Treatise Spotlight: Callmann on Unfair Competition

Callmann on Unfair Competition

Title:  Callmann on Unfair Competition, Trademark and Monopolies, 4th
Author:  Louis Altman and Malla Pollack
Publisher:  Clark Boardman Callaghan
Last Update:  2013-1

Product Description:

Multivolume set provides a comprehensive analysis of the law of unfair competition as it relates to trademarks (registrability and infringement), passing-off, trade secrets, misappropriations, price discrimination, predatory pricing, and monopolies. Coverage also includes suggestions for protection against unfair competition, and acquisition, transfer, and abandonment. Other topics include government and business competition, interference with a competitor’s contractual rights and bargaining possibilities, interference by trade boycott and marketing restrictions, unlawful exploitation of competitor’s effort, confusing similarity, patent misuse, and covenants not to compete.

Features

• Helps you examine all aspects of anticompetitive behavior in-depth
• Suggests ways to protect oneself against unfair competition
• Strategies for dealing with government and business competition
• How to draft not-to-compete covenants
• Provides general principles for product simulation
• Gives you a complete reference to all matters involving trademarks
• Includes text of important statutes and regulations as well as a Table of Trademarks, Trade Names and Slogans

Description from publisher's website.

Treatise Spotlight: California Conservatorship Practice

California Conservatorship Practice

Title: California Conservatorship Practice

Author: Leonard Thomas Adamiak and Mary Gerber
Publisher: California Continuing Education of the Bar
Edition: 2005
Last Update: May 2013

Product Description:
No other source matches the thorough, practice-oriented treatment in this book.

• Determining need for conservatorship
• Initiating temporary and general conservatorship proceedings
• Conservator's duties and responsibilities
• Fixing the residence and making medical decisions
• Filing accountings
• Estate management
• Legal capacity of the conservatee
• Representing the conservatee
• Limited and LPS conservatorships
• Terminating conservatorships

Description from publisher's website. 

Treatise Spotlight: The Complete Understanding Series

The Nevada Supreme Court Law Library subscribes to the Complete Understanding Series by LexisNexis. This series gives the reader an expansive and thorough high-quality, well-organized analysis and discussion on over 50 different law subjects. Whether it's Torts or you're struggling to understand Secured Transactions or Trusts and Estates or Evidence or Lawyers’ Ethics, etc. you'll find explanations from subject matter experts and well-known scholars and professors at some of the world's most prestigious institutions.

Titles in the Complete Understanding Series are ideally formatted to provide the reader with the essential foundation for a full and clear comprehension of the subject area, and are designed to provide an organized and accurate presentation of the material, including more in-depth treatments for particularly challenging areas. An index and glossary allow you to quickly find the material you need and look up key terms that are unique to a particular field.

To browse the books in the Law Library's collection type: http://lawlibrary.nevadajudiciary.us/

Click on Catalog and in the Quick library search box type: Understanding series.

The Library holds over 40 of the 50 titles.

Legal Drafting: A Beginner's Guide

There is an informative post on legal drafting on the Library of Congress' In Custodia Legis blog. 

Legal drafting is a very structured method of writing that can prove intimidating to the uninitiated. In this Beginner’s Guide, we will recommend some sources that will help you excel in the legal drafting process.

The Nevada Supreme Court Law Library subscribes to several of the form books listed, as well as to many others.  To browse the form books in the Law Library's collection, go to our online catalog and type:

forms (law) united states

into the Quick Library Search box and click on the Subject icon.  Or, you could just click on this link. 

For Nevada-specific forms, follow the instructions above but replace the words united states with nevada, or click here. 

Additionally, the Law Library subscribes to HeinOnline's Spinelli's Law Library Reference Shelf, which includes an extensive collection of Legal Dictionaries. 

Presumptive Maximum Amounts (PMA) of Child Support, Eff. 7/1/13-6/30-14

It is time for our annual post on Presumptive Maximum Amounts (PMA) of Child Support. The 2013-2014 schedule (PDF) has been posted on the court's website under Documents and Forms | Self-Help/Pro Se | Family Division Forms. Historical PMAs are also available on the court's website.

Treatise Spotlight: Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide

Title:  Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide

Author:  Alan N. Resnick

Last Update:  Release 92, April 2013

The Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide, written by over 40 prominent bankruptcy attorneys, is an authoritative strategic and procedural guidebook that combines legal analysis with practical procedural and strategic advice, practice aids such as checklists and forms, and the relevant rules and primary source material of all the local bankruptcy courts in a single all-inclusive guide. Each chapter begins with an overview, explaining the issues to be covered and how those issues affect bankruptcy practice. The discussion of each issue includes strategic and practical advice as well as practice aids and other timesaving features. Up-to-date coverage of developments in bankruptcy practice and procedure, including the landmark Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, insures that decisions are based on the cutting edge of the law.

The Practice Guide includes:

• Strategic guidance and practical advice
• Checklists for both debtor and creditor
• Practice-tested forms, including litigation forms, with cross-references to the Practice Guide, Bankruptcy Code, and Bankruptcy Rules
• Discussion of the Bankruptcy Rules and their impact
• The full text of local rules for all jurisdictions, including local bankruptcy forms and orders, organized by circuit in convenient, easy-to-use, soft-bound pamphlets

Description from publisher's website.

Treatise Spotlight: Age Discrimination

Title:  Age Discrimination, 2d
Author:  Howard C. Eglit
Last Update:  May 2013

Description:  Containing well-rounded views of age discrimination from perspectives of both employee and employer, this resource provides a complete, analytical explanation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).  Contents include ADEA information on topics such as who is protected and who must comply; prohibitions and requirements; statutory affirmative defenses; regulatory exemptions; waivers of liability; federal employees and job applicants; enforcement in nonfederal sectors; and remedies, fees, and costs.  Plus, numerous appendices provide access to ADEA statutes and EEOC policy statements.  Table of Cases and index for handy reference. 

Features:

• Explores perspectives of both employee and employer on age discrimination questions
• Provides complete, analytical explanation of ADEA
• Convenient appendices include ADEA statutes and EEOC policy statements
• Table of ADEA cases for handy reference

Description from publisher's website.