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Free Legal 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:
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.
- Popular PLUS Forms – This flyer provides a list of the top five most downloaded forms in prominent practice areas on PLI PLUS.
New Title! Knowledge Management & Innovation: A Manual for Law Firms and Other Legal Services Organizations
PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new practice guide Knowledge Management & Innovation: A Manual for Law Firms and Other Legal Services Organizations.
This book is a comprehensive resource for knowledge management and innovation (KM&I) professionals in the legal industry. It offers best practices for achieving common KM&I goals and includes several checklists and other practice forms which can be used to help organizations and law firms implement beneficial KM&I procedures. The book presents its knowledge management concepts within a broad framework and historical context while also covering the most recent developments.
Notably, the manual covers the following important topics:
- How to conduct a knowledge assessment and develop a knowledge strategy (see Chapter 2);
- Considerations when structuring KM&I teams (see Chapter 3);
- Precedent collection development and maintenance (see Chapter 6);
- The use of Artificial Intelligence in KM&I (see Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Chapter 21, and Chapter 22);
- Legal project management and pricing (see Chapter 12);
- Research services, legal data analytics, and legal information technology (see Chapter 15, Chapter 18, and Chapter 21);
- Client-facing knowledge management (See Chapter 19)
In addition, the book gives guidance on how to leverage collaboration tools (see Chapter 11), configure document management systems (see Chapter 5), improve organizational processes (see Chapter 14), and more.
We are excited to share this new title with you!
PLUS Subscribers can access this title with their subscription.
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Is your library interested in subscribing to PLI’s Standing Order Plan (SOP)? SOP subscribers automatically receive print copies of new titles to review upon release. If you decide to keep the title, you will receive a discount up to 25% off the title and all future supplements. Call 877.900.5291 or email libraryrelations@pli.edu to learn more.
New Episode! The Practising Law Librarian Podcast
The Practising Law Librarian, part of the PLI Ever Current podcast, brings you conversations with — and for — the law librarian community.
Episode #10: Andre Davison: From Interaction to Connection
Hear why Andre Davison, Director of the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library in Houston and AALL Executive Board member, says he’s most proud of his Seamless Access to Secondary Sources project, which allows attorneys to easily access materials – and how this reflects his commitment to creating connections, professionally and personally.
What’s New on 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/Practice Guides, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.
Click here to see what we added in November 2023!
Treatise Update – Doing Business Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Second Edition)
Doing Business Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Second Edition) helps corporate lawyers, in-house sales teams, and other U.S.-based and overseas stakeholders understand the issues and rules they should consider when negotiating transactions or accepting compensation in compliance with the FCPA. Readers will learn the necessary, proactive steps for identifying and avoiding common FCPA transactional illegalities.
The book addresses key information regarding whistleblower considerations and harsh penalties for falsified books and records, mischaracterized payments, fictitious invoices, insufficient internal accounting controls, and more. This title also includes helpful sample acknowledgements, compliance plans, and agreement clauses that address FCPA considerations.
Key updates in the new release include:
- The SEC’s Amended Whistleblower Rules: Coverage of the August 2022 changes to the SEC’s final rules implementing the whistleblower provisions (see section 1:1).
- Case Law Developments: Discussion of the holdings in United States v. Hoskins and United States v. Rafoi-Bleuler regarding the scope of the term “agent” as applied to a foreign national (see section 4:1.3).
- The DOJ’s Updated Evaluation Guidance: Information regarding the DOJ’s March 2023 guidance emphasizing the importance of implementing compliance-promotion criteria in a company’s compensation and bonus system (see section 10:1).
- New Appendix B62: Department of Justice FCPA Opinion Release— Situation Involving Extortion or Duress.
- New Appendix B63: Department of Justice FCPA Opinion Release— Payment of Travel Expenses for Post-Adoption Supervision.
In addition, the book offers information on the latest cases, enforcement actions, and settlements and provides several adaptable forms and templates (see the Related Items tab under “Forms”).
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New Title! Commercial Legal Finance
PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new practice guide Commercial Legal Finance.
This book offers industry-specific guidance on the mechanics of litigation and arbitration finance in key jurisdictions and practice areas around the world. It provides a wealth of applied use cases for law firms and corporations and addresses key questions concerned with legal finance structures, pricing, and ethical considerations. The book also gives a step-by-step overview of the process for obtaining legal finance and a helpful glossary of terms.
Notably, Commercial Legal Finance covers the following important topics:
- The basics of commercial legal finance (see Chapter 1)
- The role of the funder (see Chapter 2)
- The mechanics and economics of funding (see Chapter 3)
- The major ethical issues related to legal finance (see Chapter 4)
- The financing of investor-state arbitration (see Chapter 5)
- Key considerations for financing patent litigation and other intellectual property matters (see Chapter 6)
In addition, the book devotes full chapters to the use of funding in the U.S. (Chapter 7), England and Wales (Chapter 8), Europe (Chapter 9), Asia (Chapter 10), and Australia (Chapter 11).
We are excited to share this new title with you!
PLUS Subscribers can access this title with their subscription.
Order a print copy today.
Is your library interested in subscribing to PLI’s Standing Order Plan (SOP)? SOP subscribers automatically receive print copies of new titles to review upon release. If you decide to keep the title, you will receive a discount up to 25% off the title and all future supplements. Call 877.900.5291 or email libraryrelations@pli.edu to learn more.
Free Legal 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:
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.
- Popular PLUS Forms – This flyer provides a list of the top five most downloaded forms in prominent practice areas on PLI PLUS.
Send us an email at plus@pli.edu to learn more.
New Episode! The Practising Law Librarian Podcast
The Practising Law Librarian, part of the PLI Ever Current podcast, brings you conversations with — and for — the law librarian community.
Episode 8: Teachable Moments With Susan Ryan
Susan Ryan, librarian in the Washington, DC office of Seyfarth Shaw, says that “all librarians are teachers.” She shares how she developed the idea for a blog on marijuana law and discusses other learning resources she has developed on topics such as conducting cost-effective research and skills for new associates.
Treatise Update – Patent Litigation (Third Edition)
Patent Litigation (Third Edition) enhances every patent litigator’s ability to prevail at trial while helping to cut the costs and complexity of litigation. Written by leading patent litigators, the treatise provides guidance on various infringement actions and their respective burdens of proof. It also offers pointers on conducting comprehensive pre-suit investigations; developing potent case themes; assembling strong litigation teams; developing smart budgets; maximizing the persuasive impact of documents, exhibits, and witnesses; and making savvy use of technology, jury consultants, and litigation support vendors.
Highlights of this release include updated discussion of the following topics:
- Substantive Issues of a Patent Case: Defenses against patent validity, such as collateral estoppel and unadjudicated claims, applicant-admitted prior art, obviousness, and inadequately disclosed claims (see sections 1:3.3[B], 1:3.3[C], 1:3.3[F], and 1:3.3[H]) and, in the area of inequitable conduct before the PTO, the mitigation of nondisclosure of information through supplemental examination (see section 1:3.4[A][4]).
- Discovery and Privilege: Use of testimony from patent law experts (see section 4:4.4[C]).
- Nondiscovery Motions and Court-Initiated Procedures: Markman proceedings and claim construction (see section 7:2).
- Witnesses Special to a Patent Case: Inventor testimony (see section 8:2.1[A]).
- Damages and Attorney’s Fees: Consequences of the district court’s failure to address prejudgment interest (see section 9:10.1) and willfulness and enhanced damages (see section 9:11.1).
- Trial: Rule 50(a) and Rule 50(b) motions (see sections 12:12.3 and 12:14); Rule 59 motions for a new trial and altering or amending the judgment (see new section 12:14.4); and Rule 60 proceedings for relief from judgment (see new section 12:14.5).
The Table of Authorities and Index have also been updated.
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For additional recent developments in patent litigation, check out this recent PLI Chronicle article, PTAB’s Longhorn Decision Could Signal More USPTO OED Disciplinary Proceedings.