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Recorded on: Feb. 7, 2013

AMY: It is now my pleasure to turn this briefing over to John Tuttle. JONATHAN TUTTLE: Hello all and welcome and thanks for joining on the call today. What Matt and I are going to talk about really had its most recent origin in some newspaper articles that Matt will discuss later talking about 10b5-1 trading plans and bringing those plans kind of back to the forefront of both the enforcement and the corporate issuer context. I think what we're going ...

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: Jul. 11, 2013

A. THOMPSON BAYLISS: So name that judge who said the following, "I'm just going to confess out loud that I have reached the point in my career of what I will call 'disclosure fatigue.' That is the struggle that the court goes through to try to figure out what information, about a target's financial advisor's analysis, needs to be disclosed to stockholders." Well everybody's voting. I'll just ask the panel, who here suffers from disclosure ...

Recorded on: Jan. 29, 2013

SUSAN DICICCO: Good morning, everyone. I'm Susan DiCicco, and with me today is Rich Marooney and Todd Marcus. Let me briefly introduce them. Rich Marooney, on my far right, is a partner in King & Spalding's Business Litigation group here in New York. He specializes in complex litigation in the financial services and energy industries. And he's head of the firm's financial services practice. And he's tried numerous cases in federal and New York ...

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: Mar. 27, 2013

ANNE CALLAGY: My name is Anne Callagy, and I'm going to be talking about the Appeals Council review of ALJ decisions. I think, at the moment, we have the wrong PowerPoint up on the screen. I think we have jumped to Part 3. KYLA L. RATLIFF: All right. ANNE CALLAGY: There we go. So, you know, we're going in order of the administrative process. So Kyla has just gone through the initial application through the ALJ hearing. And then you get a decision ...

Recorded on: Feb. 24, 2011

JOHN M. WHITE: Welcome to the second day of The Patent Law Institute. This is a special section devoted to all things chemical. That's what we'll be working on for the next two hours. Its chemical and pharma. And I know that we have a lot of people out there in northern New Jersey especially but also others that are quite interested in what happens in the chemical and pharma world at the PTO, because it's a little different now isn't it. You know ...

Recorded on: Feb. 24, 2011

JOHN WHITE: Welcome back to the second hour of our morning. We're going to continue with chemical practice. And after another hour of more chemical doings at the patent office, we're going to transition to PTO-related related topics from a PLI author. And I'll go ahead and reintroduce our chemical speaker, Gerry Murphy. He's with the firm Birch, Stewart, Kolasch, & Birch, down there in Virginia, with offices also in San Diego. And they've been ...

Recorded on: Nov. 17, 2011

RICHARD CLARY: And I'm going to move over to this, because I wanted to prove that even with complex litigation you can go low tech. So we have the standard flip chart which is about as low tech as you can get, but I think will be useful, or at least [INAUDIBLE]. First I want to just describe what the pieces are, because it will help you understand, I hope, where everybody's trying to get in complex litigation. So for Enron, the starting point was ...

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: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: OK, so we'll get moving with the next panel. We spoke about how people get into removal and deportation proceedings. This panel will generally speak about how people can seek relief from removal and deportation. And just relief in general, because asylum can be sought even administratively outside the removal context. So we do have a great panel. And it's going to be a long panel-- 1 hour, 15 minutes. Each speaker will have 25 minutes ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

RICHARD RAYSMAN: OK, we're back. And we're back online, as well. Our next topic is attorneys and social media. And there are just two speakers-- myself and Ignatius Grande, who is to my right, your left, who's a senior e-discovery attorney and director of the practice support at Hughes Hubbard & Reed. In his role, at Hughes Hubbard, Ignatius develops and implements strategies to ensure that the firm's clients receive the highest quality of litigation ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

EDWIN SMITH: It's very important that you do the evaluations. We look at those every year to try to determine who to keep on the panel and who to throw off. I'd now like to introduce, as my colleague on this session, June Basden, from Carruthers & Roth in Greensboro. JUNE BASDEN: And that's Greensboro, North Carolina. EDWIN SMITH: There we go. Right. And so we're here to talk about bankruptcy related issues for asset-based lenders. We're going ...

Recorded on: Nov. 17, 2011

KARIN DEMASI: Hi. Welcome back, everyone. I'm Karin DeMasi from the law firm of Cravath Swaine & Moore. And we're going to spend a little time for the next hour talking about some basic jurisdictional issues, getting back to the beginning of the case and covering some of what Rich and Bob touched on with respect to Enron, diving in a little more deeply with respect to the basic jurisdictional issues that you will face if you do one of these complex ...

Recorded on: Jan. 24, 2013

IAN BALLON: So our next panel is Best Practices in a Changing Data Privacy Landscape. And just to have to make sure that these experts on best practices in a changing landscape are kept on their toes, we're trying to usher them in a few moments early, pulling them out of their calls or preparation or whatever else they were doing, just to see how nimble they are in dealing with unplanned events. Great. And we've got four experts in this area for ...

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: Oct. 18, 2011

DAVID KISTENBROKER: All right. Welcome back to the 1:30 session, the afternoon kickoff session. This is going to be, I think, as Seth pointed out this morning, a first time ever in San Francisco, mediation simulation, if you will, to show you how the sausage is really made. We've got a great panel assembled for you today. You know Seth Aronson. Seth will be playing the defense counsel for the corporation in this case. Next to him is Allan Kleidon. ...

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: Jul. 6, 2011

THOMAS L. CREEL: Welcome back, everyone. So we're going to switch emphasis again. We're going to move in from the litigators to a different perspective. So our next speaker is going to give you a business perspective, in-house counsel perspective. Kathlyn Card Beckles is the Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property and Technology at JPMorgan Chase. She's a registered patent attorney, responsible for patents, copyrights, ...

Recorded on: Jan. 24, 2013

IAN BALLON: OK. Why don't we get started. Our next panel is on Class Certification Issues. And we have as our speaker, my colleague Rob Harrington, who's a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig in the Los Angeles office. He also was the Chair of our firm's Product Liability and Mass Tort practice. He's successfully defended more than 75 class action cases in his career. He's also author of the bestselling book, Verdict for the Defense, which provides ...