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February’s free form:

Information Security Agreement Template Provisions

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Most Popular Books on PLI PLUS in 2025

The tallies are in! Here are the most accessed books on PLI PLUS in 2025.

Popular Banking Titles 

  1. Asset-Based Lending: A Practical Guide to Secured Financing
  2. Advanced Issues in Private Funds
  3. Consumer Financial Services Answer Book
  4. Hillman on Documenting Secured Transactions: Effective Drafting and Litigation
  5. Investment Management: Current Issues & Trends

Popular Corporate & Securities Titles 

  1. Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation
  2. Investment Adviser Regulation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Compliance and the Law
  3. Broker-Dealer Regulation
  4. Initial Public Offerings: A Practical Guide to Going Public
  5. Drafting and Negotiating Corporate Agreements

Popular Employment Titles 

  1. Fragomen on Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law and Practice
  2. Employment Law Institute
  3. Fundamentals of Noncompetes
  4. ERISA 2025: The Evolving World
  5. California Employment Law

Popular Estates & Trusts Titles 

  1. Stocker on Drawing Wills and Trusts
  2. Private Clients Legal & Tax Planning Answer Book
  3. Blattmachr on Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts
  4. Art Law: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers & Artists
  5. Manning on Estate Planning

Popular Intellectual Property Titles 

  1. Faber & Kowalski on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting
  2. How to Write a Patent Application
  3. IP Issues in Business Transactions
  4. Patent Law: A Practitioner’s Guide
  5. Advanced Trade Secrets: New Challenges, New Solutions, and New Imperatives

Popular Litigation Titles 

  1. Stepping It Up: A Guide for Mid-Level Law Firm Associates
  2. Fundamentals of Taking and Defending Depositions
  3. Electronic Discovery Deskbook
  4. Depositions Answer Book
  5. Attorney-Client Privilege Answer Book

Popular Real Estate Titles 

  1. Friedman and Smith on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property
  2. Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings: A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying and Selling Real Estate
  3. Commercial Ground Leases
  4. Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute
  5. Negotiating Real Estate Deals 2025

Popular Tax Titles 

  1. The Corporate Tax Practice Series: Strategies for Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings
  2. The Partnership Tax Practice Series: Planning for Domestic and Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances
  3. Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances
  4. Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings
  5. Business Taxation Deskbook: Corporations, Partnerships, Subchapter S, and International

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Closing the Deal: A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions 

Closing the Deal: A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions serves as both a textbook for students and a practice guide for attorneys by providing a step-by-step roadmap through the lifecycle of commercial real estate transactions. Balancing doctrinal foundations with applied skills training, the book enables students to think like practicing attorneys and provides practicing attorneys with the necessary tools to navigate complex deals.  

This publication includes chapters on: 

  • Leasing Transactions with a chronology of the lease transaction, types, common issues in commercial leasing, and lease administration, including coverage of COVID’s effect on the force majeure clause (Section 9:29:79:12, and 9:12.1[A])  

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What’s New in PLI PLUS

We add content to PLI PLUS every month to ensure our subscribers have access to the most up-to-date and relevant secondary source legal documents. Renowned legal experts regularly update our acclaimed Treatises, Skills Books, Practice Guides, Course Handbooks, Case Summaries, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in January 2026!

New CPE Enhanced Practice Guide: Transfer Pricing Answer Book 

Transfer Pricing Answer Book (Eleventh Edition) cuts through the complexity, delivering straightforward answers on every aspect of transfer pricing—including the latest OECD digital commerce reforms and IRS approaches to controlled transactions.  

This updated practice guide now has a new enhanced digital version which allows accounting professionals to access a convenient self-study module and earn CPE credit upon completion of the exam.  

This feature is available on PLUS at no additional cost as a benefit for PLUS subscribers. The digital version of the answer book can also be purchased here to access the CPE exam.  

Book Update: Investment Adviser Regulation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Compliance and the Law (Third Edition) 

Investment Adviser Regulation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Compliance and the Law (Third Edition) leads practitioners through statutory, SEC, and state standards impacting investment advisers, while giving advice on the practical aspects of building a practice. This regularly updated treatise is an essential resource for investment advisers, securities attorneys, compliance personnel, and federal and state regulators, and a useful reference for today’s investors. 

