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The Library Ledger, November 2015, Vol. 3, Issue 4

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Our latest edition of the Library Ledger is now available on the blog! Read up on PLI Discover PLUS news with this most current edition, which is all about our new app! Volume 3, Issue 4 of the newsletter dives deep into our iPad/iPhone app, explaining how you can now sync your work on-the-go as well as perform the same robust searches you’re used to doing on the browser version of Discover PLUS. It also features a letter from PLI’s Director of Library Relations & Electronic Publishing, Alexa Robertson.  Read all of our newsletters on the Library Ledger page.

What’s New for November on Discover PLUS

What's New November

ANSWER BOOKS

Banking:
• Consumer Financial Services Answer Book 2016

Corporate & Securities:
• Insider Trading Law and Compliance Answer Book 2016

 

TREATISES

Intellectual Property:
• How to Write a Patent Application (3rd Edition)
• Patent Litigation (3rd Edition)

Litigation:
• Trial Handbook (Fall 2015 Edition)

 

TREATISES–SUPPLEMENTED

Accounting:
• Accountants’ Liability

Bankruptcy & Restructuring:
• Bankruptcy Deskbook (5th Edition)

Corporate & Securities:
• Hedge Fund Regulation (2nd Edition)
• Initial Public Offerings: A Practical Guide to Going Public (2nd Edition)
• Investment Adviser Regulation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Compliance and the Law
(3rd Edition)
• Securities Law and Practice Deskbook (6th Edition)

Estates & Trusts:
• Blattmachr on Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts (16th Edition)

Insurance:
• Variable Annuities & Variable Life Insurance Regulation (2nd Edition)

Intellectual Property:
• Likelihood of Confusion in Trademark Law (2nd Edition)
• Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy, Negotiation, Forms (2nd Edition)
• Post-Grant Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
• Proskauer on Privacy: A Guide to Privacy and Data Security Law in the Information Age

Real Estate:
• Friedman on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property (7th Edition)
• Friedman on Leases (5th Edition)

Tax:
• Circular 230 Deskbook: Related Penalties, Reportable Transactions, Working Forms
• Langer on Practical International Tax Planning (4th Edition)

 

COURSE HANDBOOKS 

Accounting:
• Pocket MBA Fall 2015: Finance for Lawyers and Other Professionals

Antitrust:
• Antitrust Counseling & Compliance 2015

Children’s Law:
• California Special Education Law 2015

Communications/Telecommunications Law:
• Law and Regulation of “Intermediary” Businesses 2015: Consumer-Facing Technology Providers, Online Platforms, and Online Media

Corporate & Securities:
• Advanced Compliance and Ethics Workshop 2015
• Advanced Swaps & Other Derivatives 2015
• Financial Services Industry Regulatory Compliance & Ethics Forum 2015
• Fundamentals of Swaps & Other Derivatives 2015
• Prison Law 2015
• Private Placements and Hybrid Securities Offerings 2015
• Securities Law and Practice 2015: How the SEC Works
• Securities Regulation Institute (47th Annual)
• Understanding the Securities Laws Fall 2015

Employment:
• Employment Law Institute 2015

Health Care:
• Life Sciences 2015: Navigating Legal Challenges in the Drug and Device Industries

Intellectual Property:
• Intellectual Property Law Institute 2015
• Open Source and Free Software 2015: Benefits, Risks and Challenges
• Patent Licensing Today 2015: Making Money Without Getting Sued
• Patent Litigation 2015
• “Technotainment” 2015: Distributing Content Across Multiple Platforms
• Think Like a Lawyer, Talk Like a Geek 2015: Get Fluent in Technology
• Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2015

Litigation:
• California Trial Evidence 2015
• Electronic Information in Criminal Investigations & Prosecutions 2015
• New York Housing Law for the Low-Income Client 2015
• Trial by Jury 2015
• White Collar Crime 2015: Prosecutors and Regulators Speak
• Wrongful Conviction 2015

Real Estate:
• Commercial Real Estate Institute (17th Annual)

