Category Archives: Programs (free)

Strategic Collaborations in Pro Bono Service Amongst Non-Profits, In-House Counsel and Law Firms (Free Program)

As National Pro Bono Celebration Week gets underway, how can we engage in more pro bono service? How can we leverage core competencies and collaborate strategically amongst non-profit organizations, in-house counsel, and law firms?

Please join David P. Hackett, Partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP and Editor of Pro Bono Service By In-House Counsel: Strategies and Perspective, Madeleine Schachter, Partner/Global Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Baker & McKenzie LLP; Bret I. Parker, Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; and Kwanza R. Butler, Senior Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at TimeWarner Inc. in a one-hour briefing about engaging in strategic collaborations in pro bono service.

This free PLI briefing will cover:

  • Finding and selecting pro bono opportunities
  • Creating teams of volunteer lawyers
  • Maximizing impact on community needs
  • Maintaining momentum in pro bono programs

October 20, 2011, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (E.D.T.)

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

300 Things You Can Do With A Law Degree
(Free PLI Program)

If you are considering how to better utilize your law degree, join Hindi Greenberg, a nationally known career consultant who herself practiced law for ten years and has written the best-selling Lawyer’s Career Change Handbook, and get practical ideas and pointers about the variety of job and career options that a lawyer can pursue. This is a free pro bono program brought to you by The State Bar of California and PLI.

Law students, practicing lawyers, unemployed lawyers, re-entry lawyers and anyone who has a J.D. and desires to find a good job in or out of law, and have more career satisfaction, will benefit from this program. Here’s what you will learn:

  • The possible uses for your legal training, both in and outside of the legal field
  • Ideas about jobs and categories that might fit who you are and what you want to do
  • How to go about seeking out those job opportunities
  • How to research the job market and make new contacts for employment
  • Begin identifying your skills and abilities and how they translate into new job or career possibilities
  • Illustrate how to restructure your resume and oral presentation about yourself so that an employer will understand your suitability for the job
  • Ways to best present yourself so that you can get a satisfying job, whether in or outside of law
  • Effective methods for networking and interviewing

Choose either the live or the Live Webcast program.

San Francisco and Live Webcast
October 20, 2011, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (PT)

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

Technology Licensing Basics: How to Research, Draft and Monitor a Technology License Agreement (FREE One-Hour Briefing)

October 6, 2011, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

This free One-Hour Briefing will give attorneys and law librarians a better understanding of the fundamental legal issues associated with technology licensing in the high technology and biotechnology industries; and will illustrate some key legal research issues and techniques that arise during these complex technology licensing transactions.

Our first speaker, Frank X. Curci, a West Coast-based technology attorney representing entities in both the high technology and biotechnology industries, will address some of the key issues that technology licensing attorneys need to consider as they prepare and negotiate patent and other high technology and biotechnology license agreements.  Our second speaker, Hope Porter, a head law librarian from an intellectual property law firm, will discuss fundamental research strategies and databases guidelines which support and augment a technology licensing practice.

Join our speakers as they:

  • Highlight some of the major competing interests of licensors compared to licensees
  • Identify some of the key legal research tools available to technology licensing attorneys
  • Demonstrate the resources a law librarian can access to assist in drafting and monitoring a technology license agreement.

This briefing was conceived and created in cooperation with Practising Law Institute (PLI) and the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY).  This briefing is chaired by Patricia Barbone, Gitelle Seer and Janice E. Henderson.

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

Researching High Yield Offerings – Tools and Resources to Help You Keep Pace

PLI and LLAGNY teamed up to offer a free one-hour audio briefing to librarians, researchers, attorneys, and allied professionals: Researching High Yield Offerings – Tools and Resources to Help You Keep Pace.  Thank you to everyone who attended.

Researching High Yield Offerings – Tools and Resources to Help You Keep Pace is the 3rd in a series of library one-hour briefing that PLI and LLAGNY have created.

PLI and LLAGNY will continue to produce this series of Library Programs in the One-Hour Audio Briefing format.  The response has been positive, both from an attendance and feedback perspective.  Are you interested in speaking at a future briefing?  Or do you have a specific topic you’d like to see covered?  If so, please send your suggestions to libraryrelations@pli.edu.

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings.

Free PLI Program – Roberts Court: A Review of Current Themes and a Look into the Future

The Roberts Court is about to complete its sixth term.  This is also the first term for Justice Elena Kagan and the second for Justice Sonia Sotomayor.  It is the first term in 25 years without Justice Stevens present.  What themes can be identified in the jurisprudence of the Roberts Court?  What have been its major decisions and what is its likely future direction?

This presentation will identify key themes concerning the Roberts Court, both in general and in specific areas, such as the First Amendment, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and business litigation.  It also will look to the future and the issues it likely will deal with soon, such as the constitutionality of the federal health care law, immigration regulation, and marriage equality for gays and lesbians.  Thus, coverage will include:

  • Roberts Court and the First Amendment
  • Roberts Court and civil procedure
  • Roberts Court and criminal procedure
  • Roberts Court and business litigation
  • A look to the future

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

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

Free PLI Program: Debt Ceiling Debate Raises Legal, Regulatory and Financial Issues

On April 27th PLI will offer a free program entitled Debt Ceiling Debate Raises Legal, Regulatory and Financial Issues.

