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Recorded on: Nov. 17, 2011

RICHARD CLARY: And I'm going to move over to this, because I wanted to prove that even with complex litigation you can go low tech. So we have the standard flip chart which is about as low tech as you can get, but I think will be useful, or at least [INAUDIBLE]. First I want to just describe what the pieces are, because it will help you understand, I hope, where everybody's trying to get in complex litigation. So for Enron, the starting point was ...

Recorded on: Jan. 28, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Project Management for Lawyers 2013 Recorded January, 2013 in New York Applying Legal Project Management -- A Case Study in Using LPM in Legal Organizations - Part 1 [01:01:10] Getting buy-in and getting initial initiatives off the ground Getting started with pilot projects or organization-wide approaches Selecting tools and getting systems aligned Changing the way matters are managed Different ...

From the program: Asset Based Financing Strategies 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Asset Based Financing Strategies 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:01:22] Bankruptcy -- Hot Issues for Secured Creditors  [01:01:22] Automatic stay Post-petition interest and attorneys’ fees Executory contracts Post-petition financing Bankruptcy trustee avoiding powers Credit bidding “Cram down” and “cram up” ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

EDWIN SMITH: It's very important that you do the evaluations. We look at those every year to try to determine who to keep on the panel and who to throw off. I'd now like to introduce, as my colleague on this session, June Basden, from Carruthers & Roth in Greensboro. JUNE BASDEN: And that's Greensboro, North Carolina. EDWIN SMITH: There we go. Right. And so we're here to talk about bankruptcy related issues for asset-based lenders. We're going ...

Recorded on: Nov. 17, 2011

KARIN DEMASI: Hi. Welcome back, everyone. I'm Karin DeMasi from the law firm of Cravath Swaine & Moore. And we're going to spend a little time for the next hour talking about some basic jurisdictional issues, getting back to the beginning of the case and covering some of what Rich and Bob touched on with respect to Enron, diving in a little more deeply with respect to the basic jurisdictional issues that you will face if you do one of these complex ...

Recorded on: Jan. 24, 2013

IAN BALLON: So our next panel is Best Practices in a Changing Data Privacy Landscape. And just to have to make sure that these experts on best practices in a changing landscape are kept on their toes, we're trying to usher them in a few moments early, pulling them out of their calls or preparation or whatever else they were doing, just to see how nimble they are in dealing with unplanned events. Great. And we've got four experts in this area for ...

From the program: Defending Privacy and Behavioral Advertising Class Action Suits 2013: What Every Litigator and In-House Lawyer Needs to Know

Released on: Feb. 5, 2013

Over the past two years there has been an explosion of new lawsuits filed focused on the alleged disclosure of identifying information in connection with the use of  social networks, social gaming, mobile phones, apps, and other mobile and web-based technologies and in connection with behavioral advertising and the use of pixels, beacons, cookies and other persistent identifiers.  Like patent troll suits and stock drop cases, being sued ...

From the program: California Employment Law Update 2013

Released on: Sep. 24, 2013

PLI’s California Employment Law Update addresses the issues confronted by employment law advisers, litigators and human resources management and professionals, with particular emphasis on California State law considerations. This program combines a comprehensive review of case law and regulatory developments, an in-depth analysis of emerging issues, and practical guidance about best practices to maximize employment law compliance, mitigate legal risk ...

Recorded on: Jan. 24, 2013

IAN BALLON: OK. Why don't we get started. Our next panel is on Class Certification Issues. And we have as our speaker, my colleague Rob Harrington, who's a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig in the Los Angeles office. He also was the Chair of our firm's Product Liability and Mass Tort practice. He's successfully defended more than 75 class action cases in his career. He's also author of the bestselling book, Verdict for the Defense, which provides ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2013

RAJ TANDEN: All right. So we're going to get started here. We're on to our last panel, which is Closing Business Transactions. We have Andrew Wiederhorn, who is the CEO of Fatburger. Previously, Andy founded and served as the CEO of Wilshire Credit Corporation, and by the age of 32 amassed a fortune estimated to be worth $140 million. From there, he founded Fogcutter Capital Group, which invested in a diverse range of equity, corporate, debt, and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Pocket MBA Summer 2013: Finance for Lawyers Recorded June, 2013 in San FranciscoClosing Business Transactions [00:51:50] A detailed look at negotiation How to divide-and-conquer when working with an investment bank Common stumbling blocks to closing transactions Examination of “fringe” deal issues that often create transaction friction The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the ...

