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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Last Year

Transcripts

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

HOWARD J. WEG: Welcome back everyone. So for the next 75 minutes we're going to discuss ethical considerations in bankruptcy, which as I referenced earlier will qualify for one hour and 15 minutes worth of MCLA credit toward your ethics segment of your MCLA obligations and requirements. We're going to cover two broad areas, generally speaking. We're going to talk about, today, the appointment and employment of professionals and trustees in bankruptcy ...

Recorded on: Feb. 23, 2012

DR. LOTHAR DETERMANN: Welcome back, everybody for our last and long-awaited segment on ethics, common ethics issues in IP transactions. And, as in previous years, we have our dynamic duo here, Heidi Keefe and David Simon present on this topic. Heidi is a partner with the Cooley law firm in the litigation department. She has won all kinds of cool prizes such as top 45 women in the US under 45 and top 20 under 40. And we were just joking that in her ...

Recorded on: Jul. 24, 2012

CLIFFORD E. KIRSCH: All right, we are here for our last panel, compliance exams and ethical issues, ethical issues as they present themselves to lawyers and compliance professionals who operate and work with investment advisers. And for this panel, I'm very, very pleased to introduce to my right, John Walsh. John is a colleague of mine now at Sutherland. John's a partner in Sutherland's DC office in the financial services group. So I'm very, very ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2012

RICHARD J. MORVILLO: This next panel is going to be talking about actually conducting the investigation. It took us a better part of an hour and 45 minutes to talk about all the background. And we are very fortunate to have another esteemed panel of experts in the area. And I'll introduce them. Nancy needs no introduction. To Nancy's right is David Brodsky, who is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb here in New York, who-- and this is going to be a refrain ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2012

YUKAKO KAWATA: OK. So we're on to the final panel for this morning. Right before lunch, to keep you all here, we have the Ethics Panel on Conflicts of Interest. This will provide the ethics credit for this conference. And for that, I've asked, to my right, Ed Sopher. He is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher. He is the chair of the Investment Funds Practice Group and a member of the Corporate Transactions and Securities ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

YVONNE S. QUINN: All right. Welcome back. Now, we have the long-awaited session on ethics and compliance, which is a very important part of our program here today. And it's also extremely valuable for all of us who have to file CLU requirements. So I'm extra excited about it on that ground. And we have a wonderful speaker today who is really an expert in this area for a number of reasons. Our speaker is Ted Banks. He is currently the counsel to law ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: So if you are doing this from home, or even here, you can do the seventh inning stretch while our two new panelists, thank you guys, come up. This is the most entertaining panel in no small measure because it's Bill Asher and Deirdre Cunnane. Bill is a partner at Choate Hall and has been representing companies and investors for over 30 years. So he has seen all sorts of horror stories. Deirdre is a general counsel of Advanced ...

Recorded on: Oct. 19, 2012

JOSHUA D. COHN: Welcome back from lunch. We're going to begin the afternoon with what is the most sought-after hour in the program. That is, this is the hour that brings you Ethics credits. But, of course, that's not the reason it's the most sought-after hour in the program. The reason is Michael Sackheim is our presenter. And Michael is an accomplished derivatives practitioner. But I think, he also has a role in the industry as Mr. Ethics and is ...

Recorded on: Apr. 19, 2012

ANDREW PITTS: Welcome back. We're going to get started. Our next session is focused on Due Diligence and the Offering Process. My name is Andy Pitts. As John White mentioned earlier, he and I are substituting for Liz Ann Eisen, our partner at Cravath, who unexpectedly is traveling today. You met some of the panelists in earlier sessions, but I'll introduce our new panelists with a little biographical information and just identify the folks you've ...

Recorded on: Jan. 5, 2012

ALYSSA A. GRIKSCHEIT: Great. We are live back for, as we promised, Deals Gone Bad and Ethics. I'd like to introduce our two speakers. First we'll hear from Eric Alan Stone. He's a partner at Paul Weiss, and he's in the litigation department with experience in litigation and arbitration. And then we will hear from Michael Sackheim, a partner of mine at Sidley Austin. And he concentrates on exchange traded and over the counter derivatives, regulatory ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 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, "ESI, Technology, and the Lawyer-- The Intersection of Competence, Ethics, and Electronically Stored Information." 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: 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: Sep. 19, 2012

SPEAKER: All right everybody, we're going to go ahead and get started. Thanks for staying with us through the entire program. This is the last segment of the day. It is the one hour on ethics that I'm sure everybody is waiting for. I'm going to go ahead and introduce our speakers. The next panel is Ethical Concerns for Council When Advising a Government Contractor. We have Larry Harris with Fox Rothschild and Timothy Thornton with Greensfelder, Hemker, ...

