Category Archives: Law Libraries

Commerical Ground Leases

 Release #11 is now available for Commercial Ground Leases. 

 

Featuring adaptable timesaving sample agreement language, this treatise is your definitive guide to drafting, negotiating, and finalizing equitable, error-free leasing documents that minimize the possibility of legal conflicts.

The full range of relevant commercial ground leasing issues is clearly addressed in this convenient, one-stop resource, including basic rent and other payments; percentage rent; tenant, subordinated fee, and leasehold financing; ground lease term; premises and title; use and occupancy; subletting, assignment, and sale; exculpatory clauses; insurance, damage, and reconstruction; condemnation; default and redemption; surrender upon termination; rights to purchase; development rights leases; and multiparcel development.

Commercial Ground Leases shows you how to use arbitration and mediation to resolve disputes; how major bankruptcy laws have affected ground lease practice; how the law has adopted the ”modern” concept of a lease as a contract governing a commercial transaction or relationship; and how dramatic changes in the real estate financing market have impacted commercial ground leases.

If your library is on standing order, look for this release to arrive in the next week or two.  If you’d like to order the release you can email libraryrelations@pli.edu.

View a sample chapter here.

Federal Bail & Detention Handbook – New edition, new format

PLI published the Federal Bail and Detention Handbook, 2011 edition.  Previously, this title was published in a binder and supplemented annually.  This year we published in a soft-cover format and the book costs roughly what the supplements cost in the past.  We will publish a new edition each year —which means you no longer have to file the supplements!  In addition, this title is now more portable and can easily be carried to court, to meetings, or anywhere else you want to take it.  And, we updated the typefaces and layout to make everything easier to use.  The only thing we didn’t change is the content.  The content is the same valuable content you’ve come to expect– all the latest significant developments under the Federal Bail Reform Act as reported by the Honorable John Weinberg, including his invaluable table of U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit decisions.

Book information:

Federal Bail and Detention Handbook 2011

Author: John L. Weinberg, United States Magistrate Judge

ISBN: 9781402415692

Published: March 2011

Item #: 32561

Price: $155.00

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

View a sample chapter here.

Release # 5 is now available for Proskauer on Privacy

Today’s hodgepodge of privacy and data security standards creates greater compliance burdens for corporations, employers, public agencies, and legal advisers.  PLI’s Proskauer on Privacy: A Guide to Privacy and Data Security Law in the Information Age reduces those costly burdens. This comprehensive, one-stop reference covers the laws governing every area where data privacy and security is potentially at risk — including government records, electronic surveillance, the workplace, medical data, financial information, commercial transactions, and online activity, including communications involving children.

This treatise provides essential details on how to develop compliance programs that help your entity satisfy federal and state standards, ensure data privacy and security, prevent cybercrime, and help entities avoid fines, penalties, litigation, damages, and negative publicity. Proskauer on Privacy also examines Europe’s rigorous privacy and data security standards, the laws in Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, India, Russia, and Dubai, as well as legal initiatives in California and other states.

If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect Release #5 to arrive soon.  If you’d like to order the release please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291. 

View a sample chapter here.

PLI EBooks …now there’s an app for that

PLI created an application for customers to access PLI’s audio content and complete eBook library at their convenience.  If your organization subscribes to PLI Discover—which is PLI’s eBook Library—you will be able to access our eBooks from you iPhone.  And the PLI app is free to download at the iTunes store. 

How to get to PLI Course Handbooks and Treatises

 After you have downloaded the app, you will be asked to log in.  Use your PLI username and password.  Along the bottom of the screen you will see a navigation menu. 

 Click on “Search” and then select “Books” to view our Course Handbook Library or “Treatise” to view our Treatise Library.  You can view the titles and download the chapters you want to read.  After you are finished, don’t forget to remove the download from your device to free up the memory.  To remove an item from your device, click on “Downloads.”  All your items will be listed, with a red “x” next to them.  Click the “x” and the item will be removed.  If you need the chapter again, you can always download it later.

 Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3

The future is here…

 

The Harvard Law School Library Blog announced a new feature for the library catalog.  Students and researchers now have the option to text location and call numbers to their cell phones.  Back in my college days, I would scribble call numbers on scraps of paper (and then struggle to decipher my own writing).  This innovation should make students very happy.  Very neat feature!

New Patent Bar Exam is Coming (free program)

The Patent Bar Exam will be updated this year.  The changes are expected in April, according to the US Patent and Trademark Office.  If you are interested in learning more, PLI is holding a free One-Hour Briefing to discuss the changes.

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New Patent Bar Exam is Coming! PLI is Already There for You!

February 25, 2011, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  (E.S.T.)

The Patent Office recently announced that there will be a major update of the material tested on the Patent Bar Exam in April. PLI has been preparing for this change for years already. In this briefing, John M. White, PLI’s Director of Patent Professional Development and chief lecturer of PLI’s Patent Bar Review, will share the critical information and strategies for taking the Patent Bar Exam.

Topics to be addressed include:

• The new materials that will be tested on the Exam

• PLI’s preparations to make sure that you’re up to speed with everything tested on the Exam

• Strategies for taking the Exam into the foreseeable future

And for the most recent information, please visit the Patent Bar Review homepage, click here.

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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.

Nutella – nutritious or not?

A mother is suing the makers of Nutella for deceptive advertising.  Nutella is a spread that usually appears in the peanut butter aisle of grocery stores.  In case you’ve never had it, the taste is described on the Nutella site as “a unique taste” from the “blend of simple and wholesome ingredients – hazelnuts, sugar, skim milk and a hint of cocoa.”

The deception cited is that Ferrero, the Italian company that makes Nutella, advertises the spread as nutritious.  It does seem like a stretch to call something nutritious when the first ingredient listed is sugar  (followed by palm oil, hazelnuts, cocoa, skim milk, reduced minerals whey (milk), lecithin as emulsifier (soy), vanillin: an artificial flavor).  And there are 200 calories per two tablespoons.  The entire complaint is here.

Not familiar with Nutella?  It seems that this European brand is not heavily advertised in the US.  It has a bit of a cult following, as well as a major Facebook presence.  I learned all this from an article in BrandWeek that I stumbled across.  Read the article here.

If you are interested in this area of the law, see if you library has a copy of Advertising and Commercial Speech: A First Amendment Guide.  The title examines the origin, meaning, and legal evolution of the Supreme Court’s commercial speech doctrine, focusing on how this central doctrine’s rights and restrictions affect advertising in nearly 50 industries and professions. 

To order the title, click here or email libraryrelations@pli.edu.