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Below is latest Business Information Alert  issue contents:

Researching Annual Reports, Part One: North America
By Amy Affelt
In this two-part series, sources of company annual reports in both print and digital formats are explored. Non-North American companies will be reviewed in Part Two.
Amy is the Director of Database Research at Compass Lexecon in Chicago.  She can be reached at affelt@compasslexecon.com

From the Editor: Can a “Sensational” Trial spotlight Private Equity?
Sylvia James discusses the leveraged buyout and subsequent jury trial between Terra Firma and Citicorp in New York. Very interesting!

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For those of you who have signed up to receive the issue via email, your copy should be in your mail box.  Paper copies have been put in the US Mail. The contents include:

Here a Docket, There a Docket: Part II
Choices Abound in Federal Court Docket Research
by Mary Sheridan Newman, A. Kelley Darling and Cheryl Halvorson
The second in a three part series on docket services, this part covers CourtTrax and Bloomberg Law.

From the Editor: Notes about new contributors and reviewers

AALL Report: A report of the new products seen at the 2010 AALL Annual Meeting in Denver.

New Sources:
Consumer Protection Law Developments [ABA Section of Antitrust Law]
Equity Derivatives: Documenting and Understanding Equity Derivatives Products [Global Law & Business]
Antitrust Law in China, Korea and Vietnam [Oxford University Press]
Mexican Law for the American Lawyer [Carolina Academic Press]

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Donna M. Tuke/Editor & Publisher

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Hello Readers!

You should now have received your paper copies issue #5 of Business Information Alert by now.  Before I share the contents, let me remind you that we are just about to go electronic with the issues.  If you sent us your email to receive the issues, thank you.  You are all set.  

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In the issue:

Researching Corporate Risk Management: An Overview for Business Researchers, by Sylvia James
This is the third part of a series on companies in trouble. Covers the business research aspects of corporate risk.

From the Editor by Sylvia James
“Truly Busted” The story of how someone who should have know got caught in the sub prime mortgage fiasco.

Info Intro: Chapter 11
A guide to the basics of Chapter 11: a round up of the best books, web sites, sources and case studies.  All you need to know when you are faced with a topic new to you.


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Paper copies of the first 2010 issue of Legal Information Alert were mailed out at the beginning of May.  Subscribers should have received their copy by now. 

In the issue you will find another thought provoking article by Richard Leiter, entitled, The 21st Century Law Library Conundrum: Free Law and Paying to Understand It. Read his  discussion about the emerging dichotomy in legal publishing:  more and more free resources are becoming available which will require users to depend more and more on the secondary sources to explain the law.  Those required secondary sources will be what researchers will have to pay for at increasing prices.

Products reviewed:

• 401(b) Answer Book: Forms & Worksheets [Aspen/Kluwer]
• Corporate Governance Guide [Kluwer]
• Gray Markets: Prevention, Detection and Litigation [Oxford]
• Mergers & Acquisitions in China [Thomson Reuters/West]
• Shareholder Agreements and Joint Ventures in China [Thomson Reuters/West]
• The Practical Real Estate Lawyer's Manual on Commercial Leasing in Troubled Times: Forms, Checklists and Advice [ALI-ABA]

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Donna
312 337 1362 [office]

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