From the program: D.C. Circuit Rules on FCC 2015 TCPA Omnibus Order: What Does It Mean?

Released on: Apr. 10, 2018

Taken from the One-hour Briefing  Recorded April 2018 in New York D.C. Circuit Rules on FCC 2015 TCPA Omnibus Order: What Does It Mean? [Total RunTime: 01:05:30] The D.C. Circuit recently issued its long-awaited decision in ACA Int’l v. FCC , where it upheld certain FCC rulings from its 2015 Omnibus Ruling and Order and vacated others.  The decision keeps intact the FCC’s ruling on the ability to revoke prior consent ...

From the program: New York State Paid Family Leave Act: What You Need to Know Now

Released on: Apr. 4, 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), ...

From the program: Monetary Sanctions in Juvenile Court – Recent Developments

Released on: Apr. 3, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York Monetary Sanctions in Juvenile Court – Recent Developments [01:04:33] While regressive and discriminatory criminal justice fees have been described and critiqued in the adult system, the issue has received relatively little attention in the juvenile system. Nevertheless, the imposition of monetary sanctions is a regular feature of juvenile courts across the country. Such fees ...

From the program: Beyond the Fingerprint: The Legal Risks Involving Mobile Biometrics and Your Data

Released on: Mar. 30, 2018

Taken from the Web Program Recorded March 2018 in New York Beyond the Fingerprint: The Legal Risks Involving Mobile Biometrics and Your Data [01:06:13] As biometrics become more and more prevalent in smart mobile devices, the legal risks imposed by these technologies are becoming more prevalent as well.  In fact, the rapid evolution of technology in this market sector may outpace critical legal components for protection of your content on mobile ...

From the program: Not-for-Profit Organizations: Expanded Exposure to Fraud

Released on: Mar. 23, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York Not-for-Profit Organizations: Expanded Exposure to Fraud [01:05:15] Improprieties at a Not-for-Profit organization can cripple an organization in many ways including a loss of Federal and State funding, a dramatic drop in donor contributions, and a redirection of time and energy on the crisis and not on the organization’s mission-driven focus.  Board members and senior management ...

From the program: Reconciliation Act of 2017: The End of Permanency

Released on: Mar. 21, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York Reconciliation Act of 2017: The End of Permanency [Total RunTime: 01:02:46] The Reconciliation Act of 2017 was enacted on December 22, 2017. Sanford (“Sandy”) J. Schlesinger, the founding partner of Schlesinger Lazetera & Auchincloss LLP, will discuss the transfer tax aspects of the Act, including the following:  The major gift tax, estate tax and generation-skipping ...

From the program: Mediating Complex Financial Services Disputes

Released on: Mar. 21, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York Mediating Complex Financial Services Disputes [01:03:09] The mediation of disputes in the financial services industry provides principals and counsel a strategic and tactical opportunity to evaluate claims and defenses, communicate messages and glean information, and to structure creative and tailored resolutions that are often superior to traditional litigation outcomes.  This ...

From the program: Global Employee Communications and Overseas Translation Mandates: When Is It Not OK to Communicate with Overseas Workforces in English?

Released on: Mar. 20, 2018

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 only in English. Some multinationals—even some based outside the English-speaking ...

From the program: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018: Examining the Many Healthcare Provisions of a Law that Was Not Supposed to be About Healthcare

Released on: Mar. 19, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018: Examining the Many Health Care Provisions of a Law That Was Not Supposed to Be About Health Care [Total RunTime: 01:04:35] The recently-passed Bipartisan Budget Act included a handful of expected healthcare provisions, such as the so-called Medicare Extenders that enable continued payments to providers for particular services. The new law also contains ...

From the program: Syndication Process: A Buyer’s Perspective

Released on: Mar. 15, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York Syndication Process: A Buyer’s Perspective [01:04:20] This One-Hour Briefing presented by Samantha R. Koplik, partner in Dechert LLP’s global finance practice and Scott M. Zimmerman, partner and head of Dechert LLP’s leveraged finance practice, provides an introduction to the syndication process in a middle-market acquisition financing. The process will be explained ...

From the program: How to Leverage HR Processes, Tools, and Data to Optimize Your Compliance Program

Released on: Mar. 14, 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: Right to Privacy at the Border Under the Trump Administration

Released on: Mar. 13, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York Right to Privacy at the Border Under the Trump Administration [01:01:25] Imagine this: you’re returning to the United States after a quick business trip abroad. While going through customs, you are unexpectedly pulled to the side and brought in for secondary inspection. The officer asks for your cell phone and the password to access its content. What should you do? Well, the answer ...

From the program: Hidden Pension Potholes: Managing Defined Benefit Risk in M&A Transactions and the 2018 New Tax Rules Window of Opportunity

Released on: Mar. 8, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded March 2018 in New York Hidden Pension Potholes: Managing Defined Benefit Risk in M&A Transactions and the 2018 New Tax Rules Window of Opportunity [01:03:29] The volatility of the Defined Benefit (DB) plan funded status is often overlooked in M&A transactions.  Not only is it a challenge to identify the amount of underfunding to include in the purchase price but the volatility after the fact ...

