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Discover PLUS Enhancement – Date Range Filter

Discover PLUS Enhancement – Date Range Filter

We recently made an enhancement to PLI Discover PLUS, which makes it even easier to filter by publication year.  Instead of  just filtering by individual years, you can now filter by decades.  This enhancement recently debuted to accommodate our growing archival collection as we continue to add content back as early as 1980.

Now you can filter results using a 10 year date range on the search results page.

For example, if I want to learn more about how mortgage-backed securities were used in financing from 2000 – 2009, I can do a search for “mortgage-backed securit!” /s financ! and then use the date filters on the search results page to select 2000 – 2009:Date Range Filter

If you have any questions about this enhancement, or you’d like to schedule a quick training session to review, please contact PLI Discover PLUS Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

New Treatise! A Starter Guide to Doing Business in the United States

Doing Business in the United States

A Starter Guide to Doing Business in the United States is a new “must read” for non-U.S. businesses, foreign attorneys, law firm associates and new entrepreneurs. Edited by Woon-Wah Siu (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP) the Starter Guide covers the main legal and regulatory issues to be considered before entering the U.S. market, including:

  • Choice of a business entity—describing the requirements for a corporation, LLC, partnership, and sole proprietorship
  • Federal securities law—discusses the major statutes, provisions and regulations controlling the creation and exchange of business interests; the chapter includes what is required to qualify as a Foreign Private Issuer
  • Buying a company: the M&A process—highlighting each step of the process and the differences between buying a U.S. company and a non-U.S. company
  • Employment considerations—providing general guidance on the issues and statutes that arise when hiring employees in the U.S.
  • Equity incentives for U.S. employees—comparing the permissible types of equity incentives and the related, relevant tax and accounting treatment of such incentives
  • Immigration law—describing the requirements for the various types of employment-related visas and other business-related provisions
  • U.S. international trade law—exploring, in the book’s most extensive chapter, the many major statutes and international agreements that regulate importing into, exporting out of, or investing in the United States
  • Protecting intellectual property—describing the kinds of protections in the U.S. and how to derive maximum value from your IP through licensing, and how to assert or defend your IP in litigation
  • Environmental law—describing the requirements mandated by major federal and state statutes and regulations, as well as providing suggestions on successful compliance strategies
  • Taxation—describing the many kinds of taxes affecting trade and business, and focusing on the distinctions between how U.S. persons versus non-U.S. persons, as well as U.S. source versus non-U.S. source income, are treated
  • Litigation before courts and agencies, mediation and arbitration—providing a general discussion of the structure of the court systems in the United States as applied to civil cases, the terminology and procedure generally used in U.S. courts, enforcement of court judgments, and specialized tribunals, arbitration and mediation.

The Starter Guide also includes concepts in U.S. commercial real estate transactions, regulation of the energy sector, products liability law, and business insurance. This new guide also provides useful charts, tables, best practices and highlighted tips.

This essential new title is available on PLI Discover PLUS, our online research database. If you’d like to order a print copy, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

We’re at CaliCon!

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The PLI Legal Information Services team is pleased to be in Atlanta for the 26th Annual CALI Conference for Law School Computing. Come by to say hello and learn about how our online research database, PLI Discover PLUS, can help you learn dangerously!

Discover PLUS Forms Video Tutorial

Did you know that there are over 3,000 downloadable and editable legal forms on PLI Discover PLUS? Here’s a quick video tutorial that reviews in the ins and outs of our forms.

Be sure to check out the rest of our videos on the PLI Librarian YouTube channel. We will continue to add instructional videos to this channel, so stay tuned for more! And if you have any suggestions on search tips videos you would like to see, please contact the PLI Library Help Desk .

New Treatise! FDA Deskbook: A Compliance and Enforcement Guide

FDA DeskbookFDA Deskbook: A Compliance and Enforcement Guide provides a comprehensive description of the complexities of compliance under The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDC Act) and practical suggestions on how FDA-regulated entities can avoid being the subject of an enforcement action by the federal government.  This new title fully explains the legal framework created by the FDC Act and subsequent statutes, regulations, guidance and policies governing the food and drug industry.

Written by attorneys at Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C., the largest dedicated food and drug law firm in the U.S., the FDA Deskbook incorporates more than a century of cumulative experience from positions at FDA, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and regulated industry.  The result is this essential guidebook, which aims to assist industry stakeholders by providing a wide-ranging review of compliance and enforcement under the FDC Act and related laws.

The FDA Deskbook first details the ins-and-outs of FDA’s administrative actions (such as warning letters, import alerts, and recalls) and civil and criminal enforcement authorities.  The FDA Deskbook then walks the reader through individual chapters highlighting specific issues affecting the cross-section of FDA regulation:

  • drugs, including OTC, prescription, and compounded drugs, and controlled substances
  • medical devices, including in vitro diagnostic devices
  • food and dietary supplements
  • tobacco
  • animal products
  • cosmetics

Importantly, the FDA Deskbook contains chapters focused on today’s hot button issues, such as advertising and promotion, fraud and abuse, and good manufacturing practices.  The FDA Deskbook proposes best practice tips, including how to deal with FDA inspections, alternatives to conducting internal investigations, and potential defense strategies for use in enforcement proceedings.

The FDA Deskbook provides a thorough discussion of the current landscape necessary for FDA-regulated entities to achieve compliance and avoid enforcement action.

This essential new title is available on PLI Discover PLUS, our online research database. If you’d like to order a print copy, please email the PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

Special Report: FinCEN’s Proposed Anti-Money Laundering Rule

On April 4, 2016, FinCEN announced a proposal to amend the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) definition of broker-dealers to include “funding portals,” that is, online crowdfunding platforms involved in offering or selling securities.

The rule is not yet final; the comment period is open until June 3, 2016. If adopted, however, funding portals would be required to comply with the full array of BSA requirements applicable to broker-dealers, including implementing and maintaining effective anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”) controls, developing and implementing an effective AML/CFT compliance program, maintaining certain customer and transaction records, and reporting suspicious transactions to the government.

Nicole S. Healy (Ropers Majeski Kohn and Bentley), author of PLI’s Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook provides a summary of the proposed new rule and its potential impact on funding portals. Download the report here or find it in the table of contents for Anti-Money Laundering Deskbook.

 

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Happy National Library Week – Libraries Transform

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This year, National Library Week is celebrating library transformation. The Library Relations team here at PLI is aware that many libraries are undergoing their own transformations from print to digital and we’re here to help! Schedule a Discover PLUS demo or training at any time.

Trial Handbook Spring 2016 Edition Now Available

The STrial Handbook Spring 2016pring 2016 edition of The Trial Handbook is now available in print and on PLI Discover PLUS, our online research database!

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.

Interested in our other Litigation resources?  Check out our Litigation Research Center below!

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