Fall 2009
What's New on Westlaw—Selected Resources for Corporate Professionals
Databases recently added to Westlaw enhance the analytical information covering intellectual property, environmental law, labor and employment, and securities regulation for corporate counsel.
Note: For most of the databases described below, you can use the Table of Contents service to browse the database contents as you would a book. After assessing a database, click Table of Contents, if available, at the top of the Search page.
Bankruptcy and Its Impact on Intellectual Property (ABI-BANKIP) contains the full text of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Bankruptcy and Its Impact on Intellectual Property, which covers the basics of intellectual property law and discusses what parties involved in a bankruptcy can do to protect their intellectual property rights.
Copyright Throughout the World (COPYWORLD) contains the full text of Copyright Throughout the World, a guide to the copyright law of a variety of nations. Topics covered include registration and formalities, scope of protection, presumptions of ownership, transfers, collective rights management, remedies, circumvention of technological measures and rights management information, secondary liability, and conflict of law rules.
Employee Noncompetition Law (EMPNONCOMP) contains the full text of Employee Noncompetition Law, which covers the law, major issues, and practical considerations surrounding employee restrictive agreements. The treatise analyzes all aspects of covenants not to compete, including the underlying principles, the types of restrictive covenants, the enforcement of covenants, the effects of certain federal statutes on noncompetition agreements, remedies, and contractual provisions.
Employment Arbitration: Law and Practice (EMPARB) contains the full text of Employment Arbitration: Law and Practice, a practice guide for employment specialists as well as general practitioners. The treatise begins with an overview of employment arbitration and includes chapters on deciding whether to adopt an employment arbitration program, drafting enforceable employment arbitration agreements, implementing an employment arbitration program, litigation about employment arbitration, how to arbitrate employment disputes, and post-arbitration litigation. It also includes arbitration forms, sample language and clauses, and rules and procedures.
Executive Compensation for Emerging Growth Companies (EXECEGC) contains the full text of Executive Compensation for Emerging Growth Companies, Third Edition, which includes annotated forms that have been developed by the authors over many years of practice. The handbook also discusses new tax litigation, Internal Revenue Service rulings, Securities and Exchange Commission releases, state blue sky regulations, and other developments.
Mutual Fund Regulation and Compliance Handbook (MFRCH) contains the full text of the Mutual Fund Regulation and Compliance Handbook, which summarizes the steps involved in forming and operating a mutual fund; explores the regulatory and administrative issues arising under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as well as related issues; and explains the features of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) EDGAR database of mutual fund and corporation filings and other SEC resources. The handbook, which is organized in chronological order around the life cycle of a mutual fund, includes checklists, sample documents, forms, and references to additional sources of information.
Nanotechnology Law (NANOTECH) contains the full text of Nanotechnology Law, which provides a comprehensive treatment of the emerging areas of nanotechnology law, regulation, and development, with an emphasis on environmental, health and safety, and intellectual property issues.