Category Archives: PLI

AALL 2025: Visit Us at Booth #701 in the Exhibit Hall!

In a few days, we will make our way to Portland to attend the 2025 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference, where we will show you how to power up your practice with bold coffee and bold insights from PLI! If you plan to attend, be sure to visit our booth!

You’ll find us at booth 701 in the exhibit hall, where you can learn about the exciting projects we have been working on in the past year, including new content from PLI Press.  Be sure to enter our raffle for a chance to win a Coffee Gift Set featuring beans from Stumptown Coffee Roasters.

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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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

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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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

Save the Date: PLI’s Lunch & Learn @ AALL Portland

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Are you attending the 2025 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Portland this summer? Join us for a luncheon to fuel your practice with bold insights from PLI and learn about our recent enhancements to PLI PLUS.

The luncheon will take place on SUNDAY, JULY 20 from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.

Email us at libraryrelations@pli.edu to RSVP if you will attend, and we will include location details in your confirmation email. 

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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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription. 

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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Book Update: Accountants’ Liability (Third Edition)

Accountants’ Liability (Third Edition) is a comprehensive reference guide to auditor liability jurisprudence and defense strategies. Written by lawyers with decades of experience working at the reg­ulators of the profession and representing accounting firms and their personnel, this treatise helps the reader understand how to approach a regulatory investigation and the applicable laws, rules, and professional standards promulgated by organizations such as the FASB, AICPA, NASBA, and others that govern the profession. Every year, the authors update the book to address the latest key case law relevant to various defenses and privilege/protection assertions, and the sources of current claims, the various legal theories upon which they may be instituted, and the strategies and tactics used by the parties in litigating such claims.

The new release (Release 2) includes updates to the following chapters:

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.