Executive Committee
For over 24 years, Attorney Hoey has handled matters involving complex civil litigation and catastrophic injuries across many jurisdictions. His practice has focused particularly on injury claims against nursing homes and assisted living facilities, personal catastrophic injury, wrongful death, elder neglect and abuse, medical malpractice, and other corporate negligence.
Attorney Hoey is the author of several articles, has presented at several American Association for Justice conventions, and is the co-author of Litigating Nursing Home Abuse Cases, a resource manual for other lawyers that provides a road map for successful litigation of nursing home abuse or neglect cases.
He is also the Dean of the Keenan Trial Institute whose mission is to give trial lawyers the system necessary to win and protect the community’s safety as well as deter wrongdoers by holding them accountable.
Ada K. Wong is the Managing Partner of AKW LAW, P.C., focusing her practice on advocating for employees’ rights. She serves as the Keenan Trial Institute’s Associate Dean, Co-Dean of the Voir Dire college, and co-host of the annual Employment Seminar. She also teaches the Mediation & Settlement and Voir Dire courses. She is one of the fastest graduates of the KTI colleges and the youngest to be hand-selected as KTI faculty and leadership.
Beyond her daytime lawyering, Ada is an Adjunct Professor at the Seattle University School of Law, teaching Employment Discrimination. She also serves as an Arbitrator in Washington state. She is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the 2021 Washington State Association of Justice (WSAJ) Employment Law Deskbook, which consists of over 1,300 pages.
She is on the Editorial Board of Trial Guides and the Executive Board of the Washington Employment Lawyers Association (WELA). Previously, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Washington State Association of Justice (WSAJ) Trial News, an Editorial Board Member of the American Inns of Court The Bencher, on the WSAJ Board of Governors, and the President of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington.
During the pandemic in fall 2020, Ada had one of the first fully virtual jury trials held in federal court in Washington. She obtained a $6,850,000 verdict against FedEx Freight, Inc. for a single-plaintiff discrimination and retaliation case. She has secured millions of dollars for workers through verdicts and settlements.
Amy Gibson is a trial lawyer in Dallas, Texas. She learned early from her family’s examples that not participating in a wrong is not enough — you must speak up and do something about it.
She represents individuals from all walks of life in employment cases and disability and health insurance benefit cases. She is dedicated to helping clients have their voices heard against the powerful and to change their communities for the better.
The Edge seminars and KTI colleges have dramatically improved her ability to do so. Amy is one of the Moderators for the Employment Seminar as well as a KTI Faculty member for Witness Prep, Trial, Mediation, and Employment Elective. Her first two jury trials after reaching master level at KTI colleges each resulted in a judgment of over $2 million.
