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Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2013

ANDREW L. ORINGER: OK, so welcome back, everybody, to the second day. Yesterday, I think that we tried to give you an understanding of a lot of the basic principles that relate to what we do here in the benefits world, the ERISA world. Today, we're going to try to really deal with issues around the edges. We're going to delve into certain aspects. We're going to delve into mergers and acquisitions. We're going to delve into, really, a slightly different ...

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. 31, 2013

DEAN ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: In this hour, we're going to talk about the First Amendment. We're going to also talk about the marriage cases. With regard to the First Amendment, one of the cases that we're going to talk about was Clapper versus Amnesty International, which is about standing to challenge a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that expanded the ability of the National Security Agency to listen in to conversations. As we ...

Recorded on: Jul. 31, 2013

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: To the next topic on the agenda, which is race in the Constitution, voting rights, and affirmative action. But Ted, everything that you said certainly is a transition to that. And we'll have the opportunity to respond to your questions and others as we go along. We're going to divide this into two parts. Initially, we're going to talk about the Voting Rights Act, which we've already alluded to, Shelby County. But also there's an ...

Recorded on: Jul. 31, 2013

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: Thank you so much. Oh, it's wonderful to be here. I want to start by thanking Janet Siegel and PLI for hosting this. One of the great pleasures of doing the program is getting to be with Marty and also our fellow panelists. I'm going to quickly introduce you to the other panelists. And I'm going to do very short bios because, otherwise, we would spend a lot of time going through their tremendous qualifications. And others will ...

Recorded on: Jul. 31, 2013

DEAN ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: Good afternoon. We begin now with the criminal cases in the term focus, especially on criminal procedure. Joining us for this and the afternoon is Sherry Colb. One of the greatest joys of being a law professor is watching the tremendous success of my students. And Sherry has overcome the obstacle of being my student, in Federal Courts. Sherry is a Professor of Law and the Charles Evans Hughes Scholar at Cornell Law School. ...

Recorded on: Jul. 31, 2013

DEAN ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: Our last hour focus on business and property interest, of course, that overlaps with what we were just talking about in terms of business liability under Title VII. Marty, you had some points that you wanted to make before we had to take our break. PROFESSOR MARTIN A. SCHWARTZ: Well, the two decisions in the Title VII cases that Ted was talking about, these are the type of decisions that to me drive me to poetry. Because-- PROFESSOR ...

