Increasingly plaintiff lawyers want to bring in every affiliate of the motor carrier and broker. They want to argue the motor carrier was inadequately capitalized, they want to pierce the corporate veil and dig around for other insurance policies. I would like to lead a panel discussion on what trucking organizations can do on the front end to beat back those arguments. The panel can cover best practices when it comes to shared services agreements, ownership structure, board structure, governance documentation, and intra-company transactions.

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Doug Grawe
Doug Grawe
CEO, The Grawe Group, LLC
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Doug Grawe is the founder and CEO of The Grawe Group, LLC, a law and consulting firm specializing in the trucking industry.

Lacey Breeden
Lacey Breeden
General Counsel, K.L. Breeden & Sons, LLC
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Lacey Breeden serves as General Counsel for fourth-generation family-owned and operated Transportation Resource Management, LLC. In this role, Lacey focuses on potential risk management strategies for all the company’s departments including its motor carrier entities, brokerage, equipment le

Michael McDonough
Michael McDonough
Member, Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC
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Michael McDonough is a trial attorney with Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC. His trial experience involves trials in both federal and state courts in approximately 20 different states.