Category Archives: PLI PLUS

Upcoming Bankruptcy Law Webinar

We received several customer requests to review this timely topic, and so on Thursday, July 30 at 2:00 p.m. ET PLI’s Library Relations Manager, Kay Mitchell, will provide a brief demo to highlight the Bankruptcy Law resources available on Practising Law Institute’s online research database, PLI PLUS. Kay will cover popular Bankruptcy Law titles and review research scenarios to demonstrate key features of PLI PLUS. PLI PLUS subscribers can register here.

POPULAR BANKRUPTCY LAW TITLES AVAILABLE ON PLI PLUS INCLUDE:

This demo is part of PLI’s ongoing webinar series. Each month we highlight PLI’s resources in a different practice area while also demonstrating the overall functionality of the research database.  For registration and a list of upcoming webinars, visit PLI Practice Area Webinars.

New Title – California Consumer Privacy Act Annotated

PLI Press is excited to announce the publication of a new treatise on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the first law of its kind in the United States providing consumer privacy protections.

California Consumer Privacy Act Annotated equips businesses and practitioners with the tools they need to understand the data they collect and how that data is used, disclosed, and stored, and then develop the framework, policies, and procedures to meet the CCPA notice requirements and to respond to data subject requests. This timely book takes into account the final text of proposed regulations the Attorney General submitted to the California Office of Administrative Law on June 1, 2020.

This thorough treatise includes advice on:

  • Determining whether an entity meets certain size and scope thresholds to be subject to the CCPA
  • Evaluating whether personal information collected from consumers, households, and devices is protected under the CCPA or whether an exemption applies
  • Understanding the considerations surrounding the sale of personal information by a business to a third party
  • Drafting sound notices at collection and privacy policies
  • Understanding the rights the CCPA grants to consumers regarding their personal information, as well as the different exceptions and limitations to these rights, in setting up processes and procedures for compliance
  • Building an infrastructure and creating procedures for managing and responding to consumer requests under the CCPA
  • Evaluating security requirements and practices in light of the new private right of action in which consumers can seek actual damages and statutory damages for a personal information security breach that is the result of a business’s failure to use reasonable security

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

Health Care Law Webinar Tomorrow!

 On Tuesday, June 30, at 3:00 p.m. ET, Senior Library Relations Manager Zehava Brickner Monchar will provide a brief demo to highlight the Health Care Law resources available on Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) online research database, PLI PLUS.  Zehava will cover popular Health Care Law titles and review research scenarios to demonstrate key features on PLI PLUS. PLI PLUS subscribers can register here.

Popular Health Care Law titles on PLI PLUS:

This demo is part of PLI’s ongoing webinar series. Each month we highlight PLI’s resources in a different practice area while also demonstrating the overall functionality of the research database.  For registration and a list of upcoming webinars, visit PLI Practice Area Webinars.

10 Popular Titles on PLUS

Here are the titles PLI PLUS users are accessing the most this month:

  1. The Corporate Tax Practice Series: Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings (First Edition)
  2. The Partnership Tax Practice Series: Planning for Domestic and Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2019 (Second Edition)
  3. Exempt and Hybrid Securities Offerings (Third Edition)
  4. Langer on Practical International Tax Planning (Fifth Edition)
  5. Commercial Real Estate Financing 2020
  6. Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company 2020
  7. Initial Public Offerings: A Practical Guide to Going Public (Second Edition)
  8. Mergers, Acquisitions and Tender Offers: Law and Strategies — Corporate, Securities, Taxation, Antitrust, Cross Border
  9. Commercial Ground Leases (Third Edition)
  10. Friedman on Leases (Sixth Edition)

Treatise Update: Friedman and Smith on Contracts

Friedman and Smith on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property (Eighth Edition) delivers coverage and analysis of the most current developments in real estate conveyancing to assist attorneys representing parties in the sale of real property in drafting sound agreements. This treatise contains sample forms, clauses, and checklists that simplify and accelerate transactions.

