Are you attending the 2023 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Boston this summer? Join us for a luncheon to reconnect and learn what is new with PLI, including enhancements and upgrades to PLI PLUS.
The luncheon will take place on Sunday, July 16 from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.
Email us at libraryrelations@pli.edu to RSVP if you will attend, and we will include location details in your confirmation email.
Advertising and Commercial Speech: A First Amendment Guide offers a practical examination of how the U.S. Supreme Court’s commercial speech doctrine impacts advertising across nearly 50 industries and professions. The book explores legal standards for defamation, false commercial speech, and disparagement along with developments around advertising for alcohol, financial institutions, professional services, medication, real estate, tobacco, and more.
Among the many topics discussed in this new release are the following:
In addition, this release includes an updated Table of Cases, Defendant-Plaintiff Table, and Index.
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Commercial Ground Leases is a definitive guide to drafting, negotiating, and finalizing equitable, error-free leasing documents that address the needs of both landlord and tenant. It features adaptable, time-saving agreement language and contains numerous appendices, including forms of letter of intent, leasehold mortgagee protection clauses, intercreditor agreements, fee and leasehold deed of trust provisions, estoppel certificate and guaranty, and a complete ground lease with many alternative clauses.
Highlights of the new release include:
In addition, the Tables of Authorities and the Index have been updated.
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For more by this treatise’s author, Jerome D. Whalen, check out the article Ground Lease Reappraisals Reconsidered published in the April 2022 issue of the PLI Chronicle.
We add content to PLI PLUS every month to ensure our subscribers have access to the most up-to-date and relevant secondary source legal documents. Renowned legal experts regularly update our acclaimed Treatises, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.
Click here to see what we added in May 2023!
Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings is an invaluable resource for attorneys and general practitioners who handle real estate deals as well as an important reference for brokers, title insurers, and inspectors. It distills more than thirty years of transactional experience into one plain-English treatise that clearly explains governing law and customary industry practices. The book provides useful legal, technical, and strategic guidance and checklists for sellers’ and purchasers’ attorneys preparing them to execute dispute-free residential deals quickly and easily.
This new release offers the latest information crucial to your practice. Highlights include:
In addition, the Table of Authorities and Index have been updated to reflect the latest revisions.
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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of the Federal Bail and Detention Handbook.
This helpful resource provides on-point answers to all aspects of federal bail and detention law — especially those involving critical provisions of the Bail Reform Act of 1984. Through discussions told from grounded judicial perspectives, the book presents helpful practice pointers when confronting common Bail Reform Act problems. It also showcases an extensive series of forms, sample orders, and sample motions that defense counsel and assistant U.S. attorneys can reference.
Some of the recent developments reflected in this new edition include:
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PLI’s team of library relations managers is available to answer any questions you may have about the electronic availability of titles on PLI PLUS, the online research database of PLI Press. Schedule a one-on-one session with a PLI librarian today!
“Amusing” is perhaps not the first word to come to mind when describing the content you find in a legal research database. But every once in a while, you’ll come across a chapter on PLI PLUS that causes pure delight. In honor of the theme of this year’s National Library Week — “There’s More to the Story” — we’ve scoured our database to present a handful of fun, offbeat, zany, or just plain fascinating tidbits from the depths of PLI PLUS.
Anyone who practices intellectual property law surely has heard of the monkey selfie and the infamous whiskey-branded dog chew toy. Equally endearing (and hilarious) are the descriptions of feline exercise in this chapter from 2020’s Patent Fundamentals Bootcamp course handbook:
Chapter 16. Examiner Interview Script for Method of Exercising a Cat
Snippet: This method recites method of inducing aerobic exercise in an unrestrained cat; and directing an intense coherent beam of laser light … in a vicinity of the cat. Redirecting the light to induce the cat to chase it. We are not inducing humans to chase the spot from the laser pointer.
For a dose of celebrity drama, check out this chapter from the 2016 course handbook Fundamentals of Taking and Defending Depositions, which features a transcript from a deposition in which Lady Gaga testifies against her ex-best friend/former assistant:
Chapter 5. S.J. Germanotta, Deposition Transcript, Case 1:11-cv-09128-PGG (January 30, 2013)
Snippet: Because she slept in Egyptian cotton sheets every night, in five-star hotels, on private planes, eating caviar, partying with Terry Richardson all night, wearing my clothes, asking YSL to send her free shoes without my permission, using my YSL discount without my permission.
In this lively transcript from last year’s Advertising Law Institute, you’ll find a hysterical sequel to a classic children’s book, in which the main character is all grown up and a lawyer:
The Advertising Lawyer and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Snippet: In high school and in college, he thought he was a real bad dude. And he started smoking and maybe hanging around with a rough crowd. But I have good news for you. He turned things around, and he eventually went to law school.
The artist Banksy makes an appearance alongside a succinct history of graffiti and a fascinating discussion of Street Art and the law in this chapter from the popular PLI treatise Art Law: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers & Artists (Fifth Edition):
Snippet: Although, from the 1960s on, a number of these artists of the street sought to initiate political change and enhance community awareness of particular issues through their art, the public largely viewed the early graffiti artists as vandals and few supported their work.
The treatise Trial Evidence Brought to Life: Illustrations from Famous Trials, Film and Fiction is chock full of pop culture. We’re particularly fond of the chapter that recalls Marissa Tomei’s superb performance as an expert witness in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinny:
Chapter 14. Expert Testimony and Lay Opinion Testimony
Snippet: Well, my father was a mechanic, his father was a mechanic, my mother’s father was a mechanic, my three brothers are mechanics, four uncles on my father’s side are mechanics.
Finally, as members of the law librarian community, this chapter from 1997’s Managing the Law Library course handbook is especially dear to our hearts. Some might call it outdated, but we see it as an amusing reminder of how far our profession has come in the last several decades. It also illustrates how librarians are always looking ahead — because there’s more to the story!
Chapter 3. THE CD DEBATE: WILL THEY BE PART OF THE FUTURE
Snippet: Will publishers replace CDs altogether by licensing contents on the Internet for access and downloading?
Sack on Defamation—widely cited by U.S. courts including the U.S. Supreme Court, academics, and attorneys—offers strategic guidance for both plaintiffs’ and defense attorneys and fully covers the basic elements of a defamation claim. The treatise pinpoints how to identify practical legal issues such as when “truth” is not a defense, insults and name-calling that cross the line into defamation, how “public disclosure of private facts” becomes actionable, why statements of “opinion” are not protected, and when defamatory communications are privileged. It also integrates coverage of Internet and social media issues.
Highlights of the new release include developments covering the following topics:
In addition, the Table of Cases, the Defendant-Plaintiff Table, and the Index have been updated.
Order a print copy today.
PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.
We add content to PLI PLUS every month to ensure our subscribers have access to the most up-to-date and relevant secondary source legal documents. Renowned legal experts regularly update our acclaimed Treatises, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.
Click here to see what we added in April 2023!