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Most Popular Books on PLI PLUS So Far This Year!

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The tallies are in! Here are the books PLI PLUS users are accessing the most in 2024 so far…

Popular Banking Titles

  1. Asset-Based Lending: A Practical Guide to Secured Financing
  2. Financial Product Fundamentals: Law, Business, Compliance
  3. Fund Finance
  4. Consumer Financial Services Answer Book
  5. Coping with U.S. Export Controls and Sanctions

Popular Corporate & Securities Titles

  1. Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation
  2. Broker-Dealer Regulation
  3. Drafting and Negotiating Corporate Agreements
  4. Corporate Compliance Answer Book
  5. Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company

Popular Employment Titles

  1. Fragomen on Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law and Practice
  2. Understanding Employment Law
  3. Employment Law Institute
  4. Wage & Hour Litigation and Compliance
  5. California Employment Law

Popular Estates & Trusts Titles

  1. Art Law: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers & Artists
  2. Manning on Estate Planning
  3. Blattmachr on Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts
  4. Annual Estate Planning Institute
  5. Private Clients Legal & Tax Planning Answer Book

Popular Intellectual Property Titles

  1. Artificial Intelligence Law
  2. How to Write a Patent Application
  3. Patent Law: A Practitioner’s Guide
  4. Faber & Kowalski on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting
  5. Intellectual Property Law Answer Book

Popular Litigation Titles

  1. Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer’s Guide to Effective Writing and Editing
  2. Stepping It Up: A Guide for Mid-Level Law Firm Associates
  3. Fundamentals of Taking and Defending Depositions
  4. Attorney-Client Privilege Answer Book
  5. Trial by Jury

Popular Real Estate Titles

  1. Annual Real Estate Tax Forum
  2. Friedman and Smith on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property
  3. Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute
  4. Commercial Ground Leases
  5. Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings: A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying and Selling Real Estate

Popular Tax Titles

  1. The Partnership Tax Practice Series: Planning for Domestic and Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances
  2. Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances
  3. Business Taxation Deskbook: Corporations, Partnerships, Subchapter S, and International
  4. Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings
  5. Transfer Pricing Answer Book

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Treatise Update – Fragomen on Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law and Practice (Fifth Edition)

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Fragomen on Immigration Fundamentals reveals the nuances of U.S. immigration law and practice along with the agency, legislative, and executive policies shaping the current environment for immigrants and asylum seekers. Packed with practical tips for employment-based and family-based immigration, avenues to permanent residence, naturalization obstacles, statutory admission denials, and the administrative and judicial review of unfavorable decisions, the book also features templatized immigration forms for key case milestones in the immigration process.

Some of the important recent developments discussed in this release include:

  • PERM applications: Coverage of the DOL’s transition of online PERM application filings from its legacy PERM Online portal to the FLAG system and the resulting restructuring of the application form (see section 2:2.5). For additional recent developments in the PERM context, check out this recent PLI Chronicle article, Wage Transparency Laws Add Extra Layer of Complexity to Labor Certification Recruitment.
  • Employer’s ability to pay: Discussion of the significantly expanded guidance from the USCIS regarding an employer’s ability to pay the proffered wage for immigrant petitions (see section 2:6.1[B]).
  • Age-out protection: Clarification of the requirements that children of permanent residents and derivative family members of principal family-based immigrants must meet to receive age-out protection (see section 3:3.4[A]).
  • Failure to apply in safe third country: Updates regarding the status of the Biden Administration’s rule creating a rebuttable presumption that migrants who attempt to cross the southern border without seeking asylum in a third country through which they traveled or procuring an asylum appointment through the CBP One mobile app are ineligible for asylum (see section 6:2.6[C][7]).
  • Screening of job applicants: New DOJ guidance provides helpful tips on avoiding citizenship status discrimination when complying with export control laws, reaffirming that employers cannot rely on them to limit jobs to U.S. citizens or workers with other citizenship or immigration statuses (see section 10:3.3[B]).

