Category Archives: Treatise

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 Re medying Fraud and Corruption, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

Your Courtroom Companion

“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:

Develop solid trial briefs and strong case plans
Prepare lay and expert witnesses and organize your exhibits more effectively
Master voir dire to maximize your chances of getting the most sympathetic jurors
Make a clear record at trial to aid jurors’ understanding of your case
Build a rapport and your credibility with the jury throughout the trial
Use opening statements to put your cases, clients, and proof in the most favorable light
Give summations that blend evidence and issues to paint a thoroughly persuasive picture
Exploit discovery materials at trial to get an additional edge
Lay the proper foundation for various forms of evidence
Capitalize on the powerful probative impact of visual aids at trial
Apply proven direct examination and cross-examination techniques
Use pretrial, trial, and post-trial motions to gain strategic advantages
Draft clear, legally sound jury instructions that subtly sway judges

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.

LAW DAY SALE EXTENDED

LAW DAY SALE

Celebrate National Library Week with PLI

Happy National Library Week!

Unlimited Possibilities @ your library, Unlimited Possibilities @ PLI Discover PLUS

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.

From the Library Relations team at PLI, enjoy the
recognition you and your library deserve!

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.

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.

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.

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

lifeatcenter Practising 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.