Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of August 2012:
Corporate Law and Practice
Intellectual Property
Litigation and Administrative Practice
New York Practice
Tax Law and Estate Planning
If you have any questions or would like to order a title, please contact the Library Relations Help Desk at libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.
As we launch Discover PLUS, PLI wants to hear from you! Please join Alexa Robertson, our Library Relations Director, for a Librarian Advisory Lunch, where we’ll demo Discover PLUS. After the demo, we will answer all your questions, and ask for your thoughts and suggestions.
We will be hosting luncheons in the following cities. Email libraryrelations@pli.edu if you’d like to attend.
Atlanta, GA–Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Location: Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta (Savannah Hall); 75 Fourteenth Street NE; Atlanta, GA 30309
Time: 12:30 PM
RSVP Date: September 28th, 2012
Los Angeles–Thursday, October 11, 2012
Location: The Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza; 251 South Olive Street; Los Angeles, CA 90012
Time: 12:30 PM
RSVP Date: October 4, 2012
San Francisco, CA–Friday, October 12, 2012
Location: The Palace Hotel (Pacific Heights Room); 2 New Montgomery Street; San Francisco, CA 94105
Time: 12:30 PM
RSVP Date: October 5th, 2012
Chicago, IL–Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
Location: The Westin Chicago River North; 320 North Dearborn Street; Chicago, IL 60654
Time: 12:30 PM
RSVP Date: October 11, 2012
Houston, TX–Thursday, October 18, 2012
Location: Hyatt Regency Houston; 1200 Louisiana Street; Houston, TX 77002
Time: 12:30 PM
RSVP Date: October 12, 2012
Philadelphia, PA–Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
Location: The Westin Philadelphia; 99 South 17th Street; Philadelphia, PA 19103
Time: 12:30 PM
RSVP Date: TBA
Washington, DC–Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Location: Hotel Monaco; 700 F Street, NW; Washington, DC 20004
Time: 12:30 PM
RSVP Date: October 19, 2012
New York, NY–Thursday, November 1st, 2012
Location: Sheraton New York Hotel; 811 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10019
RSVP Date: October 26, 2012
Don’t see your city on this list? Email us and let us know where you want PLUS to stop next!
In August 2012, new editions of the following PLI treatises were published:
If you would like to order a copy of one or both of these treatises, please contact PLI Library Relations (libraryrelations@pli.edu; 877-900-5291).
Discover PLUS, PLI’s new eBook library, went live today! Discover PLUS is your source for our authoritative Answer Books, Course Handbooks, Treatises, Legal Forms, and Program Transcripts. What’s more, Discover PLUS includes tools to help you manage your research, such as folders and saved searches. And you can access our whole library for one flat, firm-wide price
Sound good? Check out our video introduction below. Contact PLI’s Library Relations Department (libraryrelations@pli.edu; 877-900-5291) if you have any questions or you’d like to learn more.
Discover PLUS is Practising Law Institute’s comprehensive eBook library, offering customers electronic access to PLI’s authoritative Treatises and Answer Books. In addition, Discover PLUS offers exclusive access to our Course Handbooks, Program Transcripts, and Legal Forms derived from our acclaimed seminars and publications.
During the thirty-minute web demo, we will walk you through the Discover PLUS platform and give you an overview of the site’s main features including Search, Browse, My Folders, and My Searches.
To schedule a webinar today, please contact us:
Email: discoverplus@pli.edu
Phone: (877) 900-5291
PLI recently released a newly updated mobile app to make accessing our programs and published content easier than ever!
If your firm or organization subscribes to PLI Discover or Discover PLUS–our eBook libraries–you can access our books from your mobile device.
To start accessing our publications, first, download the app for free from the iTunes store. After you have downloaded the app, you will be asked to log in. Use your PLI username and password.
Once you’re logged in, click on the magnifying glass icon along the navigation panel at the bottom of the screen, then click the “Books” tab. From the Books screen, you can narrow the results list down by practice area, or search for specific titles or topics using keywords. After you’ve selected a title, you can read an individual chapter by selecting it from, the chapter list screen, and you can search through the chapter text by clicking on the magnifying glass icon at the top of the screen and entering your terms.
Selecting a chapter to view will automatically download the chapter to your device. You can delete chapters from the “Downloads” screen by clicking on the red “x” to the right of the chapter title. Be sure to delete chapters after you’ve read them to save room on your device!
Written by attorneys at major law firms, PLI Answer Books provide readers with a complete understanding of relevant practice issues that arise in each of the selected subject matter areas. Our Answer Books provide step-by-step explanations of the regulations and issues practitiones are likely to encounter.
Each title in the series uses an easily understood Q&A format so that pertinent questions can be answered quickly. What’s more, every title also includes both practice pointers and checklists that assist in explaining every day client questions.
The 2012 Answer Book catalog can be viewed here.
Contact PLI Library Relations at 877-900-5291 or libraryrelations@pli.edu if you would like a hard copy of the catalog or to order an Answer Book!
The conferences are over and election season is well underway so it’s the perfect time to announce the winner of our contest!
From June 29th through July 27th, PLI held our second annual Discover PLUS: Caption the Cartoon Contest, during which we asked that you come up with the cleverest caption for our debating treatises cartoon. We received lots of smart and funny captions but, unfortunately, we can only pick one winner. So, without further ado, the winner of the 2012 Discover PLUS Caption the Cartoon Contest is…Elizabeth Kenney, Law Librarian at Consolidated Edison Co. of NY!
Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of July 2012:
Corporate Law and Practice
Intellectual Property
Litigation & Administrative Practice
New York Practice
Tax Law and Estate Planning
If you have any questions or would like to order a title, please contact the Library Relations Help Desk at libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.
Practising Law Institute announces the release of Discover PLUS– our new ebook library created by legal researchers to meet the needs of legal researchers.
Discover PLUS offers the following features:
Interested in learning more? Check out our press release here or watch this video.
Please contact Library Relations (877-900-5291 or libraryrelations@pli.edu) if you have any questions.