Highlights of this release include:

  • Chapter 2, Parties to Contract, advises that well-drafted contract consistently describes the name of the seller in all parts of the contract; and cautions that describing the seller’s name as “Owner of record” in the contract may violate the statute of frauds requirement.
  • Chapter 4, Purchase Price and Consideration, discusses contractsthat provide for a credit to the buyer based on future events; and the distinction between earnest money and a deposit upon a buyer’s default.
  • Chapter 5, Statute of Frauds, covers the use of promissory estoppel as an alternative to the doctrine of part performance to take a contract out of the statute of frauds; and the trend by some states in recognizing fraud and other tort claims as exceptions to the statute of frauds.  
  • Chapter 7, Property Quality, provides an overview of the various state statutes of limitations and statutes of repose for certain warranty claims.
  • Chapter 8, Misrepresentations by Sellers and Buyers, discusses seller’s liability for their broker’s misrepresentations.
  • Chapter 9, Mortgage Financing, covers an “absolute deed,” which is intended as security and gives rise to an equitable mortgage.
  • Chapter 23, Contract Remedies for Buyer Default, includes a state statute that provides for the forfeiture of the buyer’s payment if the parties agreed that the payment is “earnest money.”
  • Chapter 27, Deed Execution and Delivery, updated to include a discussion of acknowledgment of a deed.
  • Chapter 28, Deed Covenants of Title, includes a discussion of Trial v. Dragon, a Texas case where the court refused to apply estoppel to the grantor’s heirs who acquired their interest through their mother’s estate.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

What’s New on PLI PLUS

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!

Upcoming Webinar: Corporate Law Resources on PLUS

On Tuesday, May 26 at 3:00 p.m. ET PLI’s Library Relations Manager, Kay Mitchell, will provide a brief demo to highlight the Corporate Law resources available on Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) online research database, PLI PLUS. Kay will cover popular Corporate Law titles and review research scenarios to demonstrate key features of PLI PLUS.

POPULAR CORPORATE LAW TITLES AVAILABLE ON PLI PLUS INCLUDE:

This demo is part of PLI’s ongoing webinar series. Each month we highlight PLI’s resources in a different practice area while also demonstrating the overall functionality of the research database.  For registration and a list of upcoming webinars, visit PLI Practice Area Webinars.

Treatise Update: Friedman on Leases

Friedman on Leases (Sixth Edition) clarifies and analyzes the full range of lease provisions and conceivable landlord-tenant situations to give readers unsurpassed practical instruction on how to negotiate and draft airtight agreements that protect clients’ rights and minimize their liability exposure.

Highlights of the latest update—Release #9—include:

  • Chapter 12, Landlord’s Services and Other Obligations. Updated discussion underlines the importance of expressly specifying in the lease any services that the tenant expects to receive.
  • Chapter 13, Condemnation. Updated discussion underlines the importance for a landlord, if it is the landlord’s intent, to expressly state in the lease that upon condemnation, the lease automatically terminates (or terminates at landlord’s option) and the tenant waives any right to the condemnation award.
  • Chapter 14, Renewals. Updated discussion covers Minnesota’s statutory provisions barring retaliatory eviction, but that apply only to retaliation for complaining to a government agency or filing a suit, not complaining to the landlord.
  • Chapter 15, Purchase Options. Updated discussion includes an example of a purported election that is ineffective because it did not conform to the lease.
  • Chapter 16, Default by Tenant. New discussion explores the extent to which courts will enforce a tenant’s waiver of certain rights if the waiver is expressly set forth in the lease, and agreed upon by the parties.
  • Chapter 17, Exculpatory Clauses. Updated discussion covers how different states handle exculpatory clauses, including Alabama, California, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.
  • Chapter 21, Distraint, Landlords’ Liens and Tenant Security. The updated discussion underlines the importance for a tenant to request during lease negotiations that landlord’s assignee is required to specifically assume landlord’s obligations with respect to the return of the security and the landlord is only released if it actually delivers tenant’s security deposit to the grantee and provides tenant with notice of such transfer.
  • Chapter 25, Fixtures. Updated discussion provides another sample provision in a lease with strong tenant protections for fixtures.
  • Chapters 11, 18, 20 & 22–24 have been updated to incorporate the latest case development. To aid in your research, the Table of Authorities and Index have also been updated.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

Test Drive the PLI PLUS Search Widget

The PLI PLUS search widget can be embedded into any knowledge management portal, whether it’s your library’s intranet page or a standard web page, a SharePoint page or some other format. This simple search box gives your organization a direct line to more than 90,000 legal documents on PLI PLUS.

Test drive the widget right here:

Interested in adding this to your webpage? Write us at PLUS@pli.edu and we’ll send you the code.