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This monograph brings together two areas that intersect when a company faces financial trouble: bankruptcy law and employee benefits law. Aimed at corporate bankruptcy specialists looking to understand the nuances of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code, as well as seeking a deeper understanding of the implications of bankruptcy on employee benefits and executive compensation, it is an invaluable tool for lawyers advising corporate debtors navigating through the maze of bankruptcy. $207 > 1 volume, softbound, Pub. #00219, ISBN 9781422424209

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Search & Seizure, Third Edition$405 > 2 volumes, hardbound, with current supplement, Pub. #63350, ISBN 9780327100119

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Wages and Hours: Class and Collective ActionLaurie E. Leader

This pamphlet provides a roadmap for navigating class and collective actions involving the Fair Labor Standards Act. It also provides a checklist for counsel and sample forms related to wages & hours litigation.$53 > 1 volume, softbound, Pub. #00629, ISBN 9781422427026

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Tax Planning For RetireesVorris J. Blankenship

This single volume has the information needed to help clients make tax-planning decisions for retirement. Covers the federal tax treatment of everything from IRAs to disability benefits to Social Security benefits to long-term care insurance. Also included are pensions, ESOPs, 401(k)s, veterans’ benefits, and virtually every type of retirement “income” that exists in America today. $293 > 1 volume, softbound, Pub. #01548, ISBN 9781422471081

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Qualified Domestic Relations Orders: Strategy & Liability for the Family Law AttorneyRaymond S. Dietrich

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Federal Criminal Laws and Rules, Volume 2, 2009 EditionThis second volume includes the entire text of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Now you have a convenient, reliable, and easy-to-use resource for federal criminal practice. Contents cover: offense conduct, adjustments, criminal history and criminal livelihood, determining the sentence, sentencing procedures, plea agreements, crime victims’ rights, violations of probation and supervised release, and sentencing of organizations. Includes a comprehensive and convenient index.$48 > Softbound with CD-ROM, updated annually, Pub. #22463, ISBN 9781422473399

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Intellectual Property Law in Germany—Protection, Enforcement and Dispute ResolutionCovers the essential features of the protection of intellectual property in Germany. With respect to each of the relevant intellectual property rights (patents, copyright, designs, trademarks and know-how), it systematically describes protection and enforcement requirements, infringement and nullity issues as well aslicensing issues. It also deals with the typical course and special features of infringement litigation. The book further contains an overview of the fundamentals of arbitration and access to the most significant issues in this special area of German law, including relevant legislation in English.$154 > 1 volume, softbound, Pub. #01536, ISBN 9783406545306

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Written by immigration experts with long experience in dealing with verification of employee eligibility, including the E-Verify system, and with training and assisting the people who use it, this publication is filled with practical, detailed, straightforward, step-by-step instructions, as well as examples of right and wrong ways to proceed. It is accompanied by important provisions of the statutes, regulations, and memos that will let you see why the authors are giving the advice.$29 > 1 volume, softbound, Pub. #01551, ISBN 9781422471487

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—An AnalysisGerald W. Paulukonis

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Financial ServicesLitigation ReportMarch 2009 Volume 1, Issue #1

Judge: Investors Showed Defendants Misrepresented Subprime InvolvementNEW YORK — Lead plaintiff s in a class action lawsuit against an investment fi rm and certain of its executive offi cers

and directors for alleged misrepresentations with regard to the defendants’ investment in subprime mortgage-backed

securities have properly shown that the defendants violated federal securities laws in concealing the company’s exposure

to such securities, a federal judge ruled March 4. SEE PAGE 5.Judge Rules That New York Court Is Better Venue For Subprime Class ActionSANTA ANA, Calif. — Transferring a securities class action lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, certain of its subsidiar-

ies and directors, 14 issuing trusts and two underwriters from a California federal court to a federal court in New

York is proper because the New York court is a better venue to hear the instant action, a federal judge ruled March

6. SEE PAGE 7.

JPMDL Transfers 19 Subprime Actions To Southern District Of New YorkWASHINGTON, D.C. — Th e U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is the proper venue to

centralize the pretrial motions in 19 securities and Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action lawsuits

against subprime lender Fannie Mae, 17 current and former executive offi cers and directors, its compensation com-

mittee and benefi ts plan committee and 16 underwriters, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ruled Feb. 11.

SEE PAGE 10.

Shareholders, Defendants Debate Claims In Subprime Class Action LawsuitNEW YORK — Shareholders and an asset manager and certain of its executive offi cers and directors are asking a

federal judge to determine whether the shareholders have properly pleaded their federal securities law claims that the

defendants misrepresented the company’s investments and their connection to the subprime mortgage lending crisis.

SEE PAGE 13.

Chancellor: Investors Failed To Plead Demand Futility Against Citigroup Board WILMINGTON, Del. — Lead plaintiff s in a shareholder derivative action against the board of directors for subprime

lending giant Citigroup Inc. have failed to show that they were excused from making demand of the board to bring

action as a result of the company’s exposure to the subprime mortgage lending/credit crisis because they have failed to

show that a majority of the board faces a substantial likelihood of personal liability, a Delaware Chancery Court chan-

cellor ruled Feb. 24 in granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss in part. SEE PAGE 17.Bank With Subprime Exposure Properly Offered Company Stock In 401(k)COLUMBUS, Ohio — Participants in a 401(k) plan sponsored by Huntington Bancshares Inc. fi led a notice of appeal

on March 6 of a federal judge’s ruling dismissing their claims that the bank breached its fi duciary duties by off ering

company stock as an investment option when the bank’s merger with another company increased Huntington’s sub-

prime lending exposure. SEE PAGE 19.

Company Awarded More Than $400M To Recoup Losses From Subprime InvestmentNEW YORK — A company is entitled to more than $400 million in damages incurred as a result of poor investing

decisions by its investment bank, which invested the company’s funds in subprime mortgage-backed securities instead

of more secure government guaranteed student loan securities, a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration

panel ruled Feb. 12. SEE PAGE 20.

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