What’s New on PLI PLUS

We add content to PLI PLUS every month to ensure our subscribers have access to the most up-to-date and relevant secondary source legal documents. Renowned legal experts regularly update our acclaimed Treatises/Practice Guides, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in June 2023!     

New Title! Employment Discrimination:  A Practitioner’s Deskbook

PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new comprehensive resource Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook.

This book serves as a valuable ref­erence for employment law practitioners and individuals interested in helping their organizations effectively navigate employment discrimina­tion-related investigations, mediations, litigations, and jury trials.  Presented in a straightforward, comprehensible manner, it provides the reader with information relating to the full range of employment discrimination litigation from an active practitioner’s perspective.

Notably, the book covers the following important areas:

  • Responding to employment discrimination and harassment complaints (see Chapter 1)
  • Discovery tools (see Chapter 3)
  • Motion practice before and at trial (see Chapter 5)
  • Jury selection (see Chapter 7)
  • Questioning witnesses (see Chapter 8)
  • Addressing the jury (see Chapter 9)
  • Handling matters before government agencies (see Chapter 10)

Additionally, it answers the following questions:

  1. Does failing to “officially” respond to an unofficial “off-the-record” complaint create risk?
  2. What are the best strategies for conducting effective and thorough investigations remotely?
  3. What are tried and true discovery strategies and the best ways to participate in motion practice?
  4. What should lawyers consider when picking a jury and how do they make compelling arguments at trial? 

We are excited to share this new title with you!

PLUS Subscribers can access this title with their subscription.

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Free Legal Form of the Month

PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms and checklists ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.

June’s free form:

List of Steps to Take to Ensure Compliance with Data Protection Laws

More information about Legal Forms & Checklists:

  • Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.
  •  Popular PLUS Forms – This flyer provides a list of the top five most downloaded forms in prominent practice areas on PLI PLUS.

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Save the Date: PLI’s Lunch & Learn @ AALL Boston

Are you attending the 2023 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Boston this summer? Join us for a luncheon to reconnect and learn what is new with PLI, including enhancements and upgrades to PLI PLUS. 

The luncheon will take place on Sunday, July 16 from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.

Email us at libraryrelations@pli.edu to RSVP if you will attend, and we will include location details in your confirmation email. 

Treatise Update – Advertising and Commercial Speech: A First Amendment Guide (Second Edition)

Advertising and Commercial Speech: A First Amendment Guide offers a practical examination of how the U.S. Supreme Court’s commercial speech doctrine impacts advertising across nearly 50 industries and professions. The book explores legal standards for defamation, false commercial speech, and disparagement along with developments around advertising for alcohol, financial institutions, professional services, medication, real estate, tobacco, and more.

Among the many topics discussed in this new release are the following:

  • Compelled editorial transparency: New section 12:13 discusses laws passed in Florida and Texas targeting social media platforms’ efforts to combat user-generated disinformation posted on their websites.
  • On-site and off-site signs and billboards: Section 13:2.1[A][7] covers the Seventh Circuit’s ruling regarding whether to apply strict scrutiny or intermediate scrutiny to an ordinance limiting digital displays and off-premises signs.
  • Drugs & drug paraphernalia: Section 14:14 explores a case from the Washington Court of Appeals rejecting a challenge to the state’s advertising restrictions on marketing cannabis products.
  • Regulation of advertising content: Revisions to chapter 14 include:
  1. The ruling of a Florida judge regarding whether part of the state’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which forbids companies from undertaking mandatory employee DEI training programs designed to limit or avoid discrimination practices, is unconstitutional (see section 14:16 on fair employment); and
  2. The Eastern District of Arkansas’ final ruling in the Tofurky case involving marketing of plant-based foods (see section 14:20 on food).

In addition, this release includes an updated Table of Cases, Defendant-Plaintiff Table, and Index.

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Treatise Update – Commercial Ground Leases (Fourth Edition)

Commercial Ground Leases is a definitive guide to drafting, negotiating, and finalizing equitable, error-free leasing documents that address the needs of both landlord and tenant. It features adaptable, time-saving agreement language and contains numerous appendices, including forms of letter of intent, leasehold mortgagee protection clauses, intercreditor agreements, fee and leasehold deed of trust provisions, estoppel certificate and guaranty, and a complete ground lease with many alternative clauses.

