What this service is:

The Corporate Practice Library on the Web and the Corporate Practice Series in print feature in-depth analysis and practical guidance from expert legal practitioners in over 60 portfolios, plus the latest news in the Corporate Counsel Weekly, helping you handle legal issues affecting business organizations.

What it helps you do:

• Meet the challenges of today's corporate practice. Corporate attorneys in law firms or based in-house are expected to field questions about a broad spectrum of legal issues affecting their companies.
• Access the Portfolios for reliable detailed information and documents, in print or on the Web, addressing topics of interest to corporate practitioners. Each portfolio is authored by an expert legal practitioner with experience in the topic.
• Easily comprehend the basics of many corporate law fields outside your legal specialty. Issues are narrowly focused within broader subject groupings, such as securities, corporate, antitrust and trade regulation, intellectual property, and labor and employment law.
• Get reliable and actionable information on SEC, FASB, and IASB requirements by adding the optional Financial Reporting Portfolios.
• Save time with working papers designed to make your job easier, including checklists, forms, regulatory filings, agreements, and other documents that you can adapt for your transactions, plus full or partial text of relevant statutes and regulations.
• Discover how to handle specific legal, regulatory, and operational problems with approaches that have proven effective in other companies and firms.
• Advise clients with confidence and stay competitive in the fast-moving corporate environment with Corporate Counsel Weekly, which summarizes top legal news and analysis and provides advance notice of emerging trends in corporate law.
• Quickly learn the week's top news in eight concise pages, written in plain English.
• Assess the impact of developments on your business or clients with in-depth commentary.

Product Structure

Portfolios: in-depth analysis of specific legal issues affecting business organizations

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print: Portfolios are updated and indexed regularly. Print notification Corporate Counsel Weekly is issued weekly.

Web: Portfolios library is updated regularly. Corporate Counsel Weekly is available weekly and is archived to 9/23/1998. E-mail summaries, providing the highlights and table of contents for each weekly report, with URLs to full text articles and documents, are also available.

• Antitrust law
• Corporate governance
• Corporate law
• Corporate political activity
• Environmental law
• Financial reporting
• Intellectual property law
• International trade law
• Labor and employment law
• Limited liability companies
• Securities law
• Trade regulation