Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Past 3 Months

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Venture Capital 2013: Nuts and Bolts Recorded February, 2013 in New York Crisis Management and Tough Judgment Calls in Representing Emerging Growth Companies [01:00:59] Inevitable conflicts: representing both the company and an investor Crisis management: advising the board and investors Best practices The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook ...

From the program: Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2013 - Overview of Entertainment Law Issues; Television, Video & User-Generated Content; Videogames & Computer Entertainment; Building an Entertainment Law Practice; Ethics

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2013 - Overview of Entertainment Law Issues; Television, Video & User-Generated Content; Videogames & Computer Entertainment; Building an Entertainment Law Practice; Ethics recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:00:59] Ethics  [01:00:59] Recent developments in professional responsibility and discipline, e.g., ABA “ethics ...

From the program: IP Issues in Business Transactions 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

Taken from the Web Program IP Issues in Business Transactions 2013 recorded February, 2013 in San Francisco. Lecture Topics  [00:59:50] Common Ethics Issues in IP Transactions  [00:59:50] Potential unlicensed practice of law Ethical obligations relating to non-clients When are conflicts unwaivable? Attorney misconduct and duty to report The purchase price of this segment includes the following article ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: Thank you, Paul. We're going to slide into the next panel because we're going to keep you on time here. So, I'll start with the introductions. The next panel is, for me, one of my favorite panels because I think that, hopefully, you can make this venture terms Nuts and Bolts interesting by telling some stories, et cetera. But sometimes I think it's hard to make the ethics part of this interesting. And Bill and Deirdre ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN BALLACK: OK. back this afternoon for our last session of the day. As Lothar indicated, although it's the last session of the day, and is on common ethics issues in IP transactions-- and I know some of us all shutter when we hear the word ethics-- this is a delightful, and entertaining, and very educational session on ethics. And so, Lothar was telling the truth when he said, we were saving some great speakers here to keep this going to the very ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

HOWARD SIEGEL: OK, so we segue right into the next and final segment of our program, on this first of the three-day PLI seminar, and that is Jack Sahl, who will speak to us about ethics. I said about Rosemary and Kirk, and with absolute truth, that they are friends of mine personally, and friends of PLI. And certainly, that is true of Jack, who's standing here behind me on my left. He is a faculty director of the Miller-Becker Center for Professional ...

From the program: Ethics for Corporate Lawyers: Multijurisdictional Practice and Other Current Issues 2013

Released on: Mar. 6, 2013

Lecture Topics  [Total time 01:59:14] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Ethics for Corporate Counsel: Multijurisdictional Practice and Other Current Issues [01:59:14] C. Evan Stewart, Devika Kewalramani, Michael J. Dell, James Q. Walker The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online: New York Rules ...

From the program: Investment Management Institute 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Investment Management Institute 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:01:42] Ethics  [01:01:42] SEC Rules of Professional Responsibility for issuer’s counsel Dodd-Frank Act implications The role of the investment adviser’s counsel in reporting material violations to fund counsel Law firm advance conflicts waivers Email and metadata issues The ...

From the program: Ethics for Government Lawyers 2013

Released on: Mar. 22, 2013

Lecture Topics [Total time 01:55:35] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Ethics for Government Lawyers 2013 [01:55:35] Jeremy Feigelson, Yasamine H. Viehland, Ronald C. Minkoff The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online: New York Rules of Professional Conduct Ethics Opinions Ronald C. Minkoff, ...

From the program: Asset Based Financing Strategies 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Asset Based Financing Strategies 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [00:59:25] Ethics in Asset-Based Lending  [00:59:25] Common ethical problems in asset-based lending transactions Special issues in multi-lender transactions Ethical issues in opinion letter practice The purchase price of this segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available ...

From the program: Taking and Defending Depositions 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Taking and Defending Depositions 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:00:49] Ethical Dilemmas Arising With Depositions [01:00:49] The attorney client privilege and work product doctrine Protecting your witness and staying within ethical boundaries Improper/proper use of objections Conferring with witnesses during a deposition Remedial measures Practice ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2013

GERALD A. STEIN: OK, welcome back, everybody for our final panel, and I'm glad you're here, because this is a really fascinating area of our presentation today. Because in every deposition, both preparing for deposition and in taking depositions, they are always ethical dilemmas that arrive so it's appropriate we're doing this at the end, and I'm glad you're here for it. Because this is actually what one of the-- I mean, not that any panel was not ...