Tax:
• Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 2015

Archival Titles: 
• Advanced Seminar on Trademark Law 2001
• Child Abuse, Neglect & the Foster Care System 2003: Effective Social Work & the Legal System; The Attorney’s Role & Responsibilities
• Copyright & Trademark Law for the Nonspecialist 2001: Understanding the Basics
• Estate Planning Institute (34th Annual)
• Handling Intellectual Property Issues in Business Transactions 2001
• The Health Care e-Commerce Revolution 2001: Legal, Financial & Regulatory Strategies
• How to Prepare an Initial Public Offering 2000
• International Joint Ventures 2002
• International Tax & Estate Planning 2003: Strategies & Techniques for Maximum Advantage
• Navigating Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice 2001
• Nuts & Bolts of Securities Law 2000
• Nuts & Bolts of Securities Laws 2002
• Pension Plan Investments 2000: Confronting Today’s Issues
• Pension Plan Investments 2001: Confronting Today’s Issues
• Preparation of Annual Disclosure Documents 2000
• Preparing Patent Legal Opinions 2002
• Private Placements 2000
• Private Placements 2001
• Project Financing 2001
• Sixth Annual Children’s Law Institute
• Social Security and SSI Disability 2000
• Social Security and SSI Disability 2001
• Social Security & SSI Disability 2002
• Tax Controversies: What to Do When the IRS Calls
• Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 1999
• Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 1999
• Understanding Basic Copyright Law 2001
• Understanding Estate, Gift & Fiduciary Income Tax Returns 2002: Strategies for Maximum Advantage with the “706,” “709” & “1041”
• Understanding Securities Products of Insurance Companies 2003
• Understanding the Securities Laws 2000
• Valuation, Taxation & Planning Techniques for Sophisticated Estates 2000
• Valuation, Taxation & Planning Techniques for Sophisticated Estates 2001
• What Lawyers Need to Know About UCC Article 5 – Letters of Credit 2003

 

TRANSCRIPTS

Communications/Telecommunications Law:
• New FCC TCPA Ruling – Significant Compliance Challenges for Companies

Corporate & Securities:
• Corporate Counsel Institute 2015
• Crowdfunding and Online Direct Lending (Peer-to-Peer) 2015
• Hedge Fund Management 2015
• Preparing for Shareholder Activism: What You Need to Be Doing Now 2015
• SEC Enforcement of Trading in Pre-IPO Securities
• Securities Filings 2015: Practical Guidance in a Changing Environment
• U.S. Companies Trading on the London Stock Exchange and the Impact of EU Regulations Requiring Mandatory Electronic Settlement

Employee Benefits:
• Hot Issues in Executive Compensation 2015

Employment Law:
• Cutting-Edge Employment Law Issues 2015: The California Difference
• Enforcing Wage Claims for Low-Income Workers

Family Law:
• Protecting LGBT-Headed Families in a Post-Obergefell World

Intellectual Property:
• Amgen v. Sandoz: Federal Circuit Interprets “Patent Dance” Provisions of BPCIA to Permit Biosimilar Applicant to Refuse to Disclose Application and Manufacturing Information
• Cybersecurity 2015: Managing the Risk
• Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law 2015
• FTC v. Wyndham: Impact for Companies That Suffer Data Breaches
• Where to Challenge Patents? International Post-Grant Practice – Strategic Considerations Before the USPTO, EPO, SIPO and JPO

International Law:
• Ambush Marketing: International Regulation and Enforcement

Litigation:
• Electronic Discovery Institute 2015: What Corporate and Outside Counsel Need to Know
• Home Court Advantage: Recent Developments and Strategies for Litigants Concerning the SEC’s Increasing Use of Administrative Proceedings
• Memorable and Persuasive: Winning Demonstratives at Trial
• Nuts & Bolts of Electronic Discovery 2015

Pro Bono:
• Representing the Pro Bono Client: Advocacy Skills for Administrative Hearings 2015

Professional Skills:
• Six “P’s” of Professional Legal Writing

Real Estate:
• Hotels 2015: Law and Practice

The PLI Discover PLUS App is Here!

NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/Practising Law Institute (PLI) is pleased to announce Discover PLUS for iPad and iPhone. Discover PLUS is a subscription-based online research database targeted to legal, financial, and accounting professionals. Discover PLUS provides digital access to PLI’s full collection of acclaimed Treatises, Course Handbooks, Legal Forms, Program Transcripts and Answer Books. Content is derived from over 2,000 secondary source publications written by today’s experts on the most recent industry changes in regulations, rulings, and standard practices as well as over 400 + annual continuing legal education seminars. In developing the Discover PLUS App, PLI sought to create an interface that not only mirrored the award-winning desktop application, but also simplified the existing navigation and allowed synchronization for a seamless transition from a desktop to a mobile workspace. In an industry where real time research can make or break your case, we wanted to make sure you had an immediate connection to the right answers from the right people.

