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From the program: Privacy and Data Security Law Institute (Thirteenth Annual)

Released on: Jun. 5, 2012

This program focuses on critical issues of information privacy, security and data protection faced by all companies.  The Internet and other evolving information technologies, wired and wireless, have prompted the development of powerful tools for the collection, processing, storage and use of personal information.  These trends create numerous issues regarding limitations on corporate rights to use that information and obligations to protect ...

From the program: Connecting the Dots: Family Law, Housing Law, and Trusts and Estates Practitioners Discuss Mortgage Debt, Families and Foreclosure (Free)

Released on: Jun. 12, 2012

View this training for an overview of legal and practical problems that arise within families and with mortgage servicers regarding mortgage debts, mortgage delinquencies and foreclosure when real property is co-owned by family members or is transferred in connection with death or divorce or other family changes.  During the session, practitioners specializing in family law, trusts and estates and housing law, respectively, will provide ...

From the program: JOBS Act 2012: What You Need to Know Now

Released on: Jun. 13, 2012

On April 5, 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was signed into law, bringing about extraordinary changes to the regulation of capital formation in the United States. The JOBS Act: (1) creates a new regulatory “on ramp” for emerging growth companies going public, with confidential SEC Staff review of draft IPO registration statements, reduced disclosure requirements and freer “test the waters” and research ...

From the program: Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2012

Released on: Jun. 15, 2012

Please note that "ethics" in the program title refers to the “Compliance and Ethics Program” used in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations. It does not specifically refer to legal ethics. Please check the credit calculator to the right for credit information for your jurisdiction. No matter how large or small your company (or client), paying careful attention to corporate compliance and ethics is no longer optional.  ...

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, ...

From the program: Negotiating Real Estate Deals 2012

Released on: Jun. 19, 2012

Do you know the best negotiating strategies in the current real estate market? What are the “hot buttons” for seller, buyer and lender requirements? What are the factors and legal issues you should analyze with respect to investing in distressed real estate situations including purchasing defaulted loans. How do the characteristics of a property and the structuring of the acquisition fit with the current underwriting criteria of lenders? ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Summer 2012

Released on: Jun. 19, 2012

An understanding of key financial, accounting and economic concepts, principles and terminology will contribute to your ability to interact with and advise your clients with their critical issues.  The ability to identify and appropriately use financial and accounting information is relevant to a wide range of legal and regulatory matters for both external and in-house attorneys.  Litigators and transactional attorneys alike will benefit ...

From the program: Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company 2012

Released on: Jun. 22, 2012

Our experienced faculty walk you through all of the steps associated with acquiring and selling a privately held company, whether it is a large independent corporation, a division or subsidiary of a large public company, or a smaller venture capital-backed or family-owned entrepreneurial enterprise. You will learn about the special issues that apply when a private equity firm is the buyer or owns the target company, and about the techniques and strategies ...

From the program: Cloud Computing 2012: Cut Through the Fluff & Tackle the Critical Stuff

Released on: Jun. 25, 2012

Corporations, government organizations and millions of consumers are shifting massive quantities of data and their software applications to cloud computing facilities.  Cloud computing uses the Internet to give every size organization access to large, dynamically scalable resources (data storage, software applications and computing power).  “The Cloud” allows users, at all levels, to avoid large capital outlays for hardware and ...

From the program: Delaware Law Developments 2012: What All Business Lawyers Need to Know

Released on: Jun. 26, 2012

Delaware law plays a critical role in U.S. corporate and securities law, particularly in today’s challenging and changing business environment.  This unique annual program focuses on the important Delaware corporate law developments over the past year and the practical impact on your corporate or legal practice.  The very top Delaware corporate law experts from the Delaware judiciary, leading law firms and corporations, and academia, ...

From the program: Audit Committee Workshop 2012

Released on: Jul. 6, 2012

As we continue to see many new regulations from the SEC, PCAOB, CFTC and financial institution regulators, numerous challenges emerge for the audit committee.  If you are a director or member of an audit committee, or if you advise audit committees, this program will help you understand what is required of the audit committee in this new and rapidly changing environment.  An expert faculty of public company directors who have served on audit ...

From the program: Internal Investigations 2012: How to Protect Your Clients or Companies in the Global, Post-Dodd Frank World

Released on: Jul. 10, 2012

In today's uncertain economic, legal and regulatory environment, companies, their executives, and their counsel need to be proactive in identifying risks and remedying potential issues. Knowing how to conduct efficient and effective internal investigations is key to protecting your clients or company.  Using a real-world hypothetical fact pattern throughout the day, expert panels review the many considerations and issues that can and do arise ...