In the ongoing partisan war over government spending and taxes the next battle is whether to raise the Federal Debt Ceiling.  Elected officials on both sides of the aisle are taking increasingly partisan positions.

Please plan to join Francis J. Aquila of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as he discusses these important topics:

  • What is the debt ceiling and why it needs to be raised
  • Why the debate over the debt ceiling could lead to further budget cuts for key regulatory agencies
  • How a protracted debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling could affect the capital markets
  • How a failure to raise the debt ceiling could lead to a default in U.S. government obligations
  • Why you and your clients will need to expect the unexpected if the debt ceiling is not raised on a timely basis

Debt Ceiling Debate Raises Legal, Regulatory and Financial Issues

Wednesday April 27th  2011, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

Free 1-Hour Briefing on Researching High Yield Offerings

PLI and LLAGNY have teamed up to offer another free one-hour audio briefing to librarians, researchers, attorneys, and allied professionals.  This is the third in our ongoing series.

Researching High Yield Offerings – Tools and Resources to Help You Keep Pace

The past two years have been two of the healthiest on record for high yield offerings.  With offerings continuing at a frenetic pace, this program will be relevant for researchers and attorneys whose capital markets practice includes high yield transactions. The program will cover the documents that make up a high yield offering, with a focus on how to cull useful information from those documents, and will highlight the free and fee-based resources best suited to support the research needs in this practice area.

Discussion topics include:

  • What is a high yield offering
  • Overview of high yield market
  • Private placements and public offerings
  • Description of notes
  • Mechanics of a high yield offering
  • Sources for general and market information
  • Sources for precedents
  • Researching documents

This briefing, featuring instruction from a noted corporate researcher and an experienced practitioner, was conceived and created in cooperation with Practising Law Institute (PLI) and the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY).  This briefing is chaired by Gitelle Seer, Janice E. Henderson, and Patricia Barbone.

What: Researching High Yield Offerings – Tools and Resources to Help You Keep Pace

When: May 5th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time

Presented by: Daniel J. Ferro – Manager, Corporate Resources Department, Fried, Frank, Harris & Shriver LLP and David A. Kanarek – Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

Free PLI Program on Representing Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Proceedings

On March 30th PLI will offer a free program entitled Scared and Alone: Representing Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Proceedings.

Each year, thousands of children travel alone to the United States.  Some are the victims of abuse or persecution, others of human trafficking or forced prostitution.  Some are placed into the custody of the U.S. government, others enter undetected.  All of them are in need of legal assistance to navigate the immigration proceedings.

Please join Diana Castañeda, National Legal Services Director at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and Noël L. Young, an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and KIND pro bono attorney, for a free One-Hour Briefing on Representing Unaccompanied Minors and learn how you, too, can help.

Topics to be addressed include:

* Definition of Unaccompanied Alien Children

* Forms of immigration relief available for UACs

* Practice tips for representing children, including ethical considerations

Scared and Alone: Representing Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Proceedings

March 30, 2011, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

New Patent Bar Exam is Coming (free program)

The Patent Bar Exam will be updated this year.  The changes are expected in April, according to the US Patent and Trademark Office.  If you are interested in learning more, PLI is holding a free One-Hour Briefing to discuss the changes.

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New Patent Bar Exam is Coming! PLI is Already There for You!

February 25, 2011, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  (E.S.T.)

The Patent Office recently announced that there will be a major update of the material tested on the Patent Bar Exam in April. PLI has been preparing for this change for years already. In this briefing, John M. White, PLI’s Director of Patent Professional Development and chief lecturer of PLI’s Patent Bar Review, will share the critical information and strategies for taking the Patent Bar Exam.

Topics to be addressed include:

• The new materials that will be tested on the Exam

• PLI’s preparations to make sure that you’re up to speed with everything tested on the Exam

• Strategies for taking the Exam into the foreseeable future

And for the most recent information, please visit the Patent Bar Review homepage, click here.

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings.

Dodd-Frank Research: Program Now Available

PLI and LLAGNY teamed up to offer a free one-hour audio briefing to librarians, researchers, attorneys, and allied professionals: Where in the World is Dodd-Frank? A Guide for Researchers.  Thank you to everyone who attended.

For anyone who missed it, the program was recorded and is available on the PLI website here.

Where in the World is Dodd-Frank? is the 2nd in a series of library one-hour briefing that PLI and LLAGNY have created.  The first program was held last September: An Introduction to Tax Research in the Library: The Crossroad Between Information and Practice.  That program is also available on the PLI website here.

PLI and LLAGNY will continue to produce this series of Library Programs in the One-Hour Audio Briefing format.  The response has been positive, both from an attendance and feedback perspective.  Are you interested in speaking at a future briefing?  Or do you have a specific topic you’d like to see covered?  If so, please send your suggestions to libraryrelations@pli.edu.

 

 

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings.