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Check Out the New Beyond the Courtroom Course Adoption Kit!
As law schools continue to emphasize professional identity formation under ABA Standard 303(b), faculty are looking for resources that move beyond theory and help students develop the judgment, leadership, communication, and well-being practices essential to successful legal careers.
Beyond the Courtroom: Proven Strategies from the Legal Field for Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and Well-Being in the Modern Workplace is designed for exactly that purpose. It gives students practical guidance for navigating the interpersonal, professional, and leadership challenges they will encounter in practice.
Learn more about the book and how to integrate this title into your classroom with the Beyond the Courtroom Course Adoption Kit.
What’s New in 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, Skills Books, Practice Guides, Course Handbooks, Case Summaries, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.
Click here to see what we added in September 2026!
Treatise Update: Bankruptcy Deskbook
The Bankruptcy Deskbook provides both analysis and practical guidance regarding consumer and corporate bankruptcy. This newly updated treatise spans all aspects of the process, such as jurisdictional issues, automatic stays, avoidance powers, distribution of property, and appeals.
Highlights of the update include:
- Chapter 2, Jurisdiction and Related Topics, provides a discussion of the Supreme Court’s clarification on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, including the finding that the doctrine bars federal suits seeking review of state-court judgments, regardless of the finality of the judgments; it also includes the dissenting justices’ opinion that the doctrine could be constrained in the future
- Chapter 6, Avoidance Powers, covers the Supreme Court’s holding that the Takings Clause doesn’t require government to sell property at fair market value in the case of tax foreclosure
- Chapter 14, Litigation and Appeals, discusses the Supreme Court’s signal that judicial estoppel has been overapplied in undisclosed claims of bankruptcy
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Book Update: The Circular 230 Deskbook
The Circular 230 Deskbook: Related Penalties, Reportable Transactions, Working Forms serves as an essential compliance resource, designed to help tax professionals navigate the complex Circular 230 amendments with ease. The digital edition also includes a CPE self-study module, providing accounting officials with a convenient way to earn CPE credit.
Highlights of this recent update include:
- Coverage of the key takeaways from Lesko v. US and its effects on (Chapter 1, Deference: When the Court Must Yield to the Government’s Interpretation)
- An explanation of the government’s entitlement to a presumption of correctness under section 6700, but that the government also bears the burden of proof in establishing a violation of section 6700 (Chapter 3, Reporting and Listing Requirements)
- Discussion of the Introductory Guidelines for Responsible AI Use in Federal Tax Practice, which explores generative AI and its effects on various Circular sections (Chapter 4, Circular 230)
- Updates to the Index and Table of Authorities
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Free Form of the Month
PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.
September’s free form:
Sample Jury Instructions from Reported Decisions
More information about Legal Forms & Checklists:
- Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.
Explore the New Closing the Deal Course Adoption Kit from PLI!
PLI’s Closing the Deal: A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions blends doctrinal foundations with real-world application, serving as a textbook for students to understand how legal principles operate over the course of a real estate transaction.
Explore how to integrate this title into your classroom with the Closing the Deal Course Adoption Kit.
AALL Meeting: Aloha from Cleveland!
Flights cancellations and inclement weather couldn’t keep the PLI team away from this year’s AALL Annual Meeting! In July our team of librarians and membership reps ventured to Cleveland to engage with the law librarian community and share exciting new updates to PLI PLUS, including new publications, podcast updates, and more.
Each year, AALL’s Annual Meeting and Conference brings together information professionals across the field of law and legal research, providing interactive learning experiences and allowing participants to connect and engage in a collaborative environment.
Inspired by the city’s ties to rock & roll, PLI leaned into the rhythm with the theme “don’t miss a beat,” emphasizing PLI PLUS’s ability to support every stage of legal learning and practice, from the classroom to the real world. In an homage to the Cleveland Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, we created a visual PLI Author Hall of Fame, honoring authors who have been with us for 25 years or more. We also helped attendees “Pump up the volume” on legal research with our raffle, giving away a Bose Bluetooth speaker.
At our Lunch & Learn, we hosted over 100 librarians for lunch and to showcase some upcoming changes involving the redesign of our research platform launching in 2027. We also highlighted some new publications, such as
Our team thoroughly enjoyed our time in Cleveland and are already looking forward to next year in Philadelphia!
Free Form of the Month
PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.
August’s free form:
More information about Legal Forms & Checklists:
- Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.
Fintech, Regtech, and the Financial Services Industry Book Update
Fintech, Regtech, and the Financial Services Industry examines technological innovation and its effect on regulated financial markets focusing on the opportunities which they bring to the marketplace, as well as the emerging regulatory framework.
Highlights of this update include:
- A new Chapter 6, Model Risk and Regulatory Considerations for Artificial Intelligence and Other Complex Models, outlining the core principles of model risk management for fintechs and other financial services participants, as well as the key risks introduced by complex models (including AI), and the emerging regulatory frameworks for model development and use
- Chapter 8B, Blockchain and Digital Assets, has been extensively updated to reflect recent regulatory developments regarding digital asset securities, including statements from the SEC and CFTC and Digital Asset-related case law
- Chapter 21, Financial Services Firms’ Use of Data Analytics and Technology in Compliance, includes an updated discussion of the increased automation which reflects the inclusion of AI agents (Section 21:3.2)
- Chapter 22, Regulators’ Use of Data Analytics, provides an updated discussion following the SEC’s use of AI tools to further its regulatory mission (Section 22:3.6)
- Updates to the Table of Authorities and Index
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