New Treatise! Noncompete Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants

Noncompete Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants is an essential guide to navigating the legal patchwork of restrictive covenant laws. This newly published, digital only treatise provides a comprehensive review of the laws of restrictive covenants, broken down state-by-state. Written by and designed for practicing lawyers, each chapter spotlights a single state and includes key information on a range of topics.

Topics include:

Statutory references, if any, such as Alabama’s

Enforcement of restrictive covenants

Protectible interests, such as Georgia’s

Drafting considerations, such as Indiana’s

Special issues for specific occupations

Litigation considerations, strategies, and remedies, such as Nebraska’s

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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.

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Book Update: Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book

Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book (Eleventh Edition) provides readers with a solid framework for understanding and navigating the rigorous—and regularly overlapping—requirements imposed by varying governmental authorities and private parties upon the pharmaceutical industry. This treatise analyzes the basic foundations of pharmaceutical industry regulation through the lens of current legal, regulatory, and compliance developments.

Highlights of the recent update include:

A new chapter 13, Radical Transparency and Product Liability Exposure—The New Frontier, examining the FDA’s new policy of releasing all Complete Response Letters as they’re issued to drug sponsors, as well as the implications of this policy on product liability claims.

Updated guidance in Chapter 2, FDA Enforcement—Facility Inspections on best practices for handling FDA inspections, including a sample corporate policy to ensure compliance with recordkeeping and documentation requirements.

Amendments to Chapter 5, Federal and State Regulation and Enforcement of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Advertising and Promotional Activity, reflecting the latest rules, guidance, and enforcement actions regarding pharmaceutical manufacturer advertising and promotional activity.

Revisions to include the current enforcement environment related to off-label promotion (Chapter 6), including further discussion of the FDA’s final guidance on scientific information on unapproved uses of off-label promotion in relation to approved/cleared medical products (Chapter 7).

Inclusion of a circuit split regarding interpretation of language in the Patent Protection and Affordable Care Act which may significantly impact False Claims Act damages in AKS-based cases (Chapter 14).

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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.

March’s free form:

Sample Questions/Requests for Independent Accountant Candidates

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Book Update: The Circular 230 Deskbook: Related Penalties, Reportable Transactions, Working Forms

The Circular 230 Deskbook serves as an essential resource for any tax professional practicing before the IRS. This practice guide is designed to help practitioners comply with complicated 230 amendments with ease, avoiding costly penalties and sanctions.

Highlights of the recent update include:

Chapter 1, Deference: When the Court Must Yield to the Government’s Interpretation, which examines the 3M decision, which resulted in the Eighth Circuit rejecting the IRS’s argument that reallocation of income under section 482 was within the scope of delegated discretion

Chapter 3, Reporting and List Maintenance Requirements, covers the district court holding that section 6011 delegates discretion to the treasury under the phrase “as determined under regulations”

Chapter 4, Circular 230, explains how the decision in Loving has resulted in the IRS withdrawing proposed regulations which would have required specific minimum qualification requirements for preparers

Updated Appendices L and M and an updated Table of Authorities

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Book Update: Audit Committee Deskbook

Audit Committee Deskbook serves as a comprehensive guide to audit committees, ranging from the basic principles to more complex legal issues. Beginning with a committee’s essential duties and pivoting to an in-depth examination of day-to-day issues, the deskbook concludes with an overview of U.S. legal regimes impacting companies which conduct business in the global marketplace.

Highlights of the latest supplement include:

Chapter 20, Recent Changes to Delaware, Texas, and Nevada Law, a new chapter covering reforms in Delaware, Texas, and Nevada which reshape the states’ corporate statutes

Chapter 4, Audit Committee Qualifications, Recruiting, and Diversity, presents the latest audit committee demographic composition data, as well as updates on the Nasdaq diversity disclosure rules

Chapter 13, Conflicts of Interest and Special Litigation Committees, includes a new section discussing amendments to DGCL § 144, adopted after the Delaware Court of Chancery’s rulings in Tornetta v. Musk and cases applying the framework of Kahn v. M&F Worldwide (Section 13:2.3)

Chapter 16, Strategic Considerations: ERM, Capital Allocation, and ESG, Including Climate-Related Disclosures, provides coverage on the latest legal and regulatory requirements which may impact a company’s “ESG” compliance and risk profile under the purview of the audit committee

Chapter 18, Overview of Key U.S. Legal Regimes Impacting Companies Conducting Global Business, explains the shift in FCPA enforcement priorities following President Trump’s February executive order, the subsequent enforcement pause, and the resulting updated DOJ guidelines (Section 18:2.5)

Updates to the Audit Committee Charter, Insider Trading Policy, and Corporate Governance Guidelines

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Book Update: Derivatives Deskbook: Close-Out Netting, Risk Mitigation, Litigation (Second Edition)

Derivatives Deskbook: Close-Out Netting, Risk Mitigation, Litigation (Second Edition) serves as the definitive guide to navigating OTC derivative contracts. Offering actionable insights and practice-tested legal forms, this comprehensive practice guide provides readers with clarity on key terminology, a deeper understanding of the roles of major global regulators, and best practices for legal risk management in derivatives. It also provides an extensive analysis of close-out netting combined with rare litigation cases from foreign jurisdictions.

Highlights of this release include:

An expanded section titled “Credit Default Swaps” explaining how “naked” CDSs have generated intense controversy and are generally no longer allowed by global regulators (Section 1:2.5)

A revised section expanding upon cross-default in relation to default under specified transactions (Section 2:2.6)

A new section examining the 2022 Amendments to the UCC, including the newly introduced Article 12 governing the establishment and maintenance of a security interest in digital assets (Section 3:9)

A new section covering collateral transfers made through distributed ledger technology (DLT) (Section 3:10)

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Free Form of the Month

February’s free form:

Information Security Agreement Template Provisions

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