From the program: Ethics for Commercial Litigators 2012

Released on: Jul. 12, 2012

Lecture Topics  [Total time 01:58:06] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Ethics for Commercial Litigators 2012  [01:58:06] C. Evan Stewart, S. Jeanine Conley, Susan J. Kohlmann, David S. Versfelt The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online: New York Rules of Professional Conduct The Legal ...

From the program: Private Equity Forum (Thirteenth Annual)

Released on: Jul. 24, 2012

The current economic crisis and the state of financial markets continues to have a negative impact on private equity, leading to lower levels of fund-raising and deal-making activities. There has also been increasing regulatory and legislative focus on private equity funds and their roles in the financial markets leading to the downturn, as well as their potential roles going forward. In this environment, private equity faces a number of significant ...

From the program: Class Action Litigation 2012

Released on: Jul. 25, 2012

Class action lawsuits remain one of the focal points of high stakes litigation in many areas of the law, yet the standards applicable to class actions are evolving.  How has the class action landscape changed?  How have courts addressed the issue of class certification?  How can you structure settlements that are beneficial to your clients?  This year’s program will answer these questions and many more. Our outstanding ...

From the program: Doing Deals in and with Emerging Markets: BRIC and Beyond 2012

Released on: Jul. 26, 2012

With emerging markets, like those of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries, playing an ever greater role in the global economy, attorneys and other professionals facilitating cross-border transactions need to familiarize themselves with the world outside the Group of Eight. After all, according to a recent OECD study, emerging markets will account for over 60% of global economic output by 2030. This program will provide a comprehensive ...

From the program: Fundamentals of Investment Adviser Regulation 2012

Released on: Aug. 1, 2012

In the aftermath of the financial crisis and the resulting regulatory reform, the SEC has advanced significant rulemaking to impose a greater degree of controls on investment advisers’ operations.  In fact, the SEC has put the regulation of investment advisers under the microscope.  At the same time, Congress is considering financial regulatory reform that could impose a new self-regulatory organization in charge of adviser regulation.  In ...

From the program: Ethics for Discovery 2012

Released on: Aug. 8, 2012

Lecture Topics  [Total time 01:57:17] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Ethics for Discovery [01:57:17] Stephen D. Brody, Philip N. Yannella, Allison J. Schoenthal The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online: New York Rules of Professional Conduct Do's and Don'ts of Ethics Research Jeremy ...

From the program: This Really Happened: A Review of Real World Ethical Issues 2012

Released on: Aug. 8, 2012

Lecture Topics  [Total time 02:01:56] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online: New York Rules of Professional Conduct Do's and Don'ts of Ethics Research Jeremy R. Feinberg Formal Opinion 2012-1: Obligations Upon Receiving a Document Not Intended for the Recipient  ...

From the program: Ethics for In-House Corporate Counsel 2012

Released on: Aug. 8, 2012

Lecture Topics [Total time 01:59:45] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Ethics for In-House Corporate Counsel [01:59:45] Carole L. Basri, David Boyd Booker, Louise Pentland The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online: New York Rules of Professional Conduct   The Legal Profession ...

From the program: Children's Law Institute (15th Annual)

Released on: Aug. 13, 2012

Whether representing children, parents or a child welfare or foster care agency, in private practice, government, public interest practice or as a policy advocate, the issues and the environment in which advocates operate is increasingly complex.  This year, PLI’s 15th Annual Children’s Law Institute will focus on a variety of social and legal issues affecting child welfare practice. Lecture Topics  [Total time 06:23:10] Segments ...

From the program: Ethics in Banking and Financial Services 2012

Released on: Aug. 14, 2012

Lecture Topics  [Total time 02:43:28] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Ethics in Banking and Financial Services 2012  [02:43:28] C. Evan Stewart, Michael J. Dell, Stacey R. Friedman The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online: New York Rules of Professional Conduct Do's and Don'ts of ...

From the program: Securities Arbitration 2012

Released on: Aug. 16, 2012

Last year’s fervor over the fairness of arbitration has not so much subsided as it has been refined. In response to this shift, in 2012 FINRA will focus on streamlining and improving its dispute resolution forum, including fine-tuning the arbitrator disclosure process. FINRA’s goal is to ensure early disclosure of relevant arbitrator information, in order to save the parties the time and expense associated with replacing arbitrators whose ...

From the program: Prison Law 2012

Released on: Aug. 17, 2012

Whether representing prisoners while in private practice, public interest practice or as a policy advocate, the issues and the environment in which advocates operate is increasingly challenging and complex.  This year, PLI’s third annual program on Prison Law will address the legal framework for civil litigation filed on behalf of prisoners in federal and state courts, from a national perspective. Lecture Topics  [Total time 06:27:32] Segments ...

From the program: ERISA: The Evolving World 2012

Released on: Aug. 21, 2012

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