Author Archives: Library Relations
What’s New for August
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 August!
PLI Current: The Journal of PLI Press
We are pleased to announce that the Summer 2018 issue of PLI Current: The Journal of PLI PLUS is available on PLI PLUS! Each issue of PLI Current features original articles that cover new and emerging developments impacting the law and the legal profession. In every issue you’ll find expert insights, commentary, and analysis from leading practitioners, including PLI authors and faculty members.
Articles in this Summer 2018 issue include:
- Practice Tips for Challenging Immigration Detention in the Wake of Jennings v. Rodriguez, Judah Lakin & Amalia Wille (Van Der Hout Brigagliano & Nightingale), Valerie Anne Zukin (Justice & Diversity Ctr. of Bar Ass’n of S.F.)
- Sexual Harassment Bills in the #MeToo Era, Miriam F. Clark (Ritz Clark & Ben-Asher LLP)
- The Foreign Agents Registration Act: A New Wave of Enforcement, Robert K. Kelner, Zachary G. Parks, Alexandra K. Langton (Covington & Burling LLP)
- Structuring Foreign Investments in U.S. Real Estate After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Carl Merino, Dina Kapur Sanna (Day Pitney LLP)
The Summer 2018 issue also features articles on data security and the CLOUD Act; preparing for depositions and motions in limine; modernizing communications safe harbors for issuers of securities; the impact of Trump’s tax cuts on profits interests as executive compensation; and more.
PLI Current is available through your PLI PLUS subscription.
Not a PLI PLUS subscriber? Click here to sign up for a FREE digital version of PLI Current. The journal is also available here for purchase in print.
PLI PLUS Enhancements Timeline
We are continually working to improve PLI PLUS so that it meets your needs. From including MARC records as part of the subscription fee to adding case law links free of charge and everything in between, learn more about the updates we’ve made with our PLI PLUS enhancements timeline:
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You can also view the timeline on our Training Center.
Have a suggestion for another enhancement for PLI PLUS? Let us know! Email PLUS@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.
New Edition! Financial Institutions Answer Book: Law, Governance, Compliance (2018 Edition)
PLI recently published the 2018 edition of Financial Institutions Answer Book, which provides a comprehensive overview of the complex federal requirements regulating financial institutions in the United States in an easily accessible Q&A format.
Every aspect of a financial institution life cycle is covered, from understanding the differences in regulation based on what type of charter is chosen, through ongoing capital and deposit activities requirements and major changes in corporate control, to the cessation of entity activity through merger, acquisition, or entity failure.
Financial Institutions Answer Book describes the requirements under each type of charter for the major areas of financial institution activity, such as:
- The creation of branch offices and deposit activity
- Corporate governance
- Executive compensation
- Deposit insurance requirements
- Insider and affiliate transactions
- Anti-money laundering and U.S. trade sanctions
- Examination and audit
- Privacy and data security
Reflecting the increased federal concern with fraud, money laundering, and protecting the federal taxpayer from bank defaults, individual chapters are devoted to describing in detail the federal enforcement agencies and their powers, anti-money laundering and other fraud issues, the required examinations and audit process, and recent regulatory approaches to problem banks and failure.
Published in a handy softcover volume, Financial Institutions Answer Book is a source for quick, concise answers for lawyers and other legal professionals, as well as financial institution managers, officers, directors, and anyone else who would like a comprehensive understanding of the legal framework regulating banks and other financial institutions.
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.
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.
The 2018 PLI Press Catalog Has Arrived
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:
- The FDA’s authority and potential actions to regulate prescription drugs and biologics both before and after approval by the agency
- A facility’s rights and compliance obligations during an inspection by the agency
- How to best evaluate a company’s potential of being in violation and what to do to mitigate those risks
- What advertising and promotion of prescription drugs is permitted
- How product liability issues overlap with FDA enforcement initiatives
- When criminal prosecution is used as part of the regulatory enforcement effort
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:
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- 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.
- Disclaimer of Waiver by Landlord: Updated discussion examines
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.


