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Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello, my name is Amy Taub. And I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, International Banking Part Two-- Farm Banks Accessing the US Markets. 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: Mar. 21, 2013

JANET SIEGEL: It is now my pleasure to introduce to you the chair of this afternoon's program. David Gossett serves as the assistant general counsel for litigation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he leads the group of lawyers who defend the Bureau in litigation, as well as handling all appellate and amicus litigation for the bureau. Previously, he was a partner in the Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice at Mayer Brown. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 21, 2013

DAVID GOSSETT: As I said at the beginning of this afternoon, brief writing is one of the most important parts of oral argument-- of appellate advocacy. Oral argument is clearly the other most important part of oral advocacy. And you are in for a real treat now to have Roy Englert and Kevin Newsom here to discuss oral advocacy with us. Roy is one of the founding partners of Robbins Russell Englert Orseck Untereiner & Sauber in DC, which is a small ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

SCOTT ATLER: All right. We're gonna go right into the next session which is gonna be hot topics in technology transfer. We have a couple of great speakers to talk to us about this topic today. The first is Cheryl-- CHERYL FRAGIADAKIS: Thank you. SCOTT ATLER: --Fragiadakis who is head of technology transfer and intellectual property management at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. That lab is the oldest US national laboratory operated for ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

JOHN WHITE: Hello, welcome back. It's time for our last hour together. That's right, we're here. I know, sadness, because it's almost over. And there's nothing like two days of patent fun bringing us all together. So I have a few things. Number one, thank you all for coming. And the thing we want back from you are your evaluations. This can be accomplished on those iPads in front of you. And there are two tabs, one for faculty and one for content. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

SPEAKER 1: OK, we're going to go ahead and get restarted. Welcome back, everyone. We are here at the Patent Markets panel. A lot has been happening, as most of you know, with relation to patents, and buying and selling and brokering of them, as of late. We're fortunate to have several people here today, very knowledgeable this area, to talk to us about some of these issues. To my immediate right, your left, is Kevin Barhydt, who is Vice President ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

ANN S. MAKICH: So good morning again, everybody. It's 11:15 and we're going to start part two of our presentation. And the main focus in the second half, after the meat and potatoes of financial statements in the first half-- thank you, Chad-- is to talk a little bit about applying some of the concepts and data that we learned in the first half to practical legal practice in three main areas. The first is due diligence and disclosure and understanding ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

CHAD RUCKER: Thank you so much for coming out today. We have a very, very exciting panel here today. Joining me today we have Gopal Burgher. Gopal Burgher is a partner at Burgher Gray Haile & Jaffe. And Gopal's principal areas of practice include capital markets, complex finance transactions, real estate, community development transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and general corporate matters. In the capital markets and complex ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

DOUGLAS NEMEC: Welcome back, everybody. We'll get started with the first plenary session of the day. We're going to spend the next hour talking about litigation involving non-practicing entities, or patent-assertion entities, or patent trolls-- whatever term you prefer. When I started practicing-- it really wasn't all that long ago, in the 1990s-- these terms really didn't exist. Patent troll was a really unattractive patent lawyer, and a non-practicing ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

SCOTT ALTER: So to keep things on time, we're gonna go ahead and get started. This is the corporate counsel panel also known as what keeps corporate in-house counsel up at night. And for that we have some outstanding corporate counsel to talk about these issues with us. Too close. Stay a little bit away from the microphone, I'm told here. Our first panelist is T. J. Angioletti who is Associate General Counsel, Technology Transactions for Netflix. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

DOUGLAS R. NEMEC: So we'll moving into developments in pharmaceutical and biotech patent litigation, a topic that's of interest, I think, to a narrower group of the audience than perhaps some that we've been covering. But to those of us who practice in that area, it's an area of great interest and one where there's really a lot going on in recent months and recent years. I'm happy to turn the program over to Asim Bhansali, who's a partner at Keker ...

