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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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Save the Date: PLI’s Lunch & Learn @ AALL Cleveland

SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2026 @ 12:45  – 1:45 PM

Are you attending AALL 2026 Annual Meeting & Conference in Cleveland this summer? Join us for lunch!

Don’t miss a beat! Discover the latest updates from PLI Press, as well as recent enhancements made to PLI PLUS. 

Please email libraryrelations@pli.edu to RSVP and we’ll include location details with your confirmation. We hope to see you in Cleveland! 

Treatise Update: Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook

Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook is a comprehensive guide-source for employment practitioners and anyone interested in managing workplace risk when confronted with employment discrimination and harassment claims. As social change movements continue to shape society and, by extension, the workplace, this treatise serves as a valuable resource and reference for employment law practitioners and individuals interested in helping their organizations effectively navigate employment discrimination-related investigations, mediations, litigations, and jury trials.

This book was recently updated to address:

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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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Don’t Miss PLI’s End of Year Sale!

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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.

December’s free form:

Release of Lots Shown on Subdivision Plat with Additional Terms

More information about Legal Forms & Checklists:

  • Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.

Book Update: Patent Law: A Practitioner’s Guide (Fourth Edition) 

 Patent Law: A Practitioner’s Guide provides a comprehensive approach to navigating the framework of patent law. This guide covers a wide array of essential topics, such as new developments under the America Invents Act, relevant federal regulations and court decisions, and document drafting techniques. It also includes various forms and diagrams to provide practitioners with a wealth of resources to enhance their knowledge of patent law. 

Highlights of this most recent release include: 

  • Chapter 1, General Information, discusses Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (Jan. 23, 2025), and its applicability to previous policies and practices (Section 1:6.1 and 1:7.1
  • Chapter 26, Patent Licensing, provides a new section which explores the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in C.R. Bard, Inc. v. Atrium Medical Corp. (Section 26:7.6

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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.

November’s free form:

Table of Investment Advisers Act Requirements Application to Exempt Reporting Advisers

More information about Legal Forms & Checklists:

  • Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.