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Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2013

THEODORE O. ROGERS: All right. We're ready to start again. Thank you for being timely in getting back by 1:45. Our next session is on retaliation claims. This is my favorite song lyric-- and it's Anne's suggestion-- "every breath you take, I'll be watching you." Because, as we'll discuss a little bit more, people who have made complaints and stay in the workforce probably do have the point of view that there are people out there with that ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2013

THEODORE O. ROGERS, JR: I'd clink a glass but it doesn't work on the paper cup, so we'll just-- whoops there it goes. Anne's going to introduce our next distinguished panel, but I did want to note that one of the challenges of holding this within the 10 days at the end of the Supreme Court's term is that there can be breaking news. And there's a decision that was issued this morning by the Supreme Court, which our panelists are going to describing ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

PHILIP M. BERKOWITZ: OK. We're going to move right into our next panel. And let me make the introductions, please. There are fewer panelists on this one, but I think you'll agree that there's much more brainpower, frankly, on this panel than the last one. I think they've all left. Let me make the quick introductions, please. I'd like to start. To my immediate right is Don Dowling. Don Dowling is really a legend in this field. I've known him for ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

PHILIP M. BERKOWITZ: OK, everyone, I guess we're ready to start for our final panel. This is going to be a real fascinating presentation. I'm very pleased to introduce you to Ed O'Callaghan. Ed is the moderator of this particular panel. Ed is a partner in Clifford Chance's litigation and dispute resolution practice in New York. He has, as will become evident, extensive litigation experience. Ed was assistant US attorney in the Southern District of ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

JOHAN LUBBE: Thank you, Phil. Good morning, everyone. Our task as the first panel is to address cross-border assignments and employment agreements. I am equally very pleased and honored to have a number of very well-known international employment lawyers on the panel. They are all greatly appreciated and recognized in their jurisdictions as employment lawyers who focus on cross-border issues. I'm going to be introduced them very briefly but invite ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: I think that we're almost all assembled. We're going to get ready for our last panel of the morning. Each of the previous panels ended with hot topics, and each of the previous panelists covered a series of hot topics. This particular panel is all about one very hot topic, a topic that doesn't seem to go away. And as with the previous panelists, we're really fortunate to have Larry Baer, Don Sapir, and Marty Schmelkin with us, ...

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: 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: Apr. 8, 2013

THEODORE O. ROGERS JR.: Thanks. I have the pleasure of being able to kick us off here. We're going to in about an hour and a quarter try to run through the whole gamut as an overview of Federal employment laws. We're not going to try to get into the state of the city level, but you can assume that at least in New York but also in virtually every other state there's a whole set of statutes that are quite similar to the Federal ones we'll be talking ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: I hesitate to say we've saved the best for last, but maybe we have. We have an ethics presentation that as in the past, I know is today going to be just terrific. Just to introduce people, to my right is Jill Rosenberg, John Gaal to her right, Laura Schnell, and Karen Mitchell. Again, the biographical materials are in the handout. And I commend you to read them, as well as the general materials that they've prepared. And so with ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: OK. Before we get into the substance of the next panel, I have to ask if there's a video. Is there a YouTube video? ROBERT M. HALE: Oh, no. Nobody was on the FMLA or IDA. DEBRA L. RASKIN: No rock and roll. No nothing. WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: Music? DEBRA L. RASKIN: What can I tell ya. WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: Nothing? Zero? Oh, okay. ROBERT M. HALE: No, I'm afraid. You just got us. You just got us. WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: Well, I'm ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

RICHARD RAYSMAN: All right. Our first panel today is going to be talking about ethics in social media, obviously. And we're going to have, really, a panel discussion, which I think will be quite interesting. At least in my mind view, it's been a pretty good format. So I wanted to introduce our three panelists. All the way to your left, to my right, one of our panelists is Sofia Rahman. She's the global social media attorney for Citi's Consumer Businesses. ...

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: Feb. 14, 2013

P. ANTHONY SAMMI: So let me just jump right into the next panel. This is entitled, Protecting Your Clients' Trade Secrets. And we've got two wonderful gentlemen with us here today. One is David Garrett. And one is David Klausner. There are two Davids. David is obviously closer to me, David Garrett. And David Klausner is on the other side. Let me introduce them briefly. David Garrett is managing director and head of Stroz Friedberg's San Francisco ...

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. 12, 2013

ROBERT P. DAVIS: Yeah, we're right on. OK. Good. All right, everybody. Showing you that we really mean when we say the break periods will be strictly enforced, we go to our last panel of the morning, followed by a meal period which, as far as I can tell, is not mandated by statute or regulation. REID R. BRODA: Yet. ROBERT P. DAVIS: Yet, said Reid Broda. And just briefly, to introduce our panel. Immediately to my right, Reid Broda, who here is one ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

MICHELE R. FISHER: So our next panel's presentation, and I'll introduce them as they're coming up here, so we can keep moving, is To Arbitrate or Not to Arbitrate? Good question. Arbitration has been a hot topic since the Supreme Court decisions of Concepcion, Stolt Nielsen, and D. R. Horton case. And there've been a lot of questions and disputes as to whether employers should have arbitration agreements. What are the pros, and what are the cons? ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: I think we're back. Next topic up is drafting and updating social media policies and guidelines. And one thing I will say. So much has happened in this area of the law since we last met a year ago that I can say with quite some confidence that, if your company hasn't updated its social media policy or guidelines in the past year, they're probably out of date, just because so much has happened in this area. And we're very fortunate to ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: OK, we're back. A couple of housekeeping matters. As I mentioned at the beginning, we look forward to your feedback. Let us know what you like. Let us know about other topics that we can cover next year. We hope to have you back next year. So if you have thoughts about other issues you're seeing in your own practice that we haven't been able to touch upon in a day long conference, we'd love to hear about it. So please fill out the evaluation ...

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 ...

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: 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

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: 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: Nov. 5, 2012

AMY L. BESS: We're excited to have a great panel to speak on social media issues today. First, I'd like to introduce Jill Rosenberg, who is an employment partner at Orrick, Herrington. Jill's practice is a general practice covering all aspects of employment defense work. And she represents a broad range of companies and organizations, including employers in the financial services industry, banks and financial institutions, accounting and law firms, ...