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Happy National Library Week!

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In celebration of National Library Week, Practising Law Institute is offering a 20% discount on all Treatises and Answer Books from April 12 – April 18.

The Library Relations team would also like to encourage you to access our online publications through a subscription to PLI Discover PLUS. A subscription to PLUS gives you access our Course Handbooks, Treatises and Answer Books. You can also search for PLI Forms to provide legal templates for your day-to-day tasks, and transcripts to many of our PLI programs and seminars.

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Another New PLI Answer Book Now Available! The Import Practice Answer Book 2015

PLI’s has published a new answer book aimed at helping students and practitioners alike navigate the complex regulations administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the importation of commercial goods into the United States. Import Practice Answer Book 2015 provides a comprehensive and step-by-step overview of the current law regulating when and where, and if, goods can be brought into the United States.

Walking through the process from pre-importation requirements to appealing a denial of entry, Import Practice Answer Book 2015 provides a detailed analysis of such areas as the:

Tariff classification and valuation systems
Kinds of merchandise that are prohibited or restricted
Financial security requirements, or when it is necessary to post a bond
Different types of entry and their different requirements
Ways to seek reduction or elimination of duties

Import Practice Answer Book 2015 walks you through the entire importation procedure, describing each step in the process; the regulatory requirements governing that step; and providing a copy of each major form that must be completed, including instructions on where and when that form must be submitted.

In addition, this new title provides complete coverage of how Rulings are issued and how to handle a negative Customs response, including the filing of protests and, ultimately, review by the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Import Practice Answer Book 2015 is designed to assist importers, attorneys, customs brokers, accountants, freight forwarders, customs consultants, Customs professionals in government service, and students in finding answers to the technical legal and administrative practice questions that inevitably arise in connection with importing merchandise into the United States.

If you’d like to order Import Practice Answer Book 2015, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

New Edition of Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book Now Available

PLI’s Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book 2015 is now available. This Answer Book provides a comprehensive overview of the regulatory issues faced by the different participants in the pharmaceutical industry.

In an easy Q&A format, Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book 2015 describes:

The FDA’s authority and potential actions to regulate prescription drugs and biologics both before and after approval by the agency
A facility’s rights and compliance obligations during an inspection by the agency
How to best evaluate a company’s potential of being in violation and what to do to mitigate those risks
What advertising and promotion of prescription drugs is permitted
How product liability issues overlap with FDA enforcement initiatives
When criminal prosecution is used as part of the regulatory enforcement effort

Filled with practical suggestions, Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book 2015 provides the attorney and his or her clients with a roadmap to effective compliance with FDA pharmaceutical regulations.

If you’d like to order Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book 2015, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

Federal Bail and Detention Handbook 2015

“The savings in time alone, as you try to prepare for an initial or detention hearing, makes the Handbook a bargain.”
– Defense Magazine

The Federal Bail and Detention Handbook 2015 is now available. This soft cover treatise has been published to help readers find answers in a hurry and its size makes it convenient to be carried to and from the courtroom.

The Bail Reform Act of 1984 and its legislative history are lengthy and complex. Yet all federal court participants–lawyers, judges, and others–are required to understand the Act thoroughly and apply it swiftly and effectively, often under the pressure of a detention hearing.

Authored by the Honorable John L. Weinberg, this title provides the busy practicing lawyer or judge with a quick and clear reference to the Act and all of the relevant statutory language, legislative history and appellate case law.

Judge Weinberg has included “Practice Pointers”, which are designed to provide defense counsel and Assistant U.S. Attorneys with strategic suggestions for dealing with the Act. The Handbook‘s Table of Cases lists every federal appellate decision of significant precedential value that interprets or applies the Act.

The paperback format of this 2015 edition has been tailored to help readers find answers in a hurry. Its size permits it to be carried conveniently to and from the courtroom.

If you’d like to order Federal Bail and Detention Handbook 2015 , contact the PLI Library Relations Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

PLI Course Handbooks Published in February 2015

Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks published in February 2015:

Bankruptcy & Restructuring:

Recent Developments in Distressed Debt, Restructurings and Workouts 2015

Corporate and Securities:

Employment:

Wage & Hour Litigation and Compliance 2015

Estates & Trust:

International Estate & Tax Planning 2015

International Law:

International Tax Issues 2015

Real Estate:

Tax:

Consolidated Tax Return Regulations 2015

PLI Discover PLUS: New Content Added in 2014!

The Practising Law Institute’s Discover PLUS New Content Added in 2014 list is out! Inside the catalog is a listing of the books, form, and transcripts that were added to PLI Discover PLUS in 2014. This list is a reference guide for librarians, attorneys, researchers, and other subscribers.

PLI Discover PLUS continues to grow: new books are publishes; Treatises are updated; Forms are added; and new programs generate our Course Handbooks and Transcripts. In 2014, we added or updated the following:

19 Answer Books
209 Course Handbooks
518 Archived Course Handbooks
604 Forms
201 Transcripts
13 Treatises
60 Treatises – Supplemented

New Treatise! Insurance and Investment Management M&A Deskbook

Insurance Treatise Practising Law Institute (PLI) has announced the release of their newest Treatise title, Insurance and Investment Management M&A Deskbook.

An evolving regulatory landscape and changing economic conditions continue to affect business organization and capital requirements in the global insurance industry, leading to new participants, new transactions, and new challenges. PLI’s new Insurance and Investment Management M&A Deskbook provides attorneys with an essential reference to keep up with emerging trends in insurance and investment management M&A.

The Deskbook covers topics such as acquisitions of public insurance companies, blocks of insurance business and private acquisitions; the regulatory environment of the insurance industry and the financial services industry; investment in the insurance industry by private equity and pension funds; and the expansion of insurance industry participants into emerging markets around the globe. The Deskbook also provides specific guidance for understanding Lloyd’s of London and the M&A market for mutual life insurers.

If you’d like to order Insurance and Investment Management M&A Deskbook, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

AALS 2015

PLI was pleased to exhibit at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting. This year’s meeting was in Washington, DC, where attendees and exhibitors alike enjoyed weather that was downright balmy compared to the blizzard that raged during the conference last year. Many thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth! We really enjoyed meeting everyone and hearing about your experiences with PLI and PLI Discover PLUS.

We raffled a Brookstone Pocket Projector and I’m pleased to announce that Professor Norman Garland of Southwestern Law School was the lucky winner. Congratulations, Professor Garland! We hope you find the mobile projector a welcome addition to your teaching tool bag.

Read on to learn more about Professor Garland, his thoughts on PLI and on the AALS Annual Meeting, and how he plans on using the pocket projector he won in the raffle:

Describe your role at Southwestern Law School. What do you teach?

I am a professor. I teach evidence, constitutional criminal procedure and sometimes trial advocacy and advanced criminal procedure (bail to jail). I am an avid user of technology in the classroom and out. One of my latest activities is to teach evidence as a blended (or hybrid) course, meaning partially on-line and based on flipping the classroom. I have done that 4 times and now am in the process of developing a similar class for constitutional criminal procedure.

What are your plans for the pocket projector?

All of our classrooms are equipped with the latest technological equipment, but I look forward to using the projector for travel, at meetings and conferences, and perhaps in tighter rooms in the law school. Other than that, personal use might include projecting films and such when travelling, especially in hotel rooms.

What did you think of this year’s AALS meeting? Please share one takeaway from the conference.

As usual, I did enjoy the AALS meeting this year. I love DC. I lived in DC for four years back in the day (1964-68). I have been attending AALS meetings since 1968 (having missed only a year or two here and there). This is the first time I have won anything from any of the booths, so that is a major highlight. Also, I was sitting in the hallway waiting for a friend after a session and Justice Scalia walked by. I did not recognize him quickly enough to greet him before he ambled by and, by then, his security team surrounded him so I would have not been able to approach him anyway. Unfortunately, I did not attend the session he was participating in, but I heard he was quite entertaining as usual.

New Treatise! Technology Transactions: A Practical Guide to Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Agreements

Technology Treatise Practising Law Institute (PLI) has announced the release of their newest Treatise title, TechnologyTransactions: A Practical Guide to Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Agreements.

In a world that is increasingly focused on technological innovation, Technology Transactions: A Practical Guide to Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Agreements provides the reader with the tools necessary to draft, review and negotiate technology transaction agreements with the confidence that he or she is properly addressing the most important issues.

This comprehensive title walks the reader through the major legal considerations that surround any technology transaction, including knowledge of the:

Intellectual property basics
Regulatory framework of the Internet and domain name system
Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Technology Transactions also provides a complete discussion of the many privacy considerations that must be kept in mind in an agreement to leverage any emerging technology. Considerations under the following statutes are discussed:

HIPAA
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
The Childrens Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA) as well as the many protections that are afforded to international data transfers

The first eight chapters of Technology Transactions discuss specific types of commercial agreements often used in technology transactions, including:

Software license agreements
Software development agreements
Reseller agreements
Cloud computing agreements
Domain name transactions
Technology licensing and IP-centric joint ventures
Technology escrow agreements
Non-disclosure agreements

Technology Transactions provides practical examples, including nine form agreements, as well as practice tips on how to avoid common and uncommon legal traps for the unwary.

If you’d like to order Technology Transactions: A Practical Guide to Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Agreements, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.