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International

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2012

JOHN FELLAS: OK. So we're going to begin our next panel. And that's on advocacy in international arbitration. Now advocacy is at the heart of what we do as dispute resolution lawyers. But what is effective in one context is not necessarily effective in another. What might be persuasive to a US jury may not be so persuasive to a French arbitrator. And what might persuade a French arbitrator may not persuade a Mexican arbitrator. Now our next panel ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: OK, so we'll get moving with the next panel. We spoke about how people get into removal and deportation proceedings. This panel will generally speak about how people can seek relief from removal and deportation. And just relief in general, because asylum can be sought even administratively outside the removal context. So we do have a great panel. And it's going to be a long panel-- 1 hour, 15 minutes. Each speaker will have 25 minutes ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS MEHTA: So while the panelists setting up I'm going to introduce the panel to all of you. It's a great panel. All the panels are great but we are really fortunate to have three leading experts. And the previous panel spoke about grounds of inadmissibility and removeability. And this panel will talk about relief when someone's put into removal proceedings. And the first speaker on this panel is Anwen Hughes. She helps overseas human rights first ...

Recorded on: Nov. 4, 2011

SPEAKER 1: Multi-country Sourcing. I turn it over to Mike and Ross. ROSS E. McKEAN: Well, thank you everyone. I'll make a start for this session. And in terms of what we're trying to cover at the part two, we're going to do a deeper dive into what non-US laws that can derail sourcing, process and deadlines. And there are lots of laws that can derail sourcing, process, and deadlines. So I'm going to pick two which tend to be the more problematic, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 4, 2011

JOHN F. DELANEY: OK. Welcome to day two of the PLI Outsourcing Conference. And we're going to kick it off this morning with a presentation on avoiding missteps in multi-country outsourcing. And we're very fortunate to have two of the leading experts in this area to speak to us on this subject. It's going to be a co-presentation. Sitting immediately to Bill's right is Michael Mensik. Michael is one of the co-chairs of this program. He's also a partner ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

RICHARD GRIME: OK, everybody. We're in the home stretch. And I realize I'm competing with Mexican food, and I'm going to lose. So maybe we'll wait for a few stragglers to come in. This is the benchmarking session. We have about 30 questions that we want to get through. We recognize we're not going to have a dialogue on everything, because we've spent a long time over the last day and a half talking about many of these topics. So there's going to ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back everyone from the break. This is our final session of the day. Last but certainly not least, we've saved some of the best for the last. I'll be very brief, and we'll just get rolling. But I'm going to introduce Sharon Sandeen, professor Sandeen again. She was with us very early this morning and gave us the trade secret crash course. And she's going to talk with a wonderful panel about best practices at home and abroad regarding ...

Recorded on: Apr. 2, 2013

DANIEL L. REISNER: It's my pleasure to introduce the speakers for our last topic today. Grace Pan is a partner at Kay Scholer in our New York office. She is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, where she graduated Phi Delta Phi and Iota Sigma Phi. Grace speaks Chinese and Japanese, travels often to Asia, and represents numerous Asian clients with intellectual property and commercial issues. Grace is a member of numerous professional ...

Recorded on: Aug. 3, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome to today's briefing, Calling All DREAMers. 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 the course handbook tab in the program window. Our speaker for ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

AUSTIN T. FRAGOMEN JR: So our next topic deals with family immigration. And obviously, this is an area we've more than touched on, when it comes to all the different aspects of representing children in every context imaginable, right? So we've already been through children in great detail, but now, we're going to talk about family immigration. And we'll talk about children in the more traditional sense of media relative petitions and things of that ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA J. LANGE: Well, welcome back. We'll be rounding off the afternoon here with a couple of excellent panels. Right now, we'll be having Bernie Wolfsdorf and Stephen Yale-Loehr will talk to us about challenges to entrepreneurs coming to the United States. There's so much happening in this area, and we really appreciate the work that they've put into this. Robert Divine had planned on being here, and I think help work on the material but due to ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

BOB: Aren't regulations wonderful? This is our corporate panel, and historically David and I started doing this about seven or eight years ago, and it turned out to be one of the really more popular part of the program each year. We try to bring in corporate speakers who represent something of a smattering of the companies that one finds in Northern California. Which is pretty much a reflection of companies you find all over the country. And talk ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

RICHARD W. GRIME: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to day two of the PLI's program on FCPA and anti-corruption laws. This morning, I am pleased to be moderating a panel dealing specifically with China. And as you heard yesterday, there are many issues in dealing with that country. And in particular, we want to spend some time today sort of digging a little deeper than we're able to on panels that just deal generally with anti-corruption enforcement. And ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

MARK F. MENDELSOHN: OK, well, welcome back everybody. Our next panel is addressing difficult and unresolved questions under the FCPA. And we've got another great group of experts here to discuss quite a long list of really interesting issues. I'll start on the opposite end with Tim Dickinson, who is a partner at Paul Hastings. I'm not sure where you say you're a resident these days, but-- TIMOTHY L. DICKINSON: Washington. MARK F. MENDELSOHN: --Resident ...

