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Free PLI Program – Roberts Court: A Review of Current Themes and a Look into the Future

The Roberts Court is about to complete its sixth term.  This is also the first term for Justice Elena Kagan and the second for Justice Sonia Sotomayor.  It is the first term in 25 years without Justice Stevens present.  What themes can be identified in the jurisprudence of the Roberts Court?  What have been its major decisions and what is its likely future direction?

This presentation will identify key themes concerning the Roberts Court, both in general and in specific areas, such as the First Amendment, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and business litigation.  It also will look to the future and the issues it likely will deal with soon, such as the constitutionality of the federal health care law, immigration regulation, and marriage equality for gays and lesbians.  Thus, coverage will include:

  • Roberts Court and the First Amendment
  • Roberts Court and civil procedure
  • Roberts Court and criminal procedure
  • Roberts Court and business litigation
  • A look to the future

Register now for this free special event in celebration of Law Day and plan to join Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law for this important discussion.

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

Free PLI Program: Debt Ceiling Debate Raises Legal, Regulatory and Financial Issues

On April 27th PLI will offer a free program entitled Debt Ceiling Debate Raises Legal, Regulatory and Financial Issues.

In the ongoing partisan war over government spending and taxes the next battle is whether to raise the Federal Debt Ceiling.  Elected officials on both sides of the aisle are taking increasingly partisan positions.

Please plan to join Francis J. Aquila of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as he discusses these important topics:

  • What is the debt ceiling and why it needs to be raised
  • Why the debate over the debt ceiling could lead to further budget cuts for key regulatory agencies
  • How a protracted debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling could affect the capital markets
  • How a failure to raise the debt ceiling could lead to a default in U.S. government obligations
  • Why you and your clients will need to expect the unexpected if the debt ceiling is not raised on a timely basis

Debt Ceiling Debate Raises Legal, Regulatory and Financial Issues

Wednesday April 27th  2011, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

National Library Week

Happy National Library Week!  PLI Library Relations is offering free webex training sessions to our library customers.  Actually, we do this all year long…but it seems timely to mention it during National Library Week.  Our training sessions showcase PLI Discover – which is our online ebook library.  Interested in learning more, you can contact us at libraryrelations@pli.edu.

Free 1-Hour Briefing on Researching High Yield Offerings

PLI and LLAGNY have teamed up to offer another free one-hour audio briefing to librarians, researchers, attorneys, and allied professionals.  This is the third in our ongoing series.

Researching High Yield Offerings – Tools and Resources to Help You Keep Pace

The past two years have been two of the healthiest on record for high yield offerings.  With offerings continuing at a frenetic pace, this program will be relevant for researchers and attorneys whose capital markets practice includes high yield transactions. The program will cover the documents that make up a high yield offering, with a focus on how to cull useful information from those documents, and will highlight the free and fee-based resources best suited to support the research needs in this practice area.

Discussion topics include:

  • What is a high yield offering
  • Overview of high yield market
  • Private placements and public offerings
  • Description of notes
  • Mechanics of a high yield offering
  • Sources for general and market information
  • Sources for precedents
  • Researching documents

This briefing, featuring instruction from a noted corporate researcher and an experienced practitioner, was conceived and created in cooperation with Practising Law Institute (PLI) and the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY).  This briefing is chaired by Gitelle Seer, Janice E. Henderson, and Patricia Barbone.

What: Researching High Yield Offerings – Tools and Resources to Help You Keep Pace

When: May 5th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time

Presented by: Daniel J. Ferro – Manager, Corporate Resources Department, Fried, Frank, Harris & Shriver LLP and David A. Kanarek – Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

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Please note this program has expired.  If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings

March 2011 Course Handbook Update

Here are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of March 2011.

