Category Archives: PLI Press

Secondary sources are like cheeseburgers

I stumbled across this blog post today and wanted to share.  It’s an old one, some of you may have seen it last fall: Dear Law Students, Secondary sources are like cheeseburgers You like those, right?   It is written by Jason Wilson.  He talks about how a secondary source (perhaps a PLI treatise or course handbook) can help “both answer the [legal] question and help … actually understand what the answer means.”    

The cheeseburger is a parallel to a secondary source and the farm is parallel to primary law in its many forms.  The librarian or professor is the “Missus.”  So you can work the farm and make the cheeseburger—all the ingredients are there.  Or ask the “Missus” for something to eat – something prepared.  “The cheeseburger will feed your appetite a whole lot faster than working the farm, no matter how awesome your tools are. That’s because someone who knows better already did the work for you.”

Isn’t that a great analogy???  I you have another analogy that you like, I’d love to hear it.  Comment or write me at libraryrelations@pli.edu.

Mergers & Acquisitions

It was reported in September 2010 that mergers and acquisitions were on the rise.  Now, 2010 is being called The Year That M&A Came Back in the AM Law Daily.  This is all great news.   The numbers still aren’t up as high as they were before the recession, but the growth is encouraging.  Experts don’t expect the numbers to go that high anytime soon but still expect a steady growth.

If your firm or organization is involved in M&A, consider adding PLI’s new treatise to your library: Mergers, Acquisitions and Tender Offers: Law and Strategies. 

View a sample chapter here. 

December 2010 Course Handbook Update

Here are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of December 2010.

  • 28th Annual Institute on Telecommunications Policy & Regulation
  • Adoption Law Institute 2010
  • Banking Law Institute 2010: The Future is Here
  • Electronic Discovery Guidance 2010: What Corporate and Outside Counsel Need to Know
  • Hot Issues in Securities Laws 2010: Disclosure Documents and Trends
  • How to Prepare for the Upcoming Proxy Season 2010
  • New Developments in Securitization 2010
  • PLI Ethics Programs: Winter 2010-2011
  • PLI’s California MCLE Marathon 2010: Current Developments in Legal Ethics — Substance Abuse — Elimination of Bias in the Profession

Please write libraryrelations@pli.edu if you have any questions or would like to order a title.

Bankruptcy Season

Bankruptcy Season is upon us.  I recently learned that the bankruptcy season starts in early January.  Craig D. Robins, Esq. has “observed that the December holidays lead most people who are troubled with serious debt problems to put off getting help. However, the advent of a new year, combined with the added pressure of bills from holiday purchases, causes many consumers with overwhelming debt to make that appointment to see a bankruptcy lawyer.”

PLI publishes on the topic of Bankruptcy.  For example:

Bankruptcy Deskbook, 4th Edition 

ISBN Number: 1-4024-0772-6 

Number of Volumes: 2 

Publication Date: August 2006 

Latest Supplement: November 2010

Item #: 8048

Price: $295.00

Personal Bankruptcy Answer Book, 1st Edition 

ISBN Number: 978-1-4024-1393-3 

Number of Volumes: 1 

Publication Date: June 2010 

Item #: 26277

Price: $195.00

Free One-Hour Briefing on Dodd-Frank Research

PLI and LLAGNY have teamed up to offer a free one-hour audio briefing to librarians, researchers, attorneys, and allied professionals.  The program is entitled Where in the World is Dodd-Frank? A Guide for Researchers.

The session will cover:

  • An overview of the Dodd-Frank Act & the best available tools for getting up to speed on the law
  • How the regulatory structure has changed, and changes still in the offing
  • The best resources for tracking the ongoing regulatory process

This briefing, featuring instruction from noted law librarians Craig Eastland and Lisa A. Junghahn, was conceived and created in cooperation with the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY). This briefing is chaired by Janice E. Henderson, Gitelle Seer, and Patricia Barbone.

 

Attendees also receive a 20% discount on PLI’s treatise Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — A Summary.

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings.

November 2010 Course Handbook Update

Here are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of November.

  • “Bet the Company” Litigation 2010:  Best Practices for Complex Cases
  • 42nd Annual Institute on Securities Regulation
  • Advanced Swaps & Other Derivatives 2010
  • Advanced Venture Capital 2010
  • Bridge the Gap: Basic Skills for Newly Admitted Attorneys 2010
  • California Employment Law Update
  • Communications Law in the Digital Age 2010
  • ERISA Litigation 2010
  • Export Controls 2010
  • False Claims Litigation 2010
  • Financial and Reporting Issues for Nonprofit Organizations 2010
  • Financial Crisis Fallout 2010: Emerging Enforcement Trends
  • Fundamentals of Swaps & Other Derivatives 2010
  • Government Contracts Workshop 2010
  • Hedge Fund Enforcement & Regulatory Developments 2010
  • Negotiating Commercial Leases: How Owners & Corporate Occupants Can Avoid Costly Errors 2010
  • Nuts and Bolts of Corporate Bankruptcy 2010
  • Open Source and Free Software 2010: Benefits, Risks and Challenges
  • Trial by Jury 2010

Please write libraryrelations@pli.edu if you have any questions or would like to order a title.

2011 PLI Treatise Catalog

The 2011 PLI Treatise Catalog is now available.  View it online here.  If you would like a print copy mailed to you please write libraryrelations@pli.edu.

Some of PLI’s recent new publications include:

•             Public Company Deskbook (2nd Edition)

•             Securities Investigations (2nd Edition)

•             Mergers, Acquisitions and Tender Offers

•             Outsourcing: A Practical Guide to Law and Business

•             Covered Bonds Handbook

•             Sack on Defamation (4th Edition)

•             Equipment Leasing – Leveraged Leasing

(5th Edition)

Dodd-Frank: new venture capital rules & rulemaking tracker

As part of the Dodd-Frank Act, many of the proposed rules have been written and are be available for public comment.  Most recently, the Exemptions for Advisers to Venture Capital Funds, Private Fund Advisers With Less Than $150 Million in Assets Under Management, and Foreign Private Advisers was posted here.  Imagine my pleasant surprise to see two PLI treatises cited in the proposed rules: Exempt and Hybrid Securities Offerings and Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation.

In addition, the PLI Securities Law Practice Center set up some resources to help you keep up with the rulemaking. 

1. Dodd-Frank Rulemaking Tracker: Through this handy tool you can search for rulemaking by agency and by topic area within an agency.

2. This Week’s Rulemaking: This calendar feature shows the latest rulemaking announcements with agency, type of announcement, and links to the Federal Register.

3. Dodd-Frank News: This is an up-to-the-minute news feed devoted solely to Dodd-Frank news.

These three helpful tools are available here (they appear on the right-hand side).

October Course Handbook Update

Here are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of October.  Additional information about all our titles can be found at www.pli.edu.  Please write libraryrelations@pli.edu if you have any questions or would like to order a title.

Title Publish Date Spine No Item id
12th Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute 10/25/10 N582 23437
12th Annual Supreme Court Review 10/30/10 xxx 23548
27th Annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation 10/21/10 H836-837 23559
Advanced Compliance and Ethics Institute 2010 10/5/10 B1840 23761
Advanced Securities Law Workshop 2010 10/8/10 B1839 22960
Annual Institute on Employment Law 2010 10/14/10 H833 23407
Auditor Liability in the Current Environment: How to Protect Yourself 10/22/10 B1844 22975
Broker-Dealer Regulation and Enforcement 2010 10/20/10 B1845 22715
Commercial Arbitration 2010: New Developments and Strategies for Efficient, Cost-Effective Dispute Resolution 10/6/10 H835 23777
Corporate Political Activities 2010: Complying with Campaign Finance, Lobbying & Ethics Laws 10/5/10 B1837 23990
Drafting Securities Filings 2010 10/7/10 B1841 23400
Financial Services Industry Regulatory Compliance & Ethics Forum 2010 10/27/10 B1847 23004
Pocket MBA for Lawyers November 2010 10/27/10 0 24466
Pocket MBA: Finance for Lawyers November 2010 10/28/10 B1846 24606
Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2010 10/14/10 G1025 23940
Understanding the Securities Laws 2010 10/18/10 B1842-1843 23736

Terminating Derivative Transactions

Release #2 is now available for Terminating Derivative Transactions: Risk Mitigation and Close-Out Netting.  For those of you who currently have this title, you know that the binder is quite full.  When you receive Release #2 you will be happy to see that you will remove Appendix C and replace it with a much more manageable section.

If you have any questions, please write us at libraryrelations@pli.edu