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Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2012

SPEAKER: [INAUDIBLE] back over to Sue. M. SUE TALIA: Welcome back. We are now in the third hour of expanding your practice using limited scope representation. I've gotten lots of good questions, so I'm going to start off answering questions. And then we'll go into the back end of the slides. First question, I'm a stay-at-home parent. I'd like to practice law part-time and I'm intrigued by starting a limited scope-only only practice. Do you know of ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2012

CHANCELA AL-MANSOUR: So we're basically right on time to start the very beginning of Navigating Anti-Discrimination Laws and Housing, and I turn the platform over to Stephanie Haffner. STEPHANIE HAFFNER: So hello everyone who's in the room with us and to folks who are also at Hastings and elsewhere. Thank you for the introduction, Chancela. I am talking to you first about basic fair housing law, so fair housing 101-- as an introduction to the fair ...

Recorded on: Jan. 15, 2013

DOUG MACKAY: Thank you, Christina. Thank you, and thank you to our panelists for joining us today. This is our last panel discussion of the day, and it is about negotiating with colleagues and peers, negotiating with colleagues and peers. So let me introduce my panelists. To my right is Mike Gotham, and Mike is Director of Attorney Recruiting and Retention for Perkins Coie. Prior to joining Perkins Coie in 2008, Mike was Director of Attorney Recruiting ...

Recorded on: Jan. 31, 2013

MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Turn it over to them. LISA SITKIN: Thanks. Good morning. I'll just give a disclaimer that I have the cold that's going around, so I apologize if I sneeze, or cough, or make any weird sounds. So we wanted to start just with a little bit of background and overview. What we're going to try to do today is to familiarize you with where we are now. And where we're going to be in about a year when a lot of the rules we're discussing ...

Released on: Apr. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing New OCC Foreclosure Settlements: Moving on From the Independent Foreclosure Review Process recorded March, 2013. Millions of homeowners have lost their homes and been subjected to unlawful conduct by mortgage servicing companies in the context of both judicial and non-judicial foreclosure proceedings around the country. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve recently announced that they reached ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Alright. This panel is called Nonimmigrant Temporary Visa Categories, and we are very privileged to have two distinguished panelists. On my extreme right is Marko Maglich, who develops and directs White and Case's corporate U.S. Immigration law practice, which deals in all kinds of complex immigration matters. Marko also coordinates with White and Case's many non-U.S. offices to serve client needs in moving and hiring personnel in ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: All right, so in the next one hour, we are going to discuss nonimmigrant visa categories. So remember, I told you that you can either be an immigrant or a nonimmigrant. So let's start with, who are the nonimmigrants, and what visas are applicable to them? And we have an extremely distinguished panel who have been doing it before for years. So they're not only seasoned practitioners, but they're also seasoned presenters at PLI conferences. So ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

BETH OTTEN: Thank you, Pamela. Welcome everybody. And I want to thank Pamela, who has done work with Planned Parenthood in the past. So that's where I had the pleasure of meeting her. As Pamela said, I'm going to talk to about governance. And I'm also going to cover special issues that have to do with Executive Order 38, which has to do with executive compensation and limitations on administrative expenses for state funded organizations in New York. So ...

Recorded on: Dec. 19, 2012

SETH PERLMAN: OK with that, I now have the very unique pleasure of taking a step back, and doing a little review of nonprofit governance basics. And the unique pleasure is that I get to introduce Professor Dana Brakman Reiser, a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where, for over 10 years, she's taught courses on non-profit law, social enterprise, corporations, property, trust and estates. Her recent scholarship, in other words, some of her ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2013

CYNTHIA MCGUINN: I like this. This is wake up coffee. ARTURO J. GONZALEZ: I thank you all for coming back, promptly. We do need to start on time to remain on schedule. The next panel is one of my favorite topics, opening statements and closing arguments. The one thing I will say to you is that, if you're ever talking about this topic, please remember to say, opening statement. Do not ever say, opening argument. Because the minute you say, opening ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

LINDA TAM: All right, everyone. If we can kind of gather back. All right, everyone. So the first two sessions today, what [INAUDIBLE] just did, and then our next session, which is an orientation to domestic violence are really setting the stage for us in working at the intersection of these three issues of housing, domestic violence, and immigration. So we're kind of doing the big picture, and then we're sort of going to narrow down later on towards ...

Recorded on: Jan. 15, 2013

DOUG MACKAY: Let's step back for a second and ask ourselves, well, what is negotiation? And really, it's two parts here. So here, it's what you have and what he or she wants, on one side. And then, he or she has what you want on the other side. So any negotiation has two different parts to it, two different parties, sometimes even more than two different parties involved. The key is satisfying the mutual needs involved with both parties. So how do ...

