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From the program: Opioid Epidemic: Legal Issues, Patient Mismanagement, and a Path Forward

Released on: Nov. 3, 2017

Taken from the briefing Opioid Epidemic:  Legal Issues, Patient Mismanagement, and a Path Forward recorded October 2017 in New York. Opioid-related deaths in the United States have reached nearly 100 per day; opioid-related healthcare costs are nearing an estimated $100 billion annually. With this backdrop, in July 2017 Goldman Sachs released a report explaining how the increase in opioid use and abuse continues to contribute to the decline ...

Recorded on: Nov. 3, 2017

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is, Amy Taub, I'm a Program Attorney with PLI, a nonprofit learning organization. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Opioid Epidemic-- Legal Issues, Patient Mismanagement, and a Path Forward. Before I 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 material for ...

Course Handbook from the program 50th Annual Immigration and Naturalization Institute, held December, 2017.

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2018

Taken from the Web Program Wage & Hour Litigation and Compliance 2018 Recorded February 2018 in New York Top Wage & Hour Federal Developments in the Past Year [01:00:34] Overview of new and noteworthy wage and hour district court cases Cases at the appellate level Update on class waivers in arbitration agreements at the United States Supreme Court DOL update Panel Leader: Ellen C. Kearns Speaker: Bernie Mazaheri The purchase ...

From the program: Social Media 2018: Addressing Corporate Risks

Released on: Feb. 21, 2018

Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitter, Yelp, YouTube and other social media sites are transforming not only the daily lives of consumers, but also how companies interact with consumers. Indeed, even the largest, most conservative blue-chip corporations have embraced social media; one recent study reveals that, of the Fortune Global 500, 97% are on LinkedIn; 86% have Twitter accounts; 84% have a presence on Facebook; 66% have ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2018

JOHN F. DELANEY: Great Welcome back. It's 11:30. We're going to push forward and continue on, addressing another set of really important issues, if you are using social media to interact with customers and potential customers. And so we call this session Hot Topics in Social Media Advertising. Just very quickly, we got two web questions on the last panel. I'm just going to give quick answers. One person asked. "How does the DMCA safe harbor apply ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2018

JOHN DELANEY: So my co-speaker is Aaron Rubin. He's a partner at Morrison and Foerster San Francisco office. And he's co-chair of the firm's Technology Transactions Group. Aaron and I co-edit a blog focused on the types of issues we're discussing today. It's called Socially Aware. You can find it at sociallyaware.com. And what we try to do is capture best practices, emerging case law, and try to help educate our readers and alert them to new developments ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2018

JOHN F. DELANEY: Thank you. And I just reiterate we need your feedback, so don't be shy. Let us know what you liked, and other topics to address next year. So, several times throughout the morning we heard reference to company employees, maybe even CEOs, doing things they came to regret on social media-- which leads us to the topic of social media in the workplace. As social media becomes more prevalent in our lives, it's becoming very prevalent ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2018

JOHN F. DELANEY: Thank you, Willis. Congratulations, Victor. So we're in the final session. And again, as I mentioned, we always save the best for the last, since we first started this conference a couple of years ago. Because we have to cover so much ground in one day, we thought a good way to do that was to end with what we call the View from the Trenches, where some of the leading social media experts in the country-- these are the folks who at ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2018

JOHN F. DELANEY: So we're very fortunate to have two experts on privacy and data security issues helping us through the legal issues and connection with privacy and social media. To my immediate left is Lydia Parnes, who's a partner in the Washington DC office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she serves as Chair of that firm's privacy and data security protection practice-- sorry [INAUDIBLE] protection practice. Lydia represents companies ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York How to Leverage HR Processes, Tools, and Data to Optimize Your Compliance Program [Total RunTime: 01:04:40] This One-Hour Briefing seeks to bridge the HR-compliance gap by illustrating the value that best practices in each discipline hold for the counterpart.  The presenters will draw on their interdisciplinary experience as labor strategy experts, in-house counsel and executive ...

