Category Archives: Law Libraries

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.

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.

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

New “Frank” Legislation

Last month I wrote about the new Dodd-Frank Act and how PLI is providing timely information about what this legislation means to your organization. In today’s Washington Post article After mortgage meltdown, Barney Frank gets another chance to remake housing finance we get to see how this champion for affordable housing might be changing government policy. Barney Frank has a chance to play a critical role as the Obama administration determines the future of mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

And as a reminder, if you are looking for timely and up-to-date information about the Dodd-Frank Act, you should check out PLI’s one hour briefings on the subject. Early next year we will be publishing a treatise dealing with the Dodd-Frank act. Check back here; I will post information as it becomes available.

New Treatise Available – Sovereign Wealth Funds

PLI just published a new treatise entitled Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). Although they’ve existed for many years, the first decade of the 21st century saw a substantial surge in the assets of SWFs. This, coupled with a more aggressive investment style, has resulted in a much greater awareness, by both governments and the public, of SWF activity. In turn, this has generated an ongoing policy debate about the proper role of government regulation and taxation of these funds.

In Sovereign Wealth Funds, noted international tax lawyer Leonard Schneidman has assembled an array of essays, authored by a global collection of subject area experts, designed to explore three key aspects of SWFs: their regulation and governance, investment behavior, and taxation. If your library or organization is interested in the SWF phenomenon and its practical legal, tax and financial implications—this is a valuable resource.

Book Informa tion:

1st Edition
ISBN Number: 978-1-4024-1481-7
Number of Volumes: 1
Page Count: 378 pages
Item #: 28131
Price: $225.00

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Online Legal Library $2m Richer

Today there was good news for Public.Resource.org . The non-profit site received $2m from Google to help the online library of statutes and caselaw. The site is operated by Carl Malamud. He said that he plans to “use the funds to help build his site’s planned Video.Gov branch.”