Category Archives: Law Libraries

New Discover PLUS Research Topic Guide – Public Performance Rights

We created this Research Topic Guide for those researchers interested in learning more about a current legal issue such as Public Performance Rights, from leading practitioners and experts.

Discover PLUS is a great place to begin your research because all of PLI’s publications are secondary sources that contain expert analyses of topics such as the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against Aereo (an online streaming video service), and how this may effect future public performance rights cases.

You can view this Research Topic Guide here, and check out our other Research Topic Guides under the Training Center tab.

PLI Discover PLUS – Highlights Search Tips

PLI Discover PLUS allows you to easily manage your documents with eReader functionality. Here’s a quick video on how to highlight text on PLUS. Make sure to check out the rest of our videos on the PLI Librarian YouTube channel!

We will continue to add instructional videos to this channel, so stay tuned for more! And if you have any suggestions on search tips videos you would like to see, please contact the PLI Library Help Desk .

PLI Discover PLUS Turns 2!

PLI Discover PLUS – My Bookshelf Video

PLI Discover PLUS allows you to easily manage your documents. Here’s a quick video on how to manage your documents and save materials to a bookshelf on PLUS. Check out the rest of our videos on the PLI Librarian YouTube channel!

What’s new in Bankruptcy Law

The Bankruptcy Deskbook was recently supplemented. That means print subscribers as well as PLI Discover PLUS subscribers have access to updated materials. This update includes:

Patient Care Ombudsman

When the debtor in Chapter 7, 9, or 11 is a “health care business,” the court is required to order the appointment of a patient care ombudsman unless it makes a specific finding that it is unnecessary. Two recent cases help clarify the extensive definition of “health care business” and spell out a four-part test for determining whether a debtor qualifies as such. To learn more, see § 1:3.7 and Discover PLUS subscribers can click here to automatically be taken to Chapter 1.

Adjudication of “Stern Claims”

In Executive Benefits Insurance Agency v. Arkison, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that when a bankruptcy court is not permitted by Article III of the Constitution to enter a final judgment on a core bankruptcy claim, the bankruptcy court should follow the procedures of the statute and submit to the district court for de novo review proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. To learn more, see § 2:1.2[C][1] and Discover PLUS subscribers can click here to automatically be taken to Chapter 2.

Exemptions from Property of the Estate

Retirement funds may be exempted under both state and federal law. In Clark v. Rameker, the Supreme Court resolved a split between the Seventh Circuit and the Fifth Circuit and ruled that inherited IRAs are not retirement funds for purposes of section 522(b)(3)(C), thus affirming the Seventh Circuit’s decision that affirmed the bankruptcy court’s order sustaining a trustee’s objection to the debtor’s claimed exemption in such funds. To learn more, see § 7:4 and Discover PLUS subscribers can click here to automatically be taken to Chapter 7.

Seeing the Value in PLI Discover PLUS

PLI Discover PLUS, our eBook library, is routinely updated to ensure that you have immediate access to the most recent industry information regarding changes in regulatino, rulings, and standard practices. With PLI Discover PLUS, the subscription value is steadily increasing with the addition of new content. Check out this one-page flyer documenting the value of PLI Discover PLUS.

Don’t have a subscription to PLI Discover PLUS and interested in learning more? Contact the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

Now you can access PLI Discover PLUS with a Search Widget

The library team at PLI is happy to announce the addition of the Discover PLUS search box. This search widget can be embedded into any page you choose whether it’s your library’s intranet page or standard webpage. It’s our mission to deliver you the most up-to-date valuable information in the most efficient way possible. This new search box will allow your organization and patrons a direct line to over 4,000 segments of legal research. This simple and easy search box allows you to enter a search query without having to open a new window with our designated web address.

Interested in adding this to your webpage? Write us at discoverplus@pli.edu and we’ll send you the code.
Or you can test drive the search from our blog.

PLI Discover PLUS Featured on UNC’s Carolina Blawg!

The Carolina Blawg once again made their patrons aware of the Katherine Everett Law Library’s subscription to PLI Discover PLUS! As posted “PLI Discover Plus is a good place for students in transition-to-practice courses to find forms for agreements and pleadings. In addition, there are complete transcripts of PLI seminars and the full texts of hundreds of PLI course books and treatises.”

Do you subscribe to PLI Discover PLUS? If so, a blog post or library page is a great way to spread the word to your patrons. Contact the PLI Library Help Desk for images and information you can add to your blogs, intranet, subject guides, practice area pages, listservs, or any other way you’re reaching your patrons!

Need Materials on Jury Duty Questionnaires? PLI Discover PLUS Has What You Need!

The New York Times recently addressed the issue of jury service questions in their article “TV Habits? Medical History? Tests for Jury Duty Get Personal”. The article brings into light how jury questionnaires have become increasingly more frequent in US courts. By requesting these questionnaires, lawyers and jury consultants are able to investigate the beliefs of their jurors in regards to the case. As a result, they are able to evaluate the jury box for any bias.

Several high profile and current trials were mentioned. When researching this topic of jury questionnaire, PLI Discover PLUS can provide expert-authored, secondary source materials. PLUS provides you with access to sample jury questionnaires along with an analysis of trials like People of the State v. Kobe Bryant Jury Questionnaire. Click here for a sample search you can perform on PLUS to find these relevant documents.

Do you need any search assistance? Contact the PLI Library Relations team by email at PLI Library Help Desk

PLI’s Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook: A Practical Guide to Law and Compliance on PR Newswire

PLI’s new Treatise, Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook: A Practical Guide to Law and Compliance, was noted as a resourceful guide on PR Newswire. You can purchase the book by clicking here. Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook is also available on our eBook library platform PLI Discover PLUS. Interested in learning more about this book or PLI Discover PLUS? Contact PLI’s Library Relations team at PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook: A Practical Guide to Law and Compliance – Book Review

August 4, 2014

Nicole S. Healy. 2014. Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook: A Practical Guide to Law and Compliance. Practising Law Institute: New York. 460 pags. $395 from publisher; $375.25 from Amazon.com

NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Practising Law Institute (PLI) announces the release of their newest title, Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook: A Practical Guide to Law and Compliance.

Author Nicole S. Healy (Ropers Majeski Kohn Bently PC) provides a thorough discussion of all the major U.S. cases considering money laundering activity, describes the programs of the major international anti-money laundering (AML) organizations, and offers a suggested model for an effective AML compliance program.

Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook serves as an indispensable, time-saving roadmap to the federal statutory framework. AML compliance professionals and attorneys alike will turn to this new guide for Ms. Healy’s insight and expertise in this complex area.

The single-volume Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook: A Practical Guide to Law and Compliance is priced at $395 and is available for a 30-day free examination.

About Practising Law Institute (PLI) www.pli.edu

Practising Law Institute (PLI) is the most prestigious nonprofit continuing legal education organization dedicated to providing the legal community with the most up-to-date information available. Founded in 1933, PLI’s continuing mission is to enhance the professionalism of attorneys and other qualified persons by providing the highest quality and most innovative programs. PLI also offers One-Hour Audio Briefings, Online CLE, Publications and other services to enable attorneys to practice law competently and ethically, and to fulfill pro bono responsibilities. PLI offers more than 400 programs annually in locations across the U.S., and in London, Hong Kong, and Latin America, as well as Live Webcasts, interactive multimedia, Course Handbooks and annually supplemented Treatises, and the Discover PLUS eBook library. In addition, PLI annually awards over 40,000 scholarships to our programs. Its more than 4,000 speakers include the most prominent lawyers, judges, investment bankers, corporate counsel, and U.S. and international regulators. Learn more about PLI at www.pli.edu.