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From the program: Ethics in Social Media 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Ethics in Social Media 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:16:05] Risks of Social Media  [01:16:05] Social media threats Employee use of social media Managing user generated content Employee social media policy - drafting considerations Employee/Customer privacy issues The purchase price of this segment includes the following article from the Course ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

ZACHARY D. FASMAN: OK. All right folks, let's get back to business. The next section is on Fair Labor Standards Act and Wage Hour Update. And I'm going to turn this program over to people that-- if you've been here before, you've heard them speak on this. To my immediate right, David Fortney. David is the co-founder of Fortney & Scott, which is a Washington DC based law firm that represents employers in labor law. You can see David's resume in ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: We're about ready to get underway for the afternoon session. I hope everyone had a good lunch. Consistently with the previous panelists, we have really just a terrific panel on the FLSA update-- basic wage and hour update with Michele Fisher of Nichols Kaster in Minnesota, and my partner Matt Lampe from Jones Day here in New York. Matt and Michele are perpetual panelists and perpetual adversaries. So it will be another one of ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2011

ZACHARY D. FASMAN: OK, ladies and gentlemen, we're ready to go if you are. Actually, I think for CLE purposes, we're ready to go even if you are not. Our next panel is on developments under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Wage Hour Laws, and we have two very distinguished practitioners and old friends who are here to speak about this subject. To my immediate right, David Fortney. David is the co-founder of Fourtney & Scott, a Washington ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: I hope everybody found someplace to eat-- not too hard in town. And welcome to the second half of the program. And as with the other presenters, I'm not going to go the bios which are in the materials. Again, we have two people, Michele Kaster, a plaintiff's lawyer, and Matt Lampe, my law partner-- and with whom I've worked since he was a summer associate-- on the defense side of this. Both virtually, full time Wage and Hour ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2012

ROBERT P. DAVIS: Tricia, thank you very, very much. I will tell you that you have single-handedly set my personal record for notetaking when a senior government official speaks. Thank you very, very much. So, again, our next panel up here. By the way, logistics-wise for folks, we have this panel. There's then a break after this panel. And then we'll have one more panel before lunch, as you see. I'm going to speak very, very briefly to introduce ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2012

PHILIP BERKOWITZ: Our panel is going to be, as I mentioned earlier, on foreign companies doing business in the United States, special challenges facing them. And we do have, I think, a great panel. And to my right, I'm just going to introduce everyone, is a good friend and a terrific lawyer, Wendi Lazar. Wendi is a partner and co-chair of the executives in professional practice group at Outten and Golden. Here in New York, she is very well known ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2012

Taken from the Web Program International Employment Law 2012 Recorded June, 2012 in New York Foreign Companies Doing Business in the U.S.: Special Challenges [00:58:33]   Managing the cultural and legal expectations of multinationals Special defenses and dangers for foreign companies Preparing the foreign executive for litigation Privacy/data protection and US discovery The purchase price of this segment includes ...

Recorded on: Jul. 31, 2012

Taken from the briefing Gender and the Workplace: Dealing with Complex and Cutting Edge Issuesrecorded July, 2012. With women continuing their rise in the ranks of corporate America, employers and employees alike continue to face a multitude of challenging and nuanced legal issues.  These issues arise along the entire spectrum of the employment relationship, from recruiting to promoting, to accommodating leave requests, to ensuring ...

Recorded on: Aug. 10, 2012

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Gender in the Workplace, Dealing With Complex and Cutting-Edge Issues. 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 ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

ROBERT P DAVIS: So given our usual procedure for moving very promptly into the next panels. I'm going to wait for the logistics to get settled out here. Then I'll briefly introduce our panel and turn it over to them. OK. I think Laura, soon as she's got her name-- AUDIENCE: Go ahead. ROBERT P DAVIS: All right, so I got the clear signal to proceed. Really, two things I'd like to point to in introducing this next panel on handling classification and ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2013

Taken from the briefing Health Care Reform: An Employer's Essential Guide recorded February, 2013. Guidance on health care reform is coming in fast and from all angles.  The departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor have recently been releasing proposed rules in droves, with much more to come on the horizon.  Employers must already contend with several of the new rules, and other looming requirements will ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my Name is Amy Taub. And I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Health Care Reform, an Employer's Essential Guide. 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 ...

