Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Last Year

Recorded on: Jan. 5, 2012

ALYSSA A. GRIKSCHEIT: Great. We are live back for, as we promised, Deals Gone Bad and Ethics. I'd like to introduce our two speakers. First we'll hear from Eric Alan Stone. He's a partner at Paul Weiss, and he's in the litigation department with experience in litigation and arbitration. And then we will hear from Michael Sackheim, a partner of mine at Sidley Austin. And he concentrates on exchange traded and over the counter derivatives, regulatory ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2012

SPEAKER 1: OK, so our next session is Ethical Traps for the M&A practitioner. So if it isn't apparent from the title, this is where you get your ethics credit for the two days of the program. And our speaker is James Walker. He's a partner with Richards Kibbe. He concentrates in internal investigations, white collar criminal defense, civil litigation, professional liability, and legal ethics. He has been on the New York City bar's professional ...

Recorded on: Feb. 1, 2012

SUSAN GRAFTON: So we want to welcome our next group of panelists. So now we're registered we're starting to trade and oops, we need some investors. And so this panel is going to talk about the issues that hedge funds have, both in terms of soliciting, marketing, to new investors, and then the treatment of investors along the way. And so this is a terrific panel of folks. We have to my right Michael Butowsky from Jones Day, and I'm sure that most ...

Recorded on: Feb. 9, 2012

GERALD M. MURPHY, JR.: OK, you hesitated, you lost. The next speaker is Barbara Mullin, and she's a partner in the Philadelphia office of Akin Gump. In terms of her background, she tries cases regularly in federal courts and arbitration panels and has argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Her cases have involved diverse technological fields such as recombinant antibodies, medical devices and methods, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor ...

Recorded on: Feb. 13, 2012

BARRY BARBASH: OK, folks. It's time for our closing panel, so I call upon our closer, Michael Sackheim who closes us out every year. And I can tell you it is the one panel, year-in, year-out, when I'm not moderating that I attend. Because it's the panel on ethics, and I have to get New York continuing legal education credit. Michael is a partner at Sidley Austin whose real practice is in the derivatives area. But he also has become an expert in ethics. ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2012

DAVID: So resume. For the next panel, we have four excellent and highly qualified speakers who are going to help us tackle the issue of keeping it ethical, identifying and addressing wage and hour compliance gaps, and responding to Wage and Hour Division investigations. That's a lot of material to cover in 60 minutes, so luckily we've got the right folks to do that. Very quickly, and I'm going to simply go in the order they appear on the stage. Maritoni ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: All right, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to resume for our final session of the day. And I'm happy to introduce to you Carol Robertson. Carol's been practicing law for over 30 years, including as a partner at a major San Francisco law firm and as corporate counsel with several San Francisco Bay Area companies, including her current position at the Clorox company. Where she supports the global real estate and facilities group and works ...

Recorded on: Feb. 23, 2012

DR. LOTHAR DETERMANN: Welcome back, everybody for our last and long-awaited segment on ethics, common ethics issues in IP transactions. And, as in previous years, we have our dynamic duo here, Heidi Keefe and David Simon present on this topic. Heidi is a partner with the Cooley law firm in the litigation department. She has won all kinds of cool prizes such as top 45 women in the US under 45 and top 20 under 40. And we were just joking that in her ...

Recorded on: Feb. 27, 2012

IRA J. LEVY: We do need to move into the last session. One of the philosophers, Brecht, said, grub first, then ethics. We're going to reverse it here. We're going to do ethics first, and then grub, as we wrap up the program today. What we're going to cover to close the day, are the ethical considerations in licensing and negotiations. As you always do with ethics talks, especially, especially in California, we need to be sensitive to the fact that ...

Recorded on: Feb. 29, 2012

NANCY H. WOJITAS: OK, we're going to get started. Our next panel is entitled Ethical Issues Surrounding a Going Private Transaction. So you get all the needed ethics credit, MCLE credit. And it actually will kind of sensitize you to the fact that there are ethical issues when you're dealing with going private transactions. So let me introduce the panel before I turn it over to the three of you. So to my immediate right is Jonathan Levitsky. He is ...

Recorded on: Mar. 5, 2012

SPEAKER 1: And I suspect that the person that normally introduces our next panelist is not here, so perhaps I need to do that. This is the ethics panel, and I am quite pleased to be introducing Ken Brothers, who was a classmate of mine from GW Law School. Currently, Ken is a partner in the IP practice of Dickstein Shapiro in the Washington, D.C. office, and focuses his practice on IP trial and appellate litigation. KENNETH BROTHERS: This is the last ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2012

JOHN FELLAS: Thank you and welcome back. We now have a panel on the challenges facing international arbitration. And the idea for this panel came to me while reading an issue of Global Arbitration Review last year. For those of you who don't know, Global Arbitration Review is a journal devoted to international arbitration. And one of its issues last year featured a profile of what it decided were the 45 leading international arbitration practitioners ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 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, "ESI, Technology, and the Lawyer-- The Intersection of Competence, Ethics, and Electronically Stored Information." 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 ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2012

