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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

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. 10, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Understanding Employment Law 2013 Recorded April, 2013 in New YorkEthical Practices in Hiring and Disciplining Employees [01:03:06] Use of social media in hiring The interview process The disciplinary process: assessing the facts Conducting a disciplinary meeting The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: Ethical Issues in Hiring and Disciplining ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2012

SPEAKER 1: OK, so our next session is Ethical Traps for the M&A practitioner. So if it isn't apparent from the title, this is where you get your ethics credit for the two days of the program. And our speaker is James Walker. He's a partner with Richards Kibbe. He concentrates in internal investigations, white collar criminal defense, civil litigation, professional liability, and legal ethics. He has been on the New York City bar's professional ...

Recorded on: Jan. 27, 2011

RICHARD A. GOLDBERG: We're going to move right into our next speaker, James Walker. James Walker is general counsel to Richards Kibbe and Orbe. He's got a long history and background involved in the area of ethics. He's written numerous opinions on ethics. And has represented lawyers and law firms in ethical investigations. He's going to be addressing ethical issues in the context of M&A transactions. JAMES Q. WALKER: Good afternoon. I thought ...

Recorded on: Jan. 29, 2013

RICHARD A. GOLDBERG: James Walker, who is at Richards, Kibbe and Orbe, practices in internal investigations and complex commercial litigation, but also specializes in ethical issues, has been on Bar Association panels for ethics for more than 15 years, and is general counsel to his own firm, dealing with ethical issues for his own firm. And so we have the benefit of hearing his perspective on some ethical issues that come up in the M&A context. ...

Recorded on: Jan. 29, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Mergers & Acquisitions 2013: Trends and Developments Recorded January, 2013 in New York Ethical Traps for the M&A Practitioner [00:59:14] Clearing conflicts in an M&A transaction Where do ethical duties lie in a management buy-out? Ethical issues arising in the representation of a special committee Negotiating with in-house counsel and more The purchase price of this Web segment includes ...

Recorded on: Apr. 12, 2010

BARRY BARBASH: Our last panel of the day, or last piece of the day, is a panel on ethics. It's certainly not the least important. It's an incredibly important topic, and not simply because a lot of us who are New York lawyers need the ethics credit. On an ongoing basis in everyday practice, ethical questions come up when we represent clients, and it's important to have some idea of what the law is, and what your responsibilities are. So with that, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2013

HOWARD PIANKO: OK. We're going to do the ethics part of the program by going back to the second panel. I'm going to resume my role as the Chief Investment Officer. And this hour I'm going to be talking to two different lawyers from the same firm. To my right is Glenn Butash and Linda Haynes. And they're going to be the counsel. I'm going to start off by thanking them for coming. And I really enjoyed meeting your two colleagues this morning. And we ...

Recorded on: Mar. 2, 2011

DAVID BECKER: OK. We're all set. This is the panel for ethics credit. I don't want to talk about it as just an ethics panel. We've got two panelists. The first is Marc Steinberg, who is the Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Research at the Southern Methodist University School of Law. Marc is the director of SMU's Corporate Directors Institute. He is widely published in the areas of securities law and professional ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

HOWARD SIEGEL: OK, so we segue right into the next and final segment of our program, on this first of the three-day PLI seminar, and that is Jack Sahl, who will speak to us about ethics. I said about Rosemary and Kirk, and with absolute truth, that they are friends of mine personally, and friends of PLI. And certainly, that is true of Jack, who's standing here behind me on my left. He is a faculty director of the Miller-Becker Center for Professional ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

PAUL ROYE: OK, we've saved the best for last. We have our ethics discussion with Michael Sackheim. Michael is a partner with Sidley and Austin here in New York. Michael's specialty is an area that is becoming increasingly important to our industry, where he concentrates on exchange trading and over-the-counter derivatives-- regulatory, transactional, and enforcement matters in that area. He's been spending a lot of time, I think, recently on advising ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2012

SPEAKER1: Thank you very much Rosemary and Kirk. And now the hour we've all been waiting for; ethics. I'd like to welcome Professor Bruce Green. Bruce Green is the Lewis Stein professor at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Lewis Stein center for law and ethics. He teaches and writes primarily in the areas of legal ethics in criminal law, and is involved in various Bar Association activities, including many in these fields. Currently, he is ...

Recorded on: Feb. 13, 2012

BARRY BARBASH: OK, folks. It's time for our closing panel, so I call upon our closer, Michael Sackheim who closes us out every year. And I can tell you it is the one panel, year-in, year-out, when I'm not moderating that I attend. Because it's the panel on ethics, and I have to get New York continuing legal education credit. Michael is a partner at Sidley Austin whose real practice is in the derivatives area. But he also has become an expert in ethics. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 29, 2012

KATHLEEN E. MCCARTHY: We're in for our final stretch where we're talking about ethics, and I'm pleased to introduce Professor Christopher Cotropia-- I have problems with some of these pronunciations-- who also was a clerk for the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. And he said jokingly during lunch, "Why do you always have professors talk about ethics?" And that's because we can't really get a practitioner to get up here and talk about ethics ...

