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Immigration Fundamentals Gets a New Name!

FragomenPLI recently published a new fifth edition of our acclaimed Treatise, Immigration Fundamentals, and with this new edition comes a name change: the title is now Fragomen on Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law and Practice .

Offering in-depth coverage of bedrock immigration legislation, the latest federal standards, and pivotal court decisions, Fragomen on Immigration Fundamentals gives you the legal and procedural knowledge to work more efficiently and effectively with employers, aliens, nonimmigrants, refugees, naturalized citizens, and government officials.

Enhanced by advisory ”Practice Commentaries,” Fragomen on Immigration Fundamentals shows you how to follow all status-change procedures for employment-based immigration, family-sponsored immigration, and diversity immigration; satisfy important legal tests, such as proving ”business necessity” when hiring aliens or ”qualifying relationships” in family-sponsored immigration cases; and protect clients’ rights, whether helping aliens fight unjust removal, nonimmigrants pursue lawful entry, or employers obtain judicial review for adverse decisions.

“[Immigration Fundamentals is] indispensable to even the experienced attorney.”
– International Law and Trade Perspective

Fragomen on Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law and Practice  is available both on PLI Discover PLUS and for purchase in print. If you have any questions or would like to order a copy, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291

The PLI Discover PLUS App is Here!

NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/Practising Law Institute (PLI) is pleased to announce Discover PLUS for iPad and iPhone. Discover PLUS is a subscription-based online research database targeted to legal, financial, and accounting professionals. Discover PLUS provides digital access to PLI’s full collection of acclaimed Treatises, Course Handbooks, Legal Forms, Program Transcripts and Answer Books. Content is derived from over 2,000 secondary source publications written by today’s experts on the most recent industry changes in regulations, rulings, and standard practices as well as over 400 + annual continuing legal education seminars. In developing the Discover PLUS App, PLI sought to create an interface that not only mirrored the award-winning desktop application, but also simplified the existing navigation and allowed synchronization for a seamless transition from a desktop to a mobile workspace. In an industry where real time research can make or break your case, we wanted to make sure you had an immediate connection to the right answers from the right people.

With the Discover PLUS app, you can access your account from your iPad or iPhone and have the most up-to-date, relevant information and techniques practiced by the industry’s leading law firms, corporations, and government agencies. Imagine being able to access proven strategies and practice tips from your largest competitors with nothing more than a touch of a button.

“We are pleased to be able to offer this app to Discover PLUS subscribers,” said Alexa Robertson, Director of Library Relations and Electronic Publishing at PLI. “We continue to focus on providing high-quality content and making our interface easy and convenient to use. Next time you are in court or traveling, you will have more than 2,000 PLI titles at your fingertips. Any work you do will sync up to your account seamlessly.”

The Discover PLUS app features:

  • The ability to download items to your device when you need to work without an Internet connection
  • Robust search capabilities, including Terms and Connectors searching across PLI titles to help you find what you are looking for quickly and easily
  • eReader functionality, including the ability to adjust font
  • Syncing for your Bookshelves, Notes, Marks, and Highlights

Discover PLUS for iPad and iPhone is available in the App Store today. The app requires a Discover PLUS Membership.

Download Discover PLUS for the iPad and iPhone – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discover-plus/id1042352941?mt=8

What’s New for October on PLI Discover PLUS


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TREATISES

Banking:

Asset-Based Lending: A Practical Guide to Secured Financing (8th Edition)

 

TREATISES – SUPPLEMENTED 

Banking:

Equipment Leasing-Leveraged Leasing (5th Edition)

Corporate & Securities:

Broker-Dealer Regulation (2nd Edition)

Corporate Legal Departments (4th Edition)

Deskbook on Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues

Employment:

Corporate Whistleblowing in the Sarbanes-Oxley/Dodd-Frank Era (2nd Edition)

Litigation:

Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide

Pro Bono:

