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Ninety percent of the world’s goods are carried in ships, with maritime commerce affecting nearly every product bought or sold in the United States.
With the modernization of the shipping industry, as well as traditional bank finance, shipping companies have gained access to the public markets in the United States, and many are now publicly held here. Add to this the global economic crisis and downturn in shipping markets, and both publicly and privately held shipping companies have sought protection from creditors under the Bankruptcy Act. It is therefore not unusual for lawyers of all types to have exposure to maritime law concepts.
If there’s a vessel involved, you need Maritime Law Answer Book 2015.
Written in a Q&A format, this volume includes step-by-step discussions of many of the unique and often confusing aspects of maritime law, including:
Written by partners at Winston & Strawn LLP with decades of maritime law experience, Maritime Law Answer Book 2015:
If you’d like to order Maritime Law Answer Book 2015, please email PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.
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r new PLI title has been added to Discover PLUS: Global Business Fraud and the Law: Preventing and Remedying Fraud and Corruption.
This brand-new book presents a comprehensive and practical guide to preventing business fraud and corruption, and remedying unlawful behavior should it occur. Expert practitioners from around the globe offer an international perspective based on their extensive experience.
Whether you run a company that operates across international borders or provide legal counsel to such a company, this book provides an invaluable resource.
Part I of Global Business Fraud and the Law explores the nuts and bolts of global compliance issues and potential for internal investigations that could confront organizations and individuals conducting international commerce.
Chapter 1 Design, Implementation, and Operation of Global Compliance Programs
Chapter 2 Considerations in Global Internal Investigations
Chapter 3 The Audit Committee’s Evolving Role in Overseeing Corporate Investigations
Chapter 4 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Chapter 5 Conducting an FCPA Internal Investigation
Chapter 6 Global Antitrust Cartel Enforcement: Identifying Risks and Ensuring Compliance
Chapter 7 The Economic Espionage Act
Chapter 8 International Intellectual Property Protection
Chapter 9 OFAC Enforcement of U.S. International Economic Sanctions
Part II provides country-specific practice guides to the law of business fraud and corruption in several countries key to global commerce:
Chapter 10 Brazil
Chapter 11 Russia
Chapter 12 India
Chapter 13 China
Chapter 14 Australia
Chapter 15 United States
Chapter 16 United Kingdom
If you’d like to order Global Business Fraud and the Law: Preventing and Remedying Fraud and Corruption, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.
“The most comprehensive of all the texts in the marketplace today.” – New York Law Journal
“The ‘bible’ for securities lawyers.” – Fortune Magazine
Expanded and completely reorganized to meet the needs of today’s increasingly prescriptive environment, Public Company Deskbook: Complying with Federal Governance and Disclosure Requirements is your one-stop center for expert counsel on how to deal effectively with the overlapping legislative, regulatory and private initiatives to reform public company governance and disclosure practices over the past decade.
The enhanced Deskbook provides in-depth practical guidance centered around each of the following areas: Board Structure & Governance; Shareholder Meetings; Audit Committee, Auditor Policy & Auditor Disclosure; Compensation Committee, Compensation Policy & Compensation Disclosure; Public Company Reporting & Compliance; and Corporate Investigations & Whistleblowing. Included are numerous sample forms, checklists and documents, such as sample committee charters, director and officer questionnaires and annual meeting timelines for both NYSE- and Nasdaq-listed companies. Also addressed are current shareholder relations, including the prevalence, SEC-profile and outcome of common shareholder proposals, an analysis of proxy-advisor withhold recommendations and a comprehensive activist update.
Written by three partners with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Public Company Deskbook: Complying with Federal Governance & Disclosure Requirements, Third Edition is an indispensable resource for securities practitioners, compliance officers, directors, officers, accountants, auditors, and research analysts, and an important reference for securities regulators.
If you’d like to order Public Company Deskbook: Complying with Federal Governance & Disclosure Requirements, Third Edition, please email PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.
“A valuable reference tool that should be a part of every litigator’s library.”
– New York Law Journal
“For federal court practitioners, [Trial] Handbook is a must.”
– Trial Lawyer
Trial Handbook is the one-stop resource you can trust in the planning, trial, and post-trial stages of litigation. Designed for quick reference in the courtroom, Trial Handbook is keyed to the Federal Rules of Evidence and focuses on the presentation of proof and the evidentiary problems faced by counsel.
Packed with practical checklists, charts, outlines, sample jury selection questions, Trial Handbook gives you the knowledge and tools to:
At the heart of Trial Handbook is its unique Evidence Guide, now also included as a laminated fold-out, which clearly explains the meaning, purpose, operation, and history of every rule, including how each rule applies to other cases and how leading cases construe a particular rule.
Volume 2, the Case Authority, includes thousands of case summaries of decisions under the rules, arming you with the latest evidentiary resources to help you prevail at trial.
If you’d like to order Trial Handbook (Spring 2015), please email PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.
With the 2015 NFL Draft just hours away and the top NCAA football players anxiously awaiting their fate, what better way to ‘kickoff’ (pun intended) the festivities then a refresher on sports entertainment law. A quick search on PLI Discover PLUS gives us these results:
Athletes’ Publicity Rights: A New Enforcement Paradigm
Contradictions Re Athletes’ Rights of Publicity: A Tale of Two Cases
Licensing Rights of Publicity for Athletes and Leagues
Sports Law: The Use of Athletes‘ Images – The Right of Publicity in a Sports Context
For more information, email PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.
Did you know Discover PLUS has more than 200 documents pertaining to Environmental Law?
Course Handbooks: More than 160 chapters
Answer Books: More than 25 chapters
Transcripts: 27 segments
Forms: 9
Also, don’t miss the next live seminar of Environmental Regulation 2015: Hot Topics, Regulatory Developments, and Practical Guidance for Corporate Compliance on June 12, 2015 in New York, NY.
Join your fellow colleagues and our expert faculty for an insightful look into the current environmental law landscape and for many helpful takeaways to support your practice.
The 2015 program will cover the following issues among other topics:
For more information, email PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.
Practising Law Institute (PLI) has announced the release of their newest title, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Answer Book 2015 .
Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Answer Book 2015 provides a detailed analysis of the new requirements and their impact on U.S. taxpayers with overseas accounts.
The new Q&A guide, authored by Matthew D. Lee (Blank Rome LLP), walks the reader through every aspect of the new requirements. The book explains FATCA terms and concepts, identifies which foreign financial institutions (FFIs) are covered by the Act (over 80,000 to date), and describes the obligations placed upon FFIs under the Act.
Additionally, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Answer Book 2015 provides guidance on how to create an acceptable compliance program and what is required to register as a foreign financial institution.
If you’d like to order the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Answer Book 2015, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Answer Book 2015 is also available on Discover PLUS .