Business Law
Business Law Annual Review 2019
Content
- 2018-2019 Commercial Law Developments
- 2018 Legislative Health Care Update
- Agribusiness Committee of the Business Law Section: 2018 Year in Review
- Annual Update of Alternative Dispute Resolution Cases
- Bln Editorial Board: Letter from the Editor
- Business Law News Editorial Team
- Executive Committee: Message from the Chair
- Executive Committee of the Business Law Section 2018-2019
- Meeting Topics 2018
- Recent Developments Affecting Insolvency and Commercial Finance in California and the Ninth Circuit
- Standing Committee Officers of the Business Law Section 2018-2019
- Table of Contents
- California Enacts Novel Female Board Quota Legislation
California Enacts Novel Female Board Quota Legislation
Keith Paul Bishop
Keith Paul Bishop is a partner at Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble, Mallory & Natsis LLP in Irvine, California. He is Co-Chair of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association.
Until this year, there was only one eligibility requirement for directors of a California cor-poration—they had to be natural persons.1 Although California has long imposed a variety of governance requirements on foreign corporations, it imposed no eligibility requirements for directors of foreign corporations.2 That changed in 2018, with the enactment of Senate Bill 826 (Jackson),3 reportedly the first state statute to impose a gender quota on corporate boards of certain California and foreign corporations.4