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From the program: Social Media for Non-Profit and Public Interest Organizations 2013 (Free)

Released on: Apr. 4, 2013

Please note: There is no CLE credit available for this program.With the growing focus on social media in the legal profession, smart non-profits and public interest organizations are cultivating a robust social media presence. Learn how to stay on the forefront of this new technology and harness the potential of social media to grow your donor and volunteer base and expand your organization’s footprint. Lecture Topics [Total time 03:13:48] Segments ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

PAMELA A. MANN: OK. Break's over. I am very happy to introduce our next speaker, Dave Shevlin, who is a partner and the head of the Exempt Organizations Group at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett in New York City. He has been with Simpson Thatcher for a number of years, where he advises a variety of international and domestic exempt organizations, including "Friends of" organizations and all forms of private foundations and public charities. He ...

From the program: Judges' Pet Peeves 2012: Tips From the Bench on Trial Practice

Released on: Oct. 19, 2012

Do you wonder what the judges really think about your case? In this candid program, you will hear - directly from the judges - how they view trial practice and how lawyers can help (or sabotage) their cases. Lecture Topics  [Total time 02:04:05] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Introduction* [00:02:03] Mark C. Zauderer Judicial Pet Peeves in ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2012

M. SUE TALIA: So here we are, ready to talk about limited scope representation. To start out, if you have all of the clients you want, you love every blessed one of them, and you have zero accounts receivable, you probably don't need these. But if you have accounts receivable, if you would like to find a way to tap a new pool of currently untapped clients, and you want to find a group of clients who will be the most satisfied clients you've probably ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

PAMELA MANN: Our last speaker today is Sean Delaney. Sean Delaney is the executive director of the Lawyers Alliance of New York, the leading provider of pro bono business legal services to community development organizations and other nonprofit groups in New York City. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Delaney served as the legal director of the Lawyers Alliance. Prior to his work with Lawyers Alliance, Mr. Delaney served as the chief of the charities bureau ...

From the program: New Developments in Residential Loan Servicing: State, Federal and Programmatic Laws, Regulations and Standards (Free)

Released on: May. 20, 2013

The rules of the road for residential mortgage servicing have changed significantly since the crash in 2008. Since then, a wide variety of agencies, including Congress, federal banking regulators, state attorneys general and the California legislature, have all sought to improve loan servicers’ practices, particularly in connection with the loss mitigation process. The result is a series of overlapping rules, laws and regulations –  from the ...

Recorded on: Oct. 25, 2012

Don’t miss this important Free Briefing in recognition of National Pro Bono Celebration Week! Taken from the briefing Making the Most of California's New Homeowner Bill of Rights recorded October, 2012. On July 11, 2012, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law key provisions of Attorney General Kamala Harris’ Homeowner Bill of Rights.  This landmark legislation is designed to protect California homeowners from losing their ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Making the Most of California's New Homeowner Bill of Rights. 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 ...

Recorded on: Jan. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Thank you and welcome back. We're just about to start our 1:45 session, which is about Mastering the Bargain and Concession-Making Process. I have three panelists with me. Let me introduce them to you. To my right is Michael Fox. And Michael is a partner with Sedgwick here in Los Angeles-- Los Angeles, I just moved here, sorry. But a native Los Angeleno. Los Angeleno, yes, but however Michael's a partner with Sedgwick here in San Francisco. And ...

Recorded on: Jan. 15, 2013

DOUG MACKAY: Our discussion continues. And now we're going to actually talk about mastering negotiating tactics and deflecting ploys when they happen. This is the fun part of negotiating. So what happens when all of these things that you may-- may be a little unexpected. So when do those happen? And I'm joined this afternoon by Jerry Birn and Matthew Vafidis. So let me tell you a little bit about Jerry. So Jerry is a partner at Wilson Sonsini. And ...

Released on: May. 10, 2013

Please note: CLE is not available this program.Taken from the briefing Maximizing Your IP Job Search with Loyola Chicago's PLIP 2013 recorded April, 2013.Lecture Topics  [Total Time: 00:57:58]

Released on: Jun. 26, 2013

Please note that CLE credit is not available for this program.Taken from the briefing Maximizing Your IP Job Search with PLIP 2013, Part II recorded June, 2013.On Monday, June 24, those of you selected for interviews at Loyola's Patent Law Interview Program will get access to your preliminary interview schedules. As soon as you know who you will be interviewing with, you will want to begin preparing for the program.Our speakers: Alissa Holterman, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Municipal Securities Activity by Broker-Dealers and Advisors 2013 Recorded May, 2013 in New YorkMSRB and FINRA Developments [00:58:48] The MSRB Rulebook EMMA: current resources and future functionality FINRA monthly report card: material event disclosure in the primary market The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: MSRB and Finra Developments ...

Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2013

ROBERT A. FIPPINGER: All right, we'll start again, Maurine. MAURINE R. BARTLETT: Yes. Rather than getting into the municipal advisor section for the first three prongs and then taking a break and everyone forgetting, the interlocking definitions are complicated enough without trying to do that. So we'll just take it from the top. I'd like to begin by noting that although the Municipal Advisory Registration Provision became effective on October 1, ...

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. 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: 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: 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: 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 ...