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New Title! Healthcare Employment Practice

PLI Press is pleased to announce the publication of Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure, a new treatise addressing the employment conflicts and challenges that mark today’s hospital and healthcare system.

The hospital and healthcare environment in the U.S. has become more fractured and more fractious in recent years. Job satisfaction is down, contracts are much more complex and the covenants which bind doctors and other healthcare personnel have locked up the futures for many professionals. This clear and concise guidebook responds to these complex issues with examples and details to save time, reduce errors and improve employee satisfaction. It explores how the system actually operates, and suggests how lawyers, human resource professionals and hospital management teams can improve their outcomes through astute planning and careful drafting of agreements.

This book includes:

Step-by-step, term-by-term guidance on physician employment contracts, with an emphasis on the problems presented by restrictive covenants, and a full sample Physician Employment Agreement
Labor and employment law as it affects healthcare industry employees
Issues presented by telemedicine
Stark and anti-kickback law compliance

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

PLI Current: COVID-19 Special Issue

PLI Press published a special issue of PLI Current to address the developing effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on the legal community. Covering a variety of legal issues related to COVID-19, this special issue contains a mix of original reportage, program materials and transcripts from recent PLI One Hour Briefings. Below is a list of contents along with links to individual articles.

*All articles and online programs related to the global coronavirus crisis are free to access with your PLI login. For upcoming programs, visit pli.edu/coronavirus.

COVID-19: Reducing the Spread of Both Illness and Social Panic
Coronavirus: What Lawyers Need to Know: Transcript of the PLI One Hour Briefing, conducted March 10, 2020
Coronavirus: What Lawyers Need to Know (program materials)
Coronavirus: Insurance Coverage for Event Cancellation, Travel and Supply Chain Losses: Transcript of the PLI One Hour Briefing, conducted March 17, 2020
Coronavirus: Insurance Coverage for Event Cancellation, Travel and Supply Chain Losses (program materials)
Investment Adviser Regulatory Update: Considerations Regarding the Coronavirus and Getting Ready for the 2020 ADV Update Season: Transcript of the PLI One Hour Briefing, conducted March 18, 2020
Investment Adviser Regulatory Update: Considerations Regarding the Coronavirus and Getting Ready for the 2020 ADV Update Season (program materials)
COVID-19 and the Cyber-Risks of Working from Home: Meeting the Challenges: Transcript of the PLI One Hour Briefing, conducted March 25, 2020
COVID-19 and the Cyber-Risks of Working from Home: Meeting the Challenges (program materials)
COVID-19 Challenges for First Quarter 2020 Form 10-Q and Annual Meetings: Transcript of the PLI One Hour Briefing, conducted March 26, 2020
COVID-19 Challenges for First Quarter 2020 Form 10-Q and Annual Meetings (program materials)
How Employers Can Manage the Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic: Your Workplace Questions Asked—and Answered!: Transcript of the PLI One Hour Briefing, conducted March 26, 2020
How Employers Can Manage the Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic: Your Workplace Questions Asked—and Answered! (program materials)
Coronavirus Considerations: SEC Disclosure, Labor & Employment, Insurance, Litigation, Breach of Contract and Force Majeure Issues: Transcript of the PLI One Hour Briefing, conducted March 27, 2020
Coronavirus Considerations: SEC Disclosure, Labor & Employment, Insurance, Litigation, Breach of Contract and Force Majeure Issues (program materials)

New Title! ERISA: Department of Labor Investigations and Litigation

PLI Press is excited to announce the publication of ERISA: Department of Labor Investigations and Litigation, a new treatise focusing on the Department of Labor’s civil enforcement authority and litigation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

This new publication has two primary functions: (1) to serve as a reference guide to the Department’s regulations and informal guidance, and (2) to be a resource for the Department’s views on ERISA fiduciary responsibilities as expressed in litigation by highlighting key cases.

The book examines cases brought by the Department directly as the plaintiff or amicus and how its views have been received by the courts. Cases involving private litigants generally are not discussed but are briefly mentioned if they are particularly significant, such as Supreme Court decisions or key lower court opinions. The primary exception concerns the Department’s amicus curiae briefs, which are filed in private party litigation and touch on significant or novel issues before the Supreme Court and circuit courts across the country.

As much of the Department’s enforcement and litigation has focused on pension plans, so does this book, along with an overview of health plan investigations, enforcement, and litigation, including under ERISA Part 7 and the Affordable Care Act. There is also a short discussion of the Department’s criminal enforcement program, as well as a discussion of the impact of the fiduciary, or conflict of interest, rule on the financial services industry and related litigation.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

New Title! Business Taxation Deskbook

Business Taxation Deskbook is a guide to the fundamental principles governing the federal income tax treatment of domestic and international business transactions involving the organization, operation, and disposition of the four principal forms of business entity.

The Deskbook includes important coverage of the dramatic changes for businesses made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCAJA). It also looks at the federal income tax treatment of both inbound and outbound cross-border transactions and provides a basic introduction to state law issues in business taxation.

This book is designed to provide an introduction to the basic principles of business taxation and not to be the “last word” on any of these highly complex topics.

This new treatise is available on PLI PLUS. If you would like to order a print copy, please contact libraryrelations@pli.edu.

New Title! Master the 10-K and 10-Q

The second in our SEC Compliance & Disclosure Series, Master the 10-K and 10-Q is your guide to preparing and filing the SEC’s annual Form 10-K and quarterly Form 10-Q, as required by the Exchange Act of 1934. Like its counterpart Master the 8-K, this step-by-step guide draws on the expertise of author Gary M. Brown to deliver clear coverage that highlights areas in which your company can implement or refine its disclosure controls and procedures in order to ensure accurate and timely filings. Key topics include:

Filing procedures and deadlines
Signature and certification requirements
Filing extensions
The impact of late filings
The “furnished” versus “filed” distinction
Technical aspects of incorporation by reference
Special rules for asset-backed issuers
Exhibit requirements

This standalone guide provides detailed analysis of both forms, as well as their related potential disclosure items, and is enhanced with compliance practice pointers and more than a dozen appendices containing related forms, regulations, and SEC guidance – everything you need to Master the 10-K and 10-Q.

