Author Archives: Library Relations

New Update! Technology Transactions

Release # 3 is now available for Technology Transactions: A Practical Guide to Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Agreements.

This indispensable guide empowers practitioners to draft, review, and negotiate technology transaction agreements and covers areas of knowledge that should inform this process, such as the DMCA, state transactions laws, and numerous privacy considerations. The types of agreements covered include:

This release includes brand-new chapters on employee agreements and open source software, and new discussions of the “shared responsibility” cloud model and cloud adoption efforts by public agencies.

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.

What’s New for February 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, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in February!

PLI PLUS IP Research Center

Interested in learning more about our Intellectual Property resources on PLI PLUS? Take a look at our IP Research Center!

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You can also find the IP Research Center document on our Training Center.

PLI PLUS: Content Added in 2017

PLI PLUS continually grows: new books are published; Treatises are updated; Forms are added; and new programs generate our Course Handbooks and Transcripts.

Here’s a listing of the content added or updated to PLI PLUS in 2017. It can be used as a reference guide for librarians, attorneys, researchers and other subscribers.

In 2017, we added or updated the following:

19 Answer Books
218 Course Handbooks
438 Archived Course Handbooks
80 Forms
2 New Editions of our Journal
307 Transcripts
18 Treatises
64 Treatises – Supplemented

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New Edition! ERISA Benefits Litigation Answer Book (2018 Edition)

PLI recently published a new edition of ERISA Benefits Litigation Answer Book, which provides a comprehensive overview, in question and answer format, of the various causes of action the Employee Retirement Income Security Act provides to remedy violations of the statute, enforce the terms of a benefit plan, or provide other relief to a plan, its participants or its fiduciaries.

Written by a team of authors with many years of ERISA litigation experience, and filled with practical illustrations and tips, ERISA Benefits Litigation Answer Book describes the legal requirements of, defenses to, and unique aspects of litigation involving: stock drops, ESOPs, cash balance plans, prohibited transactions, 401(K) fees, recovery of benefits due under a plan, multi-employer plans, managed care plans, and discrimination and interference with benefits rights. Also covered are chapters discussing litigation of claims arising under federal common law, affirmative defenses to ERISA claims, and limitations on actions under ERISA.

The new edition 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.

Sack on Defamation Tackles Fake News

In his acclaimed Treatise, Sack on Defamation, author Judge Robert D. Sack shows that “fake news” lies outside the defamation protections granted to the institutional media.

In the days after President Trump announced his “Fake News Awards”, Sack’s is an important point to keep in mind, as columnist Alfred Hunt writes in Bloomberg View, because it means it’s unnecessary to change libel law to make it harder to deliberately disseminate false information–it is already actionable under our current law. In addition, Sack reminds us of the significance of protecting the high standards that public figures must meet in order to prove defamation against a media outlet.

Sack on Defamation 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.