Recorded on: May. 7, 2012

DAVID BRITTENHAM: All right. While John is getting ready, I'll introduce him. John Brady is counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton, since 1998. He has been involved in leading the Lawyer Training Initiatives at our firm, including teaching us all about professional ethics. And he's here today to tell us something about it for the next hour. John. JOHN BRADY: Thank you, David. David has volunteered me again this year to speak about ethics. I'm happy ...

Recorded on: Feb. 27, 2012

IRA J. LEVY: We do need to move into the last session. One of the philosophers, Brecht, said, grub first, then ethics. We're going to reverse it here. We're going to do ethics first, and then grub, as we wrap up the program today. What we're going to cover to close the day, are the ethical considerations in licensing and negotiations. As you always do with ethics talks, especially, especially in California, we need to be sensitive to the fact that ...

Recorded on: Feb. 9, 2012

GERALD M. MURPHY, JR.: OK, you hesitated, you lost. The next speaker is Barbara Mullin, and she's a partner in the Philadelphia office of Akin Gump. In terms of her background, she tries cases regularly in federal courts and arbitration panels and has argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Her cases have involved diverse technological fields such as recombinant antibodies, medical devices and methods, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor ...

Recorded on: May. 14, 2012

RANDI W. SINGER: Let's get started with our last panel. Before we go with this one, a couple of quick announcements. Please fill out your evaluations. They're on the iPads. I read them all. We take them very seriously. We've made a number of changes to this program over the years in response to your comments. So if there's things you'd like to see, please make sure you fill out the surveys and let us know. And also at the end of the day, don't forget ...

Recorded on: Oct. 5, 2012

STEVE: OK, so as we head into our last topic for the program, I'd like to introduce our newest member of the panel. To my right is Maura Barry Grinalds. Maura is a partner at Skadden, Arps here in New York. And she's-- MAURA BARRY GRINALDS: Who doesn't know how to adjust her chair. STEVE: [LAUGHS] These are the complex issues that lawyers have to face every day. It's amazing we survive. And so Maura is going to talk to us about ethics. MAURA BARRY ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL MEYER: A person who needs no introduction, so she's going to get no introduction, because we're don't to take up too much of her time. But she has been a practicing attorney for 30 years. All of our lawyers who are on the program are practicing lawyers. It's important that we have, it's called the Practising Law Institute, but to have people who actually do it every day and deal with it. And so Carol has been in private practice and was a ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

JOHN C. KOSKI: Well welcome everybody. Pleased to be here. Wanted to talk about ethics today from a different perspective. Rather than talking about mergers, I'm going to be talking about movies and hopefully we can all leave with a little bit of a feel good appreciation that no matter how bad a day you've had in your practice, there's been some movie lawyer somewhere who's had it worse. So what we are going to do today is kind of review a few clips. ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2012

LYLE ROBERTS: Great. So let's get started with our final panel of the day. And really the reason we're all here of course, which is to do some ethics and ethical issues in complex securities litigation. And with me today for the final panel I have Felipe Arroyo, who is with Robbins Umeda. We've got Paul Gluckow at Simpson Thacher. Harold Gordon with Jones Day. And Jim Windels with Davis Polk. All of whom have extensive experience in securities litigation. And ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hi, everybody. Welcome back. We're down to the last hour of our first day, and it's my pleasure at this point to introduce John Steele. I think many of you know John from over the years. John is currently a solo practitioner, but he's an expert in the ethics area. He represents clients in matters of legal ethics, professional liability, risk management, and the law of lawyering. For over 15 years, John has served as the top internal ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

SPEAKER 1: That is ethical issues in patent litigation. And our presenter today is John Steele, who is a returning presenter to us. John is a real man of steel because he always presents at 4 o'clock on the second day, which is the last presentation, and he does an excellent job. John's practice emphasizes legal ethics, the law of lawyering, and risk management, and he offers counseling opinion letters in expert witness engagements. He's taught approximately ...

Recorded on: Jun. 8, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back for the last segment of the program. At the podium is a Pat Wilson. And she'll be speaking on in real estate transactions. Some of those issues have actually been newsworthy recently. Pat is a professor of law at Baylor Law School. And she's been there since 1993. Pat is actually a-- not actually. Pat is a recognized authority on legal ethics and real estate transactions and responsibilities of the various parties on an ethical ...

Recorded on: Aug. 3, 2012

SANDRA D. GRANNUM: Our next panel will be discussing ethics in securities arbitration. So a hot topic, a relevant topic, and you get your CLE ethics credits in. Chairing this panel-- Seth? SETH E. LIPNER: Yes. SANDRA D. GRANNUM: We're going to get the other panel on. SETH E. LIPNER: I'm on this panel. SANDRA D. GRANNUM: Oh, you're on this panel. Sorry. [? SETH E. LIPNER: Seth's ?] not going anywhere. SANDRA D. GRANNUM: The next panel will be ...