From the program: M&A in the Age of Trump: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Released on: Mar. 7, 2018

Taken from the One- Hour Audio-only Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York M&A in the Age of Trump: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [01:01:56] President Trump ran on a pro-business platform.  A year into his presidency, it seems fitting to ask what impact the eponymous author of “Trump: The Art of the Deal” is having on M&A deal activity.   Join leading M&A practitioners and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP ...

From the program: Assessing Economic Damages: Key Considerations and Legal Issues

Released on: Mar. 6, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York Assessing Economic Damages: Key Considerations and Legal Issues [01:04:11] Understanding the legal theories of damages, quantification, and how to utilize an expert witness are critical in obtaining a favorable damages award.  In this practical session, an experienced damages expert and commercial litigator discuss legal developments, strategies and challenges in quantifying ...

From the program: Chinese Patent Developments

Released on: Mar. 5, 2018

Taken from the Audio-only One-Hour Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York Chinese Patent Developments [01:03:29] Even after becoming the largest national patent office in the world, the Chinese government did not slow down the pace of changes to its patent system to achieve the goals released in the ambitious plan prepared by China’s State Council at the beginning of 2017:  to increase intellectual property rights' quality, protection, ...

From the program: PTAB Trial Practice After Wi-Fi One: Challenges and Opportunities

Released on: Mar. 2, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York PTAB Trial Practice After Wi-Fi One: Challenges and Opportunities [01:03:37] On January 8, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its long-awaited en banc decision in Wi-Fi One LLC v. Broadcom Corporation. This decision softened the appeal bar of 35 U.S.C. 314(d), and in the process, opened up a new avenue for litigants dissatisfied with a PTAB’s ...

From the program: Enforcement (The SEC Speaks in 2018: Workshop C)

Released on: Mar. 2, 2018

Taken from the Web Program The SEC Speaks in 2018 Recorded February 2018 in Washington, D.C. Enforcement (The SEC Speaks in 2018: Workshop C) - Audio - only [01:02:28] Retail strategy matters FCPA matters Financial fraud and audit matters Complex financial instruments matters Broker-Dealer practices Market abuse and market structure matters Public finance abuse Speakers: Division of Enforcement Jeffrey Boujoukos, ...

From the program: Antitrust Issues with Joint Ventures

Released on: Mar. 1, 2018

Antitrust Issues with Joint Ventures [01:07:01] This One-Hour Briefing will analyze the potential antitrust ramifications of joint ventures and other collaborations between competitors and how to balance the pro-competitive efficiencies against the anti-competitive effects of a proposed JV.   Howard M. Ullman of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP discusses:  Recent cases and agency guidance regarding “naked” transactions;  ...

From the program: Primer on the Foreign Agents Registration Act ("FARA") 2018

Released on: Feb. 28, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York Primer on the Foreign Agents Registration Act ("FARA") 2018 [01:03:03] The Foreign Agents Registration Act ("FARA") is a criminal statute enacted in 1938 that only very recently has become the focus of a crackdown by the U.S. Department of Justice.  In addition to high profile FARA cases related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of the Trump Administration, practitioners ...

From the program: Managing Difficult Clients: Negotiation and Communication Tactics

Released on: Feb. 27, 2018

Taken from the One-hour Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York Managing Difficult Clients: Negotiation and Communication Tactics [01:03:34] Who is your most difficult client? Every lawyer has a story. Some difficult clients demand the moon by Friday while others send constant questions that slow you down. Some "overshare" while others hold back critical information. Some change their minds incessantly while others act stubbornly. And then, ...

From the program: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace - Legal Challenges

Released on: Feb. 23, 2018

Taken from the One-hour Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace - Legal Challenges [01:04:39] What is Artificial Intelligence ("AI"), and how do you address legal risks involving AI’s impact in the workplace and in making employment decisions?  Usage of AI in industry is becoming ubiquitous and poses complex legal challenges. However, barring changes in law, the current legal regimes ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing  Recorded February 2018 in New York Third Annual Dealing with MD&A Hot Topics [01:05:34] This One-Hour Briefing will help you effectively deal with current issues and the most challenging disclosures in MD&A.  The discussion will also include several ideas and tips to improve your MD&A and the related drafting process.   Discussion leaders Gary M. Brown and George M. Wilson, both workshop ...

From the program: Integrating Enterprise Risk Management, Cybersecurity and Compliance in an Era of Big Data Breaches and Vulnerability

Released on: Feb. 21, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York Integrating Enterprise Risk Management, Cybersecurity and Compliance in an Era of Big Data Breaches and Vulnerability [01:03:51] We live in an era of persistent information insecurity:  cyber breaches, data leaks, and the often-crippling consequences of these events for organizations and individuals dominate headlines and the public’s conscious.  Policy makers, regulators, ...

From the program: Marijuana Compliance Challenges in 2018 and Beyond

Released on: Feb. 20, 2018

Taken from the One-Hour Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York Marijuana Compliance Challenges in 2018 and Beyond [01:02:07] If you thought it would be easy to guide your client to success in the new marijuana industry, what were you thinking? Many variable provisions in many divergent state marijuana laws are topped by the persistent threat of federal prosecutions and federal financial sanctions and forfeitures. It may be that marijuana will ...