From the program: Sexual Harassment and Entertainment: How Attorneys Can Help Navigate a Way Forward for Survivors and the Industry

Released on: Mar. 13, 2018

Please note that this program may not offer Bias or Diversity & Inclusion credit in every jurisdiction. Check the credit information box to the right for the credit breakdown in your jurisdiction. For the past several months, allegations of sexual harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry perpetrated by high level male executives, producers and actors have the media, with new accounts announced each week.  These stories have opened ...

Recorded on: Mar. 12, 2018

FRANCES E. OLSEN: Go? OK. Welcome back. This is our final panel, and I think it's going to be very exciting. We have four speakers, whose biographies you should read in their original form. They're in the material. I will abbreviate them unconscionably. Bonnie S. Eskenazi, for the past 30 years, has handled some of Hollywood's most high-profile and landmark entertainment disputes from some of the industry's leading performers, directors, writers, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 13, 2018

Please note that this program does not offer Bias or Diversity & Inclusion credit in any jurisdiction. Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York Global Employee Communications and Overseas Translation Mandates: When Is It Not OK to Communicate with Overseas Workforces in English? [Total RunTime: 01:05:56] Many multinationals prefer the fast, easy, streamlined and cheap option of issuing regional and global employee communications ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2018

AMY: It's now my please to turn this briefing over to Randy Cook. RANDALL COOK: Thank you, Amy. And thank you for joining us this afternoon. We're now on slide two and we're just going to take a very brief moment to give you a bit of background on our perspectives that we each bring to this particular problem set. So as you can see, I have a background as an attorney both in government and also in-house, and most recently helping clients form a consulting ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2018

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI, a nonprofit learning organization. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Global Employee Communications and Overseas Translation Mandates: When is it Not OK to Communicate with Overseas Workforces in English. 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 ...

Recorded on: Mar. 28, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York New York State Paid Family Leave Act: What You Need to Know Now [01:04:45] The New York State Paid Leave Act is the most significant employment law in New York State since the passage of the New York State Executive Law (originally named the “Law Against Discrimination”) in 1945.  The fourth such state-level law of its kind in the country (and arguably the most comprehensive), ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2018

AMY TAUB: It is now my pleasure to turn this briefing over to David Feather. DAVID S. FEATHER: Thank you, Amy. And hello everyone. As Amy was saying, my name is David Feather, Feather Law Firm. It is a small employment and labor law firm located in Garden City on Long Island. And I do all aspects of employment and labor law, from discrimination to wage and hour issues, severance agreements, employment contracts, representing primarily employers. ...

Released on: Apr. 13, 2018

Please note that this program does not offer Bias or Diversity & Inclusion credit in any jurisdiction. In the aftermath of disasters, survivors face a wide variety of legal problems and barriers to recovery. This training will enable attorneys to help serve as “legal first responders” and will prepare attorneys to participate in disaster legal services pro bono efforts, including brief phone assistance, providing legal information ...

Recorded on: Apr. 9, 2018

SPEAKER: Hello, everybody. We're back to talk about two important issues that come up in disasters, employment issues and consumer issues. Our two speakers today are Maria Tapia-Hernandez, who joins us from Legal Aid at work in her office in San Diego. Maria is an attorney with the Community Legal Services Program and helped to launch the Worker's Rights Clinic in San Diego, working with the University of San Diego School of Law. Prior to this, she ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2018

Please note that this program may not offer Bias or Diversity & Inclusion credit in every jurisdiction. Check the credit information box to the right for the credit breakdown in your jurisdiction. Taken from the Audio-only Briefing Recorded April 2018 in New York Prevent, Detect, Correct: Creating and Sustaining a Work Environment Free from Unlawful Harassment and Unwanted Lawsuits [01:04:26] The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have drawn renewed ...

From the program: Understanding Employment Law 2018

Recorded on: Apr. 16, 2018

Taken from the Web Program Understanding Employment Law 2018 Recorded April 2018 in New York ADA Fundamentals [01:16:52] What is a disability? Reasonable accommodation considerations and alternatives Leave as an accommodation Interplay of ADA and other leave laws The purchase price of this Web Program segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online: Judicial Resistance to Teleworking as a ...