Employment Issues When Buying/Selling Companies - On Demand - Expires 3/12/16

Labor, Employment and Benefits Legal Issues When Buying and Selling Companies

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute


Item# 56590

Lecture Topics: 

Taken from the briefing Labor, Employment and Benefits Legal Issues When Buying and Selling Companiesrecorded March, 2014.

Buying and selling companies raises a number of difficult legal and practical issues that transactional, compensation and employment lawyers – both in-house and outside counsel – must navigate successfully for their clients.

Listen to Samuel Estreicher, Laurence M. Moss and Ronald E. Richman of the Employment and Employment Benefits practice group of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.

Lecture Topics

Labor law issues in buying or selling a union-represented business or property, including: 

• Asset sale or stock sale?
• Decision bargaining or merely "effects" bargaining?
• Do you need to hire the seller's employees?
• Do you need to worry about employment issues at all if the union-represented employees are not direct employees of the seller, but, rather, employees of a managing company or other vendor?
• Special rules for NYC building service workers?

Employee benefit plan considerations related to an acquisition, including: 

• Which entity is the sponsor of the employee benefit plans?
• Will the employee benefit plans be acquired in connection with the transaction?
• Does the company or its affiliates sponsor a defined benefit pension plan or provide retiree medical benefits?

Executive compensation issues related to an acquisition, including: 

• How will equity based compensation be treated in the transaction?
• Will severance provisions in employment arrangements be triggered by the transaction?
• Will the executives be subject to parachute excise taxes and can they be avoided?

FREE!

CLE Credit: 1.00 unit

On Demand - Expires 3/12/16

For further information see:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Labor_Employment_and_Benefits_Legal_Issues/_/N-4nZ1z12c48?ID=217087&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

Limited Representation– On Demand - 1-1/2 Ethics - Expires 4/29/16

Limited Scope Representation 2014: Ethical & Practical Challenges

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute

To respond to the access to justice crisis facing the legal system, the civil legal services community and the judiciary have partnered in the expansion of services based on limited scope representation models.

In limited scope representation, known as unbundled legal services in the private sector, an attorney takes responsibility for only a portion of a client’s case. It offers a partial solution to the access to justice crisis facing the legal system by enabling volunteer attorneys and law students to assist unrepresented litigants on a “limited scope” basis. Information tables, drop-in legal clinics, websites and help lines are all models in which an attorney takes a limited role in assisting a client with a legal issue.

This program will address the ethical and practical issues, as well as best practices, in limited scope representation models.

FREE!

CLE Credit:   2.00
  Ethics:  1.25
  General:  0.75

Online

On Demand - Expires 04/29/16

For additional information:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Limited_Scope_Representation_2014_Ethical/_/N-4nZ1z12evu?ID=173794&t=CHZ4_8AEM1&utm_source=8AEM1&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=CHZ4

Education Discrimination - On Demand - Expires 5/07/16

Disability Discrimination Update

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute

Taken from the Web Program Higher Education Law 2014: Current Issues and Recent Developments

Item# 57884, Recorded May 2014 

Lecture Topics 

• Overview of general discrimination law applicable in the university setting

• Accommodating students with disabilities in the university setting

• Assessing and dealing with "direct threat" issues (focus on mental health)

• Medical privacy issues (including records access)

• Affirmative action requirement for federal contractor universities

• NYC Human Rights law changes complicating the reasonable accommodation process

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Speakers:

Samuel Estreicher - Of counsel with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Holly H. Weiss - Partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Mark E. Brossman - Partner and co-head of the Employment & Employee Benefits Group, at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

FREE!

CLE Credit: 1.00 unit  Expires 5/07/16

For further information see:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Disability_Discrimination_Update/_/N-4nZ1z12d4g?ID=222770&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

Ethics for Accountants and Attorneys - On Demand – Expires 5/14/16

Current Topics in Professional Ethics for Accountants and Attorneys

Taken from the Web Program Basics of Accounting for Lawyers 2014: What Every Practicing Lawyer Needs to Know recorded May, 2014 

Sponsored by the Practising Law Institute

Item# 58064

Matters discussed:

As law, accounting and finance continue to intersect, every practicing attorney should be alert to areas of ethical risk, learn from the mistakes of others, and have a basic understanding of accountants’ ethical requirements, as well as those of the legal profession.

This segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online:

• The Ethical Implications of Attorney Collaborations with Accounting Experts
  John J. Molenda, Ph.D., T.C. Fleming

Presentation Material

• The Ethical Implications of Attorney Collaborations with Accounting Experts
  John J. Molenda, Ph.D.

FREE!

