News for Law Librarians From Wol

News for
Law Librarians
From Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

Volume 5, Number 4, April 2009

Our new research platform, IntelliConnect, is on its way!

IntelliConnect™ is our advanced CCH research platform that goes beyond the CCH Internet Research NetWork and CCH Tax Research NetWork. With IntelliConnect, you can search all your subscriptions at once, refine search results, keep saved searches open and much more.

You’ll be contacted with a specific transition start date for your organization. You have several weeks to make the transition, and interactive training will also be available.

To take a tour of IntelliConnect now, go to http://CCHGroup.com/IntelliConnect

Or stop by our booth for a demonstration during the SLA Conference, June 14-17, in Washington DC.

PRODUCT NEWS

New Edition of CCH Product Distribution Law Guide

The new Second Edition of the CCH Product Distribution Law Guide has just been released with expanded coverage. Included are vital topics such as structuring distribution, franchise, and purchasing agreements; defining exclusive agreements; dealing with insolvency and bankruptcy; terminating or modifying relationships; complying with antitrust laws; establishing international distribution arrangements; handling litigation, ADR, product liability claims, e-commerce and more. It also offers practice tips, discussions from both legal and business perspectives, best practices, and strategies for obtaining desired results.

The new edition of the CCH Product Distribution Law Guide is available as a one-volume loose-leaf publication and on the Internet.

To order the Internet version, contact your CCH Account Representative. For details and to order the print format, go to: http://onlinestore.cch.com

New topic added to Blue Sky Smart Charts™ comparative tool

The Smart Charts comparative tool in the CCH Blue Sky Law Reporter allows you to research a topic across multiple jurisdictions. You enter the topic, select the jurisdictions, and Smart Charts will retrieve the information and present it in a chart format. The newest topic that can be researched through a Smart Chart is Advertising/Sales Literature Filing Requirements. This Smart Chart provides the advertising/sales literature filings required when registering securities by qualification, coordination or by other means.

Supreme Court justice praises Areeda and Hovenkamp treatise

The renowned Aspen Publishers treatise Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Application by Phillip E. Areeda and Herbert Hovenkamp was recently mentioned in the ABA’s Antitrust journal entitled “Appellate Advocacy in Antitrust Cases: Lessons from the Supreme Court.” In the article, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is quoted as saying that “practitioners would prefer to have two paragraphs of [the Areeda-Hovenkamp] treatise on their side than three Courts of Appeals or four Supreme Court Justices.” He also points out that the Court has cited approvingly to the treatise and/or an article by Hovenkamp in eight of the last nine antitrust cases.

Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Application is available in print from Aspen Publishers at www.aspenpublishers.com. The Internet format is available through your CCH Account Representative. The treatise is also part of the CCH Antitrust and Trade Regulation Integrated Library.

Six titles of International Encyclopedia of Laws now available online

This unique Kluwer Law International series consists of 25 distinct reference works, and now six are available online in PDF format: IEL Labour Law, IEL Constitutional Law, IEL Energy Law, IEL Environmental Law, IEL Intellectual Property and IEL Social Security Law.

Each of these subsets is itself encyclopedic in nature, covering a major field of law with penetrating country-by-country monographs that describe how each national legal system governs the relevant field.

These national monographs are supplemented where relevant with international monographs which detail the workings of supranational organizations that affect the field of law in question, or offer an overview of the field from a comparative perspective. These online versions provide quick and easy browse capabilities when searching for a particular chapter or content. A convenient “Update History” link gives a list of recently updated titles. For more details, visit: http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/index.php?area=Looseleafs

WHITE PAPERS

Comparative Analysis of Non-U.S. Bank Regulatory Reform and Banking Structure

In seeking to restructure the U.S. financial regulatory system to address the current financial crisis and prevent future banking woes, an examination of other countries’ experiences may prove valuable. In this white paper, Gregg D. Killoren, J.D., CCH Associate Writer-Analyst, examines the collective experience of Sweden, Japan, the United Kingdom and Australia with observations as to what may or may not translate well to the U.S. financial system.

For a pdf of the white paper, go to: http://business.cch.com/bankingFinance/focus/News/comparative.pdf

EXTRAS

New Free Website: CCH Financial Crisis News Center

The CCH Financial Crisis News Center is a free site that provides centralized coverage of the current financial crisis. Maintained by CCH attorney-editors and updated daily, the site tracks ongoing developments in the wide-ranging financial crisis and the multiple responses from lawmakers and regulatory agencies.

The home page presents timely news stories and analysis. Links to the full text of source documents are provided for regulatory actions. All materials are archived by topic and by agency or organization. An additional archive allows you to peruse by month. Under Market Crisis Web Headlines you’ll find links to stories from major news publications. Jim Hamilton’s World of Securities Regulation blog offers commentary on issues of particular importance to securities lawyers and their clients, and encourages a dialogue, with emphasis on SEC rulemaking and industry trends.

Subscribers to CCH publications will have access to links to CCH banking and securities law information on the crisis—including primary source material (e.g., legislation, regulations and agency issuances) and analytical content (e.g., white papers, journal articles and CCH explanations) arranged chronologically by issuing body.

You can receive the site’s RSS feed or subscribe via e-mail. To go to the site: www.financialcrisisupdate.com

from the Training Department

The Training Department has a newly expanded Website: http://business.cch.com/training. The site has training schedules and information to help you make the most of your Internet subscriptions.

Legal Pro Training—View a calendar and register for complimentary instructor-led over-the-phone training and webinars
Videos—Brief recordings of products and research functionality
Other Resources—Access Quick Tips, Reference Materials and details about News Updates, both complimentary and subscription-based

To view a calendar with all currently scheduled telephone trainings, visit http://business.cch.com/legalprotraining

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Training Tip for Loislaw products . . .

What Boolean connectors and wild cards are utilized for Loislaw word searching?

Loislaw uses a simple, effective connector system that is a little different than other systems. Loislaw utilizes four connectors: AND, NEAR, OR, NOT and a few special characters:

dog AND cat = both 'dog' and 'cat' must be found in the document

dog NEAR cat = 'dog' and 'cat' must be no more than 20 words apart (default). You can specify a different proximity by tacking on a number. For example, dog NEAR5 cat will find all documents with the term 'dog' no more then 5 words apart from the term 'cat'.

dog OR cat = one or the other term (or both) must be found in the document

dog NOT cat = 'dog' must be found while the term 'cat' does not occur in same document.

* (asterisk) = truncator. For example, child* = childless, childish, childbearing, children, etc.

? (question mark) = replaces a single character. For example, s?nk = sink, sank or sunk.

~ (tilde) = Thesaurus. Activated by placing ~ (the tilde symbol, top left of your keyboard) in front of a term. For example, ~deal will also search for arrangement, contract, and obligation.

For additional information, click the “Online Help” link at the bottom right of any Loislaw display to open additional instructional material.

Updates on the CCH Internet Research NetWork

The following publications from Aspen Publishers have been updated and are available on the CCH Internet Research NetWork. If you have hyperlinks to any of these publications using Link Express or Favorites, you must create new links to the updated versions. Quick links for each updated publication are provided.

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