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Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

SPEAKER 1: This panel deals with accommodations, both in disabilities but in other contexts as well. And we're delighted to be able to have an in-house counsel on the panel, Mary Schuette, because in-house counsel are the ones who really are on the front lines of dealing with requests for accommodation and the potential problems at arise out of it. Mary Schuette is vice president of legal services, responsible for the labor relations benefits, workers' ...

Recorded on: May. 17, 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, Beyond Brinker-- Guidance on Meal and Rest Breaks and Employment Class Actions. Before you 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 ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: OK, I think we're going to try to get under way. I don't know if Jordan can see us or not. Can you, Jordan? JORDAN A. THOMAS: I can see you. WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: OK. Where are you? Oh, that camera. OK. Well at least for me, this is a little bit of an experiment. Jordan was unable to be with us so we're doing this in the high tech manner that is obvious to all of you. Jordan is behind Melissa and me. I don't know if he can-- ...

From the program: Employment Law Institute 2012

Released on: Nov. 6, 2012

PLI’s annual Employment Law Institute combines a comprehensive review of case law and regulatory developments, an in-depth analysis of emerging issues, and best practices to maximize employment law compliance, mitigate legal risk and achieve business objectives. The faculty is comprised of nationally recognized management and plaintiffs’ attorneys, in-house counsel and government enforcement agency officials who share their perspectives, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

THEODORE ROGERS: OK. Well, are we ready? Great. Thanks. So thanks for coming back into the room so promptly. This program on class actions is one where if you want to go back and be an adjunct at a law school, you can sell yourself in this business. Because the law is really interesting and moving. Frankly, I used to think class actions were very dull, which cost me a lot of money, because they're very lucrative actions. But they just were dull. ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

TIMOTHY LONG: Good afternoon and welcome back. So we're going to start this afternoon's session with what I suspect will be not only a provocative presentation, but also something that will be very informative and educational. And we couldn't have a better panel for this presentation, which is focusing on elimination of bias in the legal workplace. To my right, is my partner, Pat Gillette. Pat, by the way, last night, was awarded the Transformational ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: So without further ado, on that score, let me introduce the speakers who will go over the first item on the agenda. Immediately to my right is Rich Gonzalez, a professor at Chicago Kent college of Law. But as importantly, a very experienced practitioner on the plaintiff's side. And we're fortunate to have him come in from Chicago to speak to us today. Just so you know, I'm not going to go through every detail and every bio here. ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

ANNE VLADECK: As they're getting ready, to my immediate right it Bob Anello, who is a partner at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello, and Bohrer. ROBERT ANELLO: Thanks for getting all the names in. ANNE VLADECK: Well, I had to get to at least the second to last. And Bob has been a litigator, white-collar trial lawyer, for a fair length of time. And he has been named a leading lawyer by Chambers and American Leading Lawyers, and has been recognized ...

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. 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: 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: 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: 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. 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. 5, 2012

AMY L. BESS: Thank you, Danielle. I would just like to say just to echo what Daniel just said that this year, when Zach and I and Danielle were getting together to plan the agenda for this event, we really did look at last year's evaluations and the recommendations that all of you who attended last year made with regard to what kind of programming you wanted to see this year. And we've already had a couple people stop us after a segment and say, ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: Get started with our next presentation. If we could take our seats. I think Danielle's going to bring you people outside of the room in, but let's get started. As with the last presentation, we are really fortunate to have with us today Jeff Klein and Justin Swartz. There really are very few, if any, two lawyers-- Jeff on the side of employers, Justin on the side of plaintiffs-- who have more, or more high quality, experience ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

ZACHARY FASMAN: OK, well that was pretty good. It's sort of changing a scene in the theater. That's pretty good. I mean, we did that quickly. From EEOC, EEOC and systemic stuff, and I hope you're sufficiently scared or encouraged if you're plaintiff's counsel to know that the commission is enforcing the law as it is. We're going to turn to something a little bit different here, which is psychological issues in employment litigation. We've assembled ...

Recorded on: May. 31, 2012

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-- Psychological Issues and Employment Litigation, the Juncture of Employment Law and Forensic Psychiatry. 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 ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2012

THEODORE M. SHAW: [UNINTELLIGIBLE] and good morning to you all. I want to thank Janet Segal and the staff at PLI for once again inviting me and inviting us to present on this very important topic. My role is as moderator. And I will try to stick to that role. But I also plan to say a quick word about the case that the Supreme Court granted cert down in Texas, or coming out of Texas, involving a re-visitation of Grutter in one form or another. One ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

ANNE C. VLADECK: I'd like to just briefly introduce this esteemed panel. Their biographies, in full, are on your iPad or in the book. Sitting immediately to my right is Lou DiLorenzo who has practiced Labor and Employment for 30 years, and is managing partner of Bond, Schoeneck and King's New York City, Garden City offices. And he's the chair of the firm's Labor and Employment Employee Benefits and Immigration Practice group. And I can tell you he's ...

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 ...