Category Archives: Law Libraries

Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2011-12
(New Title)

What is a compliance and ethics program? What are its costs and benefits? Why do you need one? With so much confusion about corporate compliance, the attorneys at Holland & Knight have assembled a team of experts not just to ask the right questions, but to give you all the answers. PLI’s Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2011-12 has the information you need to understand what an effective compliance and ethics program is, how it should operate, and what issues and risks it must address in a variety of heavily regulated industries. Most importantly, it helps make the case to management and the board as to why your company needs such a program.

Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2011-12 covers the full range of heavily regulated industries and corporate activities in a clear, easy-to-use Q&A format, loaded with dozens of case studies, invaluable compliance facts and tips, checklists, charts, and tables. Note that the coverage in this latest edition has been expanded to two volumes. This is targeted guidance you need to design, implement, and enforce compliance programs that detect and prevent wrongdoing and minimize the legal and financial damage it can cause.

Featuring dozens of real-world case studies, compliance checklists, and best practice tips, Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2011-12 pays for itself over and over again by helping you avoid major legal and financial burdens.

Essential reading at a time when your legal and regulatory burdens continue to mount, Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2011-12 minimizes the risk of litigation, penalties, sanctions, company turmoil, and lost revenue due to noncompliance.

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

Technology Licensing Basics: How to Research, Draft and Monitor a Technology License Agreement (FREE One-Hour Briefing)

October 6, 2011, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

This free One-Hour Briefing will give attorneys and law librarians a better understanding of the fundamental legal issues associated with technology licensing in the high technology and biotechnology industries; and will illustrate some key legal research issues and techniques that arise during these complex technology licensing transactions.

Our first speaker, Frank X. Curci, a West Coast-based technology attorney representing entities in both the high technology and biotechnology industries, will address some of the key issues that technology licensing attorneys need to consider as they prepare and negotiate patent and other high technology and biotechnology license agreements.  Our second speaker, Hope Porter, a head law librarian from an intellectual property law firm, will discuss fundamental research strategies and databases guidelines which support and augment a technology licensing practice.

Join our speakers as they:

  • Highlight some of the major competing interests of licensors compared to licensees
  • Identify some of the key legal research tools available to technology licensing attorneys
  • Demonstrate the resources a law librarian can access to assist in drafting and monitoring a technology license agreement.

This briefing was conceived and created in cooperation with Practising Law Institute (PLI) and the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY).  This briefing is chaired by Patricia Barbone, Gitelle Seer and Janice E. Henderson.

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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

July 2011 Course Handbook Update

Here are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of July 2011.

Corporate Law & Practice Series

  • Fundamentals of Investment Adviser Regulation 2011
  • Twelfth Annual Private Equity Forum

Intellectual Property Series

  • Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing 2011
  • Twelfth Annual Institute on Privacy and Data Security Law
  • Understanding Patent Law 2011

Litigation & Administrative Practice Series

  • 11th Annual Municipal Law Institute

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

Medical Devices Law and Regulation Answer Book 2011-12 (New Title)

The regulation of medical devices has grown increasingly complex since the Medical Device Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) were introduced in 1976.  Medical Devices Law and Regulation Answer Book 2011-12 walks you through the current regulatory requirements and describes every aspect from pre-market requirements for specific types of devices to post-market regulation and ongoing government enforcement and investigation.

With over 30 contributors from a variety of major law firms and consulting firms specializing in medical device work, Medical Devices Law and Regulation Answer Book 2011-12 provides practical guidance on how to handle every day questions on a wide variety of topics as well as what issues are likely to arise and how to avoid them. 

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

July Treatise Update

In July 2011 PLI published one new treatise title, the Antitrust Law Answer Book.

In addition, the following titles were updated. If you are on standing order, you should receive these releases soon. If you would like to place an order, please write libraryrelations@pli.edu.

  1. Conducting Due Diligence Rel. #2
  2. Equipment Leasing Rel. #2
  3. Friedman on Leases Rel. #16
  4. Financial Product Fundamentals Rel. #15
  5. Manning on Estate Planning FREE SPECIAL ALERT
  6. Proskauer on Privacy Rel. #6
  7. Variable Annuities Rel. #8

PLI Discover: “Caption the Cartoon” Challenge Announces Its Winner

From June 1st until August 1st, we held the PLI Discover: “Caption the Cartoon” Challenge.  We asked you to tell us what our Law Book is dreaming about, and you did.  We received numerous clever captions but alas, we could only name one winner.  The winning entry was submitted by (drum roll please), Sherry VonBehren of the Drake University Law School Library.

June 2011 Course Handbook Update

Here are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of June 2011.

Corporate Law & Practice Series

  • Acquiring or Selling the privately held Company 2011
  • Audit Committee Workshop 2011
  • Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2011
  • Fundamentals of Broker-Dealer Regulation 2011
  • Fundamentals of Mutual Funds 2011
  • Internal Investigations 2011
  • Pocket MBA: Summer 2011

Intellectual Property Series

  • Cloud Computing 2011
  • Fundamentals of Patent Litigation 2011
  • IP Issues in Business Transactions 2011
  • Markman hearings and Claim Construction in Patent Litigation 2011

Litigation & Administrative Practice Series

  • Employment Discrimination Law 2011
  • Taking and Defending Depositions 2011

Real Estate Law & Practice Series

  • Negotiating Real Estate Deals 2011

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

Say on Pay

 

This 11.41 minute video is a segment from PLI’s program Hot Topics in Executive Compensation 2011. Mary Alcove’s section starts at minute 3.19

In addition, you can pick up the book that accompanied the program here. Privileged Members receive a 50% discount.

Book title: Hot Topics in Executive Compensation 2011

Publication date: April 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4024-1582-1
Item #: 28904
Price: $199.00

See you in Philly!

PLI Library Relations hopes to see you in Philadelphia at the AALL Annual Conference.  We’ll be at booth #832 – please stop by to say “hello”.  We’ll be happy to answer any of your questions or to give a demo of PLI Discover.  Or you can drop off your entry for the Caption the Cartoon sweepstakes.  Let us know what our law book is dreaming about and the person with the cleverest entry will win an iPad.

And we hope to see you at our Cocktail Reception on Sunday from 7:00 – 9:00 PM.  If you haven’t yet done so, please RSVP at libraryrelations@pli.edu.  There is still space available!

Labor Management Law Answer Book (New Title)

Increased enforcement of labor and employment laws puts a premium on the reliable guidance required to successfully anticipate and respond to compliance demands in a legally sound and enterprise-friendly manner

This “one-stop resource” allows you to easily access the vital insights you need to deal with a host of increasingly complex real-world labor management issues, including obligations under executive orders affecting labor relations of federal contractors; federal preemption of state regulation; reporting requirements of unions and employers; protected and unprotected activity; duty to bargain; unfair labor practice case procedures; and regulation of union dues and administration. Labor Management Law Answer Book 2011 incorporates planning opportunities and strategies affording you a truly actionable tool you can use to optimize proactive decision-making.

Updated annually, Labor Management Law Answer Book 2011 is a vital compliance tool for in-house and outside corporate attorneys and an important reference for corporate executives and managers.

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