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New Treatise! Life at the Center: Reflections on Fifty Years of Securities Regulation

lifeatcenterPractising Law Institute (PLI) has announced the release of their newest Treatise title, Life at the Center: Reflections on Fifty Years of Securities Regulation.

Roberta S. Karmel has been at the center of U.S. securities regulation throughout her distinguished career as a Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Commissioner, a practitioner, an attorney in the enforcement division of the SEC New York Regional Office, a public director of the New York Stock Exchange, and a prominent academic who has taught in the U.S. and abroad.

In PLI’s new book, Life at the Center: Reflections on Fifty Years of Securities Regulation, Professor Karmel addresses the key regulatory issues confronting the SEC over the past fifty years. The book is a compilation, with current commentary, of 190 New York Law Journal columns she wrote between 1982 and 2014, and excerpts from law review articles on related topics. She has written a current introduction for each chapter and provided context for the choice of each law review article excerpt.

Life at the Center is an invaluable guide to understanding the issues faced by the SEC, the choices available to it, and the actions taken, as well as its relationships with other regulatory agencies. It brings the unique perspective of a distinguished scholar, author, and participant in SEC regulatory issues.

According to Professor Karmel, many of the securities regulation controversies discussed in Life at the Center have not been resolved, or, if resolved temporarily, have resurfaced in a new form.

In the introductory first chapter, Professor Karmel, the first female Commissioner of the SEC, discusses her career and her early writings at the SEC. She then provides an overview of the SEC’s jurisdiction and programs, increased enforcement authority, pre-emption and regulatory competition.

The following chapters each focus on a specific regulatory subject:

  • Corporate Governance
  • Regulation of Financial Institutions
  • Corporation Finance Policies
  • International Securities Regulation
  • Market Structure and Regulation
  • Insider Trading, Short-Swing Profits and Tender Offers
  • Gatekeepers

In addition, Professor Karmel includes a chapter compiling her commentary on Supreme Court cases.

Drawing on her wealth of experience and insightful observations, Professor Karmel, in the final chapter of Life at the Center, points to the future and provides ten principles on how to improve financial regulation in the United States.

Life at the Center: Reflections on Fifty Years of Securities Regulation is an invaluable commentary on ongoing securities regulation in the United States.

If you’d like to order Life at the Center: Reflections on Fifty Years of Securities Regulation, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

PLI Course Handbooks Published in December 2014

Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks published in December 2014:

Banking:

Bankruptcy & Restructuring:

Communications/Telecommunications Law:

Corporate & Securities:

Environmental:

Ethics/Professional Responsibility:

Intellectual Property:

Tax:

Updates to Post-Grant Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

post-grant proceedingsAre you looking for authoritative resources on Litigation law? You can find acclaimed, expert-authored sources on PLI Discover PLUS, which provides you with the most up-to-date content such as the recently supplemented Treatise Post-Grant Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.  This Treatise will help guide you through the process of initiating a post-grant proceeding, taking discovery, seeking sanctions, proposing and opposing claim amendments, effectively advocating at the oral hearing, appealing to the Federal Circuit, and handling a wide array of issues involving co-pending district court litigation.

You’ll find updated information on:

Claims Challenged and Grounds – current decisions on who has standing to challenge a patent in an inter partes review petition.  Read details on these decisions in Section 3:2.3.

Cross-Examination of Petitioner’s Declarant(s) – this section in Chapter 1 “Patent Owner Discovery Period, Response and Proposed Amendments”,  has been significantly expanded to reflect new guidance from the Board.  Do you have questions on specific wording on observations or foreign language depositions that require an interpreter?  Find that information in Section 8:1.1.

Appeals to the Federal Circuit – this chapter has been updated to provide information on a number of cases that were decided in 2014, to help clarify which issues are not appealable.  For example, you can read more on the PTAB decision not to institute an inter partes review in Section 14:1.

 

New Answer Book! Antitrust Law Answer Book 2015

antitrust abPractising Law Institute (PLI) has announced the release of their newest Answer Book title, Antitrust Law Answer Book 2015.

American antitrust law, now over a century old, is a huge and complex area of practice. Antitrust Law Answer Book 2015 steps back from the many details to provide a basic, practical overview of U.S. antitrust law for the non-expert who wants to understand the primary concepts and to know when to seek more expert help.

Antitrust Law Answer Book 2015 covers such issues as investigations and litigation, agreements between suppliers and customers, monopolization claims, pricing, and unilateral conduct not related to price. The authors, attorneys at Jones Day with decades of experience in the area, also provide suggestions for effective antitrust compliance programs that can help you avoid or minimize future problems.

The recently published Antitrust Law Answer Book 2015:

  • Focuses on the most common business problems as well as those that illustrate the entire scope of the U.S. antitrust laws
  • Includes illustrative examples and real-life case studies to provide additional background and practical guidance
  • Is written in plain English to provide practical, useful answers, not just theoretical musings
  • Contains a separate chapter on the complex antitrust issues arising in the intellectual property area

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

PLI Treatises Updated in November 2014

In November 2014, PLI updated the following Treatises:

Also in November 2014, PLI published the following new Treatise edition:

If you are on standing order for any of these titles, the releases have already been shipped. If you would like to place an order, please email PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

PLI Course Handbooks Published in November 2014

Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks published in November 2014:

Accounting:

Antitrust:

Communications/Telecommunications Law:

Corporate & Securities:

Health Care:

Intellectual Property:

Litigation:

Pro Bono:

Real Estate:

Updates to Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law

pharma & biotechLooking for authoritative resources on Intellectual Property law?  You can find acclaimed, expert-authored sources on PLI Discover PLUS, which provides you with the most up-to-date content such as the recently supplemented Treatise Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law.  This title offers legal, scientific, and technical information to help clients obtain, defend and challenge the validity of patents.

 

Updated information on:

Patentable subject matter – find updated details on the Supreme Court’s decision to revisit the question of patentable subject matter in Alice Corp. Pty. V. CLS Bank International. Questions on whether or not the Court decided that the laws of nature and abstract ideas are basic tools of scientific and technological work? Go to Section 3.8 to find the answers.

Indefiniteness – in Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc. (2014), the Supreme Court adopted “reasonable certainty” standard for measuring indefiniteness. Read up on the standard in Section 5:7.2[B].

New chemical entity exclusivity-novel combinations – read up on how the FDA reversed its previous position and has proposed that fixed-combination drugs should be eligible for new chemical entity (NCE) exclusivity if any of the active ingredients in the combination had not been previously approved. Find the details on the FDA’s new policy in Section 8:3.2[B][2].

PLI Discover PLUS 2014 Third Quarter Coverage List

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The Practising Law Institute 2014 Discover PLUS Third Quarter coverage list is out! Our coverage list is a reference guide for librarians, attorneys, researchers, and other PLI Discover PLUS subscribers. Inside the catalog is a listing of the books, forms, and transcripts that were added to Discover PLUS between July 1st and September 30th.

PLI Discover PLUS continues to grow: new books are published; Treatises are updated; Forms are added; and new programs generate our Course Handbooks and Transcripts.  Check out the new titles – which include 97 Archived Course Handbooks – as we continue to develop our archival collection back to 2004!