Recorded on: Jul. 31, 2013

SPEAKER 1: We'll now move to the next part of the program where we're going to look at civil litigation dispute resolution. And I get the pleasure of welcoming Tom Merrill who has now joined us. Tom is the Charles Evan Hughes Professor at Columbia Law School. He's previously taught for many years at Northwestern University Law School and Yale Law School. He's published widely in the area of both property law and constitutional law. We're delighted ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: First, we have Shelley Dropkin. She's the Deputy Corporate Secretary and General Counsel, Corporate Governance, and Managing Director at Citigroup. So, obviously, they're prominently involved in proxy issues. So it'll be very interesting to hear the inside counsel's perspective on what's going on there. We also have Linda Rappaport. She is a partner at Shearmam & Sterling. She's also held many, many senior management positions ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: OK. It's 1:30. So we're going to go ahead and get started. We're going to now cover derivatives, structured notes, and other alternatives to traditional offerings. And we're going to spend a few minutes explaining the importance of this to your practice. And it basically is impacting you in ways that you may not even anticipate. And also by being aware of a lot of these issues, you may see people come at your company in a different ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: Well, we're absolutely thrilled to be in the home stretch here, and we have two panels, as I mentioned. The first one is the M&A panel, and I'm just unbelievably thrilled that we have these two panelists here. First to my right is Dennis Block. He's a senior chairman, global corporate M&A practice, at Greenberg Traurig. He's had an illustrious history on the street. He is extremely active, now moved into more the middle market, ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: --with the next group of speakers that could come up, and I'll introduce them as they're coming. We have Andrew Siegel from Perella Weinberg, who is the general counsel there. So his firm has been quite involved in a lot of deals, particularly due to some litigation, where it became apparent that you had to have independent parties in certain M&A contexts, particularly with respect to fiduciary duties and opinions-- fairness opinions. And ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: Good morning. Thanks for coming today. We have an excellent program hopefully geared up for today as well where we'll go through a lot of different kinds of materials to give you an update on understanding securities laws and a lot of basics. I'm going to introduce our first panel, which I'm very excited about. To my immediate right is Frank Marinelli. He's at Simpson Thacher. He's an absolute expert in executive compensation, 13Ds, ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: OK, thanks. OK, we're going to go ahead and get started, because this is the all-important one-hour of ethics, which is often hard to get. But we're going to cover it in a very interesting way with a lot of substance interspersed with ethics. So it's not a typical boring-- hopefully-- reporting up seminar. We're really going to cover a lot of interesting issues, particularly in the labor field. Because there's a lot of new developments ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: So I'd like to introduce my two first co-panelists. To my right is Ken Josselyn. He's General Counsel for Finance and Corporate Legal at Goldman Sachs. He also spent a number of years, a lot of years, at Sullivan Cromwell. So he, again, has the in house experience that's very substantial and significant, as well as the law firm experience. He's also been very active and is a past chairman of SIFMA Capital Markets Committee. He's a ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: The first person who's coming up is Donna Dabney. She's the executive director at The Governance Center at The Conference Board, which is a very big role. She's really ramped that up. It's an important space to watch. She had a huge role for over 15 years at Alcoa, and prior to that, the Reynolds Metal Company, and she has a lot of insight on corporate governance matters. So we're thrilled to have her here today. We also have Dick ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: OK, we're going to go ahead and get started. Thank you for returning. To my immediate right is Adam Fleischer. He's a partner at Cleary Gottlieb. Cleary is one of the most active securities and M&A firms that I certainly see, not to mention the litigation and other practices. But I'm just actually thrilled that's he's here today. He does excellent materials. And their website is very good for publications, particularly with all ...

Recorded on: Jul. 30, 2013

N. ADELE HOGAN: OK. So we're back, and we're going to finish up the day on the liability. And we're going to try to make it a little bit entertaining by going through some hard core rules, which are just good to know, because it gives you ammunition when you go back your businesspeople and try to explain why you're being overly compliant, or requiring certain things. Sometimes it's good to have the background to share with people. And I'm thrilled ...

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: Jul. 23, 2013

LAWRENCE M. CIRELLI: Thanks, Carla. So our last session of the day, as I mentioned before the break, is Regulatory Trends-- Fraud and Other Issues on the Horizon. We are very pleased to have back, after a little bit of a hiatus, Les Hand. Les taught this class with me. I had a note in my old notes, my outline that I have here, that I wrote lES on the top because he said something in his presentation I wanted to follow up on, and that was probably ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

JOHN WHITE: All right. With that, I get to introduce our speakers. So our first speaker this morning is Len Svensson. He comes to us from the San Diego office of Birch, Stewart, Kolasch, and Birch. Len has been speaking for PLI for the better part of a decade at this point. He has a degree in biochemistry from University of Maryland and then a law degree from George Mason University. And he came out to California as part of the gold rush, I guess, ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

JOHN WHITE: Good afternoon. We are welcoming ourselves back, I'm welcoming you back to the last segment of our program today. We'll run until, I think, five-- BOB SPAR: Do you have questions on there? JOHN WHITE: --30? Yes. And we have some questions. We run until 5 o'clock, I'm sorry. I was too enthusiastic about this, 5:30. But we have some questions. Let me go over some questions we have from those on the web. And I'll try to extend this toward ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

LAWRENCE M. CIRELLI: OK. Good morning, everybody, and welcome back to the second session of the 2013 version of Basics of Accounting for Lawyers. We're going to start this morning, as we mentioned at the end of yesterday's session, with the cash flow statement. First, we're going to talk about insights from the cash flow statement, take a break, and then complete what the cash flow statement tells you. And we're going to end this morning's session ...