Recorded on: Mar. 5, 2012

SPEAKER 1: And I suspect that the person that normally introduces our next panelist is not here, so perhaps I need to do that. This is the ethics panel, and I am quite pleased to be introducing Ken Brothers, who was a classmate of mine from GW Law School. Currently, Ken is a partner in the IP practice of Dickstein Shapiro in the Washington, D.C. office, and focuses his practice on IP trial and appellate litigation. KENNETH BROTHERS: This is the last ...

Recorded on: Feb. 24, 2011

JOHN M. WHITE: This is our last speaker of the day. And it's really the hour you've all been waiting for. These past few days, you sat patiently. Here it is. Ethics. That's right. It's the reason you go to any of these programs. It's the critical ethics hour. And it's because, truthfully, you all need it. No, actually, patent attorneys are the most ethical of any group of attorneys. In fact, thery're somewhat boringly ethical. But the reason I asked ...

Recorded on: Dec. 6, 2012

LARRY ROSEN: Good afternoon everyone. I welcome you back for the second half of our program on open source and free software. I'd like to introduce this afternoon two people who are going to talk to you about ethics. And if last year's and the previous year's presentations are an example, I think you'll find this interesting, challenging, and quite useful for the practice that you're going to be doing with open source and with engineers. So let me ...

Recorded on: Dec. 6, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Open Source and Free Software 2012: Benefits, Risks and Challenges Recorded December, 2012 in San Francisco Ethics: Conflict and Cooperation in Open Source Projects [00:59:39] Attorneys’ obligations in handling open source matters Managing and encouraging engineer participation in open source Ethics in negotiation scenarios How to handle violations by companies or employees The purchase ...

Recorded on: Nov. 15, 2012

Taken from the Web Program 44th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation Recorded November, 2012 in New York Ethics: Dealing with Whistleblowers and Investigations [01:01:21] Mutiny for the bounty Impact on internal compliance programs What is impermissible retaliation? How is the SEC's program working? Lawyers as bounty hunters Who is the client/representing multiple clients The purchase price of this segment ...

Recorded on: Dec. 16, 2011

W. HARDY CALLCOTT: So I think the first thing that we were going to spend some time on in the ethics portion of this is the new SEC whistleblower rules, which are a real change for not only all public companies, but anybody who's regulated by the SEC in any way. The headline of the Dodd-Frank whistleblower provisions is that a whistleblower who goes to the SEC and as a result of which the SEC brings an action-- and all these are defined terms-- in ...

Recorded on: Dec. 6, 2012

JOAN E. MCKOWN: So we should jump into the next panel. The next panel we'll be talking a lot about cases against attorneys by the Commission. As Abby said, we'll talk a little bit about the JOBS Act, and lawyers as gatekeepers, and also the whistleblower development, which is always very interesting. In terms of, the topic is appearing or practicing before the Commission, which, of course, is what you can be barred from if you are an attorney if ...

Recorded on: Apr. 30, 2013

Taken from the Web Program First Annual Institute on Corporate & Securities Law in Hong Kong 2013 Recorded April, 2013 in Hong KongEthics: Hypothetical Scenarios [01:02:01] Recent developments, including the work of the 20/20 Commission Resolving conflicts for the global law firm Confidentiality issues Attorney conduct when appearing before regulators The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2012

DOUGLAS H. REINIGER: OK. We're down to the wire here. This is a different format. Brendan and Anne are going to structure this time with the four different fact patterns and I particularly bring your attention-- the in-course handbook, starting on page 455, are the fact patterns. And I think it would help you and make it easier if you look at it, in case you get a little confused or whatever happens. It happens with Brendan all the time. I get confused ...

Recorded on: Jul. 26, 2011

JOHN DU: Thank you for coming back. We're finally down to the last panel, which is, in my view, the most important panel on ethics and anti-bribery legislations. Well, I just want to make this-- can someone turn the screen on please? OK, thank you. I want to engage you a little bit, so this is a question which is not so related to this panel in particular, but of course, it's related to BRIC. So name the world's four largest economies in GDP for ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2013

JOHN DU: So we're moving to the next topic of ethics. This has been a traditional topic for the past, at least seven years for this program. And the predecessor of this program. And very often, it has led to great discussion and a lot of participation from the audience. We hope to repeat our success in the past sessions. And we're still missing one panelist. And he emailed. And he should be here very, I believe, momentarily. But PLI has its rules, ...