Transcripts

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 ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: All right, so in the next one hour, we are going to discuss nonimmigrant visa categories. So remember, I told you that you can either be an immigrant or a nonimmigrant. So let's start with, who are the nonimmigrants, and what visas are applicable to them? And we have an extremely distinguished panel who have been doing it before for years. So they're not only seasoned practitioners, but they're also seasoned presenters at PLI conferences. So ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: OK, so we'll get moving with the next panel. We spoke about how people get into removal and deportation proceedings. This panel will generally speak about how people can seek relief from removal and deportation. And just relief in general, because asylum can be sought even administratively outside the removal context. So we do have a great panel. And it's going to be a long panel-- 1 hour, 15 minutes. Each speaker will have 25 minutes ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

BARRY P. BARBASH: This morning we're starting with the topic of litigation in the investment management, the asset management area. It's been a busy year. I would venture to say a little bit toned down from a couple of years past, although, we'll see whether that's really the case from the experts. I'm joined today by two very prominent litigators in the asset management area and two good friends of mine. To my immediate right is Jim Benedict, a ...

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. 14, 2013

RAYMOND GIETZ: I didn't see you. I'm going to start with a discussion of basic structuring of US deals. And the rules we think about in terms of structuring both corporate and tax are jurisdiction specific. So again, this is focused on the US. Sarah will talk in a little bit about cross-border transactions. But when we talk about asset, stock, and mergers, keep in mind this is only the US. Two categories of considerations I'll be commenting on as ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

IGOR KIRMAN: OK. Why don't we get started? Welcome back everyone from your break and to those of you on the web. So let me first introduce this panel, in which I'll participate as well. I've already introduced myself. So my co-conspirators here. This is what I call an ex Sullivan and Cromwell panel because all three of us were actually at Sullivan and Cromwell in the late 1990s. We were there together. We overlapped so we're friendly and we moved ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

IGOR KIRMAN: We're going to get started again with the third panel. So welcome back for those of you here in New York and those of you even more of you on the web. So I want to introduce this panel, which as I previewed with you this morning, this is the meatiest of the panels. And we talked a little bit about structuring. We talked about preliminary agreements, the role of investment bankers, all of which help you get the deal started. But then, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

IGOR KIRMAN: OK, why don't we get started with the last panel today. And this is the moment you've been waiting for, the name of the new pope. It's Pope Francis of Argentina. This is the hostile panel. I warned you about these guys in the beginning. This is where a lot of the things that we've been talking about, the basic things we've been talking about today come together in a non-consensual M&A transaction. And those of us who do regular M&A ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

S. LYNN MARTINEZ: So we are now being joined by Phong Wong, who is the pro bono director of Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Prior to becoming the pro bono director, she worked in housing for many years, mostly around slum housing litigation, eviction defense, and subsidized housing, and housing redevelopment. Phong has also worked on access to court issues, including fee waiver issues with Western Center on Law and Poverty and at LAFLA. And ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

LYNN MARTINEZ: So at this point, we're going to start with our first session. To my far right is Laura Lane. Laura Lane has directed the housing practice at East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley for many years. She joined in 1997 as a supervising attorney. She also teaches housing law and policy at the University of California Berkeley School of Law as well as the Golden Gate University School of Law. She recently authored a chapter on residential ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

SPEAKER 1: OK, everybody, we're going to start. Take your seats. Philip Morgan-- SPEAKER 2: You should call out Dean Preston too. SPEAKER 1: We're moving on now to subsidized housing and evictions and program terminations for subsidized housing tenants. You all know Kent. We're also joined this session by Navneet Grewal, who also works at Western Center on Law and Poverty, in Los Angeles, with me. She's the staff attorney there, focusing solely ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my name is Amy Taub. And I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Mediation and Settlement--Real World Strategies. 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 Question tab in the program ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

