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Recorded on: Jul. 24, 2012

JOHN WHITE: Good afternoon. It's 3:45, and now we begin our push towards 5 o'clock and the end of our program. And so I will be delivering that part of our talk. But before I begin, I'll introduce myself, because that's what I do, you see, as moderator. So I'm standing in today for Bob Spar. Bob Spar did the slides that we're going to look at. He was the former director at the PTO in charge of the Office of Patent Legal Administration. And Bob knows ...

Recorded on: Jul. 24, 2012

JOHN M. WHITE: Ben, we will now make a seamless transition to 103, and this is obviousness in the context of, for the most part, the CAFC dealing with district court decisions. And what becomes of those decisions and I'll let Rebecca take it from there. And she'll run us through to the next break, which is 3:30. REBECCA GOLDMAN RUDICH: OK. Everybody awake? JOHN M. WHITE: Yep! REBECCA GOLDMAN RUDICH: OK because I'm going to give you the spelling ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

ANDREW ORINGER: Welcome back, everybody to the second half of day one. We've done some of the technical underpinnings of tax qualified plans in the morning. We've done an overview and some specific technical rules. We're not going to go to specific kinds of plans. We're going to talk about things like 401(k) plans, defined benefit plans, and plans that invest in stocks. We're going to start with 401(k) plans. I really do think it's safe to say at ...

Recorded on: Jan. 5, 2012

GRACE O'HANLON: Good morning, my name is Grace O'Hanlon. I'm a program attorney with the Practising Law Institute. It's my pleasure to welcome you to our program, Drafting and Negotiating Corporate Agreements 2012. A welcome to our groupcast and webcast attendees as well. Now, it's my pleasure to introduce you to the chair of today's program, Alyssa Grikscheit. Alyssa is a partner in the New York office of Sidley Austin. She has a diverse corporate ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

CURTIS L. MO: Why don't we start with the first panel? Going down the line. Steve Baglio is a partner in the New York office of Gunderson Dettmer. Mick is co-chair of the emerging growth practice at WilmerHale in Waltham in Boston. And Ellen chairs the emerging growth practice from Covington's New York office. And they're going to talk about how do you position your company for financings and what do these financings look like that we're going to ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2012

ANNA PINEDO: Good morning. If you're joining us on the web, we're going to get started with our next two segments. We're continuing on this morning in our discussion of private placements and exempt and hybrid securities offerings. This morning, we began with a general overview section 4(2), or now 4(a)(2), and the Regulation D safe harbor. As we discussed in our session, the securities that are sold in private placement transactions are restricted ...

Recorded on: Nov. 28, 2012

LEE LEVINE: You ready? Are you ready? LUCY A. DALGLISH: Yes, he's ready. LEE LEVINE: All right, we're going to get started, if everybody could take their seats. We move rapidly now into the law of access. And our principal speaker is David Schulz of the Levine Sullivan firm here in New York, who is not only, for my money, the leading authority on access law out there today but is bringing the good word of First Amendment rights of access down all ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

SPEAKER 1: This panel deals with accommodations, both in disabilities but in other contexts as well. And we're delighted to be able to have an in-house counsel on the panel, Mary Schuette, because in-house counsel are the ones who really are on the front lines of dealing with requests for accommodation and the potential problems at arise out of it. Mary Schuette is vice president of legal services, responsible for the labor relations benefits, workers' ...

Recorded on: Feb. 23, 2012

KAREN BALLACK: OK. We're going to get started here, now that we have Mr. Valetti up here to join me. I have the pleasure of speaking this morning with Mark Valetti, who is Senior Patent Counsel at Texas Instruments. Although his title is Senior Patent Counsel, don't let that fool you. He has experience in a number of different areas within TI's legal department. Mark has been with TI for over 23 years, and during that period of time, he has prosecuted ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

YVONNE S. QUINN: And now we don't give you a moment's rest-- on we go! We're going to move into the mergers section now and talk about a topic, for those of you who are a corporation, sooner or later, you will probably have some kind of an acquisition or merger in your practice. And there are some handouts. Anybody raise their hands if they don't have one and we'll get them to you, so if you want to scribble on them, or whatever, you'll be able to ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN AUNAPU: OK, thank you. Welcome back, and I'm pleased to introduce the dynamic duo of Dan Berner and Jason Downing. Dan is a Deloitte partner out of the Dallas, Texas audit practice. Deloitte's been serving large audit clients for the past 22 years, and has significant experience with SEC matters, including initial and follow-on registration statements, acquisitions, divestitures, and period filings. And our other colleague, Jason Downing, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT QIAN: I think we have reached the 10:15 mark, so that's the signal for me to transition to our next topic, which will be admission issues in federally subsidized housing. And to guide us through that, Meliah Schultzman will be the presenter for this part. Ms. Schultzman is an attorney at a national housing law project. She is involved in policy advocacy and litigation to advance the rights of tenants in federally subsidized housing programs ...

