LLAGNY - SLA NY Joint Education Series Project Management

News of interest from SLA NY and LLAGNY:

Mark your calendars - SLA NY and LLAGNY are pleased

to present SESSION ONE of the Fall Project  Management Series:

Introduction to
Project Management

Wednesday, October 29,  8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

$40.00 Members and $60.00 for Non-Members (until Oct. 15)

$50.00 Members and $75.00 for Non-Members (after Oct. 15)

Register no later than October 24 at

http://slanypublications.org/event-registration/?ee=9

PayPal or Credit Card payment is required. No checks or payment at the door.

Building on your professional experience and organizational skills as an information professional, this session will introduce you to concepts and best practices that you can immediately apply to any project. The session will provide an overview of the methodology endorsed by the Project Management Institute, the professional organization that sets the standards for the globally recognized PMP (Project Management Professional) certification.

This session will be presented by Mimi B. Rosenfeld, MBA, PMP - Mimi is a project manager who specializes in

leading cross-functional teams with a focus on process, documentation and training.

Mimi holds Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute and an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University. She currently serves as Program Manager of Outreach Communications for the Project Management Institute, New York City Chapter (PMINYC).

Location: All sessions will be held at The SUNY Global Center - 116 East 55^th Street.

Food will be served at all sessions!

Discount: Session 1

Registrations received by October 15 will receive a 20% discount.

Cancellation for Session 1 must be received no later than October 27 or no refund will be granted.

Session 2, Project Management Tools, will be held on

November 24.

Session 3, Project Management Case Studies, will be held on December 18.

There is a discounted price to attend all three fall sessions in the series:
$100 for Members and $175 for Non-Members. For details and registration, click here.

Hosts:  Donna Severino, SLA NY; Elaine Eagan, Amy Carr, and Steve Lastres, LLAGNY

               

Please contact Donna Severino for any questions related to this event.

LLAGNY Education Conference and Winter Social, Tuesday, Jan. 14th, 2014

News from our friends in LLAGNY!

 

There is less than a week before the inaugural LLAGNY 75^th Anniversary Education Conference followed by the Winter Social.  Time is running out -- you have until Sunday evening at midnight to register for this exciting event.  The Final Program Brochure is available online at http://www.llagny.org/assets/docs/Flyers/75thfinal.pdf

Please note: You do not have to stay within the same track for the entire day.  Feel free to “jump tracks”!

If you cannot make the entire day, you can register for half days and combine that with the evening Winter Social.  If you cannot leave work for the day, you can also register solely for the Winter Social.  There are many options.  Here is the registration link: 

http://www.llagny.org/75th-anniversary-conference-menu

LLAGNY-PLI Research Briefing, Researching High Yield Offerings - Tools and Resources to Help You Keep Pace

PLI has generously provided the support to provide this program to librarians free of charge.


The next LLAGNY-PLI Research Briefing, Researching High Yield Offerings – Tools and Resources to Help You Keep Pace will be held on May 5th from 1 to 2 pm E.S.T. For details, please see the flyer posted on LLAGNY's website. To sign up for the program, click here. As a reminder, the LLAGNY-PLI Research Briefings are free to all librarians. The program's format is audio with web display. If you haven't already participated, you will need to register with PLI to sign up for the program. In addition, this program will be archived at a later date and made available to view/listen for up to one year.

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

May 5, 2011 1-2 pm ET

Presented by
Daniel J. Ferro--Corporate Resources Department--Fried, Frank, Harris & Shriver LLP
David A. Kanarek-- Attorney-- Fried, Frank, Harris & Shriver LLP

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.

LLAGNY's Annual Bridge the Gap Program, April 8, 2011

LLAGNY's annual Bridge the Gap Legal Research Program will be taking place at New York Law School on April 8, 2011.  Please share the news with summer associates, attorneys and library students.  This year's program features three topical tracks: Corporate & Securities, Litigation, and Public Service Practices.  There is a research question for each track that the faculty will answer during the session.  This will give the attendees an idea of typical questions they may come across in their summer associate programs.  Along with the substantive legal and business research topics, LLAGNY's Bridge the Gap includes advice from experienced lawyers and judges about what new associates should expect to do in these positions and how they can make a successful start.  In light of the current legal employment market, there will also be a luncheon speaker who will speak on How to Keep Yourself a Top Candidate.

Colleague faculty members are:

• Roberta Brody, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York 
• Douglas Cox, CUNY School of Law
• Raquel Gabriel, CUNY School of Law
• Jill Gray, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP  
• Sarah Kagen, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
• William R. Mills, New York Law School
• James Murphy, Bloomberg
• Dennis Kim-Prieto, Rutgers School of Law
• Nathan Rosen, Morrison & Foerster LLP 
• Russell Switzer, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
• Paulette Toth, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
• Jennifer Wertkin, Columbia University Law School

Along with the regular research programs, this year the Bridge the Gap Program includes sessions directed to attorneys.  All three courses have applications currently pending for NYS CLE credit for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys,

• Recognizing Attorney Misconduct—Ethical Issues and Requirements, with Jeremy Feinberg, Esq., New York Office of Court Administration & Elizabeth Rotenberg-Schwartz, Esq., Mishcon de Reya New York, LLP (1 Ethics Credit)
• Employment Discrimination: What are the Ethical Implications of Representing an Employer or Employee?, with Peter M. Panken, Esq., Epstein, Becker & Green and Debra Raskin, Esq., Vladeck, Waldman & Elias (1 Ethics Credit)
• Ethical Considerations in Environmental Law, with Pamela Esterman, Esq., Sive, Paget & Riesel (1 Ethics Credit)

Program description flyers and the registration forms are now posted on the LLAGNY website as PDF (fillable) files at these direct links:

For Law Students: http://bit.ly/ijDybP 

For Attorneys: http://bit.ly/hJf6J5 

For Library Students: http://bit.ly/gFy9ei

Alternatively, you may access them on the LLAGNY website: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llagny/index.htm. 

The cost for the Bridge the Gap Legal Research Program is $40.  The CLE programs cost: $50 for an individual session or $120 for all three sessions.

If you would like more information, please email: llagnybtg@gmail.com.