S. LYNN MARTINEZ: OK, you all. It's four o'clock. We're going to get started for our last session. One more hour to go. Hang in there. OK, so our last session is Fee Waivers, Requests for Jury Trials, and Appellate Division Writs. And we now are formally being introduced to Christian Abasto, who is the Director of Litigation at the Public Law Center in Santa Ana. Previous to joining PLC, he was with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles for many ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

S. LYNN MARTINEZ: OK. Can you hear me out there? Yes? OK. So we are now going to move into our sessions about more specific types of tenancies. This one will be about foreclosure, tenants living in foreclosed homes. I'm joined here by Dean Preston from Tenants Together. He's the founder and executive director of the organization, which is California's only statewide organization for renter's rights. Previous to founding Tenants Together, Dean was ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2013

GERALD STEIN: OK, we're going to move right into our next panel. And I wasn't kidding. That was an excellent segue to our next panel, because Lauren Aguiar and Michael Paskin are going to talk about how to use the deposition transcripts, both in the summary judgment context and at trial. Lauren is a litigation partner at Skadden Arps and has vast litigation experience, which you can, again, reference in your materials. And Michael Paskin is a partner ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2013

GERALD A. STEIN: OK, thanks very much everybody. We're going to try to keep this rolling on time. The first panel, we talked mainly about preparing yourself for taking a deposition. And we're going to switch gears a little bit now, and talk about how you prepare the witness, and defend a deposition. So with us now are two phenomenal litigators. I've known Lori Pine since the days I had more hair. And I've known Hillary actually from this panel. So ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2013

GERALD A. STEIN: OK, welcome back, everybody for our final panel, and I'm glad you're here, because this is a really fascinating area of our presentation today. Because in every deposition, both preparing for deposition and in taking depositions, they are always ethical dilemmas that arrive so it's appropriate we're doing this at the end, and I'm glad you're here for it. Because this is actually what one of the-- I mean, not that any panel was not ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Well, thank you everyone for coming back. We hope you enjoyed the morning session. And we're going to shift gears a little bit in the afternoon session. And whereas in the morning, we talked about preparing and defending fact witnesses, this afternoon we're starting off with a panel on expert depositions. And we have three terrific panelists for that. Carla Mulhern actually is an expert witness. And she's an economist at Analysis Group. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 8, 2013

KENNETH M. KAUFMAN: Thanks very much, Tamara. I just wanted to get a sense of those of you in the audience, how many of you are lawyers this morning? OK. And how many of you devote a significant amount of your practice to entertainment law? And how about book publishing? OK, so there are a number of you. It's good to see so many of you here this morning. This morning, initially, we'll be talking about book publishing, which is an area of major current ...

Recorded on: Mar. 8, 2013

TAMARA C. KIWI: Welcome back everybody. Hope you had a good lunch. We are into the final session of the day. And it's my pleasure to introduce you to the co-chair of our program, Howard Siegel, to my immediate right. Howard is a senior partner in Pryor Cashman's Entertainment Group. He has more than 40 years of experience in representing clients in all aspects of the entertainment business, with a particular emphasis on the music industry, during ...

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. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2013

TAMARA C. KIWI: OK. Welcome back, everybody. I hope you had a good lunch. It is my pleasure now to introduce you to the co-chair of our program, Howard Siegel. Howard is a senior partner in Pryor Cashman's Entertainment Group. He has more than 40 years of experience in representing clients in all aspects of the entertainment business, with a particular emphasis on the music industry, during which time he has served as counsel to many of the industry's ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2013

KEN: Thanks very much, Tamara. This morning we're going to have a panel on the sound recordings. And I'd like to introduce our two panelists this morning. To my immediate right is Julie Swidler, who is Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel of the Sony Music Entertainment here in New York. Julie has worked in the music industry for over 25 years, and has worked for both labels, corporate departments, and music publishing ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my Name is Amy Taub. And I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Health Care Reform, an Employer's Essential Guide. 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 tab ...