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: Dec. 5, 2012

SPEAKER 1: I don't even know what we're [INAUDIBLE]. SPEAKER 2: I don't either, I don't know what it is either. It's just [INAUDIBLE] CURTIS L. MO: OK, we're in the home stretch. So I mean, exits are obviously a huge topic, and we can go on forever. And we kind of will, because this is the last two hours of the day. But I promise you it'll be packed with content, and you'll get a very good look into the big issues today. And there are more exits ...

Recorded on: May. 2, 2012

SHELDON H. KLEIN: Now you're in for real treat. You're going to hear from Allison Strickland about advanced US trademark prosecution practice. Allison is a partner at the firm of Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, where she's practiced exclusively in the area of trademarks and trademark prosecution for 16 years. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama, and her law degree from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan ...

Recorded on: Oct. 5, 2012

LINDA: While Marc and Jeannemarie argue about who's going to go first, let me introduce the next panel. I think you're all familiar with Marc, and he's agreed to speak to the bankruptcy issues involved in compensation. And Jean Marie, we're pleased to have her back with us again to talk about M&A implications in competition and vice versa. She's a partner in the New York law firm of Wachtell Lipton. And has the decision been made who's going to ...

Recorded on: Oct. 5, 2012

MARC R. TREVINO: Thanks for sticking with us. This will be Advising the Board and the Compensation Committee. I'm really looking forward to this. We have Linda, who you all know. Introducing themselves, to my right is Steve Bigler from Richards, Layton, and Finger. He's been here many times before, providing us background on what's going on in Delaware. And then, David Engvall from Covington and Burling, I think, will start us off, if I understand ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Good afternoon. Let's see if they get to start it. Good. OK. Welcome back from lunch. I would like to introduce our next speaker, who's going to cover the advising the board of directors panel. Marilyn Sonnie is a partner with Jones Day. She's a corporate and transactional lawyer with extensive experience in public company mergers and corporate governance. And we're happy to have her here this afternoon to cover this issue. Marilyn? MARILYN ...

Recorded on: Feb. 29, 2012

MELISSA SAWYER: OK, we're going to go ahead and get started with the second half of the day's programming. Our next panel is going to be speaking about advising the financial advisor. And I'd like to introduce our panelists quickly. To Nancy's right is Susan Zachman. Susan is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis. And she works, as many of our other panelists, on a wide variety of transactions ranging from IPOs, a prepackaged ...

Recorded on: Feb. 29, 2012

NANCY: We're going to start. So our next panel is entitled Advising the Special Committee. Let me introduce Rick Climan. He is a partner in the M&A group at Dewey LeBoeuf. In 2011, Rick, I didn't know this, you were recognized by Who's Who Legal as among the 10 most highly regarded M&A lawyers in the world. RICHARD E. CLIMAN: I didn't know that either. MICHAEL J. AIELLO: Not the galaxy? NANCY: Next, that's next. So Rick, I'll turn it over ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2012

JOHN FELLAS: OK. So we're going to begin our next panel. And that's on advocacy in international arbitration. Now advocacy is at the heart of what we do as dispute resolution lawyers. But what is effective in one context is not necessarily effective in another. What might be persuasive to a US jury may not be so persuasive to a French arbitrator. And what might persuade a French arbitrator may not persuade a Mexican arbitrator. Now our next panel ...

Recorded on: Mar. 26, 2012

ANNE CALLAGY: So my section is going to be covering what happens at the Appeals Council, what their function is, and sort of what are some strategies for developing appeals in front of them. I just want to point you to sort of the back of your book. At page 119, if you want it, there is a copy of the PowerPoint with note lines if you wanted to take notes along with it. Though I think most of the stuff that I'm saying is actually in the written material ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

ANDREW L. ORINGER: welcome back. Hope everybody had a nice lunch. We're going to start now with a portion of the program that I really sort of like. I think that Andy and I struggled a little bit with the multifaceted nature of the practice. And we try to provide a strong introduction to the basic principles. Then we try to provide certain targeted sessions, M&A and the like, to try to show how things work in practice. But there's so many different ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

JAMES J. AGAR: Welcome back everyone. Just a quick housekeeping note-- the lecture that we're about to start is going to go an hour and 3/4. Breaking for lunch at 12:15, and then we will reconvene at 1:30. I hope that you all enjoyed the first panel with Brad and Mark as much as I did. No matter how long I've been in this business, when I get to attend a great presentation such as theirs, I always learn something new. I'm confident that the learning ...

Recorded on: Mar. 12, 2012

LAWRENCE S. MAKOW: Good afternoon. It always seems like we run out of time at the end for questions. So I decided I would see if there any questions for this panel first. All right, that was pretty lame. I wanted to basically just say a few short words. This panel is a look at the current state of financial institution M&A and restructuring. We'll have to use a microscope to see it. But no, I think there's a lot of interesting things going on, ...