The health law industry continues to evolve, and as such, industry professionals must stay up to date on the legal and business issues to consider when structuring deals and transactions for their clients and institutions.

Attendees of this program will develop knowledge surrounding current developments, strategies, and deal forecasts and learn critical business considerations that must be addressed before, during, and after a transaction.

Monday: Antitrust Primer, 1:30-2:45 PM

• Bevin M. Newman, Partner, Sheppard Mullin
• Katherine Funk, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC

Wednesday: How To Keep a Government Investigation from Derailing Your Transaction, 8:00-9:15 AM

• David Douglass, Partner, Sheppard Mullin
• Jay Lynch, Executive Vice President, Alliant Insurance Services
• Alyson Wooten, BRG

This webinar will touch on the following:

• Understand what ChatGPT and other generative AI tools are and how they work, in general, including ethical risks and benefits posed by using ordinary generative AI tools as an attorney.
• Consider when California ethics rules require attorneys to notify a client about delegation of legal tasks to generative AI and whether ethics rules compel other steps to be taken to safeguard client information when using generative AI.
• Understand how managerial and supervisory attorneys owe heightened ethical duties to provide trainings and other ongoing interventions with subordinate lawyers and nonlawyer assistants who may already be using generative AI, in order to ensure their compliance with ethics rules.

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This webinar will discuss the legal requirements of California’s “Balcony Bills” (Senate Bills 326 and 721) and provide practical technical guidance on the process of complying with the Bills to ensure your multifamily properties are safe and compliant.

Speakers:

• Erinn Contreras, Partner, Sheppard Mullin
• Melissa Freeling, Associate, Sheppard Mullin
• Chris Geier, Vice President, Regional Manager, Marx|Okubo
• Sandy Blair, Vice President, Regional Manager, Marx|Okubo

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The Commercial Real Estate & Lending Conferences are held annually in Sothern California every spring and Northern California every winter. The events feature over 30 speakers that are experts in their field of Commercial Real Estate. The speakers are Economists, Banks, Lenders, Developers, Investors, Real Estate Brokers, Investment Bankers, Mortgage Bankers, Appraisers, Environmental experts, Title Companies and Real Estate Attorney’s The Trademarked LoanMakers Forum™. Don’t miss out on the largest gathering of Commercial Real Estate Professionals.

This Panel will help navigate you through actual transactions that have gone wrong and what was done to close the deal.

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Please join us for Sheppard Mullin's California Labor & Employment Law Update - Spring 2024 Webinar. This year, employers will have to face many new developments in California labor and employment laws that will significantly affect the way they run their day-to-day business operations. We will provide you with analysis and insights on these new laws and offer practical advice and helpful tools to ensure compliance and protect your company from liability in the workplace.

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• Examining the rapidly evolving state-by-state regulatory framework governing the manufacturing, production and distribution of food products containing packaging with PFAS
• Understanding how to recognize and account for differences among various state prohibitions and update sourcing protocols to maintain compliance
• Adapting to changing consumer demands for PFAS-free products and satisfying customer demands for assurances of compliance
• Understanding PFAS testing challenges and how companies can better navigate this complex arena
• Assessing how testing/sourcing of packaging and regulatory approval can yield additional defense strategies for PFAS lawsuits
• Examining theories that plaintiffs are relying on in PFAS packaging claims — what defense strategies are proving to withstand the latest plaintiff challenges?

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In this session, our Partners from McCallister and Quinn (M&Q) will join us to help the attendees understand WHEN these opportunities are available, WHERE you and your organization can find them, and HOW to pursue them. M&Q’s experts are adept at securing Federal funding opportunities for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. This session will dive into all the pre-award activities necessary to support a successful pursuit while avoiding any challenges along the way.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify when opportunities are available, where you can find them, and how you can pursue them
• Familiarize with the pre-award compliance requirements associated with Federal funding opportunities.

There is a fundamental tension between IPRs, litigation and the Fintiv decision. When you go to trial, there is still a consideration for IPRs, which can lead to forum shopping. While litigation rates have declined overall, it is increasingly complex due to the various tools that can be used strategically in various scenarios. We will explore developments at the PTAB and share new strategies.

• What is the status of the potential reforms?
• What comments have been provided to the USPTO?
• What can companies expect over the next year?
• How can companies modify their PTAB strategy?

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The speakers will discuss design-build contracts, from the Design-Builders' perspectives. Designers and construction professionals will address issues and concerns on design-build practice in NYC.

Speakers:

• Cesar Pereira, Special Counsel, Sheppard Mullin
• Craig Covil, PE, CEng, DBIA, FASCE, FIEAust, FHKE C2 Consulting (Texas) LLC
• Anthony Tavormina, Railroad Construction Company, Inc.
• Yvi McEvilly, NYC DDC
• Raquel Diaz, Gilbane Building Company

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In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee documents award-winning film maker Deann Borshay Liem’s journey to find answers as to why her identity was switched before being sent to America for her adoption. The movie follows Deann as she returns to Korea to find her “double” and raises questions about the history and ethics of international adoption from South Korea.

After the screening, please join us for a panel discussion, featuring Korean American adoptees, their stories, and our hopes to raise awareness for the Equal Citizenship for Children Act of 2023 / Adoptee Citizenship Act, and South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee’s investigation into possible human rights violations linked to South Korea’s past military governments, including the widespread falsification of children’s origins to make them “adoptable.”