Commercial Law & Practice Series

  • Consumer, Individual and Small Business Bankruptcy Cases

Corporate Law & Practice Series

  • 16th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute
  • Antitrust Institute 2011
  • Basic Immigration Law 2011
  • Guide to Financial Institutions 2011
  • Hedge Fund Registration
  • How to Prepare an Initial Public Offering
  • Institutional Investor Forum 2011
  • Registration Under the Advisers Act
  • Venture Capital 2011: Nuts & Bolts

Intellectual Property Series

  • 5th Annual Patent Law Institute
  • Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2011
  • Hot Topics in Advertising Law 2011
  • Social Media 2011

Litigation & Administrative Practice Series

  • 12th Annual Supreme Court Review: October 2009 Term
  • Advanced Deposition Techniques 2011
  • California Hiring & Firing Update 2011
  • International Arbitration 2011
  • New York CPLR

New York Practice Skills Series

  • Basic Immigration Law 2011
  • Developing Business 2011
  • New York CPLR

Real Estate Law & Practice Series

  • Commercial Real Estate Workouts and Restructurings 2011
  • Green Real Estate Summit 2011

Tax Law & Estate Planning

  • Corporate Tax Practice Series: Strategies for Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings (**Treatise Style Format)

Please write libraryrelations@pli.edu if you have any questions or would like to order a title.

Treatise Standing Order Plan

Is your library interested in subscribing to the PLI treatise standing order plan?  Subscribers automatically receive new treatise titles to review.  Any title that is purchased through this plan receives a discounted price on the initial purchase and future supplements. 

Option A subscribers receive a 25% discount

Receive newly published treatises and supplements from all 6 practice areas.

Option B subscribers receive a 20% discount

Receive newly published treatises and supplements from the practice areas you select. You may select between 3 and 5.

Option C subscribers receive a 15% discount

Receive newly published treatises and supplements from the practice areas you select. You may select 1 or 2 practice areas.

Practice areas to choose from:

  • Commercial Law  
  • Corporate Law
  • Tax Law & Estate Planning
  • Intellectual Property
  • Litigation
  • Real Property Law

 

All titles carry a 30-day review period and are returnable for each Standing Order Option.    

Interested in learning more?  Click here.

Commerical Ground Leases

 Release #11 is now available for Commercial Ground Leases. 

 

Featuring adaptable timesaving sample agreement language, this treatise is your definitive guide to drafting, negotiating, and finalizing equitable, error-free leasing documents that minimize the possibility of legal conflicts.

The full range of relevant commercial ground leasing issues is clearly addressed in this convenient, one-stop resource, including basic rent and other payments; percentage rent; tenant, subordinated fee, and leasehold financing; ground lease term; premises and title; use and occupancy; subletting, assignment, and sale; exculpatory clauses; insurance, damage, and reconstruction; condemnation; default and redemption; surrender upon termination; rights to purchase; development rights leases; and multiparcel development.

Commercial Ground Leases shows you how to use arbitration and mediation to resolve disputes; how major bankruptcy laws have affected ground lease practice; how the law has adopted the ”modern” concept of a lease as a contract governing a commercial transaction or relationship; and how dramatic changes in the real estate financing market have impacted commercial ground leases.

If your library is on standing order, look for this release to arrive in the next week or two.  If you’d like to order the release you can email libraryrelations@pli.edu.

View a sample chapter here.

Federal Bail & Detention Handbook – New edition, new format

PLI published the Federal Bail and Detention Handbook, 2011 edition.  Previously, this title was published in a binder and supplemented annually.  This year we published in a soft-cover format and the book costs roughly what the supplements cost in the past.  We will publish a new edition each year —which means you no longer have to file the supplements!  In addition, this title is now more portable and can easily be carried to court, to meetings, or anywhere else you want to take it.  And, we updated the typefaces and layout to make everything easier to use.  The only thing we didn’t change is the content.  The content is the same valuable content you’ve come to expect– all the latest significant developments under the Federal Bail Reform Act as reported by the Honorable John Weinberg, including his invaluable table of U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit decisions.

Book information:

Federal Bail and Detention Handbook 2011

Author: John L. Weinberg, United States Magistrate Judge

ISBN: 9781402415692

Published: March 2011

Item #: 32561

Price: $155.00

To order the book click here, or write us at libraryrelations@pli.edu.

View a sample chapter here.