Category Archives: Programs (free)

Free One-Hour Briefing on SEC Adopts Money Market Fund Reform Rules

August 11, 2014 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

This briefing will focus on the implications and effects of the new money market reform rules, which a divided Securities and Exchange Commission adopted on July 23, 2014.
Please mark your calendar and join Jay G. Baris and Oliver I. Ireland, partners at Morrison & Foerster LLP, and Andrew J. Donohue, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP, for an important and lively discussion that will include:

What are the rules and how will they affect money market funds and their investors?
Will the new rules effectively eliminate “first mover advantage” and lessen the potential for contagion in redemptions?
Will the new rules satisfy the federal banking regulators?
Will the new tax relief rules address investor concerns?
What comes next?

Free One-Hour Briefing on Big Data Across the Atlantic – U.S. and E.U. Perspectives

August 5, 2014 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

Consumer data is fast becoming a currency in today’s digital economy. Global companies increasing rely on such data – and their ability to collect, analyze, and move it around the globe — to meet their business needs and the needs of their customers. However, they now face a shifting landscape of data protection obligations. Recent developments in the U.S., such as the release of the White House’s Big Data Report, and in the European Union, including the “Right to be Forgotten” decision, create tremendous uncertainty.
Please join a team of four Jones Day privacy experts, Paloma Bru from Madrid, Undine von Diemar from Munich, Michael G. Morgan from Los Angeles, and Katherine S. Ritchey from San Francisco, to discuss these developments and their implications on the privacy practices of global companies. The team will discuss:

The White House’s Big Data Report and the future of U.S. data regulation
Recent litigation in the U.S. on big data issues
The EU-US Safe Harbor scheme, including recent challenges in the E.U. to that scheme
Recent developments from the E.U., including the “Right to be Forgotten” decision
The practical impact of recent developments to businesses

Free One-Hour Briefing on BEPS: What’s Next?

July 31, 2014 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

Over the past year, the United States and other countries in the G-20 and the OECD have been working to develop and implement an Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, commonly referred to as “BEPS.” The Action Plan includes 15 “action items” and a tight timetable over the next 18 months for delivering the identified outputs.
In this One-Hour Briefing, John L. Harrington, partner at Dentons US LLP, and Robert B. Stack, U.S. Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary (International Tax Affairs) (invited) will discuss how these BEPS developments and proposals will affect U.S. companies with cross border activities. The program will focus on:

Likely recommendations regarding the digital economy, hybrid mismatch arrangements, abuse of tax treaties, and transfer pricing documentation and treatment of intangibles
What U.S. companies should be doing to prepare for the changes likely to result from BEPS
What U.S. companies should be doing to provide input in the process

Free One-Hour Briefing on SEC v. Obus: Insider Trading and Taking the SEC to Trial

July 29, 2014 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

On May 30, 2014, a ten-person jury in the Southern District of New York returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the defendants in SEC v. Obus, one of the longest-running insider trading cases in history. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP represented Nelson Obus, a New York-based hedge fund manager, in the SEC’s trial against him and two co-defendants for allegedly trading in the securities of SunSource, Inc. on the basis of material non-public information that the company was about to be sold. The jury’s verdict marks the end of a long fight by Mr. Obus to clear his name. The SEC first subpoenaed Mr. Obus and his co-defendants, as well as his hedge funds, in 2002 and filed the complaint in 2006. Gibson Dunn succeeded in winning summary judgment in the case in 2010, a ruling that was reversed by the Second Circuit two years later. Defendants proceeded to trial in May 2014, and the jury’s unanimous verdict came on May 30, 2014, after just one day of deliberations.
Please join Joel M. Cohen and Mary Kay Dunning of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as they discuss:

The classical and misappropriation theories of insider trading
Strategies for defending clients during the SEC investigation phase
Exploring case theories during discovery
Developing offensive trial themes
Countering SEC trial tactics
Dealing with old evidence and witness testimony
Tippee liability under SEC v. Obus
The SEC’s plan to pursue more insider trading actions administratively

Free One-Hour Briefing on Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer: Supreme Court Eschews Moench Presumption, But Recognizes Limitations on Stock-Drop Litigation Under ERISA

July 28th, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 pm. (E.D.T.)

Join this One-Hour Briefing and listen to attorneys involved in both sides of the Dudenhoeffer case, as well as an attorneyinvolved with the case for the Department of Labor, for a discussion of its background and impact. The discussion will be moderated by expert faculty who has hosted our series of Hot Topic Briefings on various ERISA cases as they are decided.

Please join Robert Long (Covington & Burling LLP), Professor Ronald J. Mann (Columbia Law School) and Thomas Tso (United States Department of Labor) for a free One-Hour Briefing on the Supreme Court’s decision on Fifth Third Bank v. Dudenhoeffer.

Attorneys of all backgrounds, expertise, and experience are welcome.

Free One-Hour Briefing on Helping Child Migrants: Learn How to Represent Children Who Need Immigration and Family Court Assistance

June 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

You can participate in this One-Hour Briefing and learn how to volunteer as pro bono counsel for an immigrant child. In the past eight months, the Customs and Border Protection announced that more than 47,000 children have been apprehended at the Southern border and placed in deportation proceedings. In some immigration courts, 12 to 15% of the dockets are unaccompanied minor children. Sadly, there is no right to free counsel for children in immigration proceedings. The children are primarily arriving on the Southern border and come from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador but children are also sent, sometimes against their will from many countries including China, South Asia and the Caribbean. The median age of the children being apprehended in 2014 is approximately 14 but even toddlers have been arrested and placed into removal poceedings.

Please join Professor Lenni B. Benson, Director of the Safe Passage Project, Deborah Lee, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigration Intervention Project, Sanctuary for Families and Lisa Frydman, Associate Director and Managing Attorney, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, for a free One-Hour briefing on Representing Unaccompanied Children Who Need Immigration and Family Court Assistance, and learn how you, too, can help.

Attorneys of all backgrounds, expertise, and experience are welcome. No prior immigration experience is needed.

Calling All Summer Associates! Free One-Hour Briefing on Making the Most of Your Law Firm Internship

June 2, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

There will be NO CLE Credit for this FREE One Hour Briefing.

There is good news and bad news for summer associates. Large law firms have traditionally used summer associate programs to find permanent associates, and most still do. But some firms have eliminated summer associate programs, and others hire far smaller summer classes. Firms’ expectations changed with the recession: summer associate programs are no longer seasonal recruiting extravaganzas characterized by light research or make-work assignments, ballgames, sunset sailing, and lavish meals. Partners assume their summer associates are capable of good legal work, but they’re looking for more.

To succeed in the summer and beyond, law students must take early opportunities seriously. Within the summer program, they must produce superior work, identify the firm’s culture and contribute to it, and create an impression of professionalism, discretion, reliability, and likability. This one-hour briefing, presented by Andrea Lee Negroni, Of Counsel at BuckleySandler LLP, is based on comments from hiring partners and summer associate managers of several midsize and large law firms. Ms. Negroni will share specific suggestions for law students seeking to make the most of summer associateships.

Free One-Hour Briefing on Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and the Roberts Court’s Vision of a Post-Racial America

May 19, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

In April, the United States Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to Michigan’s statewide ban on race and sex-based affirmative action. Although the vote was 6-2, the ruling produced no majority opinion for the Court. The plurality opinion repudiated the reasoning, but not the results, of an earlier line of decisions that had forbidden states from transferring authority over programs that benefit racial minorities from local to state decision makers. The ruling also produced a sharp disagreement over the continuing need for affirmative action and the social meaning of opposition to affirmative action.

Please join Cornell University Law School Professors Michael C. Dorf and Aziz F. Rana as they discuss:

The rise and fall of the “political process” doctrine that was repudiated in Schuette;
The constitutional status of race-conscious government decision making;
How Schuette fits with various Justices’ views about whether we are living in a “post-racial” society; and
The practical implications of Schuette.

Don’t miss this important free presentation!

Free One-Hour Briefing on the Supreme Court and Informational Privacy: Bringing the Fourt Amendment into the 21st Century

April 30, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

On January 17, 2014 the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases that will hopefully force it to bring the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century. In United States v. Wurie and California v. Riley, the Court will consider whether the police, after arresting an individual, may look at the contents of his or her cellphone. These cases may force the Court to confront a question that it has so far ducked: What is the Fourth Amendment’s protection for informational privacy? That is, to what extent should people be able to keep information from the government until it has probable cause to obtain it?

The presentation will address:

Emerging issues of technology and the Fourth Amendment
Recent cases concerning informational privacy and the Fourth Amendment
United States v. Wurie and California v. Riley

Register now for this free special event in celebration of Law Day and join Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law for this important discussion.

Free One-Hour Briefing on Legal Issues for Startups: What Non-Lawyer Entrepreneurs Need to Know

April 24, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

Early stage companies (startups) are critical to economic growth. But startups face complicated legal issues because of their limited financial resources, the dynamic phase of product development, their hiring requirements, and their pursuit of investment. Put simply: startups always have legal questions and never have money; attorneys have answers, but always cost money.

With a conversation that will speak to both non-attorneys (startups) as well as attorneys, please join Charles Belle (Executive Director at the Institute for Innovation Law at UC Hastings) and attorney Ken Priore (General Counsel of Grindr) as they provide an overview of the legal issues startups face from launch to Series A funding.
Specific topics include:

Understanding the lifecyle basics of a startup, from bootstrapped to Series A
Critical legal needs startups need to be aware of
When lawyers over lawyer: what startups don’t need
When startups should be charged for services and when not
Practical steps startups should consider in their funding options as they develop
The impact of the new crowdfunding legislation as a funding mechanism

Mark you calendar and don’t miss this important Free Briefing!