Category Archives: PLI PLUS

Book Update: Social Media and the Law (2025 Edition)

Social Media and the Law analyzes the use of social media in various legal contexts, including privacy, civil litigation, employment, criminal activity and prosecution, intellectual property, defamation, advertising, and regulated industries. Additionally, this treatise discusses relevant legislation, court opinions, usage trends, and industry responses.

Recently updated chapters include:

  • Chapter 3, Copyrights, Ownership, and Control of Content, discusses a 2024 Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that there is no limit on monetary damages for copyright infringement cases, regardless of the filing date, even under the discovery rule.
  • Chapter 7, Compliance Considerations for Regulated Industries, covers the FDA’s updated draft guidance with recommendations for sharing “scientific information on unapproved use” communications through media and on social media platforms.
  • Chapter 8, Advertising, discusses the FTC’s rule to combat deceptive practices in consumer reviews and testimonials, including fake reviews, paid positive reviews, suppressed negative reviews, and fake social media influence indicators. This rule allows the FTC to seek consumer redress and civil penalties more efficiently.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

What’s New in 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, Skills Books, Practice Guides, Course Handbooks, Case Summaries, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in August 2025!

Book Update: Climate Change, Sustainable Investments, and Social Governance

Climate Change, Sustainable Investments, and Social Governance offers a thorough analysis of the regulatory environment surrounding financial products and institutions that incorporate sustainability and social responsibility. The book highlights how these considerations are increasingly central to financial regulation both in the U.S. and globally.

Highlights of this release (Release #1) include the following:

Chapter 2, Climate Risk and Disclosures and Related Issues for Financial Institutions: An Overview of the Framework, updated to track the transition of climate action from the Biden to the Trump Ad­ministration (Section 2:3.4).

Chapter 8, ERISA and ESG Investing, includes updated guidance on ERISA’s fiduciary duty in the context of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing. It discusses the Department of Labor’s Advisory Opinion 2023-01A, (Section 8:3.3[G], and provides new case law updates related to ESG investing under ERISA, (Section 8:5).

To aid in your research, the Table of Authoritiesand Indexhave also been updated.

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New Book! Sanctions and Export Controls Practice Guide

PLI Press is thrilled to announce the publication Sanctions and Export Controls Practice Guide. This clear and concise guide covers current key domestic and global regimes governing international trade restrictions and, importantly, also provides foundational knowledge of the field so that practitioners can effectively research existing requirements and develop compliance strategies as laws change. The book focuses on explaining relevant legal frameworks, compliance strategies, enforcement mechanisms, and recent trends, and there are numerous practice tips throughout. While the book primarily focuses on U.S. sanctions and export controls programs, it also covers multilateral regimes of the United Nations and the European Union, autonomous regimes of individual foreign nations, and coordinated regimes among nations. This book will serve as a useful guide for both specialists in international trade law and general practitioners representing companies and other entities that engage in cross-border transactions.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

What’s New in 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, Skills Books, Practice Guides, Course Handbooks, Case Summaries, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in July 2025!

Book Update: Friedman on Leases (Sixth Edition)

Friedman on Leases is a leading resource on commercial real estate leasing, offering comprehensive coverage of tenant and landlord issues. This twenty-third release continues to deliver not only the foundational knowledge required by novice practitioners, but also analysis of and insight into the most current and relevant developments facing seasoned practitioners in the commercial real estate field.

The new release (Release #23) includes the following updates:

  • Chapter 2, The Parties, updated discussion covers a recent Fourth Circuit decision involving the federal anti-harboring statute (Section 2:4).
  • Chapter 4, The Term—Possession, updated with the latest cases holding that although New York’s statute provides that a tenant may expressly waive the protections set forth in a lease, such waivers are unenforceable if the tenant is able to show that the landlord intentionally caused the delay (Section 4:2.1).
  • To aid in your research, the Table of Cases has also been updated.

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Book Update: Bankruptcy Deskbook (Fifth Edition)

Bankruptcy Deskbook provides analysis of the current state of the law affecting all chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, along with practical advice for attorneys representing both debtors and creditors, in consumer and business bankruptcies.

Discussions of the following topics have been enhanced in this latest release (Release #22) to reflect recent rulings:

  • Bankruptcy court jurisdiction
  • Removal and remand
  • Fraudulent transfers
  • Disallowance of claims or interests
  • Willful failure to credit payments
  • Discharge injunction
  • Joint administration of estates
  • Third-party releases
  • Unsecured junior mortgages
  • Subchapter V eligibility

Order a print copy today.

PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

What’s New in 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, Skills Books, Practice Guides, Course Handbooks, Case Summaries, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in June 2025!

Save the Date: PLI’s Lunch & Learn @ AALL Portland

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Are you attending the 2025 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Portland this summer? Join us for a luncheon to fuel your practice with bold insights from PLI and learn about our recent enhancements to PLI PLUS.

The luncheon will take place on SUNDAY, JULY 20 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.