AMY: Now it's my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Carole Basri. CAROLE L. BASRI: Thank you so much Amy. I really appreciate you're having this webcast. I think it's very important issue and I'm thrilled that we have John S. Jenkins, Jr., Vice President and Corporate Secretary and International General Counsel of Tyco International with us today. I think that ethics has become an important part, not only of the practice of law, but also of ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2012

ROBERT H. MUNDHEIM: Let's start the ethics presentation, which according to the rules has got to be an hour. And it's 3:30. So we'll get you out of here by 4:30. My colleague on this panel, and I don't know why the ethics panel only has two people and M&A had five, is Chris Perrin, who is the general counsel of Clifford Chance. In prior years, we've looked at the work of the American Bar Association Commission on Ethics 2020. That Commission ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2012

SPEAKER1: Thank you very much Rosemary and Kirk. And now the hour we've all been waiting for; ethics. I'd like to welcome Professor Bruce Green. Bruce Green is the Lewis Stein professor at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Lewis Stein center for law and ethics. He teaches and writes primarily in the areas of legal ethics in criminal law, and is involved in various Bar Association activities, including many in these fields. Currently, he is ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: So if you are doing this from home, or even here, you can do the seventh inning stretch while our two new panelists, thank you guys, come up. This is the most entertaining panel in no small measure because it's Bill Asher and Deirdre Cunnane. Bill is a partner at Choate Hall and has been representing companies and investors for over 30 years. So he has seen all sorts of horror stories. Deirdre is a general counsel of Advanced ...

Recorded on: Mar. 29, 2012

KATHLEEN E. MCCARTHY: We're in for our final stretch where we're talking about ethics, and I'm pleased to introduce Professor Christopher Cotropia-- I have problems with some of these pronunciations-- who also was a clerk for the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. And he said jokingly during lunch, "Why do you always have professors talk about ethics?" And that's because we can't really get a practitioner to get up here and talk about ethics ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: Our last panel of the day-- again for their purposes. I'm not going through the bios. Everyone has the bios. This is another panel of not only the wonderful practitioners, but also good friends of mine. Immediately to my right is Laura Schnell, one of my plaintiff's lawyers of choice. Whenever I get a call from the executive vice-president saying that his sister-in-law just got fired, poor Laura gets my call. Jill Rosenberg to ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

MARC S. ROTH: OK, I want to thank everybody for coming back into the room after the brief break. And now into the final session of the day, which I think most people are very anxious to hear about. I know I am. With respect to ethics in the electronic world, you always question whether or not, when you get an email in error, whether that little footer at the bottom that says, do not open this, do not read it under penalty of law, what the real implications ...

Recorded on: Apr. 9, 2012

AMY: Our speakers for today's briefing are Maura Grossman and Ron Hedges. Maura Grossman is counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she advises the firm and its clients on legal, technical, and strategic issues involving electronic discovery and information management both in the US and abroad. Maura is co-chair of the E-Discovery Working Group advising in the New York State Unified Court System and a member of the Discovery Subcommittee ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Well, it's 3 o'clock, so we can start the last segment of our program. I'm very pleased that my law partner, Jim Altman in the New York office of Bryan Cave has agreed to speak to us today. It's a sign of how complex the legal profession is that even lawyers like me need a lawyer, and Jim is my lawyer. And when I run into a sticky situation, which happens, you know, infrequently, meaning once every few years, I go to Jim and he tells me ...

Recorded on: Apr. 19, 2012

ANDREW PITTS: Welcome back. We're going to get started. Our next session is focused on Due Diligence and the Offering Process. My name is Andy Pitts. As John White mentioned earlier, he and I are substituting for Liz Ann Eisen, our partner at Cravath, who unexpectedly is traveling today. You met some of the panelists in earlier sessions, but I'll introduce our new panelists with a little biographical information and just identify the folks you've ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2012

LYLE ROBERTS: Great. So let's get started with our final panel of the day. And really the reason we're all here of course, which is to do some ethics and ethical issues in complex securities litigation. And with me today for the final panel I have Felipe Arroyo, who is with Robbins Umeda. We've got Paul Gluckow at Simpson Thacher. Harold Gordon with Jones Day. And Jim Windels with Davis Polk. All of whom have extensive experience in securities litigation. And ...

Recorded on: May. 2, 2012

KIERAN G. DOYLE: Well, we're in the home stretch, and we're about to get those ever valuable ethics credits. Before I introduce our next segment, there's two things I want to remind you all in the room about. Number one, when the session is over, please sign out on your iPad so that you can get your credits and they'll be properly recorded. Number two, also on the iPad is a two part survey. We'd like you to fill that out so that we can count on you ...