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Employment

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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: 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: 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: 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: Feb. 8, 2011

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings, my name is Amy Taub and I am a program attorney with PLI, and I would like to welcome you to today's briefing: CFTC's Proposed Business Conduct Standards for Swap Dealers, Cost and Consequences to Swap Dealers and Plans. 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 ...

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: 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-- ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2011

ZACHARY D. FASMAN: All right ladies and gentlemen, we're going to resume right now with a segment on covenants not to compete. New developments and limitations for this segment, we have oddly enough, two lawyers from Silicon Valley-- and of course, covenants not to compete are completely unenforceable in California, so this is going to be a short segment. I made them both promise not to limit their comments to what would be enforceable in California, ...

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: 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: Nov. 8, 2011

SPEAKER 1: All right that was a nice shift here. We're getting good at this. Our next subject is disability discrimination claims, which is a vexing issue for all of us in the labor and employment world. And to lead us through this subject we have two very capable speakers and practitioners. First is Amy Bess, Amy I am happy to say is a colleague of mine in the labor and employment practice at Vedder Price. Amy is resident in our Washington DC office, ...

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. 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: 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: 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. 20, 2011

JOSEPH SAMET: All right. We're back on the subjects of mediation, and a subject near and dear to some of your hearts, attorneys fees. How to collect them, how to keep them. On the subject of mediation, Ken Rosen has been very active in this area, both in the Third Circuit in Delaware and elsewhere. Ken is a partner and leads the firm's bankruptcy practice at Lowenstein Sandler. Ken has gotten many honors in terms of this practice, business development, ...

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. 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: 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: 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. 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. 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 ...