With the Discover PLUS app, you can access your account from your iPad or iPhone and have the most up-to-date, relevant information and techniques practiced by the industry’s leading law firms, corporations, and government agencies. Imagine being able to access proven strategies and practice tips from your largest competitors with nothing more than a touch of a button.

“We are pleased to be able to offer this app to Discover PLUS subscribers,” said Alexa Robertson, Director of Library Relations and Electronic Publishing at PLI. “We continue to focus on providing high-quality content and making our interface easy and convenient to use. Next time you are in court or traveling, you will have more than 2,000 PLI titles at your fingertips. Any work you do will sync up to your account seamlessly.”

The Discover PLUS app features:

  • The ability to download items to your device when you need to work without an Internet connection
  • Robust search capabilities, including Terms and Connectors searching across PLI titles to help you find what you are looking for quickly and easily
  • eReader functionality, including the ability to adjust font
  • Syncing for your Bookshelves, Notes, Marks, and Highlights

Discover PLUS for iPad and iPhone is available in the App Store today. The app requires a Discover PLUS Membership.

Download Discover PLUS for the iPad and iPhone – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discover-plus/id1042352941?mt=8

What’s New for October on PLI Discover PLUS


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TREATISES

Banking:

Asset-Based Lending: A Practical Guide to Secured Financing (8th Edition)

 

TREATISES – SUPPLEMENTED 

Banking:

Equipment Leasing-Leveraged Leasing (5th Edition)

Corporate & Securities:

Broker-Dealer Regulation (2nd Edition)

Corporate Legal Departments (4th Edition)

Deskbook on Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues

Employment:

Corporate Whistleblowing in the Sarbanes-Oxley/Dodd-Frank Era (2nd Edition)

Litigation:

Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide

Pro Bono:

New York Elder Law

Real Estate:

Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings (3rd Edition)

 
COURSE HANDBOOKS 

Corporate & Securities:

Corporate Counsel Institute 2015

Corporate Political Activities 2015: Complying with Finance, Lobbying and Ethics Laws

Crowdfunding and Online Direct Lending (Peer-to-Peer) 2015

Government Contracts 2015

Hedge Fund Management 2015

Hot Topics in Mergers & Acquisitions 2015

Outsourcing 2015: Sourcing Critical Services

Shareholder Activism: What You Need To Be Doing Now 2015

Employee Benefits:

Cutting Edge Employment Law Issues 2015: The California Difference

Hot Issues in Executive Compensation 2015

Intellectual Property:

Advertising Law Institute 2015

Cybersecurity 2015: Managing the Risk

Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law 2015

Litigation:

Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation (32nd Annual)

Pro Bono:

Bankruptcy Basics for Low-Income Clients 2015

Representing the Pro Bono Client: Advocacy Skills for Administrative Hearings 2015

 
ARCHIVAL TITLES

Advanced Doing Deals 2002: What You Need to Know Now

Asset-Based Financing 2001

The Corporate Tax Practice Series (2013 Edition)

The Corporate Tax Practice Series (2012 Edition)

The Corporate Tax Practice Series (2011 Edition)

The Corporate Tax Practice Series (2010 Edition)

Current Developments in Federal Civil Practice 2002

Federal Pretrial Practice: Basic Procedure & Strategy 2001

Guardianship 2001: Article 81 Training to Obtain Certification

Non-Federal Question Class Actions 2002: Prosecution & Defense Strategies

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2014 Edition)

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2013 Edition)

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2012 Edition)

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2011 Edition)

The Partnership Tax Practice Series (2010 Edition)

Patent & High Technology Licensing 2002

Patent Practice in the Aftermath of Festo & Vornado

PLI’s Institute for Intellectual Property Law (Eight Annual)

Soderquist on the Securities Laws (5th Edition)

Taking & Defending Depositions in Commercial Cases 2001

Title Insurance 2002: Mastering Critical Issues Facing Buyers, Sellers

Understanding ERISA 2003: An Introduction to Basic Employee Retirement Benefits

Understanding the Securities Laws 2001

Understanding the Sophisticated Real Estate Practice 2001

 

TRANSCRIPTS 

Energy:

Carbon Markets and Financing Issues in Renewable Energy

Litigation:

