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Consumer Product Safety Regulation: Impact of the 2008 Amendments

Treatise  Treatise

Published: October 2008

PLI’s Consumer Product Safety Regulation gives you comprehensive, compliance-enabling insight into the 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the most dramatic overhaul of consumer product safety legislation since the 1970s.   Written by one of the country’s foremost experts in the field, Consumer Product Safety Regulation shows you how the 2008 amendments bring substantially lower lead limits for children’s products; ...

American Arbitration: Principles and Practice

Treatise  Treatise

Published: October 2008
Last Updated: September 2009

In PLI’s American Arbitration, some of the country’s leading arbitrators provide the legal, institutional, documentary, and procedural guidance that can help you engage more effectively in this vital dispute resolution process. American Arbitration enables you to understand the key laws and rules enforcing arbitration agreements and awards; pick appropriate arbitration providers, venues, and tribunal members; craft solid domestic and ...

Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting

Treatise  Treatise

Published: November 2008
Last Updated: January 2013

More patent applications are rejected because of claim-drafting flaws than because of problems with inventions. A trusted working tool for more than two decades, PLI’s Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting gives you the clear and complete guidance you need to draft foolproof claims for any type of invention. Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting spotlights proven claim-drafting practices and techniques that have been firmly established ...

Sinclair on Federal Civil Practice

Treatise  Treatise

Published: November 2008
Last Updated: October 2012

“[Sinclair on Federal Civil Practice is] complete and authoritative.” —James R. Hawkins II, Robinson & Cole, Stamford, CT PLI’s Sinclair on Federal Civil Practice offers you comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the principal rules and tactical considerations guiding lawsuits in the federal courts, focusing on the meaning and consequences of the statutes, court rules, and leading decisions. These two volumes explain ...

Credit Market and Subprime Distress: Responding to Legal Issues

Treatise  Treatise

Published: November 2008

When it comes to today’s global financial storm, attorneys, allied professionals, and investors need a "survival guide" to weather the economic turmoil. PLI’s new Credit Market and Subprime Distress gives you that vital guidance on the central legal issues and financial opportunities arising from this crisis. Designed to help you manage risk, this comprehensive, easy-to-read reference examines the causes of the financial ...

A Practical Guide to Life Science Companies: Commercializing & Protecting Innovation

Treatise  Treatise

Published: November 2008

A Practical Guide to Life Science Companies from PLI shows you how to develop a potent patent-driven intellectual property portfolio that helps power your company’s global success.   The Guide enables you to define the strategic objectives of your IP early on in the company’s development; build the technology base for commercial success through licensing, development, and outsourcing; master the basics of patent prosecution, as ...

Electronic Discovery Deskbook

Treatise  Treatise

Published: March 2009
Last Updated: October 2012

The discovery stage in litigation is costly in terms of time and expense for attorneys and their clients. Today’s explosion of electronic technologies and data has made the process even more difficult. Written by legal and technical experts in this specialized field, PLI’s new Electronic Discovery Deskbook helps you to reduce the cost and complexity of e-discovery by showing you how to more easily and quickly prepare, collect, prepare, ...

Conducting Due Diligence in a Securities Offering

Treatise  Treatise

Published: April 2009
Last Updated: July 2012

Today’s major financial scandals demonstrate what can happen when investigators fail to uncover illegal activity because they failed to do effective background searches.   PLI’s new Conducting Due Diligence in a Securities Offering provides you with clear, step-by-step legal and procedural information that helps ensure you to do a thorough investigation of a company’s records and its top managers — and reduce the potential ...

Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation

Treatise  Treatise

Published: May 2009
Last Updated: June 2012

PLI’s new Private Equity Funds gives you the solid understanding of private equity funds that can help you make these vehicles grow, while providing full coverage of the laws and regulations governing them. Private Equity Funds explains the features, advantages, and drawbacks of PIPEs, SPACs, mezzanine funds, credit opportunity funds, and distressed funds, as well as the efficiencies created when private equity funds and hedge funds converge. ...

Pocket MBA 1, 2 and 3: Everything an Attorney Needs to Know About Finance (COMBO)

Treatise  Treatise

Published: June 2009

Enlivened by anecdotes, analogies, hypothetical examples, and pop-culture references this 3 volume set of our popular Pocket MBA series focuses on essential finance and accounting terms in each discussion, defines each term clearly (with minimal math), and shows how each term works in the real world. Buy the set and save!

Pocket MBA 3: Everything an Attorney Needs to Know About Finance

Treatise  Treatise

Published: June 2009

Pocket MBA 3 continues where Pocket MBA 1 & 2 left off by guiding lawyers through confusing finance and accounting terms that arise in everyday practice—quick definitions accompanied by a light and lively discussion of each term and its impact in the real world.

Pocket MBA 2 and 3: Everything an Attorney Needs To Know About Finance (COMBO)

Treatise  Treatise

Published: June 2009

Pocket MBA 2 picks up where Pocket MBA left off, with further investigation of valuation metrics and calculations you can use in your everyday practice, such as Aging of Accounts and Dividend-Payout Ratio. Pocket MBA 2 also delves deeper into corporate and securities and economics and market concepts that come up routinely in dealing with client matters. Learn about the Yield Curve, Sustainable Growth Rates, Modern Portfolio Theory, Insider Trading ...

Federal Financial Markets Rescue: The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and Other Government Actions

Treatise  Treatise

Published: September 2009

The Federal Financial Markets Rescue provides you with complete yet concise coverage of the government’s sweeping legislative and regulatory efforts to address and ameliorate the 2008-09 financial crisis. Essential reading for every professional affected by the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and related rescue efforts, The Federal Financial Markets Rescue explains how the EESA and a host of initiatives, including the Troubled ...

Terminating Derivative Transactions: Risk Mitigation and Close-Out Netting

Treatise  Treatise

Published: October 2009
Last Updated: November 2010

Using the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy as a cautionary tale from which valuable lessons can be learned about over-the-counter derivative transactions, PLI’s Terminating Derivative Transactions: Risk Mitigation and Close-Out Netting is a necessary corrective to the negative outcry against these ”financial weapons of mass destruction,” as Warren Buffet has termed them. Terminating Derivative Transactions explains the legitimate purposes ...

Product Liability Litigation: Current Law, Strategies and Best Practices

Treatise  Treatise

Published: October 2009
Last Updated: December 2012

PLI’s Product Liability Litigation: Current Law, Strategies, and Best Practices provides comprehensive legal, technical, and strategic knowledge that maximizes your ability to prevail in consumer product liability cases, whether you’re the plaintiff’s or defendant’s attorney. Product Liability Litigation also gives you current regulatory information, including the latest product safety standards, which enables you to help ...

Public Company Deskbook: Sarbanes-Oxley and Federal Governance Requirements

Treatise  Treatise

Published: November 2009
Last Updated: May 2013

Hailed as "the bible for securities lawyers" by Fortune, Public Company Deskbook: Sarbanes-Oxley and Public Governance Requirements reflects today’s more intense federal focus on corporate governance, by offering expanded discussion of the subject, including the heated issue of executive compensation. Public Company Deskbook is your one-stop center of expert counsel on how to deal effectively with wide-ranging federal corporate ...

How to Write a Patent Application

Treatise  Treatise

Published: November 2009
Last Updated: April 2013

“[How to Write a Patent Application is] highly recommended.” —National Council of Intellectual Property Law Association Newsletter ”[How to Write a Patent Application is] one of the most thorough treatments of the subject.” —The Licensing Journal Stocked with drafting checklists and sample drafting language, documents and drawings, PLI’s new Second Edition of How to Write a Patent Application helps ...

The Partnership Tax Practice Series: Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2009 (CD-ROM)

Handbook  Course Handbook

Course Handbook on CD-ROM from the program The Partnership Tax Practice Series: Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2009, held May, 2009.

The Corporate Tax Practice Series: Strategies for Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 2009(CHB/CD-ROM Combo)

Handbook  Course Handbook

Course Handbook on CD-ROM from the program The Corporate Tax Practice Series: Strategies for Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 2009, held October, 2009.

Internal Revenue Service Practice and Procedure Deskbook

Treatise  Treatise

Published: May 2010
Last Updated: March 2013

Written by leading tax attorneys with extensive government and private practice experience, Internal Revenue Service Practice & Procedure Deskbook is an indispensible resource for tax lawyers, accountants, taxpayers and in-house corporate tax directors. The Deskbook provides the thorough legal, procedural, and strategic information you need to represent clients more effectively when dealing with the IRS, including guidance on:    ...

Sack on Defamation: Libel, Slander & Related Problems

Treatise  Treatise

Published: May 2010
Last Updated: May 2013

"Judge Robert Sack is the leading expert on the Law of Defamation. His book is, or should be at the elbow of every lawyer who practices media law.” —James C. Goodale, Debevoise & Plimpton  “[Sack on Defamation] is a wonderful book.” —Michael Gartner, former President of NBC News and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The new Fourth Edition of Sack of Defamation gives you the latest insight into how the ...

Personal Bankruptcy Answer Book

Answer Book  Answer Book

Published: June 2010

Personal Bankruptcy Answer Book is written by William C. Hillman (U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge, District of Massachusetts) and Margaret M. Crouch (Law Clerk, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Massachusetts) They are the coauthors of PLI’s best-selling Bankruptcy Deskbook, now in a two-volume Fourth Edition. With personal bankruptcies at an all-time high, every attorney should have a working knowledge of bankruptcy law. Personal Bankruptcy Answer ...

Covered Bonds Handbook

Treatise  Treatise

Published: August 2010
Last Updated: April 2012

With the possibility of new legislation coming that would create a statutory framework for covered bonds in the U.S., Covered Bonds Handbook arrives at an ideal time for you, as it: Shows how covered bonds have been prominent financing tools in Europe for centuries. Shows the many benefits of covered bonds, including potential advantages over securitization and comparative funding costs. Explains how covered bond transactions are ...

Securities Investigations

Treatise  Treatise

Published: August 2010
Last Updated: August 2012

“[Securities Investigations] collects the experience of many of the most experienced lawyers in securities law enforcement. This book belongs on the desk of every practitioner whose clients have a stake in securities investigations, whether civil or criminal.” —Peter J. Romatowski, Partner, Jones Day; former Chief of Securities and Commodity Frauds Unit, U.S. Attorneys’ Office, Southern District of New York In the wake of ...

Sovereign Wealth Funds

Treatise  Treatise

Published: September 2010

Although they’ve existed for many years, the first decade of the 21st century saw a substantial surge in the assets of sovereign wealth funds (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 ...
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Lisa J. Sotto

Lisa J. Sotto ~ Hunton & Williams LLP

David W. Pollak

David W. Pollak ~ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Katie M. Lachter

Katie M. Lachter ~ Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP