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Recorded on: Dec. 6, 2012

Taken from the briefing Fashion Law - The Global Challenge recorded December, 2012. The fashion and retail industries face significant and distinctive challenges.  These companies operate in a global marketplace characterized by shifting consumer preferences, rapid technological advances and omnichannel purchasing options.  This program will discuss the dominant trends in the fashion and retail industries and how those ...

From the program: Whistleblowers and the False Claims Act 2012: What You Need to Know

Released on: Nov. 28, 2012

Companies doing business with all levels of government face increasing exposure under federal and state False Claims Acts (FCAs).  Company whistleblowers are filing record numbers of new FCA cases, and the U.S. Department of Justice and state Attorney Generals are ramping-up fraud investigations and prosecutions nationwide.  Taught by a panel of experienced FCA practitioners including prosecutors, whistleblowers' counsel, defense counsel ...

Recorded on: Aug. 13, 2012

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: Want to shift now to our second panel. And this focuses on the First Amendment. As I understand it, Mike, you're going to do the speech cases, and Marci's going to do the religion case. MICHAEL C. DORF: OK, so there are three speech cases that I'm going to talk about at some length, and then I'll say a couple of words each about two other cases. So the three major cases I'm going to focus on are United States against Alvarez, a ...

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

Taken from the Web Program International Employment Law 2012 Recorded June, 2012 in New York Foreign Companies Doing Business in the U.S.: Special Challenges [00:58:33]   Managing the cultural and legal expectations of multinationals Special defenses and dangers for foreign companies Preparing the foreign executive for litigation Privacy/data protection and US discovery The purchase price of this segment includes ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Jul. 26, 2012

Taken from the briefing From False Claims Act to FIRREA: The Government's Expanding Enforcement Arsenal Against Financial Institutions 2012 recorded July, 2012. In its pursuit of financial fraud, the Department of Justice has recently "rediscovered" civil enforcement statutes that have not traditionally been applied in the context of financial fraud, particularly the False Claims Act, FIRREA, and the Fraud Injunction Statute. Listen ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

KAREN KINCAID BALMER: OK. Our first session today I have the privilege of presenting. I was supposed to co-speak with Lisa Smith from BST. It's probably on your schedule. Lisa's unable to be here today, so I will be doing the entire presentation. Jorge is going to interject from time to time. Let's get started. We're going to start with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, International Financial Reporting Standards, and Generally Accepted Auditing ...

Recorded on: Jul. 31, 2012

Taken from the briefing Gender and the Workplace: Dealing with Complex and Cutting Edge Issuesrecorded July, 2012. With women continuing their rise in the ranks of corporate America, employers and employees alike continue to face a multitude of challenging and nuanced legal issues.  These issues arise along the entire spectrum of the employment relationship, from recruiting to promoting, to accommodating leave requests, to ensuring ...

Recorded on: Aug. 10, 2012

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Gender in the Workplace, Dealing With Complex and Cutting-Edge Issues. 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 ...

Recorded on: Sep. 21, 2012

KATIE DANIELSON: So to be clear, today's training is a courtroom skills training. So we're going to get to that. And that's kind of a practical matter, that extends throughout all different kinds of Pro Bono Litigation. In order to provide some context and background that was familiar to me and to a lot of us, we're going to do that in an Unlawful Detainer context, to a certain extent. Because that's a litigation opportunity that is kind of exciting, ...

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 ...

Released on: Jul. 16, 2012

Taken from the briefing Government Investigations and Demands for ESI - What's a Corporation to Do? recorded June, 2012. It is a fact of life that many corporations and organizations are regulated by federal agencies and that agency investigations require the production of large volumes of electronically stored information (“ESI”).  This briefing will explore the nature and scope of those investigations, how corporations and ...

From the program: Handling a Securities Case 2012: From Investigation to Trial and Everything in Between

Released on: Jun. 7, 2012

DVD's from the program Handling a Securities Case 2012: From Investigation to Trial and Everything in Between, held April, 2012.

Recorded on: Sep. 26, 2012

GARY ALDER: Just seconding what Laurie said, the evaluations are extremely helpful to us in trying to figure out what we should do differently or similarly in future years. So thank you for that. And thank you in advance for your patience in staying through the day. I know there will be a little bit of an anxious to get out the door once we finish so let me thank you in advance now. Although I'll do it again when we finish this panel. And I think ...

Recorded on: Mar. 26, 2012

DAVID M. GOSSETT: But for now, I'm going to start by introducing Scott Chesin, who is sitting to my immediate right. Scott is a partner at Mayer Brown, a former colleague of mine before I moved into the government last year. [? And he's ?] a part in the appellate practice there. He's based here in New York, though his practice is national. He clerked for Judge Leval in the Second Circuit and has argued appellate cases in various courts, including ...

Recorded on: Jul. 6, 2011

THOMAS L. CREEL: I might also say, those of you on the webcast, if you want to send questions in, please do. You can do that on the computer, and we'll answer them at an appropriate time here. So we now move from the preparation to the actual hearing itself. And it's our privilege to have Drew Wintringham here to discuss that, The Markman Hearing, Practical Tips and Strategies. Drew is a partner at DLA Piper, here in New York. He has a degree from ...

From the program: How to Resolve Critical Software License Disputes 2012

Released on: Feb. 20, 2012

DVD's from the program How to Resolve Critical Software License Disputes 2012, held January, 2012.

Recorded on: Jul. 3, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am a Program Attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing-- Hype or Help, How Can Alternative Fee Arrangements Add Demonstrable Value to Your Practice and Your Clients? 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 ...

Released on: Jul. 3, 2012

Taken from the briefing Hype or Help? How Can Alternative Fee Arrangements Add Demonstrable Value to Your Practice and Your Clients? recorded June 2012. The discussion of AFA's (aka alternative fee arrangements or value-based fees), is no longer a discussion of "alternatives" as much as it is a discussion of "appropriate" fee arrangements: namely, legal pricing and cost models that focus on finding and focusing on the value ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Jun. 18, 2012

JOHN FELLAS: Welcome back. And it gives me great pleasure to introduce our next two panelists. The panel is In-House Counsel's Perspective on Managing Global Litigation, and our panelists are Steve Reynolds. Steve is senior vice president and general counsel of Alcatel-Lucent. And Javier Rubinstein, who is general counsel of PwC And please join me in giving them a warm welcome. [APPLAUSE] JOHN FELLAS: Their full bios are in the course handbook, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 18, 2012

Taken from the Web Program International Litigation 2012 Recorded June, 2012 in New York In-House Counsel's Perspective on Managing Global Litigation [01:00:44] Special considerations Managing global litigation Managing expectations of outside counsel The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: Management of International Litigation Stephen R. Reynolds

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Hello, everybody. I'm glad you've come back and we're going to have our next session, post-lunch session. The morning session essentially focused on how to bring people into the United States, either on temporary visas, as well as on immigrant visas, and how they would ultimately get green cards. This session will be the exact opposite. It will focus on how to represent and defend people who are either being removed from the United ...