New York Elder Law

Real Estate:

Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings (3rd Edition)

 
COURSE HANDBOOKS 

Corporate & Securities:

Corporate Counsel Institute 2015

Corporate Political Activities 2015: Complying with Finance, Lobbying and Ethics Laws

Crowdfunding and Online Direct Lending (Peer-to-Peer) 2015

Government Contracts 2015

Hedge Fund Management 2015

Hot Topics in Mergers & Acquisitions 2015

Outsourcing 2015: Sourcing Critical Services

Shareholder Activism: What You Need To Be Doing Now 2015

Employee Benefits:

Cutting Edge Employment Law Issues 2015: The California Difference

Hot Issues in Executive Compensation 2015

Intellectual Property:

Advertising Law Institute 2015

Cybersecurity 2015: Managing the Risk

Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law 2015

Litigation:

Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation (32nd Annual)

Pro Bono:

Bankruptcy Basics for Low-Income Clients 2015

Representing the Pro Bono Client: Advocacy Skills for Administrative Hearings 2015

 
ARCHIVAL TITLES

Advanced Doing Deals 2002: What You Need to Know Now

Asset-Based Financing 2001

The Corporate Tax Practice Series (2013 Edition)

The Corporate Tax Practice Series (2012 Edition)

The Corporate Tax Practice Series (2011 Edition)

The Corporate Tax Practice Series (2010 Edition)

Current Developments in Federal Civil Practice 2002

Federal Pretrial Practice: Basic Procedure & Strategy 2001

Guardianship 2001: Article 81 Training to Obtain Certification

Non-Federal Question Class Actions 2002: Prosecution & Defense Strategies

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2014 Edition)

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2013 Edition)

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2012 Edition)

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2011 Edition)

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2010 Edition)

Patent & High Technology Licensing 2002

Patent Practice in the Aftermath of Festo & Vornado

PLI’s Institute for Intellectual Property Law (Eight Annual)

Soderquist on the Securities Laws (5th Edition)

Taking & Defending Depositions in Commercial Cases 2001

Title Insurance 2002: Mastering Critical Issues Facing Buyers, Sellers

Understanding ERISA 2003: An Introduction to Basic Employee Retirement Benefits

Understanding the Securities Laws 2001

Understanding the Sophisticated Real Estate Practice 2001

 

TRANSCRIPTS 

Energy:

Carbon Markets and Financing Issues in Renewable Energy

Litigation:

California Trial Advocacy 2015

Nuts & Bolts of Electronic Discovery 2015

Supreme Court and Civil Procedure: The Changing Landscape of Civil Litigation

Pro Bono:

Reentry in California – Overcoming Legal Barriers to Community Reintegration 2015

Professional Skills:

Writing for Transactional Lawyers 2015

Tax:

Basics of Federal Election Campaign Act 2015

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

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The many recent sophisticated cyber threats—from hacktivists and empowered insiders to organized criminals and state-sponsored cyber attacks—means that the task of managing cyber risks, once the near-exclusive realm of IT professionals, is now also borne by attorneys, senior executives, and directors. PLI’s new Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk provides the practical steps that can be taken to help your clients understand and mitigate today’s cyber risk and to build the most resilient response capabilities possible.

Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk provides a comprehensive discussion of the complex quilt of federal and state statutes, Executive Orders, regulations, contractual norms, and ambiguous tort duties that can apply to this crucial new area of the law. For example, it describes in detail:

  • The leading regulatory role the Federal Trade Commission has played, acting on its authority to regulate “unfair” or “deceptive” trade practices;
  • The guidance issued by the SEC interpreting existing disclosure rules to require registrants to disclose cybersecurity risks under certain circumstances;
  • The varying roles of other regulators in sector-specific regulation, such as healthcare, energy, and transportation; and
  • The impact of preexisting statutes, such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, on current cybersecurity issues.

