Dear Colleague,

Happy Spring! Although it took a while to appear, Spring has arrived in full force in the DC area, and with it brings the latest installment of the Bloomberg BNA Books Monitor. This time of year is always a busy time for us, as we just wrapped up our annual Books Catalog, which you will see in your mailbox in late May. Keep an eye out for it, and in the interim feel free to take a sneak peek at the online version, available now. The catalog highlights new titles, as well as our latest editions and supplements to help keep you current in labor and employment law, health law, and IP law, among others. We have already published a few important titles and supplements this year that you want to be sure not to miss:

• Spring 2013 Supplement to Employee Benefits Law, Third Edition
• False Claims Act: Whistleblower Litigation, Sixth Edition—New! 
• Preserving Electronically Stored Information: A Practical Approach, 2013 Edition
• 2013 Supplement to The Railway Labor Act, Third Edition   
• Responding to Corporate Criminal Investigations—New!
• Social Security and Medicare Fact Sheet, 2013 Edition  

Visit our website (www.bna.com/bnabooks) for information on these and all of our titles. As an exclusive savings for Books Monitor subscribers, take 15% off your next treatise order by using Priority Code BOOK13. 

In this edition, you will find an article on subcontractor liability under the False Claims Act from James B. Helmer, Jr., author of our recent False Claims Act: Whistleblower Litigation, Sixth Edition, and Robert M. Rice. Mr. Helmer also is highlighted in our author profile. As part of the Bloomberg BNA family, we are pleased to offer an article that appeared in BNA's  Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, “Ten Things You Need to Know About Social Media and Intellectual Property in 2013.”

We are gearing up for our busy conference season this summer, and we hope to see many of you as we make our rounds. Acquisitions Manager Jim Fattibene will attend the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) 2013 Annual Meeting, May 4–8, in Dallas, TX, to show and discuss our latest IP treatises. Project Director Tim Darby will be traveling to Vancouver, British Columbia, for the National Academy of Arbitrator’s (NAA) 2013 Annual Meeting, June 5–8, as well as “The Summit for Workers’ Rights,” the National Employment Labor Association's (NELA) 2013 Annual Meeting, June 26–29 in Denver, CO. I will personally attend the Special Libraries Association (SLA), June 9–11, as well as the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), July 13–16, in Seattle, WA, with Judy Davies. If you’re planning to attend any of these meetings, please stop by the Bloomberg BNA booth to say hello. 

In conclusion, I wish you continued success as we move into the warmer months. As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or suggestions at mhullinger@bna.com. And be sure to visit us online at www.bna.com/bnabooks and to use Priority Code BOOK13 to take 15% off your next book order. 

Sincerely yours,

Margret S. Hullinger
Vice President and Group Publisher
Bloomberg BNA