June 6, 2011
11:45am - 1:30pm

The City Club of San Francisco
155 Sansome Street
San Francisco, California
CLE: .75 hour credit will be offered

June 6, 2011

Recent Technological Developments in Payments

SPEAKERS: Veronica K. McGregor, Perkins Coie, and Allen Weinberg, Glenbrook Partners,

• New card acceptance channels and payment methods
• New security controls
• Social media's influence on payments and marketing 

 

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Payment Card Institute 2011 (6-9-11)

 

May 2, 2011
11:45am - 1:30pm

The City Club of San Francisco
155 Sansome Street
San Francisco, California
CLE: .75 hour credit will be offered

May 2, 2011

Emerging Payments and Virtual Currencies

SPEAKER: Deborah Thoren-Peden, Partner, Pillsbury Law

• New and growing forms for emerging payments
• How and where emerging payments are being used
• Legal and regulatory issues posed by these products and services

 

COST: Law Firm Members – $62; In-house Members – $59; Solo Members – $55

 

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April 4, 2011
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

The City Club of San Francisco
155 Sansome Street
San Francisco, California
CLE: .75 hour credit will be offered

April 4, 2011

What Every Lawyer Should Know About Computer Crime Statutes

SPEAKERS: Jim Snell, Partner, and Heather Shook, Associate, Bingham McCutchen

• Growth of computer crime statute claims in consumer class actions
• Offensive use of computer crime statute claims by companies to protect their brands
• Courts' responses to computer crime statute claims 



COST: Law Firm Members – $62; In-house Members – $59; Solo Members – $55

 

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Computer Crimes Presentation (4-4-11)

 

March 7, 2011
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

The City Club of San Francisco
155 Sansome Street
San Francisco, California
CLE: .75 hour credit will be offered

March 7, 2011

TCF v. Bernanke: Herculean task or Sisyphean effort?

SPEAKER: Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University, Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago Law School.

• Examining the legal foundation for challenges to government rate setting
• Understanding the distinction between “unconstitutionally confiscatory” rates and “constitutionally compensatory” rates
• Assessing where the interchange rate setting provisions of Dodd/Frank fall on this spectrum

February 7, 2011
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

The City Club of San Francisco
155 Sansome Street
San Francisco, California 94104
CLE: .75 hour credit will be offered

February 7, 2011

A Fight Over Principle: Plaintiffs’ Attempts to Create a “Right’ to Loan Modifications

SPEAKER: Brian Boyle, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP and Former Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice

• Legal theories behind plaintiffs’ “right” to loan modification, including contract, tort, and constitutional theories
• Recommendations for countering right to loan modification arguments

 

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Boyle Presentation (2-7-11)

January 10, 2011
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

The City Club of San Francisco
155 Sansome Street, Main Dining Room
San Francisco, California 94104

January 10, 2011

Internalizing Identify Theft

SPEAKER: Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Director Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s information privacy programs and senior fellow to the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic

• Why has identity theft remained so prevalent?
• Drawing upon victim and imposter data now accessible because of updates to the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
• Business decisions leave individuals and merchants with some of the externalities of identity theft.

 

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Hoofnagle Powerpoint (1-10-11)