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Understanding Financial Products 2012 (February 6, 2012)

• 9:00 Introduction to Securitization
• 9:15 Securities Act Exemptions
• 10:30 Recent Credit Crisis Proceedings: An Overview
• 10:30 Accounting for Securitized and Other Products
• 11:00 Introduction to Mutual Funds and Other Registered Investment Companies
• 11:30 Tax Issues
• 3:30 Life Settlements
• 3:30 Legal Issues Relating to Offerings of "Securitized Derivatives"
• 3:30 Comparing and Contrasting Exchange Traded Funds and Exchange Traded Notes
  
• 3:45 Moody's Investors Service Looks Forward as Regulatory Landscape Evolves
• 3:45 FINRA'S New Suitability/KYC Rules

Post-Grant USPTO Proceedings: The New Patent Litigation (February 3, 2012)

• 9:15 Reexamination, Reissue, Certificate of Correction and New America Invents Act Proceedings: Substantive and Strategic Overview
• 10:15 America Invents Act: New Board Proceedings
• 10:15 Post-Grant Proceedings: The New Patent Litigation
• 11:30 The New Patent Litigation
• 1:45 USPTO Post Grant Patent Practice Litigation Tactics
• 2:45 Ethical Considerations in Reissues and Reexaminations (2012)

Current Developments in Federal Civil Practice 2012 (February 1, 2012)

• 9:15 HR 394
• 9:15 Motion Act Developments
• 10:15 Discovery and the Federal Rules
• 11:30 Ethical Issues in Federal Civil Litigation: The No-Contact Rule and Related Conflict of Interest Questions
• 1:45 Evidence
• 2:45 Five Developments in Civil Practice
• 4:00 Expert Witnesses

Broadband and Cable Industry Law 2012 (January 30, 2012)

• The Next Generation Television Act
• Section-by-Section Analysis of the "Next Generation Television Marketplace Act"
• Summary of the "Next Generation Television Marketplace Act"
• 10:30 Closed Captioning of Internet Protocol-Delivered Video Programming
• 10:30 Broadband and Cable Industry Law 2012
• 10:45 Copyright Alerts MOU: AT&T Perspective
• 10:45 Copyright
• 11:45 Latest Regulatory Developments Affecting Cable's Wireless Business
• 1:45 Intercarrier Compensation Reform
• 1:45 Universal Service 2S: A Not-Quite-Revolutionary Reform
• 1:45 Cable Voice Services Review
• 3:00 Retransmission Consent - Current Rules & Regulations
• 4:00 Developments in Cable Technology
• 4:00 Top 10 (or so) Cable technology trends

Recent Developments in Distressed Debt, Restructurings & Workouts 2012 (January 27, 2012)

• 9:15 What Corporate, Transactional and Litigation Attorneys Need to Know About Defaults, Restructurings and Bankruptcy
• 2:45 & 4:00 Industry Issues in Structured Finance, Lending and Derivatives
• 4:00 Not So Perfect Plans of Reorganization: Key Issues in Prearranged Chapter 11 Cases

Securities Products of Insurance Companies 2012 (January 25, 2012)

• 10:30 Regulation of Variable Products Under the Federal Securities Laws
• 11:45 Social Media and Financial Services

Project Management for Lawyers 2012 (January 18, 2012)

• 9:00 Project Management for Lawyers 2012
• 9:00 Project Management for Lawyers 2012
• 2:45 Legal Project Management (LPM): Improving the Way We Practice

Taxation of Financial Products and Transactions 2012 (January 17, 2012)

• 9:15 A New Player in Financial Products Tax Guidance: LB&I Steps Up
• 10:15 Tax Topics Coming out of Dodd‐Frank
• 11:30 Section 871(m): What Is, and What Will Never Be
• 1:45 Contingent Capital Transactions: Will They Work Here?
• 2:45 An Overview of Commodities Investing by Regulated Investment Companies
• 2:45 RICs and Commodities Exposures Square Peg, Round Hole
• 4:00 Economically Equivalent Transactions

Real Estate M & A and REIT Transactions 2012 (January 12, 2012)

• 10:00 REIT M&A Case of the Year -- 2011
• 10:00 REIT Combinations in a Globalizing World -- Special Litigation Committees in Maryland -- New Case: Boland v. Boland
• 3:30 Real Estate M&A and REIT Transactions 2012

Secured Transactions 2012: What Lawyers Need to Know About UCC Article 9 (January 11, 2012)

• 9:15 Drafting the Security Agreement
• 10:45 The Filing System
• 10:45 Forthcoming Changes – the 2010 Revision
• 10:45 Report on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code
• 10:45 UCC Article 9: Basic Building Blocks – Attachment, Perfection, and Priority
• 10:45 UCC Article 9: Recent case law and how to deal with it in your documents and deals
• 1:30 Special Collateral Types: Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts, and Letters of Credit
• 1:30 Equity Interests as Collateral
• 1:30 Common Assets/Uncommon Collateral
• 3:45 When the Rubber Hits the Road: Enforcing Security Interests Under Article (Division) 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code
• 3:45 Bankruptcy Effects on Liens

Mergers & Acquisitions 2012: Trends and Developments (January 5, 2012)

• 9:15 Planning the Transaction
• 9:15 Legal Issues in Financing the Acquisition: from the Lender's Perspective
• 10:15 Basic Federal Income Tax Aspects of Mergers & Acquisitions
• 10:15 Deal Protection Measures in Public M&A
• 11:30 The Role of In-House Counsel in M&A Transactions
• 1:00 Advising the Board of Directors
• 2:00 Ethical Traps for the M&A Practitioner
• 2:30 Disclosure Matters and Other SEC Considerations

Drafting & Negotiating Corporate Agreements 2012 (January 4, 2012)

• 9:00 Confidentiality Agreements, Standstill Agreements, Letters of Intent and Exclusivity Agreements
• 10:00 Acquisition Agreements
• 1:15 Drafting Debt Agreements
• 1:15 Introduction to Equity Agreements
• 1:15 Drafting and Negotiating Corporate Agreements

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