In April 2014, PLI published the following new Treatise editions:
If you are on standing order for these titles or have a Standing Order Plan with PLI, these have already been shipped to you. If you would like to place an order, please email PLI Library Relations or call 877-900-5291.
PLI is hosting a Librarian Advisory Lunch at the SLA 2014 Annual Conference in Vancouver and we would like to extend our warmest invitation to you!
The Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding a Librarian Advisory Lunch at SLA 2014. PLI is developing a taxonomy with the aim of making our content even easier to find and discover online and will showcase our prototype over lunch. We will demonstrate the exciting future enhancements that are currently planned for Practising Law Institute’s Discover PLUS, our eBook library containing our authoritative legal Treatises, Answer Books, Course Handbooks, Program Transcripts, and Forms.
Our lunch will take place on Monday, June 9th from 12:00 – 2:00 PM at the Convention Center. Please email libraryrelations@pli.edu to RSVP and we’ll include location details in your confirmation.
We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!
In April 2014, PLI updated the following Treatises:
If you are on standing order for any of these titles, the releases have already been shipped. If you would like to place an order, please email PLI Library Relations or call 877-900-5291.
May 19, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)
In April, the United States Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to Michigan’s statewide ban on race and sex-based affirmative action. Although the vote was 6-2, the ruling produced no majority opinion for the Court. The plurality opinion repudiated the reasoning, but not the results, of an earlier line of decisions that had forbidden states from transferring authority over programs that benefit racial minorities from local to state decision makers. The ruling also produced a sharp disagreement over the continuing need for affirmative action and the social meaning of opposition to affirmative action.
Please join Cornell University Law School Professors Michael C. Dorf and Aziz F. Rana as they discuss:
Don’t miss this important free presentation!
Due to customer demand, PLI recently unveiled a new way to receive our acclaimed Answer Books–our Answer Book Standing Order Plan! Much like our Treatise Standing Order Plan, the Answer Book plan allows subscribers to receive review copies of all future Answer Books while receiving a discount of 35% off the retail price of those they decide to keep.
For more information on our Answer Book Standing Order plan, click here or contact PLI’s Library Relations team .
Happy Law Day! To celebrate, PLI is offering a discount of 35% off our Treatises and Answer Books. 
PLI’s Social Media and the Law received a very nice review from the Orange County Business Attorney Blog, which you can view here. The Treatise is available for purchase here and is also accessible online on our eBook library, PLI Discover PLUS. Interested in learning more about this book or PLI Discover PLUS? Contact PLI’s Library Relations team at PLI Library Relations or call 877-900-5291.
Social Media and the Law – Book Review
A few months ago, the Practicing Law Institute, a well-known publisher of legal practice guides, asked me to comment on its new book, Social Medial and the Law. I agreed to do so because I was curious as to what was in the book and wanted to find out whether this book could be an aid to my practice as a business litigation attorney and to my clients.
After a few weeks of reading the book, I find that it is a valuable resource for me as a business litigator.
My office is in Orange County, California, and I have served the business communities here for more than a decade. My clientele comprises small to medium sized businesses, with most them doing business internationally. Like most attorneys, I have been seeing a gigantic shift of focus to social media in business, as they have become an integral part of my clients’ business.
I often receive calls from clients inquiring about how to deal with untrue comments from disgruntled customers that have been posted on the Internet, how to create an office policy regarding social media (both the company’s and employees’), how to deal with trademark or other intellectual property infringements, and how to defend clients from a claim arising out of social media.
I find this book valuable because the author covers the topics thoroughly and with a focus on the importance of each area. Unlike other practice guides that try to impress the reader with the details of information, this book focuses on only the essentials, so that once I have enough information that deals with a client’s situation, I then can focus on the legal research that specifically addresses the issue of what the client is experiencing. The content of this book is balanced between simplicity and sufficiency. I don’t feel that I am buried under all the facts and details that may or may not apply to my client’s situation, and yet I feel that the information given is sufficient to help me discuss the matter intelligently with the client and focus my effort on subsequent legal research and preparation for the case.
Chapters 2 to 9 are the meat of the book, in my opinion; they deal with every conceivable issue that may come up in the context of social media, such as the following:
Although Kathryn L. Ossian is listed on the book cover and is identified as the editor, there are other contributing writers with equally impressive resumes in their areas of expertise.
As a business litigation and trial attorney, without being an expert in the field, I often need to have a grasp on sufficient expertise on the issues before me to formulate the litigation strategies and to tell the story to the judge or jury at the time of trial. This book helps me to accomplish just that in the area of social media.
Many thanks to Professor Timothy Coggins for his nice mention of PLI Discover PLUS in the December 2013 edition of Virginia Lawyer.
In “Discovering E-Discovery: A Resources Guide”, Coggins, the Associate Dean for Library and Information Services at Richmond, reviews a number of helpful resources on electronic discovery. In particular, he highlights Chapter 3, “The Courts Intervene with Model Rules to Curb the Costs of E-Discovery: Will It Work and Should Litigants Use these Model Rules in the Rule 26(f) Conference” from our Course Handbook, Electronic Discovery Guidance 2012: What Corporate and Outside Counsel Need to Know in addition to our acclaimed Treatise, Electronic Discovery Deskbook.
Coggins also mentions how easy it is to access these titles on our eBook library, PLI Discover PLUS.
Interested in learning more about these books or PLI Discover PLUS? Contact PLI’s Library Relations team at PLI Library Relations or call 877-900-5291.
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April 30, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)
On January 17, 2014 the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases that will hopefully force it to bring the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century. In United States v. Wurie and California v. Riley, the Court will consider whether the police, after arresting an individual, may look at the contents of his or her cellphone. These cases may force the Court to confront a question that it has so far ducked: What is the Fourth Amendment’s protection for informational privacy? That is, to what extent should people be able to keep information from the government until it has probable cause to obtain it?
The presentation will address:
Register now for this free special event in celebration of Law Day and join Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law for this important discussion.
Derivatives Deskbook: Close-Out Netting, Risk Mitigation, Litigation is a comprehensive derivatives resource geared to all users of swap agreements and derivatives, from financial institutions to corporate end users.
This new second edition defines the key terminology; identifies the major players; discusses the full range of documentation; and highlights risk mitigation techniques and best practices that can significantly minimize risks. Derivatives Deskbook examines the termination events and events of default that can trigger the early termination of OTC derivative transactions; the important process of closing out these deals; and the complex process of calculating the early termination amounts due the parties under the transactions, as well as how these transactions can be terminated in ways that minimize the damage to the parties and to the global financial system.
Most importantly, Derivatives Deskbook provides a comprehensive resource to all key litigation cases involving derivative transactions around the key jurisdictions in the world. It is an essential resource for every lawyer or business person engaged in derivative transactions.
Check out this new edition on our eBook library, PLI Discover PLUS, today!