Employment

Past 12 Months

Recorded on: May. 3, 2012

Taken from the briefing Beyond Brinker: Guidance on Meal and Rest Breaks and Employment Class Actions recorded May, 2012. On April 12, 2012, the California Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision in the case Brinker Restaurant Corp. et al. v. The of San Diego (Adam Hohnbaum et al.), __ P.3d __, 2012 WL 1216356 (2012).  In 2008, the appellate court had ruled, among other issues, that the California meal period law only required ...

From the program: Understanding Employment Law 2012

Released on: May. 11, 2012

DVD's from the program Understanding Employment Law 2012, held March, 2012.

Recorded on: May. 17, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Beyond Brinker-- Guidance on Meal and Rest Breaks and Employment Class Actions. Before you begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the ...

Recorded on: May. 22, 2012

Taken from the briefing Psychological Issues in Employment Litigation - The Juncture of Employment Law and Forensic Psychiatry recorded May, 2012. Psychological issues and emotional injuries play a critical role in employment disputes, whether through claims of harassment, discrimination and retaliation, psychiatric under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the growing number of posttraumatic stress disorder claims arising from alleged ...

Recorded on: May. 31, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing-- Psychological Issues and Employment Litigation, the Juncture of Employment Law and Forensic Psychiatry. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials ...

From the program: International Employment Law 2012

Released on: Jun. 15, 2012

Employment law is no longer a local issue.  Multinational employers must grapple with often conflicting standards for hiring, retaining, disciplining, and terminating employees.  The issues are all the more challenging today, as employment laws, corruption laws, and whistleblower laws, from the U.S. and overseas, impose standards of conduct across borders. This program brings together highly experienced and sophisticated practitioners, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2012

PHILIP BERKOWITZ: I'd like to introduce Ed O'Callaghan. He should be up here in a moment. Ed is the moderator of our final panel. And the final panel is on International Whistleblowers, Investigating Corruption Across Borders. Ed is a partner in Clifford Chance's litigation and dispute resolution practice in New York. He has over 15 years of litigation experience in civil and criminal matters. I've known Ed for a number of years now. We practiced ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2012

PHILIP BERKOWITZ: Our panel is going to be, as I mentioned earlier, on foreign companies doing business in the United States, special challenges facing them. And we do have, I think, a great panel. And to my right, I'm just going to introduce everyone, is a good friend and a terrific lawyer, Wendi Lazar. Wendi is a partner and co-chair of the executives in professional practice group at Outten and Golden. Here in New York, she is very well known ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2012

PHILIP M. BERKOWITZ: I'm just going to quickly tell you who-- well, I guess, Beth Lalik is sitting to my right. Beth is going to chair our first program. Beth is a partner in the Washington office of Littler Mendelson. She's a terrifically experienced and terrific lawyer and a good friend, and I think that she's extraordinarily well qualified to run this program. She's a member of the Hispanic Bar Association. She's been named repeatedly as one of ...

From the program: Employment Discrimination Law & Litigation 2012

Released on: Jul. 5, 2012

Any attorney or human resources professional who advises or represents employers, employees, labor unions or government, or who has judicial/arbitral/mediator responsibility, must keep abreast of changes in the employment discrimination arena, and must also be aware of cutting-edge developments on the litigation front. This program, designed for employment law practitioners and human resources professionals at all levels, brings together prominent ...

Published: June 2012

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

ANNE VLADECK: As they're getting ready, to my immediate right it Bob Anello, who is a partner at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello, and Bohrer. ROBERT ANELLO: Thanks for getting all the names in. ANNE VLADECK: Well, I had to get to at least the second to last. And Bob has been a litigator, white-collar trial lawyer, for a fair length of time. And he has been named a leading lawyer by Chambers and American Leading Lawyers, and has been recognized ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

SPEAKER 1: This panel deals with accommodations, both in disabilities but in other contexts as well. And we're delighted to be able to have an in-house counsel on the panel, Mary Schuette, because in-house counsel are the ones who really are on the front lines of dealing with requests for accommodation and the potential problems at arise out of it. Mary Schuette is vice president of legal services, responsible for the labor relations benefits, workers' ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

