Category Archives: Practice Areas

Book Update: Social Media and the Law (2025 Edition)

Social Media and the Law analyzes the use of social media in various legal contexts, including privacy, civil litigation, employment, criminal activity and prosecution, intellectual property, defamation, advertising, and regulated industries. Additionally, this treatise discusses relevant legislation, court opinions, usage trends, and industry responses.

Recently updated chapters include:

  • Chapter 3, Copyrights, Ownership, and Control of Content, discusses a 2024 Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that there is no limit on monetary damages for copyright infringement cases, regardless of the filing date, even under the discovery rule.
  • Chapter 7, Compliance Considerations for Regulated Industries, covers the FDA’s updated draft guidance with recommendations for sharing “scientific information on unapproved use” communications through media and on social media platforms.
  • Chapter 8, Advertising, discusses the FTC’s rule to combat deceptive practices in consumer reviews and testimonials, including fake reviews, paid positive reviews, suppressed negative reviews, and fake social media influence indicators. This rule allows the FTC to seek consumer redress and civil penalties more efficiently.

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Book Update: Climate Change, Sustainable Investments, and Social Governance

Climate Change, Sustainable Investments, and Social Governance offers a thorough analysis of the regulatory environment surrounding financial products and institutions that incorporate sustainability and social responsibility. The book highlights how these considerations are increasingly central to financial regulation both in the U.S. and globally.

Highlights of this release (Release #1) include the following:

Chapter 2, Climate Risk and Disclosures and Related Issues for Financial Institutions: An Overview of the Framework, updated to track the transition of climate action from the Biden to the Trump Ad­ministration (Section 2:3.4).

Chapter 8, ERISA and ESG Investing, includes updated guidance on ERISA’s fiduciary duty in the context of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing. It discusses the Department of Labor’s Advisory Opinion 2023-01A, (Section 8:3.3[G], and provides new case law updates related to ESG investing under ERISA, (Section 8:5).

To aid in your research, the Table of Authoritiesand Indexhave also been updated.

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Free Form of the Month

PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.

August’s free form:

Memorandum to Employees Advising Them of Investigation

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PLI Press Call for Student Papers

Practising Law Institute (PLI) is pleased to announce our first call for law student papers.

The PLI Chronicle is an open-access periodical available exclusively on PLI PLUS, the award-winning legal research platform of PLI Press. The Chronicle delivers timely and relevant discussions on hot topics — from laws, regulations, and policies, to industry developments and cutting-edge issues, to commentary on working in the legal and accounting industries. Check out the latest edition of the PLI Chronicle here.

Writing for the PLI Chronicle gives law students a direct line to PLI’s extensive userbase of 450,000 legal professionals — including 95% of Am Law 100 members, educators, government regulators, and thought leaders. This is a great opportunity for students looking to amplify their voices and connect with the minds that shape today’s legal landscape.

Topic: Emerging Discussions Around Artificial Intelligence

For this call for papers, the PLI Chronicle is seeking submissions that explore student perspectives on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the law. PLI invites submissions from students currently enrolled in law school.

Potential topics include — but are by no means limited to —

  • How and when to use AI as a law student
  • Being in law school while AI tools are rapidly developing
  • AI and plagiarism concerns
  • Entering the legal market as AI continues to reshape the practice of law
  • What excites you about AI? What are you nervous about?

DATES

The submission deadline is September 19, 2025. If selected for publication, you must be available for a brief editorial review process in late September/early October. The chosen publication(s) will be published in the October edition of the journal.

APPLY

We seek submissions that are no more than 2,500 words. Please submit your article as a Word file.Please do not include footnotes. Hyperlinks to outside sources are welcome.

Please email your article and a brief CV/resume by September 19, 2025, to Victoria Bonacasa, Publishing Coordinator, at vbonacasa@pli.edu. Please also state your law school and your graduation year.

Selected publications will be published in the PLI Chronicle and made available to public readership. Authors will retain copyright of their submissions but grant PLI a two-week exclusive license to publication. Contributors to the PLI Chronicle will have the ability to link directly to the article on PLI PLUS. If you have any questions, please contact Victoria Bonacasa at vbonacasa@pli.edu.

New Book! Sanctions and Export Controls Practice Guide

PLI Press is thrilled to announce the publication Sanctions and Export Controls Practice Guide. This clear and concise guide covers current key domestic and global regimes governing international trade restrictions and, importantly, also provides foundational knowledge of the field so that practitioners can effectively research existing requirements and develop compliance strategies as laws change. The book focuses on explaining relevant legal frameworks, compliance strategies, enforcement mechanisms, and recent trends, and there are numerous practice tips throughout. While the book primarily focuses on U.S. sanctions and export controls programs, it also covers multilateral regimes of the United Nations and the European Union, autonomous regimes of individual foreign nations, and coordinated regimes among nations. This book will serve as a useful guide for both specialists in international trade law and general practitioners representing companies and other entities that engage in cross-border transactions.

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Book Update: Friedman on Leases (Sixth Edition)

Friedman on Leases is a leading resource on commercial real estate leasing, offering comprehensive coverage of tenant and landlord issues. This twenty-third release continues to deliver not only the foundational knowledge required by novice practitioners, but also analysis of and insight into the most current and relevant developments facing seasoned practitioners in the commercial real estate field.

The new release (Release #23) includes the following updates:

  • Chapter 2, The Parties, updated discussion covers a recent Fourth Circuit decision involving the federal anti-harboring statute (Section 2:4).
  • Chapter 4, The Term—Possession, updated with the latest cases holding that although New York’s statute provides that a tenant may expressly waive the protections set forth in a lease, such waivers are unenforceable if the tenant is able to show that the landlord intentionally caused the delay (Section 4:2.1).
  • To aid in your research, the Table of Cases has also been updated.

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Free Form of the Month

PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.

July’s free form:

Best Practices for Pre-Breach Cyber Risk Management

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Book Update: Bankruptcy Deskbook (Fifth Edition)

Bankruptcy Deskbook provides analysis of the current state of the law affecting all chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, along with practical advice for attorneys representing both debtors and creditors, in consumer and business bankruptcies.

Discussions of the following topics have been enhanced in this latest release (Release #22) to reflect recent rulings:

  • Bankruptcy court jurisdiction
  • Removal and remand
  • Fraudulent transfers
  • Disallowance of claims or interests
  • Willful failure to credit payments
  • Discharge injunction
  • Joint administration of estates
  • Third-party releases
  • Unsecured junior mortgages
  • Subchapter V eligibility

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New Edition! Net Leases and Sale-Leasebacks

Net Leases and Sale-Leasebacks: A Guide to Legal, Tax and Accounting Strategies (2025 Edition) covers all aspects of the ownership, financing, documentation, taxation, and accounting for net leases with a focus on those areas where the treatment of net leases differs from the treatment of other forms of real estate investment. Given their unique characteristics, net leases may be regarded as belonging to their own asset class, and the real estate professionals practicing in this field need to be familiar with the distinct issues that may arise.

The new edition includes the following updates:

  • Chapter 2, The Lease, New section 2:2.5 discusses the tenant’s right of rescission, covering material breach by the landlord (including independent versus dependent covenants; constructive eviction; and landlord’s breach of the covenant to repair); mistake; and fraud.
  • Chapter 5, Tax Considerations, has been further expanded in several areas:
    • Subsection 5:1.3[A] covers tenant purchase options and SILO (sale-in, lease-out) transactions.
    • Subsection 5:3.9[A] discusses whether a section 467 loan can satisfy the requirements for qualified real property business indebtedness.
    • Subsection 5:7.3[C][1] discusses the exemption for transfer of a leasehold interest in Pennsylvania.
    • Subsection 5:9.1[D] expands the discussion of choice of entity for the owner-landlord.
    • Subsection 5:10.2[E] discusses layered allocations versus target allocations for partnerships.
    • Subsection 5:10.6 explores the difference in tax consequences between a sale and a redemption of a partnership interest.
    • Subsection 5:15 discusses solar federal tax credits in depth.

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Book Update: Equipment Leasing– Leveraged Leasing

For over forty-five years, PLI’s Equipment Leasing– Leveraged Leasing has been the go-to resource for comprehensive legal, tax, economic, accounting, environmental, and insurance information to optimize leasing deals. The Seventh Edition updates readers on industry advancements, guiding them on whether to lease or buy, comply with leasing laws, draft agreements, achieve client goals, and minimize legal and financial risks.

The new release (Release #2) includes the following update:

  • Chapter 14A, Climate Finance Assets, discusses the use of capital investments in assets that mitigate or adapt to climate change, creating opportunities for financing new technologies like LED lighting, batteries, solar, wind, hydrogen, heat conversion, and geothermal. This chapter also presents information that is key to understanding the economics of the new technologies, the legal structures for financing them, and related issues.

The Table of Authorities and Index have also been updated to assist you in your research.

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