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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: 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 ...

From the program: Government Investigations 2013: The Role of Electronic Information in Investigation and Response

Released on: Apr. 18, 2013

Organizations create and store a growing volume of information on a daily basis. That information is used in all facets of an organization’s business. When government regulators seek access to that information, many questions can arise. Exactly what information might the government seek? What limits, if any, are there on the government’s request for electronically stored information? How might electronic information be reviewed prior to production ...

From the program: Patent Law Institute (7th Annual)

Released on: Apr. 2, 2013

The Institute is designed to be of ultimate practice value to all three subgroups in the patent law community: patent prosecutors, patent litigators, and strategic/transactional lawyers.Do not miss this unique opportunity to sharpen your practice skills and network with federal judges, USPTO officials, in-house counsel and outside patent lawyers.Lecture Topics  [Total time 12:46:15] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Taking and Defending Depositions 2013 Recorded March, 2013 in New York Ethical Dilemmas Arising With Depositions [01:01:28] The attorney client privilege and work product doctrine Protecting your witness and staying within ethical boundaries Improper/proper use of objections Conferring with witnesses during a deposition Remedial measures Practice Tip: What to do if you suspect your ...

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: 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: 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: Mar. 13, 2013

GERALD A. STEIN: OK, thanks very much everybody. We're going to try to keep this rolling on time. The first panel, we talked mainly about preparing yourself for taking a deposition. And we're going to switch gears a little bit now, and talk about how you prepare the witness, and defend a deposition. So with us now are two phenomenal litigators. I've known Lori Pine since the days I had more hair. And I've known Hillary actually from this panel. So ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2013

GERALD STEIN: OK, we're going to move right into our next panel. And I wasn't kidding. That was an excellent segue to our next panel, because Lauren Aguiar and Michael Paskin are going to talk about how to use the deposition transcripts, both in the summary judgment context and at trial. Lauren is a litigation partner at Skadden Arps and has vast litigation experience, which you can, again, reference in your materials. And Michael Paskin is a partner ...

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 Recent Substantive Developments [00:57:50] Focus mainly on Delaware substantive law developments, but not exclusively Significant preliminary injunction decisions and their bases Expansion of aiding and abetting liability The purchase price of this segment includes the following ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

KATHERINE L. HENDERSON: So this next panel, we're going to focus on a few recent issues of Delaware law. Let me start by introducing my fellow panelists. Directly to my right here is Randy Baron. We've heard him ask a few questions already. So I'm expecting a lot now from his panel. RANDALL J. BARON: I'm quiet. KATHERINE L. HENDERSON: Exactly. Mr. Baron is a partner at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd. And he specializes in securities litigation, ...

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

JAMES G. KREISSMAN: OK. If everyone could take their seats, we're going to get started again. [SIDE CONVERSATION] JAMES G. KREISSMAN: All right. Well, welcome back everybody. Our next panel's on settlements and D&O insurance. As we know, while many merger litigations are actively litigated, some fully to conclusion, it's still the case that the great majority of those cases ultimately settle. So on our last panel this morning, we're going to ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

J. KREISSMAN: All righty. Hi, again. So our next panel's going to address the increasingly common situation which merger litigation is commenced, often simultaneously, in multiple state and or federal courts. Typically, the case is challenging the transaction filed in separate courts include relatively similar factual allegations and assert the same or similar types of claims. Now, the plaintiffs bringing these suits don't want to give up their chosen ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Jan. 28, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Project Management for Lawyers 2013 Recorded January, 2013 in New York Budgeting for Legal Matter - Lessons Learned on Alternative Fee Arrangements and Hourly Matters [01:32:16] Developing policies for budgeting matters - AFAs, use of task codes, etc. How to create a budget that wins work The different views of the budgeting process - in-house vs. outside counsel The various roles and responsibilities ...

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: Jan. 24, 2013

SPEAKER: So we're about ready to get started. Well, this has been a great day, and we've had some great speakers. But in many respects, we've saved the best for last. At a class action litigation conference the last word really should be from a judge, because all of the cases and everything that we do really is determined by the judge in the case. And in the area of data privacy class action litigation, there's really no better judge to speak to ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Jan. 24, 2013

IAN BALLON: The first panel is focusing on understanding the science and technology of behavioral advertising and you'd be hard-pressed to find two better speakers to address that. Professor Chris Hoofnagle is the Director of the Information Privacy Program Center at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and a senior staff attorney at the Samuelson Law Technology and Public Policy Clinic. Chris is widely recognized as an expert on data privacy ...

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: Jan. 24, 2013

SPEAKER: And we move straight away into the second panel, which is the plaintiffs' perspective on data privacy and class action suits. And our speakers are Jay Edelson and Chandler Givens from Edelson McGuire, and my colleague, Rob Harrington. Jay Edelson is known to many people in the audience as one of the preeminent plaintiffs lawyers in this area. He is the founder and managing partner of Edelson McGuire, and has been lead counsel in a number ...

From the program: Patent Litigation 2012

Released on: Oct. 12, 2012

Rapid changes in patent law make it necessary that, whether you are plaintiff’s or defendant’s counsel, you are up-to-date on the current state of the law and can quickly develop successful litigation strategies and tactics. This program is taught by a faculty of both outside and in-house lawyers who have earned national reputations in patent litigation by trying and managing a wide variety of bench and jury patent trials, and provides ...