Recorded on: Aug. 2, 2012

Taken from the briefing Health Care Reform After the Supreme Court Decision: What Employers Need to Know Now for Compliance, Transactions and Executive Compensation recorded August, 2012. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court Decision upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandates under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), employers are assessing the impact of the ACA on their group health plans and their businesses as a ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2012

PHILIP M. BERKOWITZ: I'm just going to quickly tell you who-- well, I guess, Beth Lalik is sitting to my right. Beth is going to chair our first program. Beth is a partner in the Washington office of Littler Mendelson. She's a terrifically experienced and terrific lawyer and a good friend, and I think that she's extraordinarily well qualified to run this program. She's a member of the Hispanic Bar Association. She's been named repeatedly as one of ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2012

PHILIP BERKOWITZ: I'd like to introduce Ed O'Callaghan. He should be up here in a moment. Ed is the moderator of our final panel. And the final panel is on International Whistleblowers, Investigating Corruption Across Borders. Ed is a partner in Clifford Chance's litigation and dispute resolution practice in New York. He has over 15 years of litigation experience in civil and criminal matters. I've known Ed for a number of years now. We practiced ...

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: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J.GOLDSMITH: So as, I think, Zach and Peter are going to arrange themselves, we're now going to move right to the panel on The Nuts and Bolts of Traditional Labor Law. That is a law under the National Labor Relations Act. Even though union density has decreased, as all the data show, over the last 10 or 12 or 15 years to really the lowest percentage of union represented workers in the private sector probably since the '30s, the importance ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

ZACHARY D FASMAN: All right, folks. Can we get started again? Our next session is called Litigating and Defending Age Discrimination and Retaliation Cases, cases that raise unique questions in the employment field. And we have, to my right a distinguished and, in some respects, familiar panel for you. Let me introduce them quickly. On my immediate right is Amy Bess, who, of course, is the co-chair of this conference. You have heard her introduced ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2011

MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Good afternoon everyone. Welcome back. Our first subject after lunch is one that I'm sure was not on the program 40 years ago, and that's eDiscovery. We have an excellent panel to discuss this subject with you. It's going to give you three different perspectives, plaintiff, defense, and consultant side. To introduce our panelists, our first speaker in alphabetical order is Jim Batson. Jim is a partner in Liddle & Robinson here ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2011

ZACHARY D. FASMAN: OK, folks. To keep this moving, I'll introduce the next session. Before I do, let me encourage-- I can see from up here, you guys are a pretty attentive audience. But, we haven't had any questions. And some of this stuff, I mean it is true we moved very fast in the sessions this morning. But some of this stuff, like the next two, don't hesitate. I mean these are largely practical issues when we start talking about FMLA, ADA, military ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

AMY L. BESS: So I'm going to go ahead and introduce our next speakers that are going to be speaking about managing leaves of absence under FMLA, ADA, Workers' Compensation, and other laws. We're pleased and privileged to have with us today two really experienced lawyers and professionals in the area of managing leaves of absence. Sara Elder, who's a friend and client of mine who I've worked with for many, many years is here from Sears. And Sara is ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2011

MICHAEL G. CLEVELAND: Good morning, everyone. If you'd please take your seats, we'll get started. We welcome you all back here again this morning. We were just chatting up here. It looks like a really great program today we expect to have. So I hope you're all looking forward to it. I know we all are up here. One preliminary announcement. We expect a full flight again this morning. So if you would please keep your extra materials off the chair next ...

Recorded on: Jan. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing On-Line Defamation: The Latest Developments and Trends recorded January, 2013. The explosion of social media and on-line review websites has resulted in a dramatic increase in defamation claims by employees, businesses and consumers. This briefing will focus on the latest legal developments and practical approaches to avoid and defend on-line defamation claims. For this new program we have an experienced ...

Recorded on: Jan. 28, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, On-Line Defamation, the Latest Developments and Trends. 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 ...