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Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

GRACE E. O'HANLON: It's my pleasure to introduce you to the chair of today's program, Vincent Martorana. Vinny is counsel in the corporate and securities group with Reed Smith's New York office. His practice includes the representation of clients in domestic and cross border mergers, stock an asset acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements, corporate restructuring, private equity investments, and security ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

VINCENT R. MARTORANA: Welcome back to the second half of Contract Drafting CLE. We'll deal with some more advanced concepts here. I'm going to start off actually with a recap of what we discussed on the first half, because it really is sort of the real-- now kind of the real heart of the total three-hour presentation is really in that first half. So I'll spend a decent chunk of time doing a bit of recap on that. And then we'll get into some specific ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is Amy Taub. And I am a Program Attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing. Third party litigation finance, what is it and what are its implications? 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 ...

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 ...

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: All right. We'll start just one minute early, which buys us another minute on the end. Welcome to the 11:30 panel discussion, which is on setting the climate, and flexing your communication and negotiation style. And I have three panelists joining me this morning. To my right is Janet Frankel. And in 1992, Janet Frankel received her JD from Hastings and opened her private law practice. In 2004, Janet became certified as a family law ...

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 ...

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. 15, 2013

DOUG MACKAY: All right. Thank you. I am very happy to have our first panel of the day, talking about the important task of strategizing before a negotiation. Let me introduce to you our three panelists. This, to my right, is Jill Feldman. And Jill Holtz Feldman serves as chair of the financial transaction group at Morrison & Foerster, and as a member of the firm's clean tech steering committee. Her practice focuses on international and domestic ...

Recorded on: Oct. 31, 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. Tips for Attorneys to Communicate Logically: The Written Word, the Spoken Word. 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 access to materials for this briefing via the [INAUDIBLE] ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

DANA G. MCFERRAN: Welcome back. We are down to our last two sessions on a Friday afternoon, so I don't think I'll be disappointed in our last two last two programs. The next one is working with general counsel's office, so if you want any free legal advice, please feel free to ask these guys as we go along. But I just wanted to introduce you to our two speakers today. First, we have, to my immediate right, is John Grugan. He is a partner at Ballard ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

TIMOTHY LONG: Good afternoon and welcome back. So we're going to start this afternoon's session with what I suspect will be not only a provocative presentation, but also something that will be very informative and educational. And we couldn't have a better panel for this presentation, which is focusing on elimination of bias in the legal workplace. To my right, is my partner, Pat Gillette. Pat, by the way, last night, was awarded the Transformational ...

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: Jul. 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, Writing for Lawyers-- A Whirlwind Tour of Legal Writing Fundamentals. 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: Jul. 3, 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-- Hype or Help, How Can Alternative Fee Arrangements Add Demonstrable Value to Your Practice and Your Clients? 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 ...

Recorded on: Mar. 23, 2012

GRACE O'HANLON: Contact customer service. It's now my pleasure to introduce you to the chair of today's program, Vincent Martorana Vinny is counsel in the corporate and securities group with Reed Smith's New York office. His practice includes the representation of clients in domestic and cross border mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements, corporate restructurings, private ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2012

AMY: Now it's my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Carole Basri. CAROLE L. BASRI: Thank you so much Amy. I really appreciate you're having this webcast. I think it's very important issue and I'm thrilled that we have John S. Jenkins, Jr., Vice President and Corporate Secretary and International General Counsel of Tyco International with us today. I think that ethics has become an important part, not only of the practice of law, but also of ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Before we begin the final segment of our program this morning, we wanted to remind you that when you leave the program today you do need to press sign out on your iPad and enter your badge number so that your CLE credit can be calculated. And, also, please remember to complete the two part program evaluation on your tablet. Please keep in mind any of your comments are-- I'm sorry, anonymous, not unanimous, anonymous-- and we do welcome ...

Recorded on: Feb. 2, 2012

KIMO S. PELUSO: Hi, welcome back. This is the continuation of today's program on advanced deposition techniques. This panel is going to be talking about VIP witness preparation. And what we mean by that is preparation of witnesses who are considered VIPs. We're talking about CEOs, senior executives, celebrities, the heads of business units or relevant bureaus of government agencies, anyone who is going to be a witness likely as much because of who ...

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: Jan. 27, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Now it's my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Katie White. KATIE WHITE: Thank you, Amy. Steve and I are really excited to be here today and to be talking to you about this topic. We wanted to start with just a little bit of background about the state of the legal market today. We thought that would be pretty pertinent. And as you may know, there's an organization called NALP. It's actually the Association for Legal Career Professionals. ...