Treatise Spotlight: Disputed Paternity Proceedings, 5th

Title:  Disputed Paternity Proceedings, 5th

Author:  Nina M. Vitek
Last Updated:  June 2013

Description:  A comprehensive analysis of paternity-related litigation issues emphasizing topics that transcend state lines, offering tightly focused coverage of contemporary issues.

(description taken from publisher's website)

Is the NRS Updated Yet?

No, LCB staff is hard at work codifing acts passed by the 2013 Legislature.  We do not expect to receive the 2013 Nevada Revised Statutes until November or December.  Supplements to Lexis' Michie's Nevada Revised Statutes Annotated and West's Nevada Revised Statutes Annotated should be available shortly thereafter.

In the meantime, update the 2011 NRS Reprint using the tables and indices available on the LCB's 2013 Bill Information page. 

• If you have a NRS section and want to know if it has been updated, use the table of sections proposed to be amended or repealed.
• If you have an NRS chapter and want to know if it has been amended, use the table of chapters proposed to be amended by the addition of new sections.
• There are also tables for amended titles and titles and sections amended by initiative petition, as well as a subject index.

If you prefer print, you can use the tables in the 2013 Statutes of Nevada advance sheets (REF KFN625 .A2 2013 and READY REF KFN625 .A2 2013). The bound 2013 Statutes of Nevada has not yet been published, and will be added to the collection as soon as it is available.

A word of caution:  don't think you can avoid updating by using Westlaw and Lexis.  Currently the NRS available on Lexis and Westlaw is the 2011 version, though there should be red Shepard's and KeyCite flags for those sections which have been amended.  Titles and chapters, however, are trickier and it is good practice to review the tables linked above.

Oh, and when you are done with the 2013 session, you can do it again with the tables for the 27th Special Session.

tl;dr:  no, use these tables to update the 2011 NRS.

Treatise Spotlight: Handling Federal Tort Claims



Handling Federal Tort Claims


Title:  Handling Federal Tort Claims: Administrative and Judicial Remedies, 3d
Author:  Lester S. Jayson and Robert C. Longstreth
Publisher:  Matthew Bender
Last Update:  July 2013

Description:  A three-volume treatise detailing the process of seeking remedies from the federal government for injuries caused by the tortious conduct of its employees. The treatise can be used as a reference by both claimants’ and government attorneys. The treatise is heavily annotated with discussions of relevant cases and includes numerous regulations and forms.

Description from first volume.

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.