CLE Credit:  1.50 units Ethics

On Demand – Expires May 14, 2016

Online

For more information follow the link below:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Current_Topics_in_Professional_Ethics_for/_/N-4nZ1z12ev2?ID=223280&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

Residential Loan Servicing – On Demand – Expires 5/19/15

New Developments in Residential Loan Servicing: State, Federal and Programmatic Laws, Regulations and Standards 

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute

The rules of the road for residential mortgage servicing have changed significantly since the crash in 2008. Since then, a wide variety of agencies, including Congress, federal banking regulators, state attorneys general and the California legislature, have all sought to improve loan servicers’ practices, particularly in connection with the loss mitigation process. The result is a series of overlapping rules, laws and regulations – from the Dodd-Frank amendments to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act to the National Mortgage Settlement to the new California Homeowner’s Bill of Rights – that can be difficult to navigate. View this training for an in-depth look at what’s new and what’s different, including an update on recent rulemaking by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Practitioners will review significant developments and discuss how to identify and address loan servicing abuses.

Lecture Topics: 

• Loss Mitigation 
  Lisa Sitkin, James Zahradka
• The New CFPB Loan Servicing Rules 
  Lisa Sitkin, James Zahradka
• Using the New Rules of the Road to Combat Loan Servicing Abuses 
  James Zahradka, Elizabeth S. Letcher

FREE!

On Demand – Expires 5/19/15

CLE Credits:  3.00 units

For further information see:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/New_Developments_in_Residential_Loan_Servicing/_/N-4nZ1z12gi0?ID=169880&t=YGK4_8AEM1&utm_source=8AEM1&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=YGK4

Privacy and Security Litigation - On Demand - Expires 5/20/16

Hot Topics and Trends in Privacy and Security Litigation  

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute

Item# 58199

• A look at the top issues in privacy and security litigation
• How companies can best respond
• Is class action litigation getting traction?
• What’s next: Where is privacy and security litigation headed?

Includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online:

• Privacy Policies & a Checklist for Drafting a Privacy Statement (2014)
  Ian C. Ballon
• Defending Data Privacy Class Action Litigation (2014)
  Ian C. Ballon
• Security Breach Litigation (2014)
  Ian C. Ballon
• State Security Breach Notification Compliance (2014)
  Ian C. Ballon
• This Ain’t Mad Men: How to Navigate Federal and State Privacy and Marketing Laws in the Information Age: A Handbook For In-House Marketing and Privacy Specialists and Generalists
  James G. Snell
• The Evolving Landscape of Healthcare Data Security: A View From the Trenches (June 16–17, 2014)
  Matthew H. Meade
• Hot Topics and Trends in Privacy and Security Litigation (June 17, 2014)
  Michael Vatis

FREE!

CLE Credit: 1.00 unit  Expires 5/20/16

For further information see:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Hot_Topics_and_Trends_in_Privacy_and_Security/_/N-4nZ1z12esj?ID=223863&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

Effective Client Communication - On Demand - Expires 5/22/16

Effective Communication with the Legal Services Client

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute

Item# 58322

As states enact new pro bono requirements and ease some restrictions on pro bono representation, it is becoming more important than ever for lawyers to understand the unique challenges posed by pro bono clients. PLI’s first open interactive course is free to anyone who wants to learn more about how to meet the unique challenges posed by pro bono clients. This course will teach new attorneys and seasoned professionals how to work effectively and cooperatively with their pro bono client.

What you will learn

You will learn proper techniques for getting to know your pro bono client including:

You will learn how to communicate effectively with your pro bono client by:

You will learn how to educate your pro bono client about the legal process by:

You will learn how to help your pro bono client make informed choices by:

• How to identify common problems that clients living in poverty have with access to resources (e.g., transportation, child care, Internet access).

• How to create an environment where clients living in poverty feel safe enough to communicate fully and honestly with their lawyer.

• Implementing strategies for establishing a trusting and productive relationship with a client living in poverty.

• Recognizing the signs of poor literacy skills, especially reading comprehension, and make the necessary accommodations.

• Establishing effective lines of communication with clients whose native language is not English.

• Preparing clients for meetings and courtroom appearances.

• Setting expectations for client behavior in court.

• Preparing clients for how judges and other court personnel may speak to them and treat them.

• Explaining legal options, the negotiation process, and court proceedings in a manner that is understandable to the client.

• Developing and documenting settlement authority to ensure that decisions to make, accept, or reject offers are the client’s and are not the result of the attorney imposing his/her will on the client.

FREE!

CLE Credit: 2.50 units  Expires 5/22/16

For further information see:

http://www.pli.edu/MOOC/223999?t=FHS4_8AM13&utm_source=8AM13&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=FHS4