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Recorded on: Jun. 13, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company 2013 Recorded June, 2013 in New YorkA. Structuring and Negotiating Earn-Outs B. Ethics in Negotiating and Documenting Transactions C. Fiduciary Duties of Directors and Majority Shareholders [01:47:29] A. Structuring and Negotiating Earn-Outs [30 minutes]The problems that arise in the context of structuring and drafting contingent consideration, or earn-out, arrangements in ...

From the program: Antitrust Institute 2013: Developments & Hot Topics

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Antitrust Institute 2013: Developments & Hot Topics recorded May, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:01:45]Corporate Compliance and Ethics  [01:01:45] Designing an effective compliance program Sentencing Commission Guidelines Attorney-client privilege including Akzo-Nobel Monitoring, auditing and reporting mechanisms Conflicts of interest The purchase price of this segment includes the following ...

From the program: Audit Committee Workshop 2013

Recorded on: Jun. 24, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Audit Committee Workshop 2013 recorded June, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [00:59:47]Ethical Challenges for Audit Committees and Their Advisors: Look Out...the SEC and DOJ are Watching  [00:59:47] How to deal with tough disclosure and financial reporting issues without getting your fingers burned When does the audit committee need its own counsel? Outside audit advice? What do you tell, to whom to you ...

From the program: Bankruptcy & Reorganizations 2013: Current Developments

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Bankruptcy & Reorganizations 2013: Current Developments recorded April, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:15:23]Creditors' Committees, Examiners, Role of the U.S. Trustee, and Ethics  [01:15:23] Critical issues for the U.S. Trustee in Chapter 11 cases, including appointments, solicitation and venue issues; proposed new fee guidelines Committee and examiner functions and selection processes, Rule 2019 ...

From the program: Basics of Accounting for Lawyers 2013: What Every Practicing Lawyer Needs to Know

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Basics of Accounting for Lawyers 2013: What Every Practicing Lawyer Needs to Know recorded July, 2013 in San Francisco.Lecture Topics  [01:30:05]Current Topics in Professional Ethics for Accountants and Attorneys  [01:30:05] As law, accounting and finance continue to intersect, every practicing attorney should be alert to areas of ethical risk, learn from the mistakes of others, and have a basic understanding ...

From the program: Class Action Litigation 2013

Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Class Action Litigation 2013 recorded July, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:01:59]Ethics in Class Action Litigation  [01:01:59] What issues are judges seeing in class action cases? How have class certification issues changed litigation? The Supreme Court has ruled recently on several class action issues – what messages are being sent and how are district court judges interpreting them? Waiver of ...

From the program: Cloud Computing 2013: Cut Through the Fluff & Tackle the Critical Stuff

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Cloud Computing 2013: Cut Through the Fluff & Tackle the Critical Stuff recorded June, 2013 in San Francisco.Lecture Topics  [00:58:50]Legal Ethics and the Cloud  [00:58:50] Ethical duty of technical competence Client confidentiality and the cloud Due diligence and supervision of cloud providers E-discovery issues in connection with the cloud The purchase price of this segment includes the following ...

Recorded on: Jun. 26, 2013

RICHARD MORVILLO: OK, welcome back. Thank you. I have the distinct honor of introducing most of my panel. The guy on the right there is related to me, so I don't know if it's such an honor. But let me start on the other end with Mike Delikat. Mike has become a fixture at these programs over the course of the last few years. Nancy and I had the foresight to ask him to join us, even before the whistleblower rules were published by the SEC. But Michael ...

Recorded on: Jul. 1, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Internal Investigations 2013 Recorded June, 2013 in New YorkConducting the Investigation: A) Considerations, Processes and Procedures, B) Privilege Issues and Ethical Traps in Conducting the Investigation [01:34:57] A. Considerations, Processes and Procedures Gathering documents Employee interviews Employee issues and obligations: advice, rights and liability in light of recent cases Former employee interviews ...

Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Fourteenth Annual Private Equity Forum Recorded July, 2013 in New YorkConflicts of Interest and Other Ethics Issues [01:00:00] Conflicts of interest Issues arising among funds with the same adviser Issues arising within the adviser The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: Ethical Issues and Conflicts of Interest Considerations for Private Equity ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

YVONNE S. QUINN: All right. Welcome back from the afternoon break. You've done a great job. You're heading into the home stretch here. Or maybe you've rounded third. I don't know. I'm bad at sports analogies. But as we try to do throughout this program, we like to come up with true experts, not just antitrust lawyers, but true antitrust lawyers who are expert in things to come in and talk to you. And we've done it again for this last session, which ...

From the program: Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2013

Released on: Jun. 14, 2013

Compliance and ethics programs should no longer be considered optional. They are an important aspect of legal risk management, and government standards on compliance programs have become increasingly specific. No matter how large or small the company, paying careful attention to corporate compliance and ethics is critical. No area is safe - prosecutors all over the world aggressively attack corporate crime, as countries now pursue subjects ...

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

Taken from the Web Program International Employment Law 2013 Recorded June, 2013 in New YorkCross-Border Investigations & Ethical Issues [01:01:54] Update on international enforcement of SOX, Dodd Frank, FCPA and UK Bribery Act Investigating employment law claims across borders Attorney-client privilege Privacy and discovery: workplace e-mails, social media and other electronic data Interacting with witnesses: cultural issues The purchase ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

LARRY CIRELLI: So we're going to move right on to our last topic of the day and our last topic of this class, Current Topics and Professional Ethics for Accountants and Attorneys. And with us is J. Michael Matthews. Mike is sitting down there at the far end because he contracted some form of the plague in the last day. And we're not letting him sit anywhere near us. If you have a question, stay over there, because he's got a really bad cold going ...

From the program: Delaware Law Developments 2013: What All Business Lawyers Need to Know

Recorded on: Jun. 3, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Delaware Law Developments 2013: What All Business Lawyers Need to Know recorded May, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [00:57:35]The Top Ten Things That Will Tick Off The Chancellors, and the Ethical Issues They Raise  [00:57:35]Types of conduct to be discussed include: Rules, shmules! Disregarding known rules (attestations and Rule 23(a) affidavits) Sandbagging in litigation and transactional work (changes ...

From the program: Doing Deals in and with Emerging Markets: BRICs and Beyond 2013

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Doing Deals in and with Emerging Markets: BRICs and Beyond 2013 recorded July, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [00:59:44]Ethics and Anti-Corruption Enforcement  [00:59:44] Ethical issues for clients and their lawyers facilitating international transactions Varying corporate cultures, and avoiding impropriety Recent developments in FCPA enforcements involving Emerging Market The purchase price of this segment ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

DAVID BRITTENHAM: We turn to our final presentation by Ed Smith on ethics. And Patrick, maybe you can tell us a little bit about Ed? PATRICK RYAN: Ed is joining us today. Ed is a partner in the New York City and Boston offices of Bingham McCutcheon. And he's also a member of the teaching faculty at Boston University Law School and has a great passion for ethics, which we're going to share with him today. EDWIN SMITH: A great passion for it. Thank ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Leveraged Financing 2013 Recorded May, 2013 in New YorkEthical Considerations in Leveraged Financings [01:01:04] Conflicts of interest and conflict waivers Who is the client; prospective and former clients Client confidences Candor in negotiations Contact with other parties represented by counsel The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: Selected ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

JONATHAN K. YOUNGWOOD: --panel of the day is not on a specific part of the case, as the prior panels have all been. It's a panel that's going to focus on an ethical issues that really surround each of the topics that we've talked about today. And you actually may see that some of the things we discuss have in some way or another been discussed by earlier panels. But we're going to try and take a different angle on them. We're going to really focus ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Handling a Securities Case 2013: From Investigation to Trial and Everything in Between Recorded April, 2013 in New YorkEthical Issues in Complex Securities Litigation [01:00:18] Drafting the complaint and the use of confidential witnesses Crafting a motion to dismiss limited by the allegations in the complaint Selecting the forum and interactions between plaintiff and defendant groups Retention of discovery materials ...

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, ...

Recorded on: Jul. 22, 2013

Taken from the Web Program 13th Annual Municipal Law Institute Recorded July, 2013 in New YorkEthics and the Municipal Law Department [02:03:09] Making the right choices in defending employees, policy and legislation Making the right choices when policy, politics and the law do not always converge The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: Rules, Statutes, Case Law, Articles ...

From the program: Ethics for Commercial Litigators 2013

Released on: Jul. 11, 2013

Lecture Topics  [Total time 01:57:23]Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Ethics for Commercial Litigators [01:57:23]C. Evan Stewart, Susan J. Kohlmann, S. Jeanine Conley, Mark S. Cohen The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online: New York Rules of Professional Conduct Mad Dogs and EnglishmenC. Evan Stewart Good ...

Recorded on: Jul. 25, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Ethics for Discovery 2013 Recorded July, 2013 in New YorkEthics for Discovery [01:56:54]The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: