Discover PLUS was recently featured on Georgetown Law School’s Due Process blog, which keeps students updated about new resources and technology that the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library has to offer.
We’re happy to report that Georgetown is a new Discover PLUS subscriber.
Are you a law school interested in a PLUS subscription? If so, email or call (877-900-5291) us today!
Are you a PLI Discover PLUS subscriber who needs assistance getting your subscription to Discover PLUS started? Are you wondering what the steps are, who to contact, and how PLI can help you? Look no further, PLI has created an Implementation Guide to help get up and running with your Discover PLUS subscription.
The PLI Discover PLUS Implementation Guide is full of information to help make your launch of Discover PLUS successful, including links to our online tutorial and coverage list, and information on IP authentication and obtaining MARC records.
PLI Discover PLUS was recently featured on GW Law School’s “The Burns Brief“, which provides news, information, and resources from the Jacob Burns Law Library.
We’ll be attending GW’s research fair–Lawlapalooza–and can’t wait to meet everyone and demo Discover PLUS!
We braved winter storm Hercules and are warm and dry inside the Hilton on 6th Avenue between 53rd and 54th for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting. Please stop by our booth–#700 on the second floor–to pick up a coffee mug, mints, a pen, enter our Answer Book raffle, and learn more about Discover PLUS, our eBook library.
Check out our booth here. Doesn’t it look inviting?
We look forward to meeting you and hope you have a great conference!
Fashion Law and Business: Brands and Retailers
To the general public, the fashion industry is most closely identified with celebrated fashion houses mounting elaborate and highly publicized runway shows in the major fashion capitals of the world. In reality, the fashion industry is much more diverse, complex, and global. FASHION LAW AND BUSINESS unravels the complexity and provides clear guidance on the wide range of legal and business issues faced by fashion industry participants, including designers, suppliers, manufacturers of apparel and accessories, and retailers.
In FASHION LAW AND BUSINESS you’ll learn:
• The considerations involved in starting a company in the fashion industry, including developing a business plan, determining the form and structure of the legal entity, and obtaining financing.
• How patent, trademark, and copyright law have been applied to the fashion industry and their impact in such areas as gray market goods and counterfeiting.
• The contractual relationships and regulatory issues applicable to the design and production of fashion products.
• The dynamics of retail sales in the apparel industry, including a discussion of e-commerce and mobile commerce
• The legal issues involved in leasing and licensing brick-and-mortar retail stores, with a focus on the significant contractual terms that should be considered in connection with such real estate transactions.
• How to deal with labor and employment issues that relate to the fashion industry, including working conditions, wages and hours, child labor, use of independent contractors such as sales representatives, and developments in collective bargaining in the fashion industry.
Written by two of America’s leading fashion and retail law authorities, FASHION LAW AND BUSINESS provides you with an integrated, comprehensive guide to the issues affecting the fashion industry today.
If you’d like to order FASHION LAW AND BUSINESS, please email the Library Relations Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.
Research Topics: We created these Discover PLUS Research Topic Guides for those researchers interested in learning more about current legal issues from leading practitioners and experts.
On Monday July 15th 2013 at the 106th American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting & Conference, Practising Law Institute announced its lucky sweepstakes winner, Ruck DeMinico of Merlin Law Group.
Tell us a little about yourself, your work, and what a typical day looks like for you:
I started off my legal career as a trial attorney and litigated for the first dozen years, trying a couple hundred jury trials. I had always been interested in librarianship and decided to go back to get my degree and work at what I really enjoyed. I don’t know that there is a typical day – unless controlled chaos can be considered typical. Being a sole librarian for a firm with offices on both coasts and in seven states, research questions can come in on any jurisdiction and, as in any private firm, they are all considered rush/priority by the sender and can come at any time of the day or night. I also handle the traditional library functions, vendor relations, DMS/KM, edit and maintain the firm blogs, create handout materials and PowerPoints for presentations by firm attorneys at seminars, and along with the Managing Attorney and COO am a member of the firm’s Management team.
Have you kayaked before? Where will you take your Discover PLUS branded Kayak:
I have, in the Miami/Everglades area. I love canoeing and spend as much free time as I can on the rivers here in Florida. I’m looking forward to exploring the mangroves around Tampa Bay with the kayak and may take fishing back up now that I can maneuver in the mangroves.
What do you like most about your job as Knowledge Manager of Merlin Law Group:
The constant change in what I’m doing. Every day is different, with new challenges.
As an attorney and law librarian, what do you think are the most challenging issues/trends shaping the legal industry today?:
I would say ESI/e-discovery, especially for smaller cases that may still have large amounts of electronic data to provide – where the use of vendors may be cost prohibitive.
Are you familiar with Discover PLUS, PLI’s eBook library? Did you receive a demo at PLI’s booth at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Conference in Seattle:
I did see the demo at AALL. I like the ‘all-inclusive’ business model, rather than having to choose which individual books to purchase or subscribe to.
Discover PLUS provides complete online access to PLI’s Course Handbooks, Treatises, Answer Books, Legal Forms and Program Transcripts.
Do you subscribe to Discover PLUS? If so, a blog post is a great way to spread the word to your patrons. Contact the PLI Library Help Desk for images and information you can add to your blogs, intranet, subject guides, practice area pages, listservs, or any other way you’re reaching your patrons!