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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: 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: 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: 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: 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. 17, 2012

MAURIZIO LEVI-MINZI: To help us sort through these issues, we have three phenomenal petitioners. First of all, Marielle Garrigo. Marielle is a partner at Pellerano & Herrera, a Dominican Republic firm. Marielle focuses primarily on project finance, international direct investments, and M&A. She has significant experience advising foreign investors regarding direct investments in a number of industry in the DR, including, for example, tourism, ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

IVONNE KING: Good afternoon. I'm Ivonne King. We have no break right now, so we'll go until this panel ends, and then we will have a break. This is a kind of tough time slot, because you've been sitting in the audience for since the morning. And we've been talking to you for a while. And we've had lunch, and we've had no break. So I offered Laura Shields of PLI $50 to load Angry Birds on your iPad, and you'll have it for two minutes. I'm just kidding. ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

IVONNE MENA KING: Good morning. My name is Ivonne King. I am a partner with Foley and Lardner in the Palo Alto, California office. It's my pleasure to be here with you today, and to continue the discussion that we had from yesterday on effective compliance programs. For those of you who were with us yesterday, you'll know, and anyone who's new to us today, we have prepared polling questions for the audience. We will continue with those today. In ...

Recorded on: Jul. 17, 2012

JOHN DU: Shift focus to the substantive issues of FCPA enforcement. So what is the current FCPA enforcement landscape in the US with respect to the emerging markets? Can we start with Mauro? MAURO WOLFE: Yeah thank you, John. I think one of the more important cases, and this one remains to be seen over the next year or so, is the Morgan Stanley case. For those of you who are not familiar with the case, a senior executive at Morgan Stanley named Garth ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

AUSTIN FRAGOMEN: And one of the most important and vexsome areas we're confronted with in the practice of immigration law is legal ethics. And we have an inherent problem because of the dual representation in very difficult circumstances in which to apply dual representation in a really traditional way. At the same time, we have clients who are sometimes known to accuse us of not thinking outside the box, not being innovative enough, or perhaps, how ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA LANGE: I hope you had a good lunch. We're ready to proceed with the afternoon sessions, and we want to talk about evolving trends at FDNS and related government audits. And to do so, we have two illustrious members of the immigration bar, Eileen Scofield and Mary Pivec. Eileen is head of Alston and Bird's immigration practice and focuses on employer compliance issues. And Mary Pivec is a partner at Williams Mullen in DC, and has extensive ...

Recorded on: May. 2, 2012

SHELDON H. KLEIN: The podium. Although Mike, were you planning to talk from the podium or from your seat? MICHAEL R. GRAY: The podium. SHELDON H. KLEIN: The podium. OK, we're back to the podium. It's my pleasure to introduce Mike Gray. Mike brings 26 years of experience representing companies and individuals in trial, arbitration, and other civil proceedings throughout the United States. He's a partner in Minneapolis office of Gray Plant Mooty. ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Welcome. We'd like to begin the second day of PLI with a panel on federal court litigation. We're really happy to have Karen Tumlin who is the managing-- one moment for technical difficulties. OK let's go, thank you so much. We're happy to begin the second day of PLI with the federal court litigation panel. We're lucky to have Karen Tumlin, who is the managing attorney of the Los Angeles office of NILC. She focuses on promoting the rights ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

AUSTIN T. FRAGOMEN, JR: Good afternoon. Our first topic this afternoon will be filing PERM cases in this economy, which is obviously a challenge. It goes without saying, filing PERM cases even under the best of circumstances is a challenge. But in an economy that's not particularly conducive to successfully going through the recruitment process certainly raises a lot of issues. And I think that it's an issue that we're all confronted with. To present ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2012

PHILIP BERKOWITZ: Our panel is going to be, as I mentioned earlier, on foreign companies doing business in the United States, special challenges facing them. And we do have, I think, a great panel. And to my right, I'm just going to introduce everyone, is a good friend and a terrific lawyer, Wendi Lazar. Wendi is a partner and co-chair of the executives in professional practice group at Outten and Golden. Here in New York, she is very well known ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2012

PHILIP M. BERKOWITZ: I'm just going to quickly tell you who-- well, I guess, Beth Lalik is sitting to my right. Beth is going to chair our first program. Beth is a partner in the Washington office of Littler Mendelson. She's a terrifically experienced and terrific lawyer and a good friend, and I think that she's extraordinarily well qualified to run this program. She's a member of the Hispanic Bar Association. She's been named repeatedly as one of ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA J. LANGE: Well, hello. We are here to talk about some of the hot-button adjudication issues at the USCIS Service Centers. My name's Cynthia Lange, and I'm going to introduce the panelists here. Robin Paulino works for Microsoft Corporation. She's Assistant General Counsel for their US Immigration program. In her role, she oversees 18 immigration attorneys providing strategic legal advice to senior leadership, as well as support to foreign ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA J. LANGE: So we're going to get started with our next panel, which is "Hot Topics on Relief from Removal." We have with us today. Archana Pyati, who joined the Sanctuary for Families as a senior staff attorney in November of 2007. She's been the deputy director of Immigration Intervention Project. And she manages the Sanctuary's Gender-Based Asylum Project. Also with Archana, Mario Russell will be addressing "Hot Topics on Relief ...

Recorded on: Jul. 17, 2012

JOHN DU: We'll continue on our next panel. The panel was to be moderated by my co-chair Maurizio, who unfortunately has to leave for a client meeting. He's attending another negotiating session, a live one. So we are fortunate to have his colleague Ezra Borut to cover him. Ezra Borut is deputy chair of Debevoise Plimpton's corporate department and a member of the M&A, finance, energy, and natural resources groups. His practice ranges from multinational ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: All right. Great. So we are now ready to start the next session, the immigrant or permanent visa categories that lead to lawful permanent residency, or the green card. And we again have a very distinguished panel who have been doing it for many years. Deborah Notkin is a partner with the firm of Barst, Mukamal & Kleiner, and maintains a large international and National Immigration practice. She is the past president of the American ...