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Released on: May. 22, 2013

Taken from the briefing Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.: Supreme Court Sets New Limits on Extraterritorial Human Rights Suits recorded May, 2013.On April 17, 2013, the Supreme Court held in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), which allows suits in federal courts for violations of international law (including international human rights law), is subject to the presumption against extraterritoriality. Chief Justice ...

Released on: May. 21, 2013

Taken from the briefing Sierra Club v. EPA: Clean Air Act Permitting Becomes Even More Complicated and Onerous recorded May, 2013.On January 22, 2013, the court in Sierra Club v. EPA, No. 10-1413 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 22, 2013) issued a decision with far reaching implications for sources seeking a Clean Air Act permit under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program. The decision addressed two screening tools – Significant Impact Levels (SILs) ...

From the program: Antitrust Institute 2013: Developments & Hot Topics

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Antitrust Institute 2013: Developments & Hot Topics recorded May, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:19:12]Workshop: Antitrust Cases in the New Litigation Environment  [01:19:12] How to present and analyze evidence in merger cases Presenting cases to the government Private and public litigation strategies and tactics from pleadings to discovery to trial The purchase price of this segment includes ...

From the program: Approaching Veterans Issues: A Legal Overview Including an Update of California Penal Code Section 1170.9

Recorded on: May. 28, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Approaching Veterans Issues: A Legal Overview Including an Update of California Penal Code Section 1170.9 recorded May, 2013 in San Francisco.Lecture Topics  [00:28:08]Child Custody & Restraining Orders: Implications for Veterans  [00:28:08]Domestic issues can be shaped by military service and have implications for veterans. Learn about the latest cases and practices in these areas.The purchase price of this ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

JONATHAN K. YOUNGWOOD: So most of these things don't begin and end with the discovery of the press release, or the press story with the regulatory investigation. Any company that's experienced what this company just experienced is, without fail, going to face civil litigation, as well. And the rest of the day is really largely going to focus on that, although, keeping in the back of our minds that there's an ongoing regulatory investigation. And ...

From the program: Handling a Securities Case 2013: From Investigation to Trial and Everything in Between

Released on: May. 9, 2013

The landscape of securities litigation is constantly evolving and changing. This program takes you through all the issues that arise in even the most complex securities matters - from the initial government investigation to the filing of the civil cases to either settlement or trial. If you practice in this dynamic field, you know that the need to stay current and develop new strategies and tactics has never been more important. Our faculty of leading ...

Recorded on: May. 24, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Pretrial Practice 2013 Recorded May, 2013 in New YorkDepositions [01:04:35] Fast track discovery What depositions to take Which witnesses to represent What questions to ask and what not to ask Time limits What potential witnesses may a lawyer contact before a deposition? The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: Duking It Out Over Skates ...

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 ...

Released on: May. 20, 2013

Taken from the briefing Managing Litigation: How Advance Planning Will Best Serve You in Getting Ready for Your Next Trial recorded April, 2013.Litigation in both Federal and State Courts has become increasingly difficult, expensive and challenging due to procedural, economic and “cultural” realities. Whether planning for a jury or court-tried case, technology has changed the “playing field” for trial lawyers and their clients. Experienced litigators ...

Recorded on: May. 29, 2013

On April 16, the Supreme Court decided the case of US Airways v. McCutchen. In McCutchen, the Supreme Court considered the question of whether reimbursement provisions in a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan governed by ERISA are required to be enforced as they are written. The answer was a resounding yes, continuing the Court's line of reasoning that focuses on what the ERISA plan documents say, and reinforcing the importance of ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

LYLE ROBERTS: All right, everyone, we'll get started again, with our next panel, which is on prosecuting and defending the civil actions. So kind of the next step, we're going to assume, of course, that, in our fact pattern, WIND has not been successful in its motion to dismiss. So we're going to have to go ahead and we're going have to deal with two very thorny issues, that this panel is going to cover in depth. One is discovery, and all the obligations ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

JONATHAN K. YOUNGWOOD: We had three panels in the morning. We're going to have three in the afternoon. And we're going to continue through the litigation practice. So in the morning, we started off where there's an event for a company. There's a regulatory proceeding. A civil litigation ensues. We went through the process of drafting the complaint, filing the motion to dismiss, then we moved on to issues that kind of come in the middle, class certification ...

Released on: May. 16, 2013

Taken from the briefing Supreme Court's 2012 Blockbuster Term: Review of Major Cases 2013 May, 2013.This is a blockbuster term in the Supreme Court. There are major cases concerning the Fourth Amendment, about the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education, the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the right to marriage equality for gays and lesbians, and the ability to sue corporations under the Alien Tort ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

BRAD S. KARP: Thank you, very much, Lyle. The first issue, I should begin by saying, this fact pattern is not at all unusual. These are the sorts of situations we often find ourselves being called into. And the progression of the facts, likewise, is not all that unusual. And this is what presents the greatest challenge. You get a situation, you get a phone call, you are told about a problem. You don't know whether it's a little problem, medium sized ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

JONATHAN YOUNGWOOD: OK, we'll get started on our next panel. So we heard in the mediation panel that the plaintiffs are willing to try this case. That's the posture they're going to take. They're not afraid of going to trial on this. And so our next panel is going to talk about all those trial issues. Now some of that is, of course, the actual trial itself, if it gets there. But there's also a lot of things that go into before you actually get into ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Final panel. For our final panel, we're going to hear from Robbie Robertson and Nate Eimer. And I happen to know Robbie personally, because he was the FTC's principle litigation lawyer for a number of years while I was there. He litigated in one, the CCC Mitchell case, which has just been discussed, Polypore case, which has not been discussed, Chicago Bridge, which has not been discussed. He graduated from VMI and the University ...