Category Archives: Practice Areas

Explore the new Sports Law Course Adoption Kit from PLI

Sports law is a fast-growing field, spanning everything from intellectual property and labor issues to NIL, marketing agreements, esports, gaming, and gambling. For faculty teaching in this evolving space, current, practice-oriented materials can help students connect classroom concepts with the real-world legal questions facing athletes, teams, leagues, schools, sponsors, and counsel.

PLI’s Sports Law: A Practical Guide to Protecting the Interests of Athletes gives students a clear, practical view of how legal principles operate in both collegiate and professional athletics.

Explore how to integrate this title in your classroom with the Sports Law Course Adoption Kit.

New Edition: Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law

Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law (2026) provides the necessary legal, scientific, and technical information to allow practitioners to help clients obtain, defend, and challenge patents in these important areas of business. Packed with detailed checklists and regularly updated to reflect emerging changes in the field, this treatise helps readers navigate complex and thorny patent problems in the complex pharmaceutical and biotech fields.

Highlights of this new edition include:

An expanded discussion of the concept of inventorship, with further analysis of “factual uncertainty” and “general uncertainty surrounding experimental science” in relation to the Federal Circuit’s 2025 decision in Regents of the University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. (Section 4:1.2)

Updates to Chapter nine, including notes on the Federal Circuit’s lesson regarding the binding nature of statements made during the prosecution of Azurity Pharmaceutical v. Alkem Laboratories which disavow claim scope (Section 9:2.3) and a discussion of the relevance of separately claimed elements (Section 9:3.4)

Broader coverage of cell and gene therapy disputes, including an update in the Regenxbio Inc. v. Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. Litigation and a synopsis of Restem, LLC v. Jadi Cell, LLC. (Section 14:3.3)

The addition of Chapter 16, Patent Issues Relating to Diagnostics

Updates to the Table of Authorities and Index

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“Breaking Ground” Named a Finalist for the International Book Awards

Breaking Ground: How Successful Women Lawyers Build Thriving Practices has been selected as a finalist for two categories of the International Book Awards: Best Cover Design: Nonfiction and Business: Careers. Deborah Farone’s newest book features insights from more than 60 in-depth interviews with leading women rainmakers, including lawyers, business development experts, academics, and law firm chairs, spanning the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Steeped in personal stories, candid advice, and actionable strategies, “Breaking Ground” provides an easily navigable roadmap for any lawyers seeking to grow their practices and deepen their relationships with clients.

Available in softcover, hardcover, and on PLI PLUS.

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:

Checklist for Creating a User-Friendly Export Compliance Manual

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Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.

New Edition: Social Media and the Law

Social Media and the Law (2026 Edition) examines the use of social media in various legal contexts, such as privacy, civil litigation, employment, criminal activity and prosecution, intellectual property, defamation, advertising, and regulated industries. This treatise discusses relevant legislation, court opinions, usage trends, and industry responses.

Highlights of this new edition include:

Chapter 1, The Social Media Landscape and Chapter 5, Defamation, Other Torts, and Related Cybercrimes, both discuss the March 2026 jury verdict against Meta platforms and Alphabet, owner of Google, in the case where the plaintiffs alleged that the Instagram, Facebook and YouTube platforms are intentionally designed to cause addiction and related mental and physical ailments to children and teens

Chapter 6, Employment and Workplace Issues, covers an additional finding from the National Labor Relations Board in which a plaintiff’s social media posts regarding her workplace conditions were considered concerted activity and therefore covered by Section 7 of the NLRA

Chapter 9, Crimes, Prosecution, and Evidence, addresses the signing of the TAKE IT DOWN Act (Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act) into law, covering the requirements of social media sites and apps to establish notice and removal procedures. This chapter also covers a recent federal district court decision that suggests using AI for legal communicans may waive attorney-client privilege and expose those communications in litigation

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Treatise Update: Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook

Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook is a comprehensive guide-source for employment practitioners and anyone interested in managing workplace risk when confronted with employment discrimination and harassment claims. As social change movements continue to shape society and, by extension, the workplace, this treatise serves as a valuable resource and reference for employment law practitioners and individuals interested in helping their organizations effectively navigate employment discrimination-related investigations, mediations, litigations, and jury trials.

