Trial Tales: NAPHCARE

EVENT DESCRIPTION

We're excited to announce NPAP's new Trial Tales series. These presentations will feature NPAP members discussing wins, losses, and lessons from their recent trials. Our first presentation will be by the Washington-based team of Ryan D. Dreveskracht, Ed Budge, and  Corrine Sebren on how they won a $25 million verdict against Naphcare in their case on behalf of their client who lost his leg to gangrene. If you've got a case against a private medical care provider, you don't want to miss this CLE!

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ABOUT the SPEAKER(S)

Ryan D. Dreveskracht
Ryan’s practice focuses defending individuals’ constitutional rights and bringing police misconduct and wrongful death cases on local and national levels.  

A former U.S. District Court law clerk, Ryan has an eye towards the inner-workings of the federal courts, complex litigation, and trial practice. He writes prolifically about matters critical to civil rights, and has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and law reviews. 

On December 14, 2021, Governor Inslee appointed Ryan to serve a six-year term as a Board Member on the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission.  Ryan has also been appointed the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington’s Legal Committee, which serves as legal counsel to ACLU-WA and provides advice to the staff in the strategic development and execution of litigation to advance the ACLU’s civil liberties and civil rights agenda.  In addition, Ryan is a member of the Task Force on Race and Washington’s Criminal Justice System, which provides research and analysis to the Washington State Supreme Court regarding disproportionalities in the criminal justice system.

Corinne Sebren
Corinne Sebren is an Associate with Galanda Broadman. Her civil rights practice focuses on police accountability, Indigenous rights, wrongful incarceration, and malicious prosecution. Corinne's tribal government practice focuses on Indigenous health law, regulatory analysis, and complex litigation.

Corinne is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law where she served as Editor-in-Chief of Washington Law Review and received the Judge Eugene A. Wright Scholar Award. She is a former Legal Fellow of the Yakama Nation Office of Legal Counsel and was a Law Clerk at Galanda Broadman for two years during law school.

Prior to law school, Corinne utilized her degree in Behavioral Neuroscience in her role as the Advocacy Director and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Whatcom County Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Corinne brings extensive non-profit management and health care administration experience to the firm in addition to her legal skills.

Ed Budge
Ed Budge has practiced law for more than 30 years and has been representing individuals in civil rights and high-end injury and death cases for the vast majority of his legal career. A veteran litigator, Ed has achieved some of the most impressive civil rights victories in the country.

In 2023, Ed was honored as the Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Washington Association for Justice, which is the oldest and largest civil justice advocacy organization in the Pacific Northwest.

Ed is a 1991 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Oregon. He graduated magna cum laude from Willamette University College of Law in 1994, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Willamette Law Review.

Ed started his own law practice in 1997. The following year Ed asked law school classmate Erik Heipt to join him, and the two of them formed the law firm of Budge & Heipt, dedicating their practice to the representation of families who have unjustly lost loved ones in jail and prison as well as victims of excessive force, jail abuse, neglect, or misconduct that causes serious injury or death.

Over more than three decades, Ed has litigated numerous cases in state court and in federal courts around the country. He has won many favorable jury verdicts on behalf of plaintiffs in civil rights cases, including verdicts and settlements totaling more than $155 million. Ed has been selected as a Washington ‘Super Lawyer’ in the area of civil rights litigation and is an active Eagle Member of the Washington State Association for Justice. He has lectured and taught other attorneys and law students on subjects relating to trial advocacy, jail death litigation and constitutional claims against police and jails, and has authored articles and publications on these topics for lawyers.

Known for his tenacity and courtroom skill, Ed is keenly interested in in-custody wrongful death cases against jails, prisons, and private “correctional healthcare” companies resulting from medical neglect, alcohol and drug withdrawal, and other forms of in-custody wrongful death and serious injury. He has litigated many jail death cases to successful conclusion and routinely works with corrections specialists, correctional medical experts, and other professionals.  Ed has tried many notable cases to multi-million-dollar verdicts and has taken many hundreds of depositions in his career, including depositions of police officers, sheriffs and sheriff’s deputies, jail and prison personnel, correctional healthcare providers, experts, and others throughout the United States. Based in Seattle, Ed has handled civil rights cases against large corporations, jails and police in the federal district courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, as well federal district courts in Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, Arizona and Indiana.

Ed also enjoys natural (steroid-free) bodybuilding, having won top prizes in contests in Washington, Northern California and Arizona.

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DATE and TIME

Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the following time by time zone:

• 11:30am - 1:00pm PST
• 12:30pm - 2:00pm MST
• 1:30pm - 3:00pm CST
•  2:30pm - 4:00pm EST

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A NOTE ABOUT TIME ZONES

Any time listed in this registration that does not include a time zone can be assumed to be in Central Standard Time (CST).

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ACCREDITATION

This event is accredited for 1.5 general credit hours with the State Bar of California (NPAP is a multiple activity provider with the State Bar of CA).

Most attendees should be able to self-report for CLE credit to their own state bars, and in instances where a state bar requires that the event sponsor report on behalf of attendees, NPAP is happy to assist.

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RECORDING

The event will be recorded and the recording will be available to attendees after the event. However, attendees will only be elligible for CLE credit for the portions of the event that they attended live. Retroactive viewing of recordings will not be elligible for CLE credit, as NPAP does not have a means of validating attendee participation in this circumstance.

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT

NPAP never wants cost to be a barrier to attendance for our programming and we are happy to work with anyone interested in attending to find a means to make the program accessible. If you require financial support, please contact Jane at operations.npap@nlg.org for assistance.

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ACCESSIBILITY

It is our priority to ensure accessibility for all attendees - please contact Jane at operations.npap@nlg.org if you have specific inquiries regarding the virtual experience.

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