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Deskbook on Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance, and White Collar Issues

PLI recently updated Deskbook on Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance, and White Collar Issues.

This treatise provides practical guidance on how to carry out internal investigations to identify and remediate legal problems, protect the rights of employees when they’re subject to investigation or prosecution, and cooperate with government investigators in ways that help reduce legal and financial damage if wrongdoing is proved.

The latest update includes coverage of the following topics:

  • Major ongoing antitrust investigations: A new section has been added discussing the Packaged Seafood Investigation into price-fixing of packaged seafood between the brands Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee, and its consequences including abandonment of a proposed merger, cooperation by the parent company of Chicken of the Sea in the investigation, agreement by Bumble Bee Foods to plead guilty to a criminal charge, and guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy by several corporate executives.
  • The most recent civil and criminal FCPA enforcement actions against companies and individuals: An updated discussion of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the International Conventions on Bribery explores the DOJ’s revised Corporate Enforcement Policy, making permanent many of the core elements of the Obama administration’s Pilot Program, which has guided the DOJ’s FCPA enforcement decisions over the past year and a half. New to the policy is a presumption in favor of non-prosecution when companies self-report, cooperate, and remediate.
  • Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs): the updates reflect the most recent (DPAs), while noting the decrease in number of such DPAs over the last few years.

The updated treatise is available on PLI PLUS, our research database.  If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.

PLI PLUS New Content Added in 2018

PLI PLUS, PLI’s online research database, provides unlimited access to PLI Press Treatises, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Journals, in addition to Legal Forms and Program Transcripts. To reflect recent changes and the latest in legal developments, PLI PLUS is updated continuously with supplements and new editions as well as completely new titles.

Here is a list of new PLI titles added from 2015 through 2018:

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Questions? Email PLUS@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.

New Edition! Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book (2018 Edition)

 

PLI recently published the 2018 edition of Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book, which provides a comprehensive overview of the complex regulatory issues faced by the different participants in the pharmaceutical industry.

This resource gives clear, expert answers to questions on topics such as:

Filled with practical suggestions, Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book provides attorneys and compliance officers with a roadmap to effective compliance with FDA pharmaceutical regulations.

This new answer book is available on PLI PLUS, our research database.  If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.

Treatise Update! Friedman on Leases

PLI recently updated Friedman on Leases (Sixth Edition). This acclaimed treatise clarifies and analyzes the full range of lease provisions and conceivable landlord-tenant situations to give you unsurpassed practical instruction on how to negotiate and draft airtight agreements that protect your clients’ rights and minimize their liability exposure.

This definitive work continues to deliver not only the foundational knowledge required by novice practitioners, but also analysis of and insight into the most current and relevant developments facing
seasoned practitioners in the commercial real estate field.

Highlights of this Release #3 include the following:

    • Disclaimer of Waiver by Landlord: Updated discussion examines
      whether a nonwaiver provision may be waived.
    • Security Deposit Clause: New samples of a lease provision that requires
      tenant to deposit cash as security; a lease provision that requires
      tenant to deposit a letter of credit as security; a lease provision that permits
      tenant to deposit either cash or a letter of credit as security; a lease
      provision that permits the security deposit to be reduced if certain conditions
      are satisfied; and a form of a letter of credit to be attached as an
      exhibit to a commercial lease.
    • Option to Cancel Lease—Sample Provisions: New samples of negotiated
      provisions granting tenant the one-time right to cancel.
    • Stipulations: Instead of a stipulation that permits tenant to remove
      its installations, an alternative approach is for the parties to define in the
      lease what constitutes “Tenant’s Property,” and that the tenant has the
      right (and/or the obligation) to remove its property. A new sample provision
      of this type is provided.

This essential title is available on PLI PLUS, our online research database.  If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.

What’s New for July

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, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in July!

Treatise Update! Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk

PLI recently updated Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk.

