Category Archives: PLI

Reinsurance Law

Release #5 is now available for Reinsurance Law. This PLI treatise looks at reinsurance, which has risks for cedents and reinsurers, including the dangers of costly disputes if contracts are flawed. Reinsurance Law minimizes that peril by showing you how to structure sound agreements more easily and inexpensively. Covering federal and state law, customary industry practices, and relevant case law in clear, straightforward terms, Reinsurance Law examines the rights, duties, objectives, and potential liabilities of every reinsurance participant, while offering the expert drafting guidance that makes reinsurance transactions work.

Written by two veteran reinsurance practitioners, this title gives you a practical grasp of the purpose, benefits, markets, and costs of reinsurance; the features, operation, and risk-and-return characteristics of the full range of reinsurance products; the two major industry standards, the Utmost Good Faith and Follow-the-Fortunes doctrines; the key role of intermediaries in reinsurance; and important judicial developments affecting the industry. Included are timesaving checklists and numerous adaptable sample agreements and sample clauses.

If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect Release #5 to arrive soon. If you’d like to order the release please email, libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.

View a sample chapter here.

PLI & Pro Bono Activities

To support attorneys engaged in pro bono work, PLI offers programs throughout the year in such areas as civil and constitutional rights, children’s welfare, education law, eviction defense, immigration issues, elder law, prisoners’ rights, bankruptcy, and representing nonprofit organizations.

Listed below are just a few of our upcoming pro bono programs. The programs below are free, but we also offer scholarships for other programs. For information about scholarships and additional pro bono programs, please click here.

New Treatise Available – Sovereign Wealth Funds

PLI just published a new treatise entitled Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). Although they’ve existed for many years, the first decade of the 21st century saw a substantial surge in the assets of SWFs. This, coupled with a more aggressive investment style, has resulted in a much greater awareness, by both governments and the public, of SWF activity. In turn, this has generated an ongoing policy debate about the proper role of government regulation and taxation of these funds.

In Sovereign Wealth Funds, noted international tax lawyer Leonard Schneidman has assembled an array of essays, authored by a global collection of subject area experts, designed to explore three key aspects of SWFs: their regulation and governance, investment behavior, and taxation. If your library or organization is interested in the SWF phenomenon and its practical legal, tax and financial implications—this is a valuable resource.

Book Informa tion:

1st Edition
ISBN Number: 978-1-4024-1481-7
Number of Volumes: 1
Page Count: 378 pages
Item #: 28131
Price: $225.00

Click here for additional information.

Tax Research Program At Your Fingertips

PLI and LLAGNY recently sponsored a program entitled An Introduction to Tax Research in the Library: The Crossroad Between Information & Practice. It was presented by Jennifer A. Lawton, Tax Librarian, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP; Russell Switzer, Tax Librarian, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; and tax attorney, Erin M. Collins, Manager, Tax, KPMG. The program explained the types of authority in federal tax research, the sources to look for answers to your tax research questions, as well as the sources to consult for legislative histories.

Erin M. Collins is also the author of the Internal Revenue Service Practice and Procedure Deskbook. This title is a valuable resource for any tax library. The title is available here.

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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 1-Hour Briefing on Tax Research in the Library

PLI is holding a 1-hour briefing that looks at tax research in the library. This briefing, entitled An Introduction to Tax Research in the Library: The Crossroad between Information and Practice, is free to all who register in advance.

This program reviews what librarians, attorneys, and allied professionals need to know about tax research in order to support tax practice and aid other consumers of library reference services. This course will shed light on sources that will help librarians, attorneys, and legal researchers find and navigate IRS pronouncements, tax news and secondary materials (both print and online, published and unpublished). As an added bonus for the legal librarians who also have their JD and research attorney’s, CLE credit is available.

When: September 29, 2010

When: 1:00 – 2:00 pm

Format: Audio only

For additional information, or to register click here.

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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 Research! (No, Seriously)

So your partner/lawyer friend desperately needs this PLI article/vaguely defined research topic from ten years ago/two years ago/yesterday, and you’re swamped. And not only are you swamped, but you can’t find it on our website and you’re freaking out just a little because (s)he needs it NOW.

Fear not!

The Library Relations Team does research. So if you’re trying to track this article/topic down and really could use a hand, drop us a line. We’ll either email you back the article itself, a selection of what we think can help you, or a citation so you can pull it up on one of your other databases without searching (or accruing fees).

It’s free. Because we love you, and your life is complicated enough without us getting in your way.

How Do You Research?

We here at PLI are revamping our search functions and the whole website in general. And because you guys are actually going to be the ones using it, we need your help:

How do you perform a search? Can you give us examples of a situation you’ve had to use a topical search, a targeted search, or a citatory service? The more specifics we can give to the team building the website, the better fitted to you it will be.

Give us a hand, folks, so we can give you the best possible search functions and make life easier for all involved. Especially you.

Happy (Belated) Library Week!

It’s a holiday for us all! Library Week (US) is here once again! I was sadly out of the office for most of it, but this post is about cookies. It’s always time for cookies.

Library events as explained by my grad school and every librarian I’ve ever met seem to be summed up by: “Bring snacks. People like snacks.”

So be it. Forget chocolate chip– let’s be inventive!

You could make your attorneys/law students some Wookie Cookies— I hear they’re very good served with Bantha milk.

Or some Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies. Because everything’s better with bacon.

Of course if you’re pressed for time, you can just take Fig Newtons, cut the edges off of them and voila, instant book cookies.

…and then wrap them in bacon. For, um, effect. Yeah. Effect. Mmmm, effect.

Large Volume Tax Sets: Format Change

The large volume Tax Strategies and Tax Planning books (you know the ones– the really honking boxes your mail room resents us for) are changing format.

Instead of getting dozens of books for each set every year, we’re moving these titles over to treatise format; you’ll receive easily manageable bundles of papers to be inserted into binders.

Right now we’re trying to figure out just how you want them to look. So if you could answer the following questions for us, it would be hugely appreciated:

1.Would it interfere with your internal system of cataloging or organizing if we made each set a different color (for example making the Tax Strategies set blue and the Tax Planning set yellow)?

2.Or would it lend greater clarity in scanning for the title on the shelf and distinguishing one set from the other?

Let us know at LibraryRelations@pli.edu. Every bit of input helps.

NY State Library Funding Cuts

Many of you are private corporate and law librarians, and many aren’t in New York. But we’re all librarians here, and as I’m sure your budgets remind you on a daily basis– cuts aren’t fun. So if you can, take the time to drop a line.

Copied from NYLA, ALA, and a Whole Buncha Emails I’m Getting:

“As you may know, the Governor proposed a $2.4 million reduction in Library Aid in the 2010-2011 Executive Budget. This would be the 5th cut in less than two years and would bring Library Aid below 1998 levels.

The Senate Majority in their recently released Budget Resolution has rejected the entire cut in Library Aid, while the Assembly Majority in their Budget Proposal calls for the restoration of $960,000 or 40% of the $2.4 million cut.

The Senate and Assembly will be working over the next few weeks to resolve the differences in their proposals either through conference committees or the usual behind closed-doors three men in a room process. Either way, it is critical that library advocates contact their state legislators and urge them to reach an agreement that provides the best level of funding for libraries possible.

Visit www.protectnylibraries.org and click on VOTE for Libraries button to send message to your state elected officials.”