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Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

SPEAKER 1: This panel deals with accommodations, both in disabilities but in other contexts as well. And we're delighted to be able to have an in-house counsel on the panel, Mary Schuette, because in-house counsel are the ones who really are on the front lines of dealing with requests for accommodation and the potential problems at arise out of it. Mary Schuette is vice president of legal services, responsible for the labor relations benefits, workers' ...

Recorded on: Feb. 2, 2012

LAURIE GILBERTSON: Good morning. My name is Laurie Gilbertson. I'm a program attorney here with PLI. I'd like to welcome you to Advanced Deposition Techniques 2012. It's my pleasure to introduce to you the co-chairs of today's program, David Balabanian and Kimo Peluso. David is the co-chair of Bingham McCutchen's Financial Institutions Litigation Group. He has taught more than 150 continuing legal education courses. And he's written extensively on ...

Recorded on: Mar. 26, 2012

ANNE CALLAGY: So my section is going to be covering what happens at the Appeals Council, what their function is, and sort of what are some strategies for developing appeals in front of them. I just want to point you to sort of the back of your book. At page 119, if you want it, there is a copy of the PowerPoint with note lines if you wanted to take notes along with it. Though I think most of the stuff that I'm saying is actually in the written material ...

Recorded on: Oct. 12, 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, "A New Must-do For Children's Products Manufacturers and Importers-- Developing a CPSC-Compliant Product Testing and Certification Program." 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 ...

Recorded on: Sep. 26, 2012

GARY A. ADLER: OK, if we can return to our seats, we're going to continue now with our Annual Update of In-house Counsel's Guide to E-Discovery-- Everything You Need to Know. Our panelists for this panel are John Rosenthal and Steve Bennett. John is a litigation partner in Winston & Strawn's Washington, DC, office who represents clients across the globe in complex antitrust and litigation matters. John is chair of the firm's e-discovery and information ...

Recorded on: May. 17, 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, Beyond Brinker-- Guidance on Meal and Rest Breaks and Employment Class Actions. Before you 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 the ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC D. YOUNG: Alright. Well, welcome back for the final installment of this morning's program. I'm delighted to introduce Professor Christine Tour-Sarkissian. Professor Tour-Sarkissian is in private practice but also a Adjunct Professor of Law at Golden Gate University Law School, where she has been teaching for the last 16 years. She teaches courses on real estate finance, real estate transactions, and real estate litigation. She has numerous publications ...

Recorded on: Aug. 13, 2012

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: In our last hour, we're going to talk about business cases, the supremacy clause, and federalism. Want to focus primarily on four cases here. Leon's going to talk about the Arizona immigration case. Marci's going to talk about the 11th Amendment sovereign immunity case. Mike is going to talk about the equal protection tax case. And Marty is going to talk about the application of Apprendi versus New Jersey to fines against corporations. ...

Recorded on: Aug. 3, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome to today's briefing, Calling All DREAMers. 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 the course handbook tab in the program window. Our speaker for ...

Recorded on: Aug. 13, 2012

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: Lest anyone say that this program is going to the dogs, that won't happen until next year. Now we turn to the civil rights cases. Marty. MARTIN A. SCHWARTZ: Well, this segment is entitled civil rights litigation and Bivens claims. And I take responsibility for the title, and I also take responsibility for retitling the segment because I think there's a more appropriate and more enticing title, remedies for constitutional violations. ...

Recorded on: Sep. 21, 2012

ROBERT E. BORTON: Thank you, Christina. Bring that little screen up if you can too. KATIE DANIELSON: OK. ROBERT E. BORTON: There it is. I got it. KATIE DANIELSON: [INAUDIBLE] microphone [INAUDIBLE]? ROBERT E. BORTON: Yes. So obviously we want to offer the exhibit in evidence. That's the whole point of going through that litany and struggling our way through it. And then once it's there, publish it, and then use the document with the witness. In ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2012

LYLE ROBERTS: Great. If everyone is settled in, or getting settled in, we will launch into our second panel today, which is, OK, we've had the investigation. Or at least we've talked about the issues surrounding investigation, and perhaps a quick, early settlement, if possible, with the SEC. But what about the civil actions? Our fact patterns suggest that we're going to have a lot of civil actions going on, including multiple securities class actions ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2012

STEVEN R. PEIKEN: Thanks, Rich. Sounds like my mom wrote that introduction. We have a great group of panelists, and let me introduce them to you briefly before we jump into this. So seated immediately to my right is David Anders, who's a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where his practice focuses on the representation of Fortune 500 and other companies in white collar criminal and related investigations. Before joining Wachtell, Lipton, ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MIKE MEYER: So thank you for being here, stay here. I need to bring up our two new panelists. And we're in for a great treat. What are you [INAUDIBLE]? OK. They're on their way up? They're making a grand entrance? It's like, let's make a deal. Come on down, it's 10 o'clock, 10:02, it's coming out of their time. But the two people who are walking in and making this grand entrance, we're really lucky to have. One is Alan Robin who, there's no better ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2012

HELEN: Welcome back everybody. It's my pleasure to introduce the moderator of our next panel, Mei Lin Kwan-Gett. And I'll let her introduce her other panelists. Mei Lin is a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher here in New York and is the co-head of that firms White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group. Mei Lin specializes in white collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement matters, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation. Before ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2012

RICHARD J. MORVILLO: This next panel is going to be talking about actually conducting the investigation. It took us a better part of an hour and 45 minutes to talk about all the background. And we are very fortunate to have another esteemed panel of experts in the area. And I'll introduce them. Nancy needs no introduction. To Nancy's right is David Brodsky, who is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb here in New York, who-- and this is going to be a refrain ...

Recorded on: Aug. 13, 2012

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: This segment of the program is devoted to, undoubtedly, the most high profile case of the term-- cited by the National Federation of Independent Business for Civilis. It involves the constitutionality of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act. What I'd like to do, again, as best I can, as neutral as I can, is describe what the Supreme Court said and offer some thoughts about what it's likely to mean for you as lawyers for future ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

AMY: Now it's my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Jessie Liu. JESSIE LIU: Thank you so much Amy. It is always a pleasure to do a briefing for PLI. And welcome everyone who's on the phone. And Amy said, the title of this briefing is Corporate Crime, Southern Union versus United States, and other key Supreme Court decisions of the 2011 to 2012 term. And I want to just take a little time at the beginning to set the stage for what I'm going to ...

Recorded on: Aug. 13, 2012

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: Good afternoon. The first session this afternoon focuses on the criminal procedure decisions. Frankly, I think all the cases this term, the ones that are likely to have the largest practical effect what judges and lawyers do on a daily basis are those dealing with criminal law and criminal procedure. I begin by introducing you to a new panelist. And this is Sherry Colb, certainly not new to this program, just new with us on the ...

Recorded on: Feb. 1, 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, Defending Corporations in Congressional Investigations 2012. 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 the course handbook ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

THEODORE ROGERS: OK. Well, are we ready? Great. Thanks. So thanks for coming back into the room so promptly. This program on class actions is one where if you want to go back and be an adjunct at a law school, you can sell yourself in this business. Because the law is really interesting and moving. Frankly, I used to think class actions were very dull, which cost me a lot of money, because they're very lucrative actions. But they just were dull. ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hello, and welcome back to the afternoon session of the second day. Joining us for the session on Drafting Tips for Litigation is Ira Levy, who's a partner at Goodwin Proctor, out of their New York office. Ira specializes in IP Litigation involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, false advertising, and unfair competition. He's tried multiple cases to verdict, including having argued a number of cases to the Court of Appeals for the ...

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. 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 ...