Among the many developments in this fast-moving field that are reflected in this treatise release are:

  • General Data Protection Regulation: The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), effective May 2018, applies to most companies that collect personal data from individuals in the EU. The GDPR sets forth requirements for maintaining substantive security safeguards and notifying the supervisory authority and impacted individuals of breaches, and provides for significant financial penalties for noncompliance.
  • OCIE Risk Alert pertaining to broker-dealers: In an August 2017 Risk Alert, the SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations summarized observations from its second cybersecurity survey of broker-dealers and investment advisers, and noted a number of areas
    where compliance and oversight merited attention, signaling the issues on which it intends to focus in its yearly examinations.
  • Regulation of cybersecurity in the financial services industry: The discussion in chapter 5, Cybersecurity in Regulated Sections, is expanded to cover additional governmental agencies and industry associations that regulate financial services.
  • Requirements for defense contractors: In September 2017, the Director of the Defense Pricing/Defense Procurement and Acquisition. Policy issued guidance that recognizes that NIST Special Publication 800-171 avoids mandating specific solutions and provides latitude to
    contractors for how they choose to implement security controls and assess their own compliance with cybersecurity requirements. The guidance is notable because it allows small businesses with limited IT or cybersecurity expertise to meet the requirements of the special publication.
  • Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure: President Trump’s Executive Order 13800 directs a broad examination of cybersecurity vulnerabilities at federal agencies; it also reaffirms the Obama administration’s approach to cybersecurity protections for critical infrastructure, seeking to promote the growth and sustainment of the nation’s cybersecurity workforce in the public and private sectors.

The updated treatise is available on PLI PLUS, our online research database.  If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.

AALL 2018: Visit Us at Booth #324!

Next week, Practising Law Institute will be at the AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, celebrating our profession and the experts who provide meaning to our organizations. We know with all the interesting sessions and networking events taking place, conference schedules get booked fast—so be sure to save some time to visit us at the PLI booth!

Stop by to chat with our team of experts exhibiting at the show! You can find us at booth #324, where you can enter our raffle giveaway for an one-year subscription to Ancestry.com, see a demonstration of PLI PLUS, and learn about exciting recent enhancements to the online research platform.

You’ll find us at booth #324, where you can chat with our team of experts, see a demonstration of PLI PLUS, and learn about exciting recent enhancements to the online research platform. And be sure to enter our raffle giveaway for a one-year subscription to Ancestry.com!

Also, don’t miss our Librarian Advisory Breakfast on Sunday, July 15th at 7:30am.  To reserve your spot, please email PLUS@pli.edu by July 13, 2018.

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Primary Law Links Now Available on PLI PLUS

Our subscribers asked, and we answered! The PLI PLUS platform now connects to primary law, powered by Fastcase links, providing PLUS subscribers with unlimited access to state and federal cases that are cited in PLI’s comprehensive library of treatises, answer books, course handbooks, and journals. PLI publications include such industry-leading works as Sack on Defamation: Libel, Slander, and Related Problems (Fifth Edition), and Friedman on Leases (Sixth Edition).

The results of our fall 2017 PLI PLUS Subscriber Satisfaction Survey revealed that access to primary law was the most requested feature. We are very pleased to be able to now offer primary law to all PLUS subscribers.

PLI continuously works to enhance how we develop and deliver the highest quality educational and professional content available through our hands-on, award-winning programs and comprehensive library of publications, both in print and online.  “As part of the PLI PLUS platform, links to primary law  will continue to evolve and provide PLUS subscribers with the information that best fits their needs in today’s ever changing legal marketplace,” said Ellen Siegel, Vice President, Print and Digital Publishing at PLI.

ABOUT PLI: Practising Law Institute is a nonprofit learning organization dedicated to keeping attorneys and other professionals at the forefront of knowledge and expertise.  The essence of PLI’s mission is a commitment to the pro bono community, with more than 98,000 scholarships awarded in the last year and more than 400 pro bono member organizations. Founded in 1933 by Harold P. Seligson, PLI provides the highest quality accredited, continuing legal and professional education programs in a variety of formats, which are delivered by more than 4,000 volunteer faculty including prominent lawyers, judges, investment bankers, accountants, corporate counsel and U.S. and international government regulators. For more information, please visit our website at www.pli.edu.