This book was recently updated to address:

The most recent amendment to the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law that created a cause of action for claims that predate the 2000 enactment of the law itself
A 2026 amendment to the Illinois Workplace Transparency Act to provide that an employer may not unilaterally include a clause in a settlement or termination agreement that prohibits the employee from making truthful statements or disclosures regarding unlawful employment practices
Cases determining when a plaintiff’s post-employment social media posts can be entered into evidence in a discrimination action
A federal court declaring unlawful and vacating portions of the proposed guidance on harassment in the workplace as contrary to law

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Free Form of the Month

June’s free form:

Sample Initial and Annual Holdings Report

More information about Legal Forms & Checklists:

Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.

Treatise Update: Cyber Insurance Claims, Case Law, and Risk Management

Cyber Insurance Claims, Case Law, and Risk Management provides a comprehensive analysis of the shifting and escalating cyber claim landscape as it pertains to insurance coverage and overall risk management. Featuring in-depth case and insurance policy analysis and discussion of loss mitigation steps, along with chapter summaries that can serve as quick reference checklists for practitioners, this treatise focuses on the relationships between insurance on the one hand and attack vectors and resulting liability on the other, so that risk management options can be considered.

Highlights of the new supplement include:

Chapter 1, Cyber Exposure and Risk Management, discusses notable cyber security and privacy incidents, as well as significant regulatory actions arising from cyber incidents

Chapter 4, Insurance Coverage Disputes Involving Cyber Insurance Policies, reviews the outcomes of litigation covered by dedicated cyber insurance policies regarding coverage for cyber incidents

Chapter 6, Computer Fraud and Crime Insurance Coverage, highlights cases involving computer fraud and crime insurance policies

Chapter 11, Cyber Claim Coverage Under Other Liability Insurance Products, Including D&O, CGL, and E&O Policies, dives into litigation associated with disputed coverage within other liability insurance policies

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New Skills Book: Unprecedented: Designing a Human-Centered Law Firm When Everything Is Changing

Unprecedented: Designing a Human-Centered Law Firm When Everything Is Changing focuses on the ways in which law firms can reinvent themselves amid seismic change in the legal industry. Themes are examined through the lens of a fictional law firm, as it conducts a week-long retreat designed to confront disruptive forces such as generative AI, client power shifts, hybrid work, and outdated economic models.

The story reveals the messy human realities of change: fear, resistance, hope, and the courage to design something better. Along the way, readers gain insight into design thinking, change management, lawyer development, client centric service delivery, and alternative pricing—presented not as abstract theory but as lived experience inside a firm fighting for its future.

Reading like a page-turner, each chapter is filled with practical tools such as reflection questions, frameworks, agendas, and exercises—such as an empathy workshop and empathy interviews, providing readers with a model they can adapt to their own organizations. The result is an engaging, accessible blueprint for law firm leaders, legal innovators, academics, and other legal professionals who want to shape the next era of practice rather than be shaped by it.

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Treatise Update: Commercial Ground Leases

Commercial Ground Leases (Fourth Edition) provides readers with a definitive guide to drafting, negotiating, and finalizing equitable, error-free leasing documents for both landlord and tenant. Full of numerous appendices, including forms of letter of intent, leasehold mortgagee protection clauses, intercreditor agreements, fee and leasehold deed of trust provisions, estoppel certificate and guaranty, and a complete ground lease with many alternative clauses, this treatise’s adaptable, time-saving language makes it an invaluable resource.

Highlights of the updated information include:

Chapter 1, The Truth About Ground Leases, and Chapter 2, Preliminary Agreements and Letters of Intent, features new material on the covenant of good faith and fair dealing (Sections 1:7.3 and 2:2.3)

Chapter 12, Development of Improvements, includes an expanded discussion of completion guaranties (Section 12:3.4)

Chapter 19, Default and Redemption, contains new material regarding a landlord’s duty to mitigate if the tenant defaults, and the leaseholder walks away (Section 19:1.4)

Chapter 23, Multiparcel Development, presents new material on deal structure—particularly a development agreement for the entire property, defining several parcels for sequential development and allowing the developer to lease each parcel over a time schedule (Section 23:2)

Updated Table of Authorities and Index

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