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

[? DOUGLAS R. NEMEC: Brian ?] managed to cover about 800 pages of Federal Register reports on Patent Office rule-making. We'll now turn it over to Denise De Mory to cover 800 or more pages of court decisions from the last year from Supreme Court, Federal Circuit, and other courts. You've got a challenge on your hands there. Denise is a founding partner at Bunsow, De Mory, Smith, and Allison in Silicon Valley. She's got about 20 years of experience ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Our next panel is evidence for social media. So this is a little bit of a different angle than we were talking about with the first panelists. And one of the panelists will be my partner, Francesca Morris. Francesca is a partner at Holland & Knight. Her practices include litigation and dispute resolution, international litigation and arbitration, bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors rights. She advises and represents foreign and ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

RICHARD RAYSMAN: All right. Our first panel today is going to be talking about ethics in social media, obviously. And we're going to have, really, a panel discussion, which I think will be quite interesting. At least in my mind view, it's been a pretty good format. So I wanted to introduce our three panelists. All the way to your left, to my right, one of our panelists is Sofia Rahman. She's the global social media attorney for Citi's Consumer Businesses. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

RICHARD RAYSMAN: OK, we're back. And we're back online, as well. Our next topic is attorneys and social media. And there are just two speakers-- myself and Ignatius Grande, who is to my right, your left, who's a senior e-discovery attorney and director of the practice support at Hughes Hubbard & Reed. In his role, at Hughes Hubbard, Ignatius develops and implements strategies to ensure that the firm's clients receive the highest quality of litigation ...

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: Mar. 18, 2013

SCOTT A. LESSNE: Thank you, Ed. For those of you who are following along in the book, the narrative section starts on page 211, and the PowerPoint presentation starts on page 373. So before we start sort of delving into the details of receivables, I want to step back, for a second, and talk a little bit about just asset-based lending, from a slightly different perspective. I spent 20 years in-house watching the sausage being made. And also doing ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

EDWIN SMITH: It's very important that you do the evaluations. We look at those every year to try to determine who to keep on the panel and who to throw off. I'd now like to introduce, as my colleague on this session, June Basden, from Carruthers & Roth in Greensboro. JUNE BASDEN: And that's Greensboro, North Carolina. EDWIN SMITH: There we go. Right. And so we're here to talk about bankruptcy related issues for asset-based lenders. We're going ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

EDWIN E. SMITH: Before we start with Marshall and Inventory Financing, we did have one question, which was, how is Puerto Rico treated under Article 9? And the answer is, well. Puerto Rico has the most advanced Article 9 of any state of the United States, if it were a state. But Puerto Rico adopted the 1999 revisions to Article 9 in January. And as part of that adoption it also enacted the 2010 Amendments to Article 9, which everywhere else had a ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

EDWIN E. SMITH: OK. Welcome back, everyone. And let me introduce a couple of new panelists that we have up here. Is June up here? I didn't see. Oh, she's over in the corner. She'll be up later. But Joanne DeSilva is with me, who is one of my partners at Bingham who is involved in a lot of asset-based lending, and the two of us are going to talk about a few little tidbits here. I'll mention briefly non-UCC liens, then we're going to go into intercreditor ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

CHRISTINE GOULD HAMM: Thank you, Ed. OK. Good morning. We're going to start off nice and easy. I know it's Monday morning at the time change just happened, so it feels much earlier than it is, even. So we'll start off nice and easy and we'll probably get to some more challenging and interesting topics as we move along. So Equipment Financing-- in your course handbook if you're following along there, the materials are at page 127, the presentation ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

EDWIN SMITH: So at this point, we're going to go into ethics in asset based lending that some of you may say is an oxymoron. But we're going to try to deal with some ethical problems. And Christine Gould Hamm and myself are going to try to walk through these. Other panelists are encouraged to speak up, as is the audience. JUNE BASDEN: I made it so I would not be in the middle of the discussion. EDWIN SMITH: And I hope we get more from our people ...

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 ...