From the program: IP Issues in Business Transactions 2019

Released on: Feb. 14, 2019

Attorneys confront intellectual property issues frequently in the context of a variety of corporate, commercial, and other business transactions. By attending this program, you will acquire, update or refine an in-depth understanding of IP considerations as they arise in business transactions.  The program will begin with a brief update of key developments, and will explore the strategic role of IP in a company and its business transactions.  ...

From the program: Cybersecurity Best Practices for Legal Services Providers 2019

Released on: Feb. 11, 2019

Legal Services providers are under increasing pressure from government regulators and clients to insure that sensitive client data stored in law firm servers is secure. The Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, is taking a closer look at cybersecurity breaches in public companies – viewing them as fiduciary lapses. Legal services providers, like most vendors, are required to adhere to the same security standards as their clients. ...

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2019

Taken from the Web Program Intellectual Property Management for In-House Counsel Recorded February, 2019 in New York [01:01:02] What is intellectual property management and how can objectives in intellectual property management be met?  Presented in cooperation with ACC, this presentation will include a panel of seasoned legal operations and legal consulting professionals who will discuss: ·        ...

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2019

Why You Should Attend This online program will use an interactive, video format to demonstrate how motivated reasoning can lead attorneys to act unethically or remain silent in the face of unethical behavior. Furthermore, it will show how even after these ethical lapses, actors often continue to believe that they have done nothing wrong. The course will explain, in detail, what motivated reasoning is, describe and demonstrate the most common social-cognitive ...

From the program: International Tax Issues 2019

Released on: Feb. 12, 2019

As the world’s economies grow increasingly integrated through trade, acquisitions and joint ventures, U.S. international tax laws impact a greater percentage of businesses and transactions. These international tax rules affect not only large U.S. and non-U.S. based multinationals, but also increasingly affect mid-sized and smaller organizations and investors, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial activity.  ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2019

Taken from the Audio-only Briefing Marketing and Selling Products in the EU: Challenges, Traps and Opportunities Recorded February 2019 in New York Marketing and Selling Products in the EU: Challenges, Traps and Opportunities [01:07:09] This Briefing focuses on typical obstacles facing U.S. entrepreneurs when doing business in the EU. The speakers, experienced IP and marketing law experts in Germany and Sweden, will address mandatory requirements ...

From the program: Domestic Violence 2019: Skills and Key Considerations in Custody and Visitation Cases

Released on: Feb. 15, 2019

Full scholarships and discounts to attend PLI programs are widely available to attorneys working in nonprofit/legal services organizations; pro bono attorneys; government attorneys; judges and judicial law clerks; law professors and law students; senior attorneys (age 65 and over); law librarians and paralegals who work for nonprofit/legal services organizations; unemployed attorneys; and others with financial hardships. We encourage all eligible ...

From the program: Basic Immigration Law 2019: Business, Family, Naturalization and Related Areas

Released on: Feb. 15, 2019

Full scholarships and discounts to attend PLI programs are widely available to attorneys working in nonprofit/legal services organizations; pro bono attorneys; government attorneys; judges and judicial law clerks; law professors and law students; senior attorneys (age 65 and over); law librarians and paralegals who work for nonprofit/legal services organizations; unemployed attorneys; and others with financial hardships. We encourage all eligible ...

From the program: Current Developments in Federal Civil Practice 2019

Released on: Feb. 15, 2019

Are you up-to-date on the important developments in federal civil practice and the implications of these developments for your cases? At this program, a distinguished faculty of trial lawyers and judges will provide a dynamic overview of significant recent developments in the law and offer their insights.  The program will focus on the impact of these developments on best practices throughout the life of a federal litigation. This program will ...

From the program: Asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Crime Victim, and Other Immigration Relief 2019

Released on: Feb. 15, 2019

Full scholarships and discounts to attend PLI programs are widely available to attorneys working in nonprofit/legal services organizations; pro bono attorneys; government attorneys; judges and judicial law clerks; law professors and law students; senior attorneys (age 65 and over); law librarians and paralegals who work for nonprofit/legal services organizations; unemployed attorneys; and others with financial hardships. We encourage all eligible ...

From the program: Giving Life at the “End of Life” – Legal Considerations

Released on: Feb. 15, 2019

Taken from the Audio-only Briefing Giving Life at the “End of Life” – Legal Considerations Recorded February 2019 in New York Giving Life at the “End of Life” – Legal Considerations [01:04:45] There is a national severe shortage of transplantable organs, and it is has never been more important that every person involved in the process of organ donation and transplantation, from the attorneys advising ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2019

CYRUS D. MEHTA: I think with that, we'll get started with our morning program. And I wanted to introduce my co-panelist Lindsay. Lindsay I've known for many years is a solo practitioner and her practice includes employment and family-based non-immigrant and immigrant visas as well as waivers, removal defense, and US citizenship and naturalization issues. She's also been an adjunct professor at New York Law School and others. She's the co-author of ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2019

CYRUS D. MEHTA: OK, hello. Welcome back. So now we're going to talk about immigrant visa categories. And again, we have two very notable practitioners who are also very experienced in speaking to PLI audiences. So to my far left is Deborah Notkin, who is a partner at Barst Mukamal and Kleiner. And she maintains a large international immigration law practice. She's been the past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She is on ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2019

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Hello, I'm glad everybody has stayed on, and we have reached the very last session. It's going to be one-and-a-half hours. And it's interesting, because we try to combine many topics. And if we had more time, we would have had separate panels, but we tried to combine it all together in this last panel. And I think that's what makes it, kind of, a little interesting for both the speakers and the audience. So we're going to have an ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2019

CYRUS MEHTA: OK. Welcome back. We continue our program, and we start with Ethical Issues in Immigration Practice. We have a terrific panel of-- I can't think of anyone on this panel who would be more qualified than the three to my left. So to my extreme left is Victoria Neilson, who will be moderating the panel. Victoria is a senior attorney at Catholic Legal Immigration Network where she works in the Defending Vulnerable Populations project. She ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2019

CYRUS D. MEHTA: OK. So while the next panel is coming up and settling down, I just thought I would introduce the panel and the speakers. The panel is entitled Inadmissibility and Removability-- Grounds, Consequences, Custody, and Immigration Court Proceedings. And so all this while, we've been talking about benefits. We spoke about ethics, and now we're speaking about what kind of enforcement actions can immigration take to put people in removal, ...