On-Demand Learning

Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Transcripts

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: Jan. 3, 2013

ALYSSA A. GRIKSCHEIT: Great. Welcome back. Thank you. It's now my pleasure to introduce Eric Alan Stone. He's a litigator. He's a partner at Paul Weiss. And he will talk to us about when deals go bad. ERIC ALAN STONE: Hi, folks. Nice to meet you all. So let me start by asking for a brief show of hands. How many of you are litigators? Oh my god, I'm alone. We're nine short of litigator minion. OK. All right. So giving the litigators lecture speech ...

Recorded on: Dec. 1, 2011

REBECCA: So we're going to go straight into the next session, which is on enhancing helpline and reporting procedures, and conducting investigations. But first of all thanks so much for that risk assessment panel. It was really terrific. I would just add maybe two things to the discussion quickly before we move to the next topic. One is that I think it really is critically important that you understand the goals of your risk assessment before you ...

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: Nov. 4, 2011

JOHN F. DELANEY: So we are now at the last presentation. And a cynic might say we put the much-desired desired ethics credit presentation at the very end of the session. But that's not true. But not only are we going to give you one hour of ethics credit over the next hour. But we want the ethics presentation to be directly related to outsourcing. We want it to be directly relevant to what we do as outsourcing lawyers. And toward that end, we are ...

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: Mar. 3, 2011

HOWARD PIANKO: --things that we've been discussing today. We've broken it down into three sections. Where-- is Martha here? There you are. I didn't see you back there. OK. So we're joined, to my far right, by Martha Steinman. Martha is a Partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf where her practice focuses extensively, if not totally, on ERISA Fiduciary and related questions. To my immediate right is Linda Haynes, who's a fellow partner of mine at Seyfarth, ...

Recorded on: Apr. 7, 2011

HOWARD PIANKO: Our last panel is going to look at some of the ethical considerations applicable to our practice area. We've broken it down into three parts. I'm going to start off with a review of planned governance and we've used the word planned governance today, how do you apply it? And there's a handout which Grace has informed me I should have sent to be done electronically, but I didn't. But you've got a colored handout. Steve Rabitz is to ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

HOWARD PIANKO: Our last hour, we're going to go into ethical considerations for ERISA lawyers both outside lawyer and also the kind of questions that come up working in-house. We're really pleased to have Howard Shapiro with us. Howard, from Proskauer, is a litigator who many of us have heard of and worked with. And Liza LeAndre from Colgate-Palmolive is here to talk to us from the in-house perspective. I'll turn it over to-- who's starting? You? ...

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: May. 10, 2011

DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: All right, we're back. It's 1:30 and we're now going to have our ethics presentation. It's my pleasure to introduce my colleague, John Brady, to my right. John has been at Debevoise since the late '70s. He practiced law for many years and is now of counsel since 1998. He plays a key role in lawyer training and development at our firm, including teaching us all about ethics. And since I've enjoyed his presentations so much, we ...

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: Jan. 11, 2011

SPEAKER 1: All right. Welcome back. Last hour session here. The last session hit on this afternoon is on ethical considerations of reissue and ex parte and inter pates reexamination. So this gets you your one hour of CLE credits for ethics. And pleased to have Joanne Kim for this presentation. She's a partner-- OK, she's a partner at Akin Gump-- and for the rest of it, I have to put on my reading glasses here, I'm afraid. All right. So she represents ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2013

GERALD A. STEIN: OK, welcome back, everybody for our final panel, and I'm glad you're here, because this is a really fascinating area of our presentation today. Because in every deposition, both preparing for deposition and in taking depositions, they are always ethical dilemmas that arrive so it's appropriate we're doing this at the end, and I'm glad you're here for it. Because this is actually what one of the-- I mean, not that any panel was not ...

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: Nov. 7, 2011

SPEAKER 1: So why don't we go ahead and get started. So now we're going to move to our next topic of the day. I introduced John earlier, John Hughes, a partner at Howard Rice here in San Francisco. And he's gonna talk to you about ethics. JONATHAN HUGHES: Thanks. So most of what I do, I litigate cases, but mostly what I do is represent lawyers' law firms. And so this discussion that I want to have now about legal ethics in the context of an SEC practice ...

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: Nov. 17, 2011

M. ALEXANDER BOWIE II: Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the Ethics portion of the program, the last hour. I'd like to first introduce our panel. To my right we have James Bernard. He is a partner in the litigation department of Strook & Strook & Lavan. His practice covers a range of litigation areas. Most recently he's been representing Grant Thornton International and the NBL litigations arising from the collapse of Parmalat. Other areas ...

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: Nov. 8, 2010

JOHN: Why don't I introduce you? So we're at end. When Phil and I first got involved working with PLI, we learned very quickly PLI has a secret. I'll let you in on it. You always put the ethics presentation last. Why? Because people have to stay to the end, because everyone wants and needs ethics credit. But we've always, in addition to-- one thing we've wanted to do with the ethics credit is, in addition to generating ethics credit for you, to make ...

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 ...