Recorded on: Jul. 26, 2011

MAURIZIO LEVI-MINZI: --variety of perspectives. We have a few presentations to start with on various topics. But let me tell you first a bit about our panelists, by way of introduction. So Alyona Kucher is a partner of Debevoise in Moscow. Her area of expertise is corporate law, infrastructure projects, and project financing. With an emphasis on transactions in the oil and gas sector, and construction. Alyona teaches civil law at Moscow University. ...

Recorded on: Jul. 26, 2011

MAURIZIO LEVI-MINZI: So our next panel is about due diligence in BRIC countries. We will, in fact, continue to develop many of the same topics that we have already explored a bit during the first panel in many respects. But we want to focus a little bit more perhaps on the practical aspects of assessing the risk of making an investment in a BRIC country. Which is probably of interest to those of you here that are involved in the process of either ...

Recorded on: Jul. 17, 2012

MAURIZIO LEVI-MINZI: To help us sort through these issues, we have three phenomenal petitioners. First of all, Marielle Garrigo. Marielle is a partner at Pellerano & Herrera, a Dominican Republic firm. Marielle focuses primarily on project finance, international direct investments, and M&A. She has significant experience advising foreign investors regarding direct investments in a number of industry in the DR, including, for example, tourism, ...

Recorded on: Dec. 13, 2011

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, due diligence challenges in cross border transactions. 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 the course handbook tab in ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

IVONNE KING: Good afternoon. I'm Ivonne King. We have no break right now, so we'll go until this panel ends, and then we will have a break. This is a kind of tough time slot, because you've been sitting in the audience for since the morning. And we've been talking to you for a while. And we've had lunch, and we've had no break. So I offered Laura Shields of PLI $50 to load Angry Birds on your iPad, and you'll have it for two minutes. I'm just kidding. ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

IVONNE MENA KING: Good morning. My name is Ivonne King. I am a partner with Foley and Lardner in the Palo Alto, California office. It's my pleasure to be here with you today, and to continue the discussion that we had from yesterday on effective compliance programs. For those of you who were with us yesterday, you'll know, and anyone who's new to us today, we have prepared polling questions for the audience. We will continue with those today. In ...

Recorded on: Jul. 26, 2011

JOHN DU: Thank you for coming back. We're finally down to the last panel, which is, in my view, the most important panel on ethics and anti-bribery legislations. Well, I just want to make this-- can someone turn the screen on please? OK, thank you. I want to engage you a little bit, so this is a question which is not so related to this panel in particular, but of course, it's related to BRIC. So name the world's four largest economies in GDP for ...

Recorded on: Jul. 17, 2012

JOHN DU: Shift focus to the substantive issues of FCPA enforcement. So what is the current FCPA enforcement landscape in the US with respect to the emerging markets? Can we start with Mauro? MAURO WOLFE: Yeah thank you, John. I think one of the more important cases, and this one remains to be seen over the next year or so, is the Morgan Stanley case. For those of you who are not familiar with the case, a senior executive at Morgan Stanley named Garth ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

AUSTIN FRAGOMEN: And one of the most important and vexsome areas we're confronted with in the practice of immigration law is legal ethics. And we have an inherent problem because of the dual representation in very difficult circumstances in which to apply dual representation in a really traditional way. At the same time, we have clients who are sometimes known to accuse us of not thinking outside the box, not being innovative enough, or perhaps, how ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA LANGE: I hope you had a good lunch. We're ready to proceed with the afternoon sessions, and we want to talk about evolving trends at FDNS and related government audits. And to do so, we have two illustrious members of the immigration bar, Eileen Scofield and Mary Pivec. Eileen is head of Alston and Bird's immigration practice and focuses on employer compliance issues. And Mary Pivec is a partner at Williams Mullen in DC, and has extensive ...

Recorded on: May. 2, 2012

SHELDON H. KLEIN: The podium. Although Mike, were you planning to talk from the podium or from your seat? MICHAEL R. GRAY: The podium. SHELDON H. KLEIN: The podium. OK, we're back to the podium. It's my pleasure to introduce Mike Gray. Mike brings 26 years of experience representing companies and individuals in trial, arbitration, and other civil proceedings throughout the United States. He's a partner in Minneapolis office of Gray Plant Mooty. ...