Author “Using MRI to Evaluate Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) in Term Infants,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2017
• Co-Author “Management of Category II Fetal Heart Tracings: Timing Delivery to Avoid HIE,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2017
• Co-Author “Averting Pre-Term Birth: The Right Care Gives the Best Results,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2016
• Co-Author “ACOG Replaced the Friedman Curve with Unproven Guidelines: Is Lowering the Caesarean Rate Worth the Rise in Birth Trauma?,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2016
• Co-Author “HIE and the Myth of Pre-Existing Injury,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2015
• Co-Author “How ACOG Broadened the Definition of HIE: A Comparison of the NEACP and NEANO,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2014
• Co-Author, “Forcep Deliveries: Are They Worth The Risk?” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2012
• Co-Author, “Letter from the Co-Chairs,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journals – Summer and Winter 2011 Editions
• Co-Author, “Solving the statute of limitations puzzle for minors in medical malpractice cases,” Michigan Lawyers Weekly, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2010
• Co-Author, “Oxytocin: The New ‘High Alert’ Medication,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2009
• “Emergency Cesarean Sections: When 30 Minutes is Not Fast Enough,” Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) Journal, 2008

Bar Admissions

• Michigan, 1987
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 1987
• Washington, 1999
• Ohio, 2007
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2005
• Supreme Court of Ohio

Other Affiliations

• American Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
• Michigan Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Oakland County Bar Association, 1987 - Present
• Oakland County Bar Association, Fellow, 2020 - Present
• Birth Trauma Litigation Group, Executive Board Member
• Birth Trauma Litigation Group, Past Chair, 2010 - 2012
• American Association for Justice, 1987 - Present (Member)
• American Association for Justice, 2015 - Present (Governor, Board of Governors)
• American Association for Justice, 2018 - Present (Evergreen Advisory Board)
• American Association for Justice, 2014 - Present (Professional Negligence Committee)
• American Association for Justice (National College of Advocacy: Fellow)
• American Association for Justice, 2013 - 2014 (Professional Negligence Section Chair)
• American Association for Justice, 2012 - 2013 (Professional Negligence Section Secretary)
• Michigan Association for Justice, 2006 - 2007 (President)
• Michigan Association for Justice, 2005 - 2006 (President-Elect)
• Michigan Association for Justice, 2004 - 2005 (Vice President)
• Michigan Association for Justice, 2003 - 2004 (Secretary)
• Michigan Association for Justice, 2002 - 2003 (Treasurer)
• Michigan Association for Justice, 1995 - Present (Executive Board Member)
• National Trial Lawyers Association
• Ohio Association for Justice, 2007 - Present (Member)