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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 ...

Recorded on: Aug. 16, 2013

MEREDITH DESAUTELS: Great. Thank you. And thank you all. Welcome back. We are going to move into our third and final session where we're going to be looking more in depth into special topics related to employment screening. Most of the clients that we see through the Second Chance Legal Clinic are motivated to come see us because they're having employment issues. And I'll introduce our two panelists, who are going to discuss, first, background check ...

Recorded on: Aug. 16, 2013

MEREDITH DESAUTELS: OK, we are going to keep moving quickly. Thanks so much for sticking with us. We've got an exciting second session here that we're going to jump into, and before we do, I'd like to introduce our presenter, Eliza Hersh. Eliza is the director of the Clean Slate Practice at the East Bay Community Law Center, the East Bay's largest provider of free legal services and a teaching clinic of Berkeley Law School. The Clean Slate Practice ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2013

ARTURO REQUENEZ: OK. Thank you everybody. If we could get seated we're going to start again with our next panel. This next panel is a wonderful panel of lots of years of experience on jury selection, which is, obviously, a critical topic, especially if you're in state court, but even in federal court. Although in federal court, more and more, judges are reducing the amount of time that you get the ask jurors questions in federal court. I'm going ...

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: 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: Aug. 8, 2013

SPEAKER 1: If I could have the panel for the next topic to come up, Don, and your group. ROBERT S. ARNS: How you doing, Arturo? I'm Bob. SPEAKER 1: Very good, sir. You're at the end. Yes. The whole hour. ROBERT S. ARNS: Guys, we're going to stay here, so I'm going to be doing the slides. SPEAKER 1: Why don't we put the PowerPoint up there, and then just leave it up there, and then they'll control it. WILMA J. GRAY: Good morning. SPEAKER 1: Good ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2013

ARTURO J GONZALEZ: Good question-- the question that we got is, if plaintiff's counsel calls a defense witness first, can the defense counsel call the same witness in the defendant's case? It's a very good question. And the answer is probably yes, usually yes. But I want to explain to you why it's not just that simple. There's a tactical issue, and there's a practical one. The practical issue is, if the plaintiff is calling a witness that you as ...

Recorded on: Jul. 29, 2013

ROBERT W. MURPHY: Hi, Bob Murphy again. And my presentation wrapping up today's seminar is on helping clients avoid getting run over. It's a primer on auto law. Before I get started, I have a little disclaimer. And I just put there because if I say something that's a little bit off-color with respect to a case, or perhaps with respect-- I don't say anything bad about the judge-- just remember it's with respect to me sometimes trying to be funny. ...

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: Jul. 29, 2013

ROBERT W. MURPHY: Thank you, Brian. Our next speaker is Amy Wells, and she's going to be speaking to you about the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Miss Wells is a founder of the Wells Law Office, a boutique consumer protection litigation firm base in Dayton, Ohio. She earned her JD and her MBA in a joint program at the University of Dayton School of Law. She dedicates her legal practice to consumer advocacy, including issues involving identity theft, ...

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: 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: May. 15, 2013

SHARON DJEMAL: Which leads us to our first hour entitled Client Counseling and Advocacy: The Role of Race, Class and Culture, which will explore how we can increase our own cultural competency and literacy. And as a result, become better advocates for our clients. This session will be led by Tirien Steinbach, who is the executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center and a lecturer at Berkeley Law School. Please join me in welcoming Tirien ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: I'd like to introduce the next panel, who will focus on the overlap between housing and immigration, including housing protections, how immigration status affects eligibility for subsidized housing, and cultural competency issues that arise when working with immigrant clients on housing issues. There are three panelists. Omar Calimbas is a senior staff attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, which is the nation's oldest legal and civil rights ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: All right. So the last session of the day we're focusing on immigration protections for survivors of domestic violence. And we're going to touch on a number of topics-- asylum, VAWA. You've heard people talking about that throughout the afternoon. U visas and T visas. And we have three panelists who are going to introduce themselves as they speak. Thank you. LISA FRYDMAN: I'm going last because I'm going to then go into the intro slides, ...

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: May. 15, 2013

LINDA TAM: Thank you so much. That was very informative. I learned a lot. So our next panel is dealing with-- it's very hard to deal with immigration, domestic violence and housing, and not touch a little bit on family law, because it's kind of within the realm of all of those issues that we've been talking about. So our next panelists, Khanh Nguyen and Hongvilay Thongsamouth will be talking about common family law issues that arise when immigrants ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SHARON DJEMAL: Hi everyone. Welcome back from lunch. I'm really looking forward to this next panel on domestic violence and housing. This session is going to focus on how California laws, the Fair Housing Act, and the Violence Against Women Act protect survivors of domestic violence from denial of housing, help them defend and avoid evictions, and aid survivors in maintaining safe and stable housing. These panelists have prepared a very thorough ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2013

MARIE I. MOMBRUN: Hi, my name's Marie Mombrun again, and let's see, where did we leave off, with reading the Judges' Rules and finding out about conferences, forms of motions, briefs and correspondence. So I left you with that teaser the last time about what I did. I wrote a letter to the Judges' Part asking for an extension on my brief, and the judge in the Eastern District granted the exception of the extension. And she said, well, in her order, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: All right. Great. So we are now ready to start the next session, the immigrant or permanent visa categories that lead to lawful permanent residency, or the green card. And we again have a very distinguished panel who have been doing it for many years. Deborah Notkin is a partner with the firm of Barst, Mukamal & Kleiner, and maintains a large international and National Immigration practice. She is the past president of the American ...

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. 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 ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Hello, everybody. I'm glad you've come back and we're going to have our next session, post-lunch session. The morning session essentially focused on how to bring people into the United States, either on temporary visas, as well as on immigrant visas, and how they would ultimately get green cards. This session will be the exact opposite. It will focus on how to represent and defend people who are either being removed from the United ...

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 ...