THEODORE ROGERS: OK. Well, are we ready? Great. Thanks. So thanks for coming back into the room so promptly. This program on class actions is one where if you want to go back and be an adjunct at a law school, you can sell yourself in this business. Because the law is really interesting and moving. Frankly, I used to think class actions were very dull, which cost me a lot of money, because they're very lucrative actions. But they just were dull. ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

ANNE C. VLADECK: I'd like to just briefly introduce this esteemed panel. Their biographies, in full, are on your iPad or in the book. Sitting immediately to my right is Lou DiLorenzo who has practiced Labor and Employment for 30 years, and is managing partner of Bond, Schoeneck and King's New York City, Garden City offices. And he's the chair of the firm's Labor and Employment Employee Benefits and Immigration Practice group. And I can tell you he's ...

Recorded on: Jul. 31, 2012

Taken from the briefing Gender and the Workplace: Dealing with Complex and Cutting Edge Issuesrecorded July, 2012. With women continuing their rise in the ranks of corporate America, employers and employees alike continue to face a multitude of challenging and nuanced legal issues.  These issues arise along the entire spectrum of the employment relationship, from recruiting to promoting, to accommodating leave requests, to ensuring ...

Recorded on: Aug. 2, 2012

Taken from the briefing Health Care Reform After the Supreme Court Decision: What Employers Need to Know Now for Compliance, Transactions and Executive Compensation recorded August, 2012. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court Decision upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandates under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), employers are assessing the impact of the ACA on their group health plans and their businesses as a ...

Recorded on: Aug. 10, 2012

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Gender in the Workplace, Dealing With Complex and Cutting-Edge Issues. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via ...

From the program: California Employment Law Update 2012

Released on: Sep. 21, 2012

PLI’s California Employment Law Update addresses the issues confronted by employment law advisers, litigators and human resources management and professionals. This program combines a comprehensive review of a broad range of case law and regulatory developments, an in-depth analysis of emerging issues, and practical guidance about best practices to maximize employment law compliance, mitigate legal risk and achieve business objectives. The ...

From the program: Technology and Entertainment Convergence 2012: Hot Business and Legal Issues in "Technotainment"

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Technology and Entertainment Convergence 2012: Hot Business and Legal Issues in "Technotainment" recorded September, 2012 in San Francisco. Lecture Topics  [01:02:35] The Unions and Guilds Have Staked Their Claim in the New World  [01:02:35] What are the consequences for you and your client? After a quick introduction to the labor unions that occupy the space, we’ll review the key terms of ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

TIMOTHY LONG: Good afternoon and welcome back. So we're going to start this afternoon's session with what I suspect will be not only a provocative presentation, but also something that will be very informative and educational. And we couldn't have a better panel for this presentation, which is focusing on elimination of bias in the legal workplace. To my right, is my partner, Pat Gillette. Pat, by the way, last night, was awarded the Transformational ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

TIMOTHY J. LONG: So without further ado, let's start off with what will no doubt be one of the, if not the most exciting presentations of the day. I am honored to be joined by Dean Chemerinsky from UC Irvine School of Law. And I should say at the outset, and I didn't tell the dead this when we talked prior to this presentation about this, but he and I share a connection. When he was coming up the pedagogical ladder-- you must have been 16, if you ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

CYDNEY TUNE: All right. So no break right now. But this is a perfect segue into our next topic. Unions and guilds have staked their claim in the new world. And I've had-- people are wondering like, hey, wait a minute. I'm not a Hollywood producer. I'm not a studio. I'm a network. Why should I care about this topic? And what I'm seeing a lot of my clients is that first of all, mobile content creation is sort of the Wild West, right? So you've got ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

CYDNEY A. TUNE: I'm going to move right along. I do have a comment during this transition period. I am sure you have probably experienced this same thing, it's on this topic. Whether your client's a publisher, a developer, a company with content, and you're trying to make good terms for the apps, or whatever, and the client always says, yeah, but nobody reads them. What difference does it make what's in there? Nobody reads them. I can't tell you how ...

Recorded on: Sep. 24, 2012

Taken from the briefing Social Networking and the NLRA: The 21st Century Water Cooler recorded September, 2012. Within the past eighteen months, the National Labor Relations Board has received more than 100 charges by employees who claim that they were disciplined or fired because of their work-related online communications, primarily through Facebook or other social networking sites.  These charges have highlighted the sometimes ...