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From the program: ERISA Fiduciary Investment Basics 2013

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2013

Taken from the Web Program ERISA Fiduciary Investment Basics 2013 recorded February, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:02:22] ERISA Litigation  [01:02:22] What are the basic fiduciary responsibilities in the context of a 401(k) plan How does participant direction of account investment limit this fiduciary responsibility What are the key areas of possible fiduciary liability exposure The purchase price of this segment ...

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2013

SPEAKER 1: --invite them up. But just to help save some time, it's on ERISA litigation, which is a new panel this year. And so it's Shannon Barrett from O'Melveny, Linda Haynes from Seyfarth, Javier Hernandez from Curtis, Mallet, and Sara Pikofsky from Jones Day. HOWARD PIANKO: What we're going to do in this panel is actually, we spent most of the day talking about investments that really relate to large defined benefit plans in the ERISA world-- ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Pension Plan Investments 2013: Current Perspectives NY Recorded April, 2013 in New YorkERISA Litigation Review [01:00:34] Current DOL enforcement and litigation issues Summary of case law developments The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: Fiduciary Litigation Under ERISARobert N. Eccles, Shannon Barrett

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a Program Attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, "ESI, Technology, and the Lawyer-- The Intersection of Competence, Ethics, and Electronically Stored Information." 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 ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

ANNE VLADECK: As they're getting ready, to my immediate right it Bob Anello, who is a partner at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello, and Bohrer. ROBERT ANELLO: Thanks for getting all the names in. ANNE VLADECK: Well, I had to get to at least the second to last. And Bob has been a litigator, white-collar trial lawyer, for a fair length of time. And he has been named a leading lawyer by Chambers and American Leading Lawyers, and has been recognized ...

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: 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: 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: 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: May. 1, 2013

JONATHAN K. YOUNGWOOD: --panel of the day is not on a specific part of the case, as the prior panels have all been. It's a panel that's going to focus on an ethical issues that really surround each of the topics that we've talked about today. And you actually may see that some of the things we discuss have in some way or another been discussed by earlier panels. But we're going to try and take a different angle on them. We're going to really focus ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2012

LYLE ROBERTS: Great. So let's get started with our final panel of the day. And really the reason we're all here of course, which is to do some ethics and ethical issues in complex securities litigation. And with me today for the final panel I have Felipe Arroyo, who is with Robbins Umeda. We've got Paul Gluckow at Simpson Thacher. Harold Gordon with Jones Day. And Jim Windels with Davis Polk. All of whom have extensive experience in securities litigation. And ...

Recorded on: Feb. 24, 2011

JOHN M. WHITE: This is our last speaker of the day. And it's really the hour you've all been waiting for. These past few days, you sat patiently. Here it is. Ethics. That's right. It's the reason you go to any of these programs. It's the critical ethics hour. And it's because, truthfully, you all need it. No, actually, patent attorneys are the most ethical of any group of attorneys. In fact, thery're somewhat boringly ethical. But the reason I asked ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2012

AMY: Now it's my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Carole Basri. CAROLE L. BASRI: Thank you so much Amy. I really appreciate you're having this webcast. I think it's very important issue and I'm thrilled that we have John S. Jenkins, Jr., Vice President and Corporate Secretary and International General Counsel of Tyco International with us today. I think that ethics has become an important part, not only of the practice of law, but also of ...

Recorded on: Jun. 30, 2011

PETER M. BEATTIE: Good morning. My name is Peter Beattie and I'm a program attorney at the Practising Law Institute. It's my pleasure to welcome you to today's program. We have a quick announcement. You can visit the bookstore any time today and receive a 35% discount on today's featured book, The Corporate Compliance Answer Book. And now it's my pleasure to introduce to the chair of today's program, Evan Stewart. Evan handles litigation matters ...

Recorded on: Jul. 14, 2011

PETER M. BEATTIE: Good morning. My name is Peter Beattie and I'm a program attorney at the Practising Law Institute. It's my pleasure to welcome you to today's program. We have a quick announcement. You can visit the bookstore any time today and receive a 35% discount on today's featured book, The Corporate Compliance Answer Book. And now it's my pleasure to introduce to the chair of today's program, Evan Stewart. Evan handles litigation matters ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2012

PETER BEATTIE: Now it's my pleasure to introduce to you the chair of today's program and the faculty members. Evan Stewart handles litigation matters on behalf of domestic and international clients before the US Supreme Court, the Judicial Panel on Multi-district Litigation, as well as federal and state appellate and trial courts. He has substantial experience in the financial services industry, serving for 12 years as the executive vice president, ...

From the program: Ethics for Commercial Litigators 2012

Released on: Jul. 12, 2012

Lecture Topics  [Total time 01:58:06] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Ethics for Commercial Litigators 2012  [01:58:06] C. Evan Stewart, S. Jeanine Conley, Susan J. Kohlmann, David S. Versfelt The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online: New York Rules of Professional Conduct The Legal ...

Recorded on: Sep. 26, 2012

GARY A. ADLER: Our presenter on ethics is David Lender. David is a partner in the New York office of Weil, Gotshal, where he specializes in complex commercial litigation. David is co-chair of the firm's litigation department and also head of the firm's e-discovery task force. David is a frequent author and lecturer on electronic discovery issues and has authored leading treatises on the subject of e-discovery. And I just have to add that I asked ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Our next panel is evidence for social media. So this is a little bit of a different angle than we were talking about with the first panelists. And one of the panelists will be my partner, Francesca Morris. Francesca is a partner at Holland & Knight. Her practices include litigation and dispute resolution, international litigation and arbitration, bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors rights. She advises and represents foreign and ...

From the program: Expanding Your Practice Using Limited Scope Representation 2012

Released on: May. 2, 2012

This program will provide an introduction to the rapidly changing practice of limited scope representation (often called “unbundling”) in a family law context, including all of the fee agreements, forms and other materials you will need to practice limited scope representation competently, safely and profitably.Lecture Topics  [Total time 03:05:29] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Program ...

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: 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. 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. ...

From the program: Expert Witness 2012

Released on: Jul. 11, 2012

For many attorneys, searching for, hiring, and using expert witnesses can be a daunting experience.  Don’t miss out on the critical benefits conferred by the effective use of expert witnesses in complex litigation.  Our faculty of experienced litigators and expert witnesses will demystify the challenges of selecting, preparing, and using experts.  You will come away with practical tools to handle the myriad of issues involved ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2012

KENNETH SCHACTER: Welcome back, everyone. We are now going to move to what will be definitely the most entertaining part of our program, and probably the most informative. We're going to see a little bit of a mock examination, both direct and cross-examination of an expert witness. And we've got a really outstanding panel to present this to you, starting with the least enviable position, which is the expert who is going to be examined. This is David ...