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Recorded on: Jun. 14, 2013

JOHN FELLAS: So let me just quickly introduce-- well, while they're coming up-- the members of the next panel, and three of them are not as advertised, and one of them's changed firms. So it's interesting that this is the panel on advocacy, where three people we lost because they're too busy to be here. The one who has been a constant is Olie Armas, a partner at Hogan Lovells here in New York. That's recent. The newcomers are David Arias, who kindly ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2012

JOHN FELLAS: OK. So we're going to begin our next panel. And that's on advocacy in international arbitration. Now advocacy is at the heart of what we do as dispute resolution lawyers. But what is effective in one context is not necessarily effective in another. What might be persuasive to a US jury may not be so persuasive to a French arbitrator. And what might persuade a French arbitrator may not persuade a Mexican arbitrator. Now our next panel ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2013

JOHN DU: All right, thank you. We are going to move to the next panel, which is antitrust. We have talked about how to do due diligence in the emerging markets as well as on negotiations. And antitrust is one of the primary concerns in structuring a deal. So today, we have three panelists here. And all of them are M&A lawyers with a focus, for Janet and Mariana, in antitrust. So today, I'm going to introduce the speakers first. And then we'll ...

Recorded on: Jun. 14, 2013

JOHN FELLAS: OK, and welcome back. We will now resume. Having begun with arbitration in the United States, we're now going to branch out to some parts of the rest of the world. And obviously, we can't deal with all of the rest of the world. And any choice of country is going to inevitably be random. We do have distinguished arbitration practitioners from across the world, from four continents, in fact-- as far east as Japan, as far south as Brazil, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS MEHTA: So while the panelists setting up I'm going to introduce the panel to all of you. It's a great panel. All the panels are great but we are really fortunate to have three leading experts. And the previous panel spoke about grounds of inadmissibility and removeability. And this panel will talk about relief when someone's put into removal proceedings. And the first speaker on this panel is Anwen Hughes. She helps overseas human rights first ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: OK, so we'll get moving with the next panel. We spoke about how people get into removal and deportation proceedings. This panel will generally speak about how people can seek relief from removal and deportation. And just relief in general, because asylum can be sought even administratively outside the removal context. So we do have a great panel. And it's going to be a long panel-- 1 hour, 15 minutes. Each speaker will have 25 minutes ...

Recorded on: Nov. 4, 2011

SPEAKER 1: Multi-country Sourcing. I turn it over to Mike and Ross. ROSS E. McKEAN: Well, thank you everyone. I'll make a start for this session. And in terms of what we're trying to cover at the part two, we're going to do a deeper dive into what non-US laws that can derail sourcing, process and deadlines. And there are lots of laws that can derail sourcing, process, and deadlines. So I'm going to pick two which tend to be the more problematic, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 4, 2011

JOHN F. DELANEY: OK. Welcome to day two of the PLI Outsourcing Conference. And we're going to kick it off this morning with a presentation on avoiding missteps in multi-country outsourcing. And we're very fortunate to have two of the leading experts in this area to speak to us on this subject. It's going to be a co-presentation. Sitting immediately to Bill's right is Michael Mensik. Michael is one of the co-chairs of this program. He's also a partner ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

RICHARD GRIME: OK, everybody. We're in the home stretch. And I realize I'm competing with Mexican food, and I'm going to lose. So maybe we'll wait for a few stragglers to come in. This is the benchmarking session. We have about 30 questions that we want to get through. We recognize we're not going to have a dialogue on everything, because we've spent a long time over the last day and a half talking about many of these topics. So there's going to ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2013

RICHARD W. GRIME: OK everybody. This is the last session. And, hopefully, it's one where we can keep you engaged, because we have to keep you engaged, because it's a polling session. So in front of you are iPads. And I'm in control of the button here, which means that, in part, it may not work. But we'll hope that it does because the whole idea is that we're going to mind the benefit of these people on the panel here, which I'll introduce in a moment. We're ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back everyone from the break. This is our final session of the day. Last but certainly not least, we've saved some of the best for the last. I'll be very brief, and we'll just get rolling. But I'm going to introduce Sharon Sandeen, professor Sandeen again. She was with us very early this morning and gave us the trade secret crash course. And she's going to talk with a wonderful panel about best practices at home and abroad regarding ...

Recorded on: Apr. 2, 2013

DANIEL L. REISNER: It's my pleasure to introduce the speakers for our last topic today. Grace Pan is a partner at Kay Scholer in our New York office. She is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, where she graduated Phi Delta Phi and Iota Sigma Phi. Grace speaks Chinese and Japanese, travels often to Asia, and represents numerous Asian clients with intellectual property and commercial issues. Grace is a member of numerous professional ...

