The latest edition of the Library Ledger is now available!
In this edition, we highlight the new monthly webinar series from our library team. We also showcase the PLI PLUS search widget and cyber-security resources. Kay Mitchell, Library Relations Manager, discusses the PLI’s Librarian Advisory Breakfast from the 2019 AALL Conference in Washington, DC.
Looking for an older edition? The complete archive of the Library Ledger is available here.
PLI PLUS has many resources for law school students. We have compiled a list of titles that will help students throughout their law school journey. Get practice-ready with titles like Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer’s Guide to Effective Writing and Editing, Working with Contracts: What Law School Doesn’t Teach You, and An Associate’s First Year: A Guide to Thriving at a Law Firm.
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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 September!
M&A activity in the health care industry is at its highest level since the 1980s. Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book (2019 Edition) provides the reader with a roadmap to this booming sector, offering practical advice on how to address the various industry-specific issues arising in health care acquisitions. Its broad coverage, presented in Q&A format, is organized into four parts — structuring transactions, due diligence, documentation, and special topics.
Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book analyzes recent health care transactions and provides practice tips on how to avoid the various pitfalls that may be encountered while working on health care transactions. It covers dealmaking involving pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals, health insurers and private equity and financial services firms investing in the health care sector.
In addition to transactions involving outright acquisitions of health care companies, Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book reviews alternative structures used in health care M&A transactions, such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, product and portfolio acquisitions, option transactions, and licensing and collaboration agreements.
This essential answer book is available on PLI PLUS. If you would like to purchase a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu.
Master the 8-K is one of the publications in PLI’s SEC Compliance and Disclosure Series. This clear, concise, and comprehensive guide to filing the SEC’s Form 8-K is a tool that every securities lawyer or person who is responsible for a company’s periodic SEC reports will want to have close at hand. With sample disclosure language and detailed appendices containing the Form 8-K itself, key regulations, SEC compliance and disclosure interpretations (C&DIs), this title is a stand-alone resource for anyone seeking to master the 8-K.
In this easy-to-use book, each Form 8-K Item is separately analyzed and begins with “highlights” that, at a glance, alert you to critical matters about that Item, such as whether the “safe harbor” applies, whether there are exhibit requirements, whether there are possible update requirements, and whether there are critical definitions to consider. Each section then provides step-by-step instructions and expert practice tips.
This updated new edition of Master the 8-K provides current guidance primarily designed to address the SEC’s 2018 and 2019 rule changes that were intended to modernize and simplify disclosure requirements, such as:
This treatise is available on PLI PLUS. If you would like to purchase a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu.
International Tax Controversies is a practical guide to handling international tax audits and appeals, government-to-government cooperation and special dispute resolution mechanisms, and litigating international tax cases. Disputes with the IRS regarding international tax issues often present special issues in addition to those normally relevant in purely domestic tax controversies.
For example, questions may arise regarding the application of attorney-client privilege and other protections in the cross-border context. Where relevant documents, witnesses, and other information are held abroad, special procedures may be applicable. In addition, special dispute resolution mechanisms may be available in international tax disputes involving tax treaties and transfer pricing. Taxpayers should also be aware of the potential impact on the competent authority process of entering into closing agreements. Finally, country-by-country reporting data will be changed by the United States pursuant to bilateral competent authority arrangements (CAAs) entered into in connection with tax treaties and TIEAs that permit automatic exchanges of information.
International Tax Controversies explores these and other relevant issues in international tax cases, in addition to the issues and procedures that commonly arise in U.S. federal tax audits (whether or not focused on international issues).
This essential treatise is available on PLI PLUS. If you would like to order a print copy, please contact libraryrelations@pli.edu.
Marijuana has been called the fastest-growing industry in the United States — and it is one that every legal professional needs to be aware of. From regulation to decriminalization to dispensaries, the business of marijuana presents a complex array of legal issues.
PLI PLUS offers a number of resources available to attorneys navigating this topic, including:
Below we’ve highlighted some of our marijuana law content that may be of particular interest:
Blockchain and distributed ledger technology have been dramatically transforming all industries, including the legal profession. The implementation of “smart contracts” is just one way blockchain technology directly affects lawyers and law firms.
The following are some of the many key blockchain-related topics that lawyers need to understand in order to effectively represent their clients:
Below, we’ve highlighted some of our blockchain articles that may be of particular interest:
At the AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Washington, D.C. this year, PLI raffled off an Amazon Echo. Caren Luckie, Research Attorney at Jackson Walker was our winner. Check out our interview with Caren below!
Tell me a little about yourself. Why did you become a librarian?
I became a librarian somewhat by default. I was looking for a job after college, and was talking to a friend of my parents who was in charge of the Shell Oil business library. She was a Seven Sisters graduate (Wellesley) and said she would be willing and happy to hire another Seven Sisters (Mount Holyoke) graduate. And so it began. I spent 4 years in the Shell Oil library as a ‘clerk’, but handled basic research and reference requests. I went on to another job as a bloodstock researcher for a thoroughbred breeding farm, and then to law school. I didn’t think much about becoming a librarian until I was practicing law and decided that I didn’t like being first chair in a litigation practice. I wanted to do research and the background work. So I went to grad school at UT and got my MLIS in one year. With a background in research of all types, plus a law degree, I wanted to focus on research and being a law librarian was the way to go.
What do you like most about your job at Jackson Walker?
The variety. Much of my work is for the litigation group, but I work with all of our practice groups. I’m a “generalist” rather than a specialist, and it never (rarely) gets dull. Also the people – attorneys, staff, administration – are great. This month marks my 25th anniversary with Jackson Walker, so I think it’s safe to say that I like it here.
What is a common research question you receive?
There is no common question J I do quite a bit of public records research, both for our real estate practice and for our litigation group. But I also get complex legal research questions. I think my most common research project/question is checking on the status of tenants for our commercial real estate clients.
Which PLI publication do you most frequently recommend to attorneys?
That would depend on the practice group. For our real estate group, it’s frequently Friedman on Leases. For my First Amendment attorneys, Sack on Defamation.
What did you think of AALL 2019? Did you do any sightseeing in Washington D.C.?
I thought it was an excellent conference. The programs were good, and it’s always great to network with old friends and meet new colleagues. I spent 2 days before the conference sightseeing – my husband and I toured the Capital, spent time at the Spy Museum, and got to see the pandas at the National Zoo. I also got to see the Carnegie Library building that has been turned into an Apple Store. They share the building with the historical society, and have kept the building’s integrity – simply whitewashed the whole thing – and have the old blueprints and quite a few old photos.
Thank you Caren! And Congratulations!
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 August!