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Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN AUNAPU: OK, thank you. Welcome back, and I'm pleased to introduce the dynamic duo of Dan Berner and Jason Downing. Dan is a Deloitte partner out of the Dallas, Texas audit practice. Deloitte's been serving large audit clients for the past 22 years, and has significant experience with SEC matters, including initial and follow-on registration statements, acquisitions, divestitures, and period filings. And our other colleague, Jason Downing, ...

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: Advanced Compliance and Ethics Workshop 2012

Released on: Dec. 13, 2012

Never in the history of criminal or corporate law has the existence of an effective compliance and ethics program been more valuable to an organization. The enormity of recent criminal fines, the aggressive enforcement of criminal laws against organizations, the extent to which criminal authorities around the world are working together, the risks of civil liability, and the startling speed of communication and the attendant transparency of corporate ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

JAMES J. AGAR: Welcome back everyone. Just a quick housekeeping note-- the lecture that we're about to start is going to go an hour and 3/4. Breaking for lunch at 12:15, and then we will reconvene at 1:30. I hope that you all enjoyed the first panel with Brad and Mark as much as I did. No matter how long I've been in this business, when I get to attend a great presentation such as theirs, I always learn something new. I'm confident that the learning ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Fall 2012

Released on: Oct. 26, 2012

An understanding of key accounting, financial 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 this practical ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2012

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Anti-Corruption Compliance Programs-- Legal Expectations and Good Practices. 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 ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 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, Anti-Money Laundering Program, New Challenges for Non-bank Mortgage Lenders and Originators. Before I 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 ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2012

in. 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, "Anti-Money Laundering Rules for Investment Advisers, Be Prepared." 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 ...

From the program: Antitrust Institute 2012: Developments & Hot Topics

Released on: Jun. 19, 2012

DVD's from the program Antitrust Institute 2012: Developments & Hot Topics, held May, 2012.

Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2012

REBECCA WALKER: We're nearing the finish line for the day. Last two topics of the day. This one's a really tough one. This is an area where we as ethics and compliance professionals continue to struggle. We've talked about this a little throughout the day to day, and that is how do we measure the effectiveness of what we're doing. How do we test our programs to ensure both that they are running appropriately and that legal violations are not occurring? ...

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.  ...

Recorded on: Sep. 13, 2012

MICHAEL R. YOUNG: OK, everyone. Can hear me? We're going to get started again. And the good news is that your long wait is over. I know that you have been all sitting here patiently for everyone's favorite panels. And that is the panel on Audit Committees. And then the panels on Enforcement. And your patience is now to be rewarded. We're going to do first the audit committees. And then at four o'clock we're going to do enforcement. And with audit ...

From the program: Directors' Institute on Corporate Governance (Tenth Annual)

Released on: Sep. 26, 2012

In the past year, new expectations were placed on boards in critical areas of governance, including corporate social responsibility, board governance, audit committee oversight of financial reporting and independent auditors, shareholder activism, and executive compensation. In addition, the Dodd-Frank Act will continue to put new requirements on companies and boards, and boards need to remain mindful of the implications of said requirements, as well ...

Recorded on: Mar. 1, 2012

ALAN BELLER: We're going to slide very appropriately from Lew Ferguson's speech to audit committees. I'm not sure we planned that, but we're happy we have it. Joining us for this panel, in order from my right, my immediate right, Debra Perry, who had a long career at Moody's, I think culminating as Chief Administrative Officer after several years in various senior positions there. She has more recently been involved on the boards of directors of ...

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 ...

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: May. 9, 2012

Taken from the Web Program The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and International Anti-Corruption Developments 2012 Recorded May, 2012 in New York Benchmarking: Key Anti-Corruption Issues [01:11:45] Assess your anti-corruption program against your competitors Understand new trends and best practices Determine answers to critical questions on training, diligence, entertainment of foreign officials, facilitation payments and commercial ...

Recorded on: Nov. 12, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Ethics and Law Department Management 2012: A View From the Inside Recorded November, 2012 in New York Best Practices and Ethical Considerations in Corporate Compliance (Part 1) [02:07:39] Using a hypothetical, we will walk you through the various steps and ethical issues that arise when setting up your multinational corporation’s legal department and compliance office, and upon learning of a potential crisis.    ...

Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2012

REBECCA WALKER: So we're going to start now with the next session. This afternoon we're going to cover program structure and board oversight, auditing and assessment of the program, and then do a recent developments, hot topics, and a section on reporting procedures. So a lot to cover, but as I said, we have one hour, and then we're going to have a short break, and then we'll go to the last two panels of the day. Program structure, reporting procedures, ...

From the program: Broker-Dealer and Adviser Regulatory Compliance Forum 2012

Released on: Apr. 4, 2012

DVD's from the program Broker-Dealer and Adviser Regulatory Compliance Forum 2012, held February, 2012.

From the program: Broker/Dealer Regulation and Enforcement 2012

Released on: Nov. 7, 2012

More than three years since the financial crisis erupted, there continues to be heightened regulation and enforcement of the securities laws - by the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, states and SRO’s.  A number of significant rules have been promulgated in the last year to implement various provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, enacted in 2010, while other rules have been proposed but not yet finalized.  The Dodd-Frank ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC SLOAN: ALL right, we're going to get started again. Hopefully everyone has coffee because, you know, at around 3 o'clock is when the caffeine is really needed. But we have a great panel today to keep you awake and interested. So we're going to focus on capital structure considerations in financing. And to do that we have another great panel. To my immediate right is Bill Brentani. Bill is a partner at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett in Palo ...

Recorded on: Sep. 11, 2012

Taken from the briefing Catching Up on Clawbacks recorded September, 2012. Since the introduction of compensation recovery (“clawback”) requirements in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, corporate America has been moving inexorably towards mandatory clawback policies. Not only have institutional investors and their advisors promoted the adoption of these policies, the recent spotlight on managing compensation-related risk ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2012

STEVEN R. PEIKEN: Thanks, Rich. Sounds like my mom wrote that introduction. We have a great group of panelists, and let me introduce them to you briefly before we jump into this. So seated immediately to my right is David Anders, who's a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where his practice focuses on the representation of Fortune 500 and other companies in white collar criminal and related investigations. Before joining Wachtell, Lipton, ...