Category Archives: Law Libraries

Law Firms & Librarians

Why is the partnership between law firm and librarians so important? Chuck Lowry discusses the symbiotic relationship between law firms and their libraries. He makes some interesting points about law librarians:

  • They will see from their research interaction with attorneys what information products or services can be replaced by something else that responds more closely to the firm’s actual information needs, thereby increasing both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the attorneys.
  •  There is no one in your firm better positioned to create, monitor and adjust the balance of firm-wide and specialty products that will get to fee earners what they need to practice law at the standard your clients and your management committee demand.
  •  They understand what the firm’s lawyers can and cannot do, will and will not put up with, have to have or want because the publisher called them directly.

 

September 2011 Course Handbook Update

Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of September 2011.

Corporate Law and Practice Series:

  • Antitrust Counseling and Compliance 2011
  • Directors’ Institute on Corporate Governance (Ninth Annual)
  • Corporate Political Activities 2011
  • Hedge Funds 2011
  • Mergers & Acquisitions 2011

Tax Law and Estate Planning Series:

  • 42nd Annual Estate Planning Institute

Intellectual Property Series:

  • Technology and Entertainment Convergence 2011

Commercial Law and Practice Series:

  • Government Contracts 2011

Please write libraryrelations@pli.edu if you have any questions or would like to order a title.

Business Liability Insurance Answer Book 2011-12

Business Liability Insurance Answer Book 2011-2012 contains answers to those common insurance issues that plague business owners and managers. Intended to be an easy reference guide that non-lawyers and business people could consult for use in risk management planning, Business Liability Insurance Answer Book 2011–12 addresses the most common forms of business liability insurance

Being held personally liable for a business-related decision is the nightmare of every company manager, officer and director. As a result of the recent economic downturn, the number of cases being brought against businesses and the people who run them has surged. Business Liability Insurance Answer Book 2011–12 provides a concise roadmap to the kinds of issues being litigated, and the types of liability insurance available to protect against suit and cover losses in the event of a successful recovery.

Written in a clear and direct Q&A format, Business Liability Insurance Answer Book 2011–12 is a handy softcover volume that will be of interest to lawyers and other legal professionals, as well as the corporate managers, officers, directors and other employees whose liability the type of insurance protects against.

To order the book click here, or write us at libraryrelations@pli.edu.

August 2011 Course Handbook Update

Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of August 2011.

Corporate Law and Practice Series

  • Doing Deals in Emerging Markets: BRIC and Beyond 2011
  • Understanding the Securities Laws Summer 2011
  • Basics of Accounting for Lawyers 2011
  • Securities Arbitration 2011

Intellectual Property Series

  • Prior Art 2011
  • Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2011

Litigation and Administrative Practice Series

  • Prison Law 2011
  • Class Action Litigation 2011
  • Hot Topics in Commercial Insurance Law 2011
  • 14th Annual Children’s Law Institute

New York Practice Skills Series

  • Defending Immigration Removal Proceedings 2011
  • PLI Ethics Program-Summer 2011

Please write libraryrelations@pli.edu if you have any questions or would like to order a title.

August Treatise Update

In August PLI added two new publications to our growing catalog of Answer Book titles, the Intellectual Property Answer Book 2011-2012and Medical Device Law & Regulation Answer Book 2011-2012.

In addition, the following titles were also updated. If you are on standing order, these releases have already been shipped. If you would like to place an order, please write libraryrelations@pli.edu.

  1. Asset-Based Lending 7th Ed(New Edition)
  2. Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2011-12 (New Edition)
  3. Federal Circuit Yearbook 2011 (New Edition)
  4. Mergers, Acquisitions & Tender Offers Rel. #2
  5. Soderquist on Corporate Law & Practice Rel. #4

300 Things You Can Do With A Law Degree
(Free PLI Program)

If you are considering how to better utilize your law degree, join Hindi Greenberg, a nationally known career consultant who herself practiced law for ten years and has written the best-selling Lawyer’s Career Change Handbook, and get practical ideas and pointers about the variety of job and career options that a lawyer can pursue. This is a free pro bono program brought to you by The State Bar of California and PLI.

Law students, practicing lawyers, unemployed lawyers, re-entry lawyers and anyone who has a J.D. and desires to find a good job in or out of law, and have more career satisfaction, will benefit from this program. Here’s what you will learn:

  • The possible uses for your legal training, both in and outside of the legal field
  • Ideas about jobs and categories that might fit who you are and what you want to do
  • How to go about seeking out those job opportunities
  • How to research the job market and make new contacts for employment
  • Begin identifying your skills and abilities and how they translate into new job or career possibilities
  • Illustrate how to restructure your resume and oral presentation about yourself so that an employer will understand your suitability for the job
  • Ways to best present yourself so that you can get a satisfying job, whether in or outside of law
  • Effective methods for networking and interviewing

Choose either the live or the Live Webcast program.

San Francisco and Live Webcast
October 20, 2011, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (PT)

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings