Monthly Archives: April 2022

Treatise Update – International Corporate Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide to Global Success

International Corporate Practice provides guidance on building a comprehensive global legal department, including advice on structuring, staffing, and budgeting, as well as the use of foreign legal consultants and outsourcing. It also includes helpful case studies, checklists, and sample documents.

This release features new material designed to enable lawyers, whether in-house or outside counsel, to operate efficiently on the global stage. Topics discussed include the following:

  • International attorney-client privilege: New sections discuss the privilege in Bulgaria (§ 2:2.4), India (§ 2:2.12), and Ireland (§ 2:2.13).
  • Outsourcing and e-discovery: A discussion of the impact of using predictive coding and artificial intelligence in reviewing electronically stored information is included in § 5:1.6.
  • International corporate compliance: Revisions to chapter 6 take note of three actions that the Department of Justice took in 2021 to strengthen its response to corporate crime (see § 6:4).
  • International litigation and discovery: Chapter 10 has been updated with a discussion of obtaining discovery in the United States for use in a foreign tribunal under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 (see § 10:7.1).
  • International labor and employment law: The updates in Chapter 21 include analysis of the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive, which sets minimum standards for protections that EU Member States must provide to whistleblowers (see § 21:4.7).
  • Data protection and privacy: A completely revised and reorganizedChapter 24 focuses on the EU General Data Privacy Regulation, which has set the standard for global data protection.
  • The Index has also been updated for this release.

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Treatise Update – The Circular 230 Deskbook: Related Penalties, Reportable Transactions, Working Forms

The Circular 230 Deskbook is an essential compliance resource for every tax professional who practices before the IRS.  It helps practitioners comply with complex Circular 230 amendments more easily — and avoid costly penalties and sanctions.  In addition to demonstrating prescribed duties when advising clients in the preparation of tax returns, it offers laminated, quick-reference compliance tools.

This thirty-second release updates the treatise with the latest developments in tax and estate law relating to IRS Circular 230.   Highlights from the new release include:

  • Chapter 1, Section 1:3: Discusses Wilson v. Commissioner, a case concerning whether the IRS’s “publicly stated positions” in the IRS manual or instructions “constitute rules carrying the force of law as required for Chevron deference.”
  • Chapter 3, Section 3:5: Explains whether the Anti-Injunction Act would preclude pre-enforcement judicial review if Congress amended the disclosure rules to impose a tax on a reportable transaction rather than a disclosure obligation backed up by a penalty for those who fail to comply.
  • Chapter 4, Section 4:13.6[B]: Explores Rodgers v. United States, in which the Ninth Circuit decided whether willfulness for purposes of section 6694(b) can be predicated on the basis of willful blindness or if it must be based on a finding of specific intent to understate liability.
  • Updated Appendix N, IRS Form 2848, Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative.
  • Updated Table of Authorities is included.

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Treatise Update – New York Elder Law

New York Elder Law taps experts in their respective fields to cover the latest legal developments regarding Social Security; Supplemental Security Income; Social Security and SSI Disability; Medicare; Supplemental Medical Insurance; Medicaid for the elderly, blind and disabled; home care; protective services; housing; nursing homes; health care decision-making; veteran’s benefits; and retirement plans. 

This treatise contains numerous time-saving checklists to help readers stay current with rapidly changing laws including up-to-date eligibility and benefit levels, benefit checklists for older adults, and flow charts for step-by-step guidance through complex appeals processes.

Highlights of this new release include:

  • Chapter 4, Medicare. Discussion updated to reflect COVID-19-related extensions and waivers and the 2022 figures for the deductibles and copayments under the Part D Drug Benefit (see section 4:14.5). In addition, appendices 4A, 4B, 4E, and 4F have been updated with the most current figures.

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National Library Outreach Day

While we do not have a bookmobile (although some of you may remember the Discover PLUS bus), PLI librarians strive to regularly connect with PLI customers and to meet you where you are, whether that is at home, at the office, or on the go.

In addition to regularly meeting with customers to provide in-person and online training on the PLI PLUS platform, we…

  • Host monthly webinars to highlight PLI resources in a given practice area while also demonstrating the overall functionality of the research database. Learn more.
  • Create video tutorials and other quick reference guides. Check out the full list of training materials in our Training Center.
  • Post about new and popular PLI publications on Twitter. Follow us at @PLI_Librarian
  • Attend conferences and host events to meet in-person and virtually. Stay tuned for AALL news.

Happy National Library Workers Day!

Today is National Library Workers Day 2022. To mark the occasion, we decided to interview one of PLI’s very own inhouse librarians. Meet Elizabeth Beller, PLI’s Taxonomy Application Manager.

What led you to becoming a librarian?

EB: A few years before I started my studies in Library Science, I had been taking post-graduate classes in Asian art history with the intention of applying for PHD programs. The professor I was studying with wasn’t convinced I was the best candidate for a PHD program, but my Japanese language skills were at the time still quite good, and he suggested I look into Library Science. It took me a few more years to get there but I did enroll in Pratt’s program for Library Science after those conversations. And then this whole new world opened up to me that I hadn’t even been able to envision when I started looking into the MLIS and the field of librarianship. For instance, I entered then program with the goal of becoming an Asian language librarian in an academic setting and here I am working with Taxonomies for a CLE provider and legal publisher.

What is one thing about being a librarian you wish more people knew?

EB: It’s so much more than books! Librarians today fill this very interesting space between a glut of information and people seeking that information. This role can happen in so many ways: we can be reference librarians; we can work with information architecture or user experience; or we can work with taxonomies!

What is taxonomy and why is it important?

EB: Taxonomies are structured (hierarchical) lists of an area of human knowledge or experience. Their organizational structure makes them incredibly well suited to digital information. So instead of a card catalog, today we can “tag” or “index” content with taxonomic terms and then create organization through this tagging. Every time you shop online and use filters to hone down to the specific type of shoe or shirt or pants you want – you’re using taxonomy!

What is your favorite part about your job?

EB: Aside from the people – because the people at PLI are one of it’s most incredible assets! I like that at PLI I am able to role up my sleeves and really dive into some complex and exciting projects. I’ve been working with PLI’s taxonomy since 2016 and I’ve gotten to see the project evolve and grow from just us tagging content to the tags now being displayed and used across multiple public-facing PLI websites.  We’re big and ambitious enough that we take on large projects but small enough that I get to be involved in many steps and areas of these projects.

What are you currently reading?

EB: Right now I’m reading Caliban’s War by James. S. A. Corey – the second book in the series the tv show The Expanse was based on. I had a baby on Thanksgiving and I need to ease myself back into serious reading. I do love Sci-fi though. My stack of books to be read is pretty big and varied…The Mirror and the Light by Hillary Mantel, The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer…