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From Shoulder to Sole: The Lawyer’s Guide to the Extremities 2026 – Lancaster

  • City:Lancaster County Bar Association, 28 East Orange St., ., Lancaster, PA, 17602
  • Start Date:2026-03-18 09:00:00
  • End Date:2026-03-18 12:15:00
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  • Level:Intermediate
  • Topics:Workers' Compensation

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This program is eligible for 3 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 3.6 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.

This is a simulcast of a live webcast course, streamed live to a local site with faculty in remote locations. Please note: Walk-in registrations will not be accepted - you must register in advance.

Overview

When a shoulder dislocates, a knee ligament tears, or a hand loses function—what actually happens inside the body?

In this visual anatomy program, award-winning instructor and author Samuel D. Hodge, Jr., demystifies the upper and lower extremities for attorneys handling personal injury, workers' compensation, Social Security, and medical malpractice cases.

Using high-resolution anatomical images, animations, and real dissection footage, the program reveals how shoulder, hand, hip, knee, and foot injuries develop—and why understanding the underlying anatomy changes how you litigate these cases.

You'll learn:

• How physicians evaluate extremity injuries through physical examination and imaging

• How to distinguish acute trauma from degenerative conditions

• Common mechanisms of injury and why they matter for causation

• How anatomical knowledge exposes weaknesses in opposing expert opinions

• What to look for in medical records—and what questions to ask on cross-examination

Professor Hodge strips away medical jargon and replaces it with clarity. His fast-paced, highly visual approach has earned consistently outstanding reviews from attorneys who call his presentations both engaging and immediately practical.

This program will change how you read medical records, question experts, and frame injury arguments.

Faculty

Samuel D. Hodge, Jr., Esq.

Professor Hodge is a Professor Emeritus at Temple University where he teaches law, anatomy, and forensic courses. He is also a member of the Dispute Resolution Institute in Philadelphia where he serves as a mediator and neutral arbitrator. Professor Hodge has been named one of the most popular continuing legal education instructors in the country and lectures frequently to attorneys, judges, physicians. and governmental agencies on medical/legal issues and artificial intelligence. He has received multiple teaching awards including being named a Temple University Great Teacher and his Anatomy for Lawyers course was the recipient of the ACLEA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Continuing Legal Education. Professor Hodge is one of the most published authors in the United States on medical/legal matters. His book, Anatomy, and Physiology for Legal Professionals was published by PBI in 2020, and he is also the co-author of the books: Traumatic Head and Brain Injuries, ABA; The Forensic Autopsy, ABA; The Spine, ABA; Clinical Anatomy for Attorneys, ABA; and author of the award-winning book, Anatomy for Litigators, ALI-ABA. He also wrote Law in American Society, McGraw Hill; Law for the Business Enterprise, McGraw Hill; and Thermography and Personal Injury Litigation, Wiley Law. In addition to his authoring multiple books, he has published more than 200 articles in medical and legal journals and in excess of 500 non-referred publications. Professor Hodge is a graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law and the Graduate Division of the Law School. He has received mediation training at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. In addition to writing multiple law review articles on the various applications of artificial intelligence from its use in medicine to the legal profession, he testified before the Pennsylvania Legislature’s Democratic Caucus studying the use of artificial intelligence in a business setting. He is also on the committee making recommendations to the Pennsylvania legislature on proposed legislation on police body worn cameras.

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