On-Demand Learning

Ethics/Professional Responsibility

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Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

LINDA E. RAPPAPORT: Hello everybody. We're going to get started again. I think Mark is on his way back. So it's my great pleasure to introduce our next panelists. Assuming I can find their resumes here. To my immediate right is Jeannemarie O'Brien, who is a leader of the Executive Compensation practice at Wachtell Lipton, and will be addressing us in the area of M&A developments for Executive Compensation, which will be terrific. And then, for ...

Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

JOSEPH SAMET: Welcome back. In Volume Two of our book, there are two articles on the duties of officers and directors, one starting at page 485 and Jane's article starting at page 501. Everything you want to know about officers and directors, duties, liabilities, and theories is in there. But we'll amplify and give you more of a sense of that and what the trends are. After spending some time on officer, director, liability, fiduciary duties, we'll ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

RICHARD RAYSMAN: OK, we're back. And we're back online, as well. Our next topic is attorneys and social media. And there are just two speakers-- myself and Ignatius Grande, who is to my right, your left, who's a senior e-discovery attorney and director of the practice support at Hughes Hubbard & Reed. In his role, at Hughes Hubbard, Ignatius develops and implements strategies to ensure that the firm's clients receive the highest quality of litigation ...

Recorded on: Feb. 5, 2010

PANEL INTRODUCER: Ok, folks. We're going to finish up with our ethics panel and I'm delighted to introduce this very distinguished panel that will be giving you their insights. It's a very accomplished group and I think we have a lot to listen and learn about today. Introducing from right to left on the panel. Si Lorne Si is the current Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer of Millenium Management. It's a hedge fund manager with over $11 billion ...

Recorded on: Nov. 21, 2011

HOWARD J. WEG: All right, everyone, welcome back. The last hour and a quarter we're going to be covering the subject of the employee and compensation trustees and professionals in bankruptcy cases. And it's going to expand into the area of talking about when others, other interests, when creditors and the professionals might get compensated and how we treat prepetition claims for attorneys' fees, proofs of claims for them, objections to them as well, ...

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: May. 23, 2011

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back, everybody, for the last session of the afternoon in IP in Business Transactions. And we've, of course, saved the most interesting and thrilling presentation for the last. We've got a dynamic duo here that walk us through some ethical considerations. And it was actually a nice transition that the previous speaker, Greg, here was already starting to talk about what one could do with metadata and documents that the opposing counsel ...

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: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN BALLACK: OK. back this afternoon for our last session of the day. As Lothar indicated, although it's the last session of the day, and is on common ethics issues in IP transactions-- and I know some of us all shutter when we hear the word ethics-- this is a delightful, and entertaining, and very educational session on ethics. And so, Lothar was telling the truth when he said, we were saving some great speakers here to keep this going to the very ...

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. 22, 2010

SPEAKER 1: Folks, take your seats. We're going to get started with the next panel. This is Conducting the Investigation, and this panel is going to be moderated by Alan Glickman, a Partner in the New York office of Schulte Roth & Zabel. Alan practices in the area of complex commercial, securities, shareholder derivative, RICO, accountants' liability, intellectual property, real estate, class action defense, M&A and bankruptcy and creditors' ...

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: 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: Jun. 29, 2011

RICHARD MORVILLO: OK. Welcome back. Thank you, again. We have another very distinguished panel with us today for the conducting the investigation part, and we're going to are going to talk about the how-to's and the do's and the don'ts, and we're going to get into some of the ethical issues that arise in the context of conducting the investigation itself. First let me introduce the panel to you. On my immediate right, that is next to Nancy, is one ...

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: Jul. 9, 2013

YUKAKO KAWATA: OK. So we're switching over now to our ethics panel. So everybody stay in your seats. [BACKGROUND CHATTER] YUKAKO KAWATA: So, moving on to our last panel for this morning. This is the panel where you get ethics credit. And this panel will be talking about conflicts of interest and other ethics issues. And for that, to my right is Laura Friedrich. Laura is a partner in the investment funds group at Shearman & Sterling. And she ...

Recorded on: Jul. 14, 2011

YUKAKO KAWATA: Let me introduce our panel on conflicts of interest and other ethics issues, and this is the one hour ethics credit for this conference. And we scheduled it right immediately before lunch, yes. And so to my right is Stephanie Breslow. And she is a partner in the investment management practice group at Schulte Roth, and a member of the firm's executive committee. Her practice concentrates on investment management, partnerships 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: Feb. 22, 2011

HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: Well welcome back to the very last section. We're going to get our ethics now, from Yasir Elbiali. He's with Mitsubishi down in Southern California, and he's agreed to do this the second year, right? YASIR ELBIALI: Correct. HARVEY: And he does an excellent job of taking us through compliance programs and giving us our legal ethics. So without further ado, to make sure we get the entire hour in here, I'm going to give you Yasir. YASIR ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Dec. 7, 2011

SPEAKER 1: OK, welcome back from the lunch break. So for our first panel we're gonna talk about corporate governance. I find that this is an area that, at first blush, you require a lot of experience. You just have to be in the board room and deal with all the kind of conflicts and judgment calls. But once you're in there, you find that you need to call Delaware counsel or call corporate governance gurus. Because funny things that are highly technical ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2011

CURTIS L. MO: Let me introduce the final panel. So I don't even have to tell you where they're sitting, because it's Bill and Deirdre. Bill Asher is a partner at Choate, Hall, & Stewart in Boston. He's on the firm's executive committee and he co-chairs their life sciences group. Deirdre Cunnane is with ATV, Advanced Technology Ventures, where she co-leads the operations team. She's a long time veteran at BancBoston Ventures and Goodwin Procter, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: Thank you, Paul. We're going to slide into the next panel because we're going to keep you on time here. So, I'll start with the introductions. The next panel is, for me, one of my favorite panels because I think that, hopefully, you can make this venture terms Nuts and Bolts interesting by telling some stories, et cetera. But sometimes I think it's hard to make the ethics part of this interesting. And Bill and Deirdre ...

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: 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 ...