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Transcripts of PLI One-Hour Briefing on PLI Discover PLUS

Have you heard about PLI’s one-hour briefings? During these “bite-sized” programs, top legal practitioners explore topics ripped straight from the headlines. Many of our one-hour briefings have been transcribed and are available on Discover PLUS!

Check out the transcripts of some of our most recent briefings, available on Discover PLUS today:

Hashtag Law – Legal Issues in Using Hashtags in Advertising and Social Media
Panama Papers: Potential Legal and Cybersecurity Issues for the Hacker, Media Outlets, Law Firms and Other Institutions
Internet of Things: U.S. and International Policy and Law
October Term 2015: The Death of Justice Antonin Scalia—What it Means for the Supreme Court This Year and in the Future

Questions about our one-hour briefings or about PLI Discover PLUS? Contact the PLI Library Help Desk today!

Discover PLUS Research Topic Video – The Aereo Case and Public Performance Rights

With more than 60,000 secondary source legal documents, PLI Discover PLUS is a great place to begin research or to support a more in-depth research project. Our publications, form templates, and program transcripts provide users with authoritative background information, as well as insights into the positions of leading practitioners from law firms, corporations, government, and academia.

Scenario: After the Supreme Court’s recent decision against Aereo, an online streaming service,a researcher would like know how this may effect future public performance rights cases. Since this topic is currently evolving, the researcher chooses to search across PLI transcripts.

Search: Aereo /10 “public perform!”

Click below to watch the full Research Topic Guide video on the Aereo case.

What’s New on PLI Discover PLUS for April

We add content to PLI Discover 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 updated 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.

Happy National Library Week – Libraries Transform

This year, National Library Week is celebrating library transformation. The Library Relations team here at PLI is aware that many libraries are undergoing their own transformations from print to digital and we’re here to help! Schedule a Discover PLUS demo or training at any time.

We’re Exhibiting at the NO CALL Spring Institute

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PLI will be exhibiting at the NOCALL Spring Institute tomorrow! Stop by our booth to check out PLI Discover PLUS, our online research database. You can also get information about our new iOS app and grab some of our giveaways, which were designed with on-the-go research in mind.

We look forward to seeing you in Santa Clara!

Federal Bail and Detention Handbook 2016 Now Available

The 2016 Federal Bail and Detention Handbook, written by the Honorable John L. Weinberg, provides judges and lawyers alike with quick, on-point answers to all aspects of federal bail and detention law. The Handbook provides legal professionals with a comprehensive guide to the Bail Reform Act of 1984, including relevant statutory language, legislative history and appellate case law. It analyzes each step of the process, including:

The Handbook’s Table of Cases lists every federal appellate decision of significant precedential value that interprets or applies the Act.

Designed as a practical tool to be used both in court and the office, 2016 Federal Bail and Detention Handbook includes “Practice Pointers,” designed by Judge Weinberg to provide defense counsel and Assistant U.S. Attorneys with strategic suggestions for dealing with the Act. In addition to the sample orders and motions included in the Handbook, the 2016 edition includes, in Appendix III, a comprehensive collection of the official, nationally recommended forms relating to release and detention.

The Treatise is available for purchase here and is also accessible online on our digital research platform, PLI Discover PLUS.

Interested in our other Litigation resources? Check out our Litigation Research Center below!

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Discover PLUS Research Topic Video – Patent Troll Litigation

Discover PLUS is a great place to begin your research because all PLI publications are secondary sources that contain expert analyses of today’s legal controversies. Our publications, form templates, and program transcripts provide users with authoritative background information, as well as insights into the positions of leading practitioners from law firms, corporations, government, and academia.

Scenario: After the White House’s announcement that it will take Executive Action to counter the influence of “patent trolls”, or Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), a researcher would like to better understand patent trolls and their potential impact on patent litigation.

Search: (“patent troll!” or “Patent Assertion Entitties” or PAE) /10 litigation

Click below to watch the full Research Topic Guide video on Patent Trolls.

PLI Discover PLUS App Quick Reference Guide

We recently launched an iPad/iPhone app for Discover PLUS! You can download the app here. The app is a companion to the browser version of Discover PLUS and allows you to download content so you can view it when you’re offline, as well as take notes, bookmark, and highlight text, all of which will sync up to your work on the browser. It also features the same robust search capabilities that we offer on the browser version, so you can get to the exact content that you need.

To help get you up and running on the app in no time, we’ve created a Quick Reference Guide, which you can download here.

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If you have any questions about the app or would like to learn more about Discover PLUS, please contact PLI Library Relations at libraryrelations@pli.edu or 877-900-5291.