From the program: Representing Tenants in Unlawful Detainer Actions in San Francisco 2012 (Free)

Released on: Dec. 27, 2012

For low-income families who often do not have the benefit of legal counsel, eviction can mean homelessness. Most are unrepresented.  Won’t you volunteer to help those in our community who are most vulnerable?  Get the legal training you need in this program and then sign up with The Volunteer Legal Services Program of The Bar Association of San Francisco and make a difference. Lecture Topics  [Total time 03:10:50] Segments ...

Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT QIAN: And then let me just introduce you to the first speaker that we have today. Catherine Bishop is the senior attorney with the National Housing Law Project. She's one most experienced people in federally subsidized housing. She has over 30 years experience advocating on behalf of tenants and tenants rights in federally subsidized house. I know I have come to her office many, many times to ask questions about what tenants rights are in any ...

Recorded on: Aug. 16, 2013

MEREDITH DESAUTELS: And to kick off our first panel, what I'm going to do is speak briefly about why my organization, a civil rights and social justice organization, has decided to focus on criminal justice and reentry issues. But before I do that, I'd like to go ahead and briefly introduce our panelists. So you have their full bios in your materials, but I do want to say a few words about each of the great folks that you're going to be hearing from ...

From the program: Re-Entry Issues: Overcoming Employment and Housing Challenges Due to a Prior Arrest or Conviction (Free)

Released on: Aug. 30, 2013

In the past three decades, incarceration rates have exploded in the U.S., such that today we incarcerate over two million people, more than any other country in the world. The result is that many more people encounter the criminal justice system at some point in their lives. Indeed, an estimated 1 in 4 adults in California has an arrest or conviction record, and people of color are disproportionately affected.A person with a prior record faces significant ...

Recorded on: Jul. 29, 2013

ROBERT W. MURPHY: I'm going to first introduce Brian. I have to get his biography, although I know it by heart. Brian attended Vassar College, initially. And then he went on to Oberlin, graduated from Oberlin his bachelor's degree, and then went to Brooklyn Law School. That's his educational background. Brian is, I believe, argued from every circuit in the United States, with maybe one or two exceptions, the appellate level, repeatedly in front of ...

Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2013

LAUREN E. NOCHTA: It is now my pleasure to introduce you to the moderator of our first two panels, Robert Fippinger. Robert is a senior counsel in the New York office of Orrick, where he specializes in the securities law of public finance. He's the author of the third edition of PLI's "The Securities Law of Public Finance Treatise," which, in prior editions has been updated annually for 20 years. He is currently serving as a member of the ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Thank you very much. So I see we have this iPad for the first time. And since you don't have your faculty handbooks, you could click on Course Materials if you want to follow the discussion, and then go to PowerPoints. Click on PowerPoints. And the first PowerPoint is under Opening Remarks and Introduction. And that's the PowerPoint I'm going to use, Immigration Basics. It's also going to be on the screen. So if you're not adept with ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Hello, everybody. It's always a pleasure to do these PLI programs on basic immigration law. Immigration law is a very complicated area. And to cover the entire breadth of immigration law in one day is quite a challenging task for the faculty. Nevertheless, we will try to provide you with the basic aspects of immigration law. There might be times when it might get more complex. There are times when we try to keep it basic. But we'll ...

From the program: Pathways to Justice 2012: Special Housing Updates (Free)

Released on: Jun. 22, 2012

PLI has joined with the State Bar of California Office of Legal Services to share special sessions from the 2012 Pathways to Justice Conference.  The sessions will focus on hot topics in housing law, including affordable housing, tenant relocation and replacement housing in the wake of the foreclosure and economic crises, and recent developments in fair housing and anti-discrimination laws, litigation, and enforcement.  The panelists are ...

Recorded on: Oct. 10, 2012

LISA SITKIN: So the first session that we're going to jump into looks at post-foreclosure liability for the mortgage debt itself, and the protections, largely the California anti-deficiency statutes, that do offer a lot of protection for borrowers. Although not complete protection, so it's important to know where those lines are drawn. California is in many ways a lot more protective of its borrowers in terms of deficiency judgments, but there are ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2013

ARTURO J. GONZALEZ: Our first panel is going to talk about a number of issues that are very important. And each one of these could have almost been a separate hourly program, but because there are so many issues we had to bundle them together. We're going to talk a little bit about a trial plan. What is a trial plan, and why is it important? And why should you will always be thinking about that? How detailed it happens to be would vary from case ...

Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing Remedies for Victims of Human Trafficking recorded July, 2013.The newly reauthorized Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPRA) is the cornerstone of federal anti-trafficking law. This legislation provides a variety of remedies for victims and survivors of human trafficking, including providing immigration status as a form of humanitarian relief.Listen to Ivy O. Suriyopas, Director of the Anti-Trafficking Initiative ...

Released on: Nov. 7, 2012

Taken from the briefing Representing Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Proceedings: Learn How to Help recorded October, 2012. The number of unaccompanied children placed in U.S. custody in Fiscal Year 2012 has reached an historic high: over 14,000 children, more than double the number last year.  Many of these children, who range from toddlers to teenagers, are fleeing abuse, abandonment, and persecution in their home countries, or are ...