Category Archives: Law Libraries

Accountants’ Liability

Release #13 is now available for Accountants’ Liability.   

The liability exposure of accountants has widened dramatically over the past decade in the wake of numerous front-page corporate and financial scandals.

This treatise has been the reliable and readable resource that accountants have turned to for guidance on how they can meet their professional responsibilities, comply with relevant rules, and avoid the increased number of legal land mines. Accountants see clearly the trouble they can get into when they deal with financial statements, fail to perform contracted services, fail to uncover clients’ wrongful actions, act as business consultants, offer tax-related services, misstate material facts, and fail to follow professional standards.

The title also provides attorneys with the legal, strategic, and tactical knowledge they need to prove (or successfully defend against) claims against accountants such as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, securities claim fraud, common law fraud, civil RICO actions, as well as practice and ethical violations.

If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect Release #13 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 & Pro Bono Activities

To support attorneys engaged in pro bono work, PLI offers programs throughout the year in such areas as civil and constitutional rights, children’s welfare, education law, eviction defense, immigration issues, elder law, prisoners’ rights, bankruptcy, and representing nonprofit organizations.

Listed below are just a few of our upcoming pro bono programs. The programs below are free, but we also offer scholarships for other programs. For information about scholarships and additional pro bono programs, please click here.

  1. Defending Unlawful Detainers: Training Pro Bono Attorneys to Help Families Avoid Homelessness (FREE)
  2. Eviction Defense in San Francisco for Pro Bono Attorneys (FREE)
  3. Ethical Issues in Pro Bono Representation 2010 (FREE)

National Pro Bono Week

It’s National Pro Bono week (October 25 – 29, 2010)!  Is your firm or organization looking to create a pro bono program?  If so, check out the newest PLI Treatise Pro Bono Service by In-House Counsel: Strategies & Perspectives.
Pro bono service in corporations, once a nascent movement, is becoming the norm.  Pro Bono Service by In-House Counsel: Strategies and Perspectives gathers together the wide-ranging experiences of in-house corporate counsel to guide you how to start, maintain, and expand your company’s pro bono legal services.  

This treatise recounts the experiences of representatives of several companies with in-house programs—Time Warner Inc., Caterpillar, American Express, AOL, Intel, LexisNexis Group, Starbucks Coffee Company, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, Microsoft, Accenture, Citigroup, GE. Any in-house counsel seeking to foster pro bono initiatives will thus have a menu of approaches from which to devise an appropriate program.

Book Information:

Pro Bono Service by In-House Counsel: Strategies and Perspectives, 1st Edition

ISBN Number: 978-1-4024-1482-4

Page Count: 544 pages

Item #: 28132

Price: $49.00

Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law & Practice

Release #31 is now available for PLI’s Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law & Practice.  This treatise 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” and ready-to-use IRS forms, 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 also shows you how to qualify clients for relief, including legal exemptions and waivers that open immigration doors and reduce procedural headaches. And it shows how to help employers avoid legal missteps and mitigate the damage when violations are committed, by documenting good-faith compliance efforts.

If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect the release to arrive soon.  If you’d like to order the release please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.  To find out more about the book, click here.

View a sample chapter here.

Blattmachr on Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts

Release #3 is now available for Blattmachr on Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts.  This PLI treatise offers the most comprehensive treatment of how the I.R.C. taxes estates and trusts in light of recent legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments.

You’ll find vital information on how income in respect of a decedent is taxed; a decedent’s final return; the taxation of foreign trusts, simple and complex trusts, and charitable lead trusts; income tax issues that must be addressed when using revocable trusts as an estate planning vehicle; and the taxation of estates and trusts as S corporation shareholders.

Written by authorities with more than 70 years of combined experience in the field, Blattmachr on Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts shows you how to qualify for income tax deductions for federal estate taxes attributable to the right to the IRD; tax depreciation and depletion deductions for property held by an estate or trust; income tax deductions for net operating losses for estates and trusts; and income tax deductions related to qualified production activities income.

 If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect the release to arrive soon.  If you’d like to order the release please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.   Or, to find out more about the book, click here.

Langer on Practical International Tax Planning

Release #20 is now available for Langer on Practical International Tax Planning.  Examining more than 50 tax-advantaged territories around the world, this treatise gives you the current knowledge and savvy advice you need to help clients capitalize on ripe tax havens and financial centers.

Regularly updated to ensure you stay on top of every issue and angle vital to your tax planning, Langer gives you the latest word on the legal, tax, business, financial, social, political, technological, geographical, and regional factors you must consider when developing and implementing customized planning strategies for clients.

Stocked with case studies that illustrate sound planning approaches, Langer enables you to select the right territories for each client; deploy the right instruments within each territory to eliminate, reduce, or defer taxes; avoid planning missteps that trigger tax problems; use local contacts to open doors to tax havens (with the aid of up-to-date contact information); and respond effectively to changing tax-planning situations in specific havens and financial centers.

 If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect the release to arrive soon.  If you’d like to order the release please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.  Or, to find out more about the book, click here.

Deskbook on Internal Investigations Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues

Release #5 is now available for the Deskbook on Internal Investigations Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues.

At a time when companies are under greater legal scrutiny than ever before, executives and their legal counsel need practical, plain-English guidance on how to avoid potentially disastrous mistakes.  PLI’s Deskbook on Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues provides that necessary information. Stocked with easy-to-follow checklists, the Deskbook shows you how to carry out internal investigations that spot and stop legal problems, protect the rights of employees when they’re subject to investigation or prosecution, and cooperate with government investigators in ways that help reduce legal and financial damage if wrongdoing is proved.

The Deskbook also gives you step-by-step instruction on how to put together a comprehensive compliance program that can prevent legal missteps and help companies qualify for federal leniency programs if legal violations are committed.

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

Friedman on Contracts

Release #10 is now available of Friedman on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property.

For more than 50 years, PLI’s Friedman on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property has earned praise from real estate practitioners and publications because of its straightforward, no-nonsense ability to help attorneys implement rock-solid contracts of sale in less time, with less trouble, at lower cost.

Stocked with laborsaving sample forms and checklists, Friedman gives you a crystal-clear understanding of what you should do, must do, and should never do at every stage of a transaction, from inception to post-closing.

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

Commercial Ground Leases

Release #10 is now available for Commercial Ground Leases.  This PLI treatise is a definitive guide to drafting, negotiating, and finalizing equitable, error-free leasing documents that minimize the possibility of legal conflicts.

 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.

2010 Litigation Trends Survey

Fulbright & Jaworski released their 2010 Litigation Trends Survey. Litigation is up in the US and the UK and it is expected to continue its upward trend. You can download the report at Fulbright & Jaworski’s website.

Do you need titles on litigation for your library? PLI publishes a wide array of respected litigation course handbooks and treatises. Below are a handful of the many litigation titles we publish (and the full list is available at our website).

“Bet the Company” Litigation 2010: Best Practices for Complex Cases

Advanced Deposition Techniques 2010

Class Action Litigation Strategies 2010

False Claims Litigation 2010

International Litigation 2010

Product Liability Litigation: Current Law, Strategies and Best Practices

Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide

Trial Handbook