California Trial Advocacy 2015

Nuts & Bolts of Electronic Discovery 2015

Supreme Court and Civil Procedure: The Changing Landscape of Civil Litigation

Pro Bono:

Reentry in California – Overcoming Legal Barriers to Community Reintegration 2015

Professional Skills:

Writing for Transactional Lawyers 2015

Tax:

Basics of Federal Election Campaign Act 2015

The Corporate Tax Practice Series and The Partnership Tax Practice Series: Archival versions now available on Discover PLUS

The Corporate Tax Practice Series with over 485 chapters written by more than 435 of the world’s leading tax practitioners, including former Internal Revenue Service and Department of Treasury officials, and The Partnership Tax Practice Series with more than 320 articles written by over 290 prominent partnership tax practitioners, are the most frequently accessed treatises on Discover PLUS.

These two titles started out as Course Handbooks and were converted to Treatise format in 2010; we are pleased to announce that we are adding the complete archive to Discover PLUS! The work on the Course Handbook archive has been underway and as of today, the Treatise archive is also available. This is a phased project – you’ll notice that we added the files back to 2012; the 2011 and 2010 files will be added before the end of the year.

How do I access this content?

If you are a Discover PLUS subscriber, you can click into the title and then click on the Related Items tab.

Click here to see The Corporate Tax Practice Series

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New Treatise! Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk

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The many recent sophisticated cyber threats—from hacktivists and empowered insiders to organized criminals and state-sponsored cyber attacks—means that the task of managing cyber risks, once the near-exclusive realm of IT professionals, is now also borne by attorneys, senior executives, and directors. PLI’s new Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk provides the practical steps that can be taken to help your clients understand and mitigate today’s cyber risk and to build the most resilient response capabilities possible.

Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk provides a comprehensive discussion of the complex quilt of federal and state statutes, Executive Orders, regulations, contractual norms, and ambiguous tort duties that can apply to this crucial new area of the law. For example, it describes in detail:

  • The leading regulatory role the Federal Trade Commission has played, acting on its authority to regulate “unfair” or “deceptive” trade practices;
  • The guidance issued by the SEC interpreting existing disclosure rules to require registrants to disclose cybersecurity risks under certain circumstances;
  • The varying roles of other regulators in sector-specific regulation, such as healthcare, energy, and transportation; and
  • The impact of preexisting statutes, such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, on current cybersecurity issues.

In addition, the authors of Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk have supplemented these more traditional sources of law with industry practices and the most important sources of soft law:

  • An explanation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and information sharing environments from a former Department of Homeland Security official,
  • The views of the U.S. Secret Service on partnering with federal law enforcement and effective information-sharing,
  • The guidance of leading consultants about the appropriate steps to prepare for cybersecurity incidents,
  • The perspective of a leading insurance company on the evolving role of insurance in protecting companies from the financial losses associated with a successful cyber breach, and
  • The views of one of the most sophisticated incident response organizations on the proper elements of effective incident response.

Throughout the book, Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk includes practice tools developed during the hundreds of breaches that the authors have weathered with their clients. These valuable practice aids include checklists, an overview of the legal consequences of a breach, and a tabletop exercise.

If you’d like to order Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

 

What’s New for August on Discover PLUS

 

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ANSWER BOOKS

Corporate & Securities:

Health Care:

Insurance:

TREATISES

Intellectual Property:

TREATISES – SUPPLEMENTED

Banking:

Corporate & Securities:

Intellectual Property:

Tax:

COURSE HANDBOOKS

Children’s Law:

Corporate & Securities:

Employee Benefits:

Ethics/Professional Responsibility:

Intellectual Property:

International Law:

Litigation:

Pro Bono:

Archival Titles:

TRANSCRIPTS

Accounting:

Bankruptcy & Restructuring:

Corporate & Securities:

Employment:

Environmental:

Insurance:

Intellectual Property:

Litigation:

Professional Skills:

Real Estate:

 

If you’d like to order any of the above titles, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

The Library Ledger, August 2015, Vol 3. Issue 3

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Our latest edition of the Library Ledger is now available on the blog! Read up on PLI Discover PLUS news with this most current edition which provides you with updates on new titles added to  Discover PLUS; news on the upcoming release of the Discover PLUS app; search tips on locating materials on cybersecurity; and a letter from PLI’s Library Relations Manager Christina Davis. Read all of our newsletters on the Library Ledger page.