This title is available on PLI PLUS. If you would like to order a print copy, please contact libraryrelations@pli.edu.

New Title! An Associate’s First Year: A Guide to Thriving at a Law Firm

An Associate’s First Year: A Guide to Thriving at a Law Firm is a new published title from PLI Press.

There is more to thriving as a new law firm associate than doing great legal work. Associates must also demonstrate commitment to law firm values; capably manage up and down within their firm; successfully interact with people of different generations, cultures, and backgrounds; champion diversity and inclusion; work smartly and efficiently; contribute to innovation within their firms; manage their workloads; continually learn about their clients’ businesses; and so much more.

An Associate’s First Year, edited by Jennifer L. Bluestein and featuring contributions from more than a dozen experts—including partners, professional developments directors, law firm associates, and other legal industry professionals—provides new associates first-hand insights and guidance on:

Each chapter is full of practical suggestions to help new associates navigate their first year of practice at a law firm.

If you would like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu.

New Title! Arbitrating Commercial Disputes in the United States

PLI recently published a new title, Arbitrating Commercial Disputes in the United States.

Bringing or defending commercial arbitrations requires a clear grasp of the latest developments in the field, a practical understanding of how the arbitration process works, and knowledge of how the courts interpret and enforce arbitration agreements and treat arbitral awards. And participating in an arbitration demands a distinctive set of skills, different from those learned in the courtroom.

In Arbitrating Commercial Disputes in the United States, author/editor David Singer and his contributors—many of them arbitrators, and all of them deeply familiar with the arbitration process—provide the information and insights that will help readers master commercial arbitration.

Citing hundreds of cases, as well as drawing upon the extensive experience of the contributors, this book addresses the strategies that lead to success.

This essential new treatise is available on PLI PLUS, our research database. If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.

PLI PLUS New Content Added in 2018

PLI PLUS, PLI’s online research database, provides unlimited access to PLI Press Treatises, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Journals, in addition to Legal Forms and Program Transcripts. To reflect recent changes and the latest in legal developments, PLI PLUS is updated continuously with supplements and new editions as well as completely new titles.

Here is a list of new PLI titles added from 2015 through 2018:

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New Title! Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana

PLI recently published a new title, Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana.

This title is a new and unique resource for lawyers who represent clients in what has been called the fastest growing industry in the United States. The majority of states have enacted laws legalizing medical marijuana — with nine states to date allowing for recreational use — but marijuana remains illegal under the Federal Controlled Substances Act, giving rise to constitutional challenges to these state laws under the doctrine of preemption. As a result, marijuana enterprises must operate in a legal and regulatory environment of uncertainty, and lawyers representing these enterprises must tread carefully when advising clients.

Written by James T. O’Reilly, a lawyer and public health specialist, Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana offers critical guidance to help lawyers effectively represent their clients while steering clear of seen and as yet unseen perils implicit in the continued federal-state conflict. The guide provides discussion and analysis of:

• the complex and varying state regulation of medical and non-medical marijuana, including a survey of state cannabis laws, with summaries and citations

• federal law, enforcement, and preemption

• the various aspects of establishing and managing a marijuana enterprise, including the growing, licensing, labeling, transporting, and distribution of marijuana and related products

• the implications of preemption on employment, taxes, and banking

For lawyers new to representing marijuana clients, the author provides an understanding of the definitions of marijuana and other cannabis products, as well as a review of the policy and political issues that have led to the controversy and uncertainty of the current environment.

This essential new title is available on PLI PLUS, our online research database. If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.

New Edition! Transfer Pricing Answer Book (2018 Edition)

PLI recently published the 2018 edition of Transfer Pricing Answer Book.

The phenomena of increasingly global business enterprises with valuable intangible property expose companies to transfer pricing enforcement by different countries around the world. Many of these countries are increasingly aggressive in enforcing their local transfer pricing rules, as they attempt to protect their tax revenue base. To avoid double taxation of the same income in this environment, companies often are required to deal with the highly specialized, bilateral treaty-based competent authority process developed to prevent double taxation at a time when trade mainly involved only two established countries. Even more challenging today, companies and tax authorities increasingly are faced with the potential for multiple taxation of the same income, as supply chains cross many borders and as the tax authorities of emerging countries become players in the global taxation process, and the resulting stresses, strains, and limitations of the bilateral treaty-based competent authority process have become more apparent.

In light of the high-dollar risks presented by the increased enforcement efforts of tax authorities worldwide, the complexity of the ever-changing, inherently uncertain transfer pricing standards, and the continually evolving business models of businesses adapting to the constantly changing global economy, companies need practical guidance to permit them to develop and defend their transfer pricing strategies.

Transfer Pricing Answer Book gives companies such guidance by discussing all aspects of transfer pricing, from initially planning a transfer pricing strategy, to alternative ways to defend the strategy from attack by two or more tax authorities, to resolving a case before competent authorities, to bringing a transfer pricing case to court. It also provides an overview of the IRS’s approach to transfer pricing enforcement. The book’s non-technical discussion is presented in a question-and-answer format that will appeal to readers regardless of their prior level of experience or familiarity with taxes in general and transfer pricing in particular.

Transfer Pricing Answer Book is an invaluable resource for company executives and their advisors who are seeking to better understand this important area of tax law–one that has become an important economic facet of so many businesses.

The new edition is available on PLI PLUS, our research database. If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.