From the program: Basic Immigration Law 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Basic Immigration Law 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:09:45] Overview of the U.S. Immigration System, Current Trends and Ethical Issues  [01:09:45] Non-immigrants and immigrants; immigrant intent Quotas and priority dates Latest trends - Deferred action and other remedies through prosecutorial discretion Understanding the morass of agencies Unique ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Hello, everybody. It's always a pleasure to do these PLI programs on basic immigration law. Immigration law is a very complicated area. And to cover the entire breadth of immigration law in one day is quite a challenging task for the faculty. Nevertheless, we will try to provide you with the basic aspects of immigration law. There might be times when it might get more complex. There are times when we try to keep it basic. But we'll ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

PAUL ROYE: OK, we've saved the best for last. We have our ethics discussion with Michael Sackheim. Michael is a partner with Sidley and Austin here in New York. Michael's specialty is an area that is becoming increasingly important to our industry, where he concentrates on exchange trading and over-the-counter derivatives-- regulatory, transactional, and enforcement matters in that area. He's been spending a lot of time, I think, recently on advising ...

From the program: Securities Offerings 2013: A Public Offering: How It Is Done

Recorded on: Mar. 25, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Securities Offerings 2013: A Public Offering: How It Is Done recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:28:57] Due Diligence and the Offering Process  [01:28:57] The purchase price of this segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online: Lawyers as Gatekeepers in the Underwriting Process Sarah E. Beshar Presentation Material Due Diligence ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

EDWIN SMITH: So at this point, we're going to go into ethics in asset based lending that some of you may say is an oxymoron. But we're going to try to deal with some ethical problems. And Christine Gould Hamm and myself are going to try to walk through these. Other panelists are encouraged to speak up, as is the audience. JUNE BASDEN: I made it so I would not be in the middle of the discussion. EDWIN SMITH: And I hope we get more from our people ...

From the program: Ethics in Social Media 2013

Released on: Apr. 1, 2013

Ethics permeates all areas of today's legal practice.  With the proliferation of social media, what types of personal information are companies permitted to access without the consent of their employees or applicants?  How is privacy and security addressed?  The New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers' Association have all issued ethics opinions on "pretexting" and "social engineering" ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

RICHARD RAYSMAN: OK, we're back. And we're back online, as well. Our next topic is attorneys and social media. And there are just two speakers-- myself and Ignatius Grande, who is to my right, your left, who's a senior e-discovery attorney and director of the practice support at Hughes Hubbard & Reed. In his role, at Hughes Hubbard, Ignatius develops and implements strategies to ensure that the firm's clients receive the highest quality of litigation ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Our next panel is evidence for social media. So this is a little bit of a different angle than we were talking about with the first panelists. And one of the panelists will be my partner, Francesca Morris. Francesca is a partner at Holland & Knight. Her practices include litigation and dispute resolution, international litigation and arbitration, bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors rights. She advises and represents foreign and ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

RICHARD RAYSMAN: All right. Our first panel today is going to be talking about ethics in social media, obviously. And we're going to have, really, a panel discussion, which I think will be quite interesting. At least in my mind view, it's been a pretty good format. So I wanted to introduce our three panelists. All the way to your left, to my right, one of our panelists is Sofia Rahman. She's the global social media attorney for Citi's Consumer Businesses. ...

From the program: Patent Law Institute 2013 (7th Annual)

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Patent Law Institute 2013 (7th Annual) recorded March, 2013 in San Francisco.Lecture Topics  [01:00:46]PTO Ethics and the AIA  [01:00:46] Statute of limitations tolling under the AIA and PTO rules The new ethical reality of first-to-file- Mistakes may be catastrophic; malpractice issues- Streamline client intake; setting expectations- Informed consent early and often- "Best practices" advice; new “grace” ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

JOHN WHITE: Hello, welcome back. It's time for our last hour together. That's right, we're here. I know, sadness, because it's almost over. And there's nothing like two days of patent fun bringing us all together. So I have a few things. Number one, thank you all for coming. And the thing we want back from you are your evaluations. This can be accomplished on those iPads in front of you. And there are two tabs, one for faculty and one for content. ...

From the program: Advanced Licensing Agreements 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Advanced Licensing Agreements 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [00:59:44] Ethical Considerations in Licensing  [00:59:44] Drafting in anticipation/avoidance of litigation What happens when a friendly deal turns litigious Deceit and candor Cross-border transactions Communications with adverse parties The purchase price of this segment includes the following ...

Recorded on: Mar. 25, 2013

LIZABETHANN R EISEN: Hey, we're returning from our break. And this will be our last panel before lunch. Just before we get started, I want to introduce two new panelists who've joined us. We have Sarah Beshar, who is a partner in Davis Polk's corporate department. Ms. Beshar represents clients in US and global capital markets transactions and advises on general securities and corporate governance issues. She regularly works for issuers and underwriters ...