Recorded on: Aug. 3, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome to today's briefing, Calling All DREAMers. 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 access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook tab in the program window. Our speaker for ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

AUSTIN T. FRAGOMEN JR: So our next topic deals with family immigration. And obviously, this is an area we've more than touched on, when it comes to all the different aspects of representing children in every context imaginable, right? So we've already been through children in great detail, but now, we're going to talk about family immigration. And we'll talk about children in the more traditional sense of media relative petitions and things of that ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA J. LANGE: Well, welcome back. We'll be rounding off the afternoon here with a couple of excellent panels. Right now, we'll be having Bernie Wolfsdorf and Stephen Yale-Loehr will talk to us about challenges to entrepreneurs coming to the United States. There's so much happening in this area, and we really appreciate the work that they've put into this. Robert Divine had planned on being here, and I think help work on the material but due to ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2013

RICHARD W. GRIME: OK, good afternoon everybody, and welcome back. I guess there's just no break really for coffee, but hopefully the next panel will keep you on your toes. We're going to go to Greta Lichtenbaum, who's a partner of mine at O'Melveny & Myers, and let her introduce the panel members and kick off the panel. GRETA LICHTENBAUM: Great. Thanks, Richard. I didn't really focus on the fact that not only are we in the afternoon, but you ...

Recorded on: May. 20, 2013

RANDI W. SINGER: All right, everybody, we're going to get going again this afternoon. I'm supposed to remind you at the outset to please fill out your evaluations. Those of you in the room, you can do them on your iPad. Those of you on the web, there's functionality in the software that you can do that. And PLI and, actually, the co-chairs take this very seriously. And we redo this program every year. And we take into account the feedback we get ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

BOB: Aren't regulations wonderful? This is our corporate panel, and historically David and I started doing this about seven or eight years ago, and it turned out to be one of the really more popular part of the program each year. We try to bring in corporate speakers who represent something of a smattering of the companies that one finds in Northern California. Which is pretty much a reflection of companies you find all over the country. And talk ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

RICHARD W. GRIME: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to day two of the PLI's program on FCPA and anti-corruption laws. This morning, I am pleased to be moderating a panel dealing specifically with China. And as you heard yesterday, there are many issues in dealing with that country. And in particular, we want to spend some time today sort of digging a little deeper than we're able to on panels that just deal generally with anti-corruption enforcement. And ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

JOHAN LUBBE: Thank you, Phil. Good morning, everyone. Our task as the first panel is to address cross-border assignments and employment agreements. I am equally very pleased and honored to have a number of very well-known international employment lawyers on the panel. They are all greatly appreciated and recognized in their jurisdictions as employment lawyers who focus on cross-border issues. I'm going to be introduced them very briefly but invite ...

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: May. 8, 2012

MARK F. MENDELSOHN: OK, well, welcome back everybody. Our next panel is addressing difficult and unresolved questions under the FCPA. And we've got another great group of experts here to discuss quite a long list of really interesting issues. I'll start on the opposite end with Tim Dickinson, who is a partner at Paul Hastings. I'm not sure where you say you're a resident these days, but-- TIMOTHY L. DICKINSON: Washington. MARK F. MENDELSOHN: --Resident ...

Recorded on: Jul. 26, 2011

MAURIZIO LEVI-MINZI: --variety of perspectives. We have a few presentations to start with on various topics. But let me tell you first a bit about our panelists, by way of introduction. So Alyona Kucher is a partner of Debevoise in Moscow. Her area of expertise is corporate law, infrastructure projects, and project financing. With an emphasis on transactions in the oil and gas sector, and construction. Alyona teaches civil law at Moscow University. ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2013

PAULO C. ARAGAO: Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here. And although definitely I'm not the political scientist, let me talk a little bit about what we think is happening in Brazil-- we're not sure, but what we think is happening there. We have a line in our national anthem, written 200 years ago, that talks about a sleeping giant. I think the giant is awakening. We have a country with 200 million inhabitants with now a very powerful middle class, ...

Recorded on: Jul. 26, 2011

MAURIZIO LEVI-MINZI: So our next panel is about due diligence in BRIC countries. We will, in fact, continue to develop many of the same topics that we have already explored a bit during the first panel in many respects. But we want to focus a little bit more perhaps on the practical aspects of assessing the risk of making an investment in a BRIC country. Which is probably of interest to those of you here that are involved in the process of either ...