In addition, the authors of Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk have supplemented these more traditional sources of law with industry practices and the most important sources of soft law:

  • An explanation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and information sharing environments from a former Department of Homeland Security official,
  • The views of the U.S. Secret Service on partnering with federal law enforcement and effective information-sharing,
  • The guidance of leading consultants about the appropriate steps to prepare for cybersecurity incidents,
  • The perspective of a leading insurance company on the evolving role of insurance in protecting companies from the financial losses associated with a successful cyber breach, and
  • The views of one of the most sophisticated incident response organizations on the proper elements of effective incident response.

Throughout the book, Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk includes practice tools developed during the hundreds of breaches that the authors have weathered with their clients. These valuable practice aids include checklists, an overview of the legal consequences of a breach, and a tabletop exercise.

If you’d like to order Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

 

What’s New for August on Discover PLUS

 

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ANSWER BOOKS

Corporate & Securities:

Health Care:

Insurance:

TREATISES

Intellectual Property:

TREATISES – SUPPLEMENTED

Banking:

Corporate & Securities:

Intellectual Property:

Tax:

COURSE HANDBOOKS

Children’s Law:

Corporate & Securities:

Employee Benefits:

Ethics/Professional Responsibility:

Intellectual Property:

International Law:

Litigation:

Pro Bono:

Archival Titles:

TRANSCRIPTS

Accounting:

Bankruptcy & Restructuring:

Corporate & Securities:

Employment:

Environmental:

Insurance:

Intellectual Property:

Litigation:

Professional Skills:

Real Estate:

 

If you’d like to order any of the above titles, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

The Library Ledger, August 2015, Vol 3. Issue 3

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Our latest edition of the Library Ledger is now available on the blog! Read up on PLI Discover PLUS news with this most current edition which provides you with updates on new titles added to  Discover PLUS; news on the upcoming release of the Discover PLUS app; search tips on locating materials on cybersecurity; and a letter from PLI’s Library Relations Manager Christina Davis. Read all of our newsletters on the Library Ledger page.

Discover PLUS Research Topics Video – Cell Phone Evidence

Discover PLUS is a great place to begin your research because all PLI publications are secondary sources that contain expert analyses of today’s legal controversies. Our publications, form templates, and program transcripts provide users with authoritative background information, as well as insights into the positions of leading practitioners from law firms, corporations, government, and academia.

Scenario: After listening to the “Serial” podcast, a legal researcher is interested in learning more about using cell phone records as trial evidence.

Search: “Cell phone” /s evidence

Click below to watch the full Research Topic Guide video on Cell Phone Evidence.

Meet Our AALL 2015 Orbitz Gift Card Winner: Nicole Dyszlewski

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Tell me a little about yourself?  Why did you become a librarian?

I am the new Research/Access Services Librarian at Roger Williams University School of Law in beautiful Bristol, RI. I just moved to Southern New England in January from Maine in hopes of avoiding some of the snow. I became a librarian because I like working with patrons.  

 

What do you like most about your job as at Roger Williams University School of Law?

My patrons, of course! My second favorite thing about RWU is that we are surrounded by water on nearly every side of the campus.

 

What is the most common research question of law students?

I am fairly new to RWU and I don’t think I have a good sense of what the most common questions are here, yet. Surprisingly, I have not gotten a single question about the father of religious freedom, Roger Williams!  

 

Have you used PLI publications for your own research? Which ones?

I particularly like the Answer Book Series. It is like Yahoo Answers…but written by actual experts…

 

What did you think of AALL 2015? Did you do any sightseeing in Philadelphia?

The AALL Annual Meeting was great. I really enjoyed some of the presentations. As a tourist, I visited Eastern State Penitentiary (at http://www.easternstate.org/) and The Franklin Fountain ( at http://www.franklinfountain.com/).

 

Tell me about your best vacation ever.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

 

Where do you plan on traveling with your Orbitz gift card?

I don’t know. I’m hoping somewhere relaxing!