Highlights of the new release include:

  • Chapter 1: Updated discussion reviews ground lease terms and situations that necessitate their review (see section 1:4.2).
  • Chapter 3: Updated discussion closely examines inflation indexing as provided in Appendix X (see section 3:4.3).
  • Chapter 8: New discussion of Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Seller/Servicer Guide, specifically chapter 30, which sets requirements of ground lease mortgages (see section 8:14).
  • Chapter 16: Updated discussion of exceptions to nonrecourse liability (see section 16:6).
  • Appendix X: Chart 1 attempts to show how several elements of common indexing formulae would have fared over the fifty-year period from 1972 through 2021 using actual CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart 2 uses the same historical CPI data, but starts the hypothetical lease term ten years later, in 1982.
  • Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, and Chapter 10 have also been updated with the latest developments.

In addition, the Tables of Authorities and the Index have been updated.

Order a print copy today. PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

For more by this treatise’s author, Jerome D. Whalen, check out the article Ground Lease Reappraisals Reconsidered published in the April 2022 issue of the PLI Chronicle.

What’s New on PLI PLUS

We add content to PLI PLUS every month to ensure our subscribers have access to the most up-to-date and relevant secondary source legal documents. Renowned legal experts regularly update our acclaimed Treatises, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in May 2023!     

May’s Free Legal Form of the Month

PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.

May’s free form:

Memorandum to Employees Advising Them of Investigation

More information about Legal Forms & Checklists:

  • Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.
  •  Popular PLUS Forms – This flyer provides a list of the top five most downloaded forms in prominent practice areas on PLI PLUS.

Send us an email at plus@pli.edu to learn more.

Treatise Update – Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings:  A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying and Selling Real Estate (3rd Edition)

Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings is an invaluable resource for attorneys and general practitioners who handle real estate deals as well as an important reference for brokers, title insurers, and inspectors.  It distills more than thirty years of transactional experience into one plain-English treatise that clearly explains governing law and customary industry practices.  The book provides useful legal, technical, and strategic guidance and checklists for sellers’ and purchasers’ attorneys preparing them to execute dispute-free residential deals quickly and easily.

This new release offers the latest information crucial to your practice.  Highlights include:

In addition, the Table of Authorities and Index have been updated to reflect the latest revisions.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

New Edition! Federal Bail and Detention Handbook 2023

PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of the Federal Bail and Detention Handbook.

This helpful resource provides on-point answers to all aspects of federal bail and detention law — especially those involving critical provisions of the Bail Reform Act of 1984. Through discussions told from grounded judicial perspectives, the book presents helpful practice pointers when confronting common Bail Reform Act problems. It also showcases an extensive series of forms, sample orders, and sample motions that defense counsel and assistant U.S. attorneys can reference.

Some of the recent developments reflected in this new edition include:

  • Weight of Evidence: Coverage of the United States v. Zhang case in which the Second Circuit ruled on whether the Bail Reform Act provides guidance on the relative weight the court should give the various section 3142(g) factors in deciding questions of release and detention (see Section 4:3).
  • Least Restrictive Possible Conditions: An update on a case arising from the January 6, 2021, invasion of the Capitol about whether the D.C. Circuit Court upheld or reversed the district court’s denial of the defendant’s request to travel abroad for three weeks for an educational opportunity (see Section 5:3).
  • Conditions in Every Bond: New discussion of a Third Circuit ruling regarding whether the “no crimes while on bond” condition prohibits the possession or use of marijuana in a state where marijuana is legal and in a situation in which the defendant has a “medical marijuana” authorization from a physician for its use (see Section 5:4).
  • Detention or Release Pending Competency Examination: New information about a Ninth Circuit case which considered whether a lack of an available bed at an appropriate facility relieves the Attorney General of the duty to attempt to rehabilitate the defendant within a brief period (see Section 14:10).

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.