Highlights of the recent update include:  

  • Chapter 63, Regulation of Digital Adviserscovers Investment Advisers Act Rule 203A-2(e), which includes an exemption allowing advisers which provide advisory services via the internet, or any other mobile application or platform, to register with the SEC (“Internet Adviser Exemption”) eve if they do not have enough assets qualify for federal registration (Section 63:4.1
  • Chapter 66, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: Legal and Compliance Considerations for Investment Managersexamines the developing regulatory views on AI, such as the current administration’s AI action plan, the SEC’s guidance, the EU AI Act, state AI laws, and voluntary guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the International Organization for Standardization to help organizations manage the risks associated with AI Usage. This chapter also provides a new discussion reviewing the ways in which investment managers can leverage the advantages of AI use while minimizing the risks (Section 66:5.5 and 66:6.8

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Book Update: Fintech, Regtech, and the Financial Services Industry 

Fintech, Regtech, and the Financial Services Industry analyzes the developments taking place within the financial services industry and spotlights the opportunities they bring to the marketplace, while also highlighting the emerging regulatory framework. This newly supplemented treatise follows the development of fintech, regtech, and suptech, discussing revolutionary innovations within the financial services industry as a whole. 

Highlights include:  

  • Chapter 2Fintech Jurisdictional Issues, details the joint statements by the SEC and CFTC about streamlining oversight as markets converge and launching initiatives for cross-agency crypto trading; it also covers the “GENIUS” Act enacted into law on July 18, 2025 
  • Chapter 3AArtificial Intelligence in the Securities Industry,highlights key U.S. regulatory developments on AI, such as the FINRA Regulatory Notice 24-09, the March 2025 roundtable on AI, the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report, and the December 2024 U.S. Department of Treasury report covering AI risks and opportunities 
  • Chapter 5Regulation of Digital Advisers, analyzes the SEC’s Internet Adviser Exemption under Investment Advisers Act Rule 203A-2(e), which allows advisers offering services through digital platforms to register federally, even lacking sufficient assets (Section 5:4.1
  • Chapter 8Financial Technology Platforms, examines the Latham & Watkins No-Action Letter from March 12, 2025, which confirms issuers under Rule 506(c) may use investor self-certification for accredited status when investing equal to or above a minimum amount (Section 8:2.1[B]
  • Chapter 12APrivacy Laws Applicable to Fintech Companies, outlines new discussion of the Personal Financial Data Rights final rule, also known as the “Open Banking Rule”, issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on October 22, 2024, as well as updated coverage of state comprehensive privacy laws (Section 12A:7 and 12A:8.2) 
  • Chapter 21Financial Services Firms’ Use of Data Analytics and Technology in Compliance, provides an updated analysis of regulators’ expectations for compliance technology with SEC and FINRA enforcement actions and a review of the developing jurisdictional regulatory landscape for AI in financial services. This chapter also provides guidance on AI compliance opportunities and risks, expanding the previous best practices discussion to include recordkeeping challenges, third-party vendors, and outlines a phased approach to deploying AI tools (Section 21:2.221:2.321:3.621:3.721:3.8

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Free Form of the Month

PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.

January’s free form:

Checklist for Covered Opinions and other Written Advice about Federal Tax Issues

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Corporate Valuation in Mergers and Acquisitions 

Corporate Valuation in Mergers and Acquisitions, by the incomparable Sam Thompson, provides foundational perspectives regarding legal, finance, accounting, and economic aspects of valuation in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. This newly supplemented treatise (December 2025) serves as a guide for lawyers examining the roles of investment bankers, valuation experts, and the courts in valuing targets.  

Highlights of this second release include: 

  • A new chapter, Chapter 21, A Brief Introduction to Cryptocurrency and the Valuation of Cryptocurrency in M&A and Related Transactions. 
  • A new chapter, Chapter 22, A Brief Introduction to the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Valuation of Companies Engaged in M&A, introduces valuation-related AI and its emerging issues. 
  • An analysis of the newly issued “International Valuation Standards Council’s 2025, International Valuation Standards” (Section 1:13)  
  • An updated section introducing “Professor Damodaran’s Discussion of the Hurdle Rate in a February 2025 ‘Musings on Markets’ Post” (Section 11:9.5
  • A new section titled “A Brief Introduction to the Impact of Tariffs on Valuation” (Section 20:11

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