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Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

J. ANTHONY BOWEN: OK. For our next panel, we have two presenters. One of our presenters will be joining us via conference call, and so he will be on the phone. And we have Steven Hunter is here, who will be live. And so I'll start by introducing our conference call participant faculty, and that is Joseph DeMarco. Joseph is a partner at DeVore & DeMarco LLP, where he specializes in litigating and counseling on complex issues involving information ...

Recorded on: Mar. 21, 2013

JANET SIEGEL: It is now my pleasure to introduce to you the chair of this afternoon's program. David Gossett serves as the assistant general counsel for litigation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he leads the group of lawyers who defend the Bureau in litigation, as well as handling all appellate and amicus litigation for the bureau. Previously, he was a partner in the Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice at Mayer Brown. ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

C. BURR: Good afternoon and welcome back to the afternoon session of "Basics of Accounting for Lawyers." This afternoon, we start off with the section of "How Lawyers Can Use Accountants as Experts." And we're very fortunate to have with us this afternoon Matt Harrison, who is a partner with Latham & Watkins here in San Francisco and has done a tremendous amount of work representing accountants and accounting firms in malpractice ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2013

Taken from the briefing Email and the End of Privacy as We Know It: How to Protect the Privilege for Electronic Communications Actions recorded March, 2013.The increasing use of email to replace written correspondence, memos, and even phone calls raises questions about attorney-client confidentiality, particularly where clients choose to send emails from public venues or their place of employment. Attorneys and clients alike must be aware ...

From the program: Employment Law Institute 2012

Released on: Nov. 6, 2012

PLI’s annual Employment Law Institute combines a comprehensive review of case law and regulatory developments, an in-depth analysis of emerging issues, and best practices to maximize employment law compliance, mitigate legal risk and achieve business objectives. The faculty is comprised of nationally recognized management and plaintiffs’ attorneys, in-house counsel and government enforcement agency officials who share their perspectives, ...

From the program: Enforcement 2013: Perspectives from Government Agencies

Recorded on: Apr. 29, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Enforcement 2013: Perspectives from Government Agencies recorded April, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [00:59:26]Legal Issues in the Courts: The Year in Review  [00:59:26]The purchase price of this segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online: What More Can be Done to Deter Violations of the Federal Securities Laws?, Texas Law Review, Vol. 90, pp. 1849–1889 (2012)David ...

From the program: Securities Regulation Institute (44th Annual)

Released on: Nov. 21, 2012

PLI's Annual Institute on Securities Regulation has become the most highly anticipated annual review of the current state of securities, financial regulation, and corporate law and practice. As always, we strive to bring you the most up-to-date information in response to the many developments of the past year. We continue to see significant changes in the securities laws field - as a result of the enactment of the JOBS Act, changes to the ...

Released on: Aug. 1, 2012

Taken from the briefing Engagement Letters: Addressing Conflicts and Other Thorny Issues Before They Arise recorded July, 2012. During difficult economic times, when lawyers and their firms feel a particularly strong urge to develop new business, great care must be taken to identify and manage present and potential future conflicts.  Careful preparation of the opening engagement letter is the first and typically the best way to manage ...

Recorded on: Aug. 1, 2012

SPEAKER 1: It's my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Nick Christakos. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKOS: Good afternoon everyone, and thanks for tuning in. As the general counsel of our firm, I do deal on a regular basis with most of the issues that we'll be discussing today, so I hope to be able to pass on some creative solutions or suggestions for dealing with what I think are pretty recurring and sometimes challenging issues in the client intake process. Let's ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP E. KARMEL: Well, we're up to our next segment of the program which is on environmental disclosure and environmental enforcement. And we have two speakers. The first will be on environmental disclosure that will be Betty Moy Huber. She's with the New York City law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell. Which is one of the top corporate and capital markets law firms in the city. And Betty is the co-head in the environmental group at Davis Polk. She ...

Recorded on: Mar. 5, 2013

Taken from the briefing ERISA Controlled Group Liability for Private Equity Funds: Fully Covered or Over Exposed? recorded February, 2013. The presentation will focus on the court and administrative decisions addressing whether ERISA's controlled group liability provisions expose investment fund assets (including minority investments) to the pension plan liabilities of distressed portfolio companies. Lecture Topics [Total Time: ...

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. 27, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Ethics for Commercial Litigators 2013 Recorded June, 2013 in New YorkEthics for Commercial Litigators [01:58:02] New developments in confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, and the attorney work-product doctrine Recent developments impacting the "no-contact" rules and lawyer "dissemblance" Dangers to lawyers in the heightened regulatory environment Whistle-blower remedies for lawyers The purchase price of ...