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Recommended Reading: Erin Pulaski’s Article in July’s PLI Chronicle

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New pay transparency laws are coming into effect across the nation, which is why we are excited about Erin Pulaski’s article, Bringing Pay Data into the Sunlight: California’s New Pay Transparency Protections, published in July’s issue of PLI Chronicle: Insights and Perspectives for the Legal Community.**

The article serves as an excellent primer on how the recently enacted Senate Bill 1162 impacts employers and employees in California. It reviews California’s existing protections, describes the changes imposed by the new law, and answers questions about pay data confidentiality and remote employees. Pulaski, a partner at Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & Lowe LLP, regularly represents employees and executives in all aspects of individual and class action employment litigation. She is co-author, along with Lindsay Hutner, a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP, of PLI’s recently published California Employment Law treatise.

**Articles published in the PLI Chronicle are available to everyone. Check out July’s issue: PLI Chronicle: July 2023.

Free Legal Form of the Month

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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:

Trade Secret Protection Checklist

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.
  •  Popular PLUS Forms – This flyer provides a list of the top five most downloaded forms in prominent practice areas on PLI PLUS.

Send us an email at plus@pli.edu to learn more.

New Title! Employment Discrimination:  A Practitioner’s Deskbook

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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new comprehensive resource Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook.

This book serves as a valuable ref­erence for employment law practitioners and individuals interested in helping their organizations effectively navigate employment discrimina­tion-related investigations, mediations, litigations, and jury trials.  Presented in a straightforward, comprehensible manner, it provides the reader with information relating to the full range of employment discrimination litigation from an active practitioner’s perspective.

Notably, the book covers the following important areas:

  • Responding to employment discrimination and harassment complaints (see Chapter 1)
  • Discovery tools (see Chapter 3)
  • Motion practice before and at trial (see Chapter 5)
  • Jury selection (see Chapter 7)
  • Questioning witnesses (see Chapter 8)
  • Addressing the jury (see Chapter 9)
  • Handling matters before government agencies (see Chapter 10)

Additionally, it answers the following questions:

  1. Does failing to “officially” respond to an unofficial “off-the-record” complaint create risk?
  2. What are the best strategies for conducting effective and thorough investigations remotely?
  3. What are tried and true discovery strategies and the best ways to participate in motion practice?
  4. What should lawyers consider when picking a jury and how do they make compelling arguments at trial? 

We are excited to share this new title with you!

PLUS Subscribers can access this title with their subscription.

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New Edition! Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure (2023 Edition)

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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure.

This guidebook presents clearly-written, concise insights into how hospital management teams, healthcare human resources professionals, and the legal practitioners who advise them can navigate the ever-changing regulatory landscape around employment in the healthcare industry.

The treatise’s authors, James T. O’Reilly, Director of the Concentration in Health Services Management at the UC College of Medicine, and Mary Ellen Keegan, former in-house counsel for GE’s Aviation Division who has since negotiated favorably for MDs in disputes with insurance companies and healthcare organizations, offer actionable practices gleaned from their experiences working with physicians and public health regulatory issues.

Featuring sample contractual clauses, this resource discusses how doctors, stakeholders, and their lawyers can leverage astute planning and careful drafting to overcome emerging employment and transactional issues. In addition, the authors include tailored discussions on regulatory and transactional issues unique to physicians, registered nurses, and non-credentialed healthcare employees.

Healthcare Employment Practice includes:

  • Step-by-step, term-by-term guidance on physician employment contracts, with an emphasis on the problems presented by restrictive covenants, and a full sample Physician Employment Agreement (see Chapter 9, Chapter 10, and Appendix B);
  • A fifty-state survey of noncompete statutes and selected case law (see Appendix A – fully updated for 2023);
  • Labor and employment law as it affects healthcare industry employees in the areas of Collective Bargaining and Overtime Pay (see Chapter 14 and Chapter 19), Strikes and Lockouts (see Chapter 17), Safety Rules (see Chapter 20), and Conflict Resolution (see Chapter 21);
  • Issues presented by telemedicine (see Chapter 27);
  • Stark and anti-kickback law compliance (see Chapter 26);
  • Employment discrimination in healthcare: physician whistleblower, discrimi­nation, harassment, and retaliation claims (see Chapter 22).