From the program: Consumer Financial Services Institute (18th Annual)

Released on: Apr. 23, 2013

On January 4, 2012, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Since that time, the CFPB has been involved in a whirlwind of regulatory, supervisory and enforcement activities. In addition to the CFPB, state and other federal regulators are pursuing initiatives focused on consumer financial services. This year’s Institute will explore in detail the Bureau’s activities as well ...

Recorded on: Jan. 24, 2013

IAN BALLON: Welcome back. The next two segments are going to be combined into one. They're both presentations dealing with defense perspectives. The first part is case law and trends from a defense perspective, and the second part is the in-house counsel panel. But we thought it actually would be interesting to combine the two. So we're going to talk about the cases and the trends and intersperse the presentation with panel discussions. And for the ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Taking and Defending Depositions 2013 Recorded March, 2013 in New York Deposition Strategy & Taking the Deposition [01:47:11] Deposition Strategy - Setting the stage for the deposition - How depositions fit into your overall case strategy - The purpose of the deposition - Choosing who to depose and when to depose them - When to avoid taking a deposition - Anatomy of a deposition  ...

Released on: Apr. 30, 2013

Taken from the briefing Drafting New York Choice of Law and Choice of Court Clauses in International Commercial Transactions: An Update After IRB v. Inepar recorded April, 2013.Parties engaged in international business transactions often consider choosing New York law to govern their agreements and New York courts to hear any disputes arising out of the transaction. In its recent decision in IRB v. Inepar, New York’s highest court made it clear that ...

From the program: Electronic Discovery Institute 2013: What Corporate and Outside Counsel Need to Know

Released on: Oct. 8, 2013

The demands and costs of e-discovery in litigation continue to grow. Nearly every case now involves some sort of e-discovery, and it is essential to know how to effectively and fairly handle the many issues that can arise. Our outstanding faculty of experienced lawyers, judges, and e-discovery professionals will provide an inside look at the current state of e-discovery, give tips for avoiding pitfalls litigants have encountered in the years since ...

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. 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: Jan. 11, 2011

SCOTT MCKEOWN: I'd like to introduce the first speaker who will speak on ex parte patent reexamination and patent reissue. The first speaker is Todd Baker, my partner at Oblon, Spivak. I should know Todd's background pretty well, but I'm going to read it anyway. Todd is also an attorney in our patent reexamine reissue group. Todd handles, much like myself, post grant proceedings handled at the PTO, unlike me he is also a specialist in interference ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Well, thank you everyone for coming back. We hope you enjoyed the morning session. And we're going to shift gears a little bit in the afternoon session. And whereas in the morning, we talked about preparing and defending fact witnesses, this afternoon we're starting off with a panel on expert depositions. And we have three terrific panelists for that. Carla Mulhern actually is an expert witness. And she's an economist at Analysis Group. ...

Recorded on: May. 14, 2012

RANDI SINGER: OK, we're going to get started again. A couple of quick announcements. For those in the room, the slides for all three panelists this afternoon should be outside. If you want the slides from any of the panels this morning if you're interested, just go ahead and shoot me an email. My email is easy. It's randi.singer@weil.com. It's in the book. If you shoot me an email, I can get you slides for any of the presentations this morning. This ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

KATHERINE L. HENDERSON: Welcome back everyone. I hope you had a good lunch. I have the privilege of introducing our next panelist. And I'm sure most of you in the room and at home already know who he is. But I will give you some of the highlights of his impressive background. Professor Grundfest is the William A. Franke professor of law and business at Stanford Law School. And he's Senior Faculty at the Rock Center on Corporate Governance also at ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Trends in Merger Litigation 2013: Corporate, Litigation, and Judicial Perspectives Recorded March, 2013 in San Francisco Forum Selection Provisions and their Impact on Merger Litigation [01:01:10] More than 300 publicly traded entities, including many well-known firms such as Berkshire Hathaway, Chevron, and Fedex, have adopted intra-corporate forum selection provisions. The validity of these provisions is currently ...