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Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

JULIA B. STRICKLAND: We're going to start our final panel of the day. And we know that everybody's going to stay so that they can get free drinks at 5 o'clock. In any event, the panel is "Credit Card, Retail Banking and Emerging Payment Models." We have two extremely able lawyers as our speakers here. They have a lot to add. Mike Donovan is to my right. He's a founding member of the Philadelphia firm of Donovan Axler and focuses his practice ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: Thank you, Paul. We're going to slide into the next panel because we're going to keep you on time here. So, I'll start with the introductions. The next panel is, for me, one of my favorite panels because I think that, hopefully, you can make this venture terms Nuts and Bolts interesting by telling some stories, et cetera. But sometimes I think it's hard to make the ethics part of this interesting. And Bill and Deirdre ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2013

CLIFFORD E. KIRSCH: Welcome back everyone. And we're ready with our next panel. As I said at the outset of the program, more and more people-- lawyers, compliance officers, [? at ?] broker dealers, and advisers-- are being asked to deal with cross border issues. I think it's a natural consequence from where the business is going. And I've asked a real expert in this area, Christopher Christian, who works very, very closely with these issues and counsels ...

From the program: International Tax Issues 2013

Released on: Feb. 14, 2013

As the world’s economies grow increasingly integrated, the international tax laws of the U.S. impact a greater percentage of businesses and transactions.  These international tax rules affect not only large U.S. and foreign-based multinationals, but also increasingly affect mid-sized and smaller firms, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial activity.  As a result, a working knowledge of these international ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2013

BLAKE D. RUBIN: So we're going to start with recent developments in partnership taxation, also the real estate stuff. In terms of materials, there's an outline at page 47 in the book. And then copies of the slides have been handed out. Let me mention, in general the slides in the outline correspond. But the version of the slides is a little more up to date than the outline. If people are interested in the more up to date outline, which covers the ...

From the program: Real Estate Tax Forum (15th Annual)

Released on: Feb. 21, 2013

Our 15th anniversary program has been completely revised and will have a more transactional focus.  This new approach highlights the tax problems being encountered by practitioners in today’s typical commercial real estate transactions and structures, and examines the simple and sophisticated solutions being used by the experts.  Panels of nationally-recognized real estate tax experts from major law and accounting firms will provide ...

Recorded on: Mar. 8, 2013

SPEAKER 1: In the next hour and a half we have two very exciting presentations. The first is on current developments in entertainment and sports litigation. And the second is on current developments-- first focusing on the sports side, and the second will focus on the entertainment and internet side. And for our presentation on sports law, which will focus on the use of athletes' images and the right of publicity, we have two very distinguished speakers. ...

From the program: Current Developments in Federal Civil Practice 2013

Released on: Feb. 13, 2013

Are you up-to-date on the important developments in federal civil practice and the implications of these developments for your cases?  In Current Developments in Federal Civil Practice 2013, a distinguished faculty of trial lawyers and judges will review and offer their insights into significant recent developments in the law.  The program will focus on applying these developments for best pretrial and trial practices. Lecture Topics  ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

SPEAKER: No break. There is no break. At the risk of my getting shot let me, on that note, introduce the panelists who are coming up. So do we have the panelists who are coming out? SPEAKER 2: Uh no. You're right here. You're going to be right here. SPEAKER: Alicia? SPEAKER 2: I will find her. Alicia is She's coming. She's here. SPEAKER: OK. So as I indicated earlier, our next panel is going to discuss in greater depth some of the issues that ...

Recorded on: Apr. 30, 2013

LAURIN BLUMENTHAL KLEIMAN: --our last panel of the day, and here's the point in the program where we talk not only about the more traditional registered investment companies, but also new and different and alternative ways of pulling assets and selling securities publicly, like exchange traded funds and other things like that. I see Ed and I see Bob, and there's Jim. How are you? EDWARD BAER: Good to see you. The right hand of power. LAURIN BLUMENTHAL ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

Taken from the briefing Cybercrime: A Multi-Faceted Legal Challenge recorded April, 2013.Every day, more and more of our lives and our business is conducted online. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that savvy criminals are increasingly looking to the digital world as well. Each day brings new headlines about the growing threats posed by cybercriminals, ranging from thefts of personal information and intellectual property, to disruptive ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

HOWARD PIANKO: We're going to switch over. There was some allusions, actually direct references to the prior panel to the world of defined contribution plans. And the next panel-- Patricia Kuhn from BlackRock on my right. Then right next to her-- Nick Waddles from Seyfarth. And we're going to switch over to the defined contribution world and look at the developments-- things that we're seeing from the ERISA fiduciary prospective with respect to DC ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

Taken from the briefing Defending Corporations and Executives in Congressional Investigations 2013 recorded March, 2013.Congressional investigations, in which corporate executives are called to account by Congress in televised hearings, have long been a fixture of American politics. And they often exact a steep price for individual corporate executives and the companies they represent. Yet few corporations are as prepared to handle congressional ...