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New Title! California Employment Law

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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new treatise California Employment Law.

This comprehensive resource delves into the statutes and case law governing the employer-employee relationship in California, providing practical guidance on the state, local, and federal rules and regulations.  The treatise analyzes key provisions of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”), the California Labor Code and Wage Orders, and state leave laws. 

In addition, it provides extensive coverage of local leave and wage ordinances.  It highlights the significant differences between California employment law and federal laws, including the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”).

Notably, the book covers the following important areas:

The treatise also contains an extensive index, which makes topics easily accessible to attorneys, compliance professionals, and HR specialists.

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New Edition! Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana: Cannabis, Hemp and CBD Regulation (2022 Edition)

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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana.

Updated annually, the book is a unique resource offering critical guidance on a wide range of interrelated topics for lawyers who represent clients in the fast-growing legal cannabis industry.  It sorts through the complex and varying state regulation of medical and non-medical marijuana with an appendix providing the latest key state legislation (see Chapter 3 and Appendix C). 

It also looks into the various aspects of establishing and managing a marijuana enterprise, including the growing, licensing, labeling, transporting, and distribution of marijuana and related products (see Chapters 7, 10, 11, 13, and 15).  In addition, the guide addresses federal law, enforcement, and preemption and their implications for employment, taxes, and banking (see Chapters 8 and 9). 

For lawyers new to representing cannabis clients, the authors provide an understanding of the definitions of marijuana and other cannabis products, as well as a review of the policy and political issues that have led to the controversy and uncertainty of the current environment (see the Table of Contents).

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Employment Law Webinar – Tomorrow! 5/26/22

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Join us tomorrow, Thursday, May 26, at 3:00 pm ET for an Employment Law Webinar.

PLI’s Associate Legal Editor, Jenna Fiore, will provide a brief demo to highlight the Employment Law resources available on Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) online research database, PLI PLUS. Jenna will cover popular Employment Law titles and review research scenarios to demonstrate key features of PLI PLUS.

POPULAR EMPLOYMENT LAW TITLES AVAILABLE ON PLI PLUS INCLUDE:

This demo is part of PLI’s ongoing webinar series. Each month we highlight PLI’s resources in a different practice area while also demonstrating the overall functionality of the research database.  For registration and a list of upcoming webinars, visit PLI Practice Area Webinars.

New Edition! Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure (2022 Edition)

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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure.

The hospital and healthcare environment has become more fractured and fractious in recent years. Job satisfaction among healthcare professionals is down due to occupational stress, physical and emotional exhaustion, burnout, lack of respect, and crushing administrative and oversight duties on top of clinical duties, loss of autonomy, and the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, complex employment contracts and noncompete covenants bind doctors and other healthcare personnel and have locked up the futures of many professionals. This guidebook responds to these complex issues with detailed contract guidance and practice tips to save you time, reduce errors, and improve employee satisfaction. The text explores how the system operates, and suggests how lawyers, human resource professionals, and hospital management teams can improve their outcomes through astute planning and careful drafting of agreements.

Healthcare Employment Practice includes:

  • Step-by-step, term-by-term guidance on physician on physician employment contracts, with an emphasis on the problems presented by restrictive covenants, and a full sample Physician Employment Agreement (see Chapters 9 and 10 and Appendix B – fully updated for 2022)
  • A fifty-state survey of noncompete statutes and selected case law (see Appendix A – fully updated for 2022);
  • Labor and employment law as it affects healthcare industry employees (see Chapters 13-21);
  • Issues presented by telemedicine (see Chapter 27);
  • Stark and anti-kickback law compliance (see Chapter 26);
  • Employment discrimination in healthcare: physician whistleblower, discrimina­tion, harassment, and retaliation claims (see Chapter 22).

Order a print copy today.

PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.