From the program: Defending Privacy and Behavioral Advertising Class Action Suits 2013: What Every Litigator and In-House Lawyer Needs to Know

Released on: Feb. 5, 2013

Over the past two years there has been an explosion of new lawsuits filed focused on the alleged disclosure of identifying information in connection with the use of  social networks, social gaming, mobile phones, apps, and other mobile and web-based technologies and in connection with behavioral advertising and the use of pixels, beacons, cookies and other persistent identifiers.  Like patent troll suits and stock drop cases, being sued ...

From the program: Taking and Defending Depositions 2013

Released on: Mar. 26, 2013

With fewer cases reaching juries, deposition testimony has become a substitute for trial testimony.  Skilled litigators know how to take advantage of this unique opportunity to gather information, learn about an adversary’s case, and get a close-up look at the performance of potential witnesses.  Learn how to maximize this chance to gain an advantage for future settlement or litigation.  Our faculty of experienced litigators will ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LOTHAR DETERMANN: With this introduction, I will hand over to our first panel. Carla did already a great job introducing the two. Karen and Mark have worked together on matters. And if you look through Karen's bio in the handout materials, you'll see that Karen impersonates this intersection of intellectual property and business transaction in her practice, advising companies both on the IP heavy side of things, and then also how these things are ...

Recorded on: Feb. 25, 2013

PAUL CHAN: So for our second panel we're going to do a deep dive into the design of the spin-off transaction, in light of the very subjectives that people have, that you just heard about. And the related securities law, accounting, and tax considerations that people to take into account. So for this panel I'm pleased to introduce Nicole Pinder, Eric Schiele, and Eiko Stange. I hope I got that right, Eiko? T. EIKO STANGE: Yeah. PAUL CHAN: Thank ...

From the program: Spin-offs 2013

Released on: Mar. 7, 2013

Business separation transactions represented over 40% of all M&A transactions in 2011.  An increasing proportion of them have taken the form of spin-offs, equity carve-outs and similar architectures not involving an outright sale.  But what is a spin-off, what makes it different from other types of business separation transactions, and why are people doing more of them?  This program will provide an in-depth perspective on the factors ...

Recorded on: Feb. 7, 2013

CECIL D. QUILLEN III: Great. Thanks, everybody. I think people are still reassembling. But while they come back in, I wanted to kick off the next panel. We're going to talk about the-- if I do that right-- I seem to have done that right. Anyway, what we would like to do is to try to give a brief overview of both market trends, market prospects, some of the more interesting aspects that surround the thinking of some of the business and execution professionals ...

From the program: Institute on Securities Regulation in Europe (Twelfth Annual): Overcoming Deal-Making Challenges in the Current Markets

Released on: Feb. 15, 2013

We are proud to present Practising Law Institute’s Twelfth Annual Institute on Securities Regulation in Europe: Overcoming Deal-Making Challenges in the Current Markets, the most comprehensive securities programme available in Europe. Once again, the Institute will feature leading practitioners active in U.S. and European corporate law, as well as government regulators, investment bankers and in-house counsel. This year’s programme ...

Recorded on: Feb. 7, 2013

RICHARD C. MORRISSEY: Hi. Well, certainly live from New York. In any event, we're nearing the end of your two day ordeal. So there's the M&A panel. And then immediately following a [INAUDIBLE] break will be ethics, which everyone has to stay for for all the obvious reasons. Many of you have see this show before. The cast and characters changes a little bit. But we'll be using a hypothetical that's based on facts. But many of the facts have been ...

Recorded on: Apr. 3, 2013

SCOTT: Welcome back, everybody. We're going to get started so we can get everybody to lunch on time. So the next module is focusing on discovery, which is a new component of these PTAB mechanisms. There was, as we all learned recently thanks to the federal circuit case last week, there's certainly no discovery in inter partes reexamination. And that was pointed out by Congress, that patent owners, in particular, wanted to challenge some of these declarations ...

Recorded on: Feb. 26, 2013

Taken from the briefing Doing Business in Russia recorded February, 2013. As one of the world’s most important and growing economies, Russia continues to be a significant destination for global investment. Russia is a country rich in natural resources that has a highly-skilled and well-educated work force. Over the past decade, the Russian economy has demonstrated growth at rates exceeding most developed countries, doubling disposable ...

From the program: Doing Deals 2013: The Art of M&A Transactional Practice

Released on: Mar. 27, 2013

The M&A market has been experiencing a period of great expectations, with economic anxiety creating uncertainty about the future.  Increased volumes of tender offers, hostile deals, activist campaigns, as well as spin-offs, has been an important trend, while the use of innovative structuring mechanisms, such as contingent value rights, has been another.  M&A participants continue to raise questions about what “the market” ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: I think we're back. Next topic up is drafting and updating social media policies and guidelines. And one thing I will say. So much has happened in this area of the law since we last met a year ago that I can say with quite some confidence that, if your company hasn't updated its social media policy or guidelines in the past year, they're probably out of date, just because so much has happened in this area. And we're very fortunate to ...