Business Law eNews

Courtesy of CEB, we are bringing you selected legal developments in areas of California business law that are covered by CEB’s publications. This month’s feature is a preview of the December 2025 update of Forming and Operating California Limited Liability Companies. References are to the book’s section numbers. Read more

The California Lawyers Association held its annual meeting in Universal City on September 11-13, 2025.  A heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended this year’s Annual Meeting! Your energy, insights, and participation made it an inspiring and impactful event. Read more

One of the most enjoyable privileges of serving as Co-Chairs of the CLA Business Law Section is hosting the Roland E. Brandel Lifetime Achievement Award luncheon.   Read more

Courtesy of CEB, we are bringing you selected legal developments in areas of California business law that are covered by CEB’s publications. This month’s feature is a preview of the November 2025 update of Trade Secrets Practice in California. Read more

Alanna is admitted to the state Bar of California, and to the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Central Districts of California,  She received her JD from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in 2009, where she served on the Law Review and in the Anthony M. Kennedy Inn of Court.  She is also a 2004 graduate of Notre Dame.  Read more

Our best work is ahead of us. Thinking back on the previous term, that’s the sentence that keeps coming to mind.  Of course, this optimism for the future exists because of the tremendous accomplishments we achieved in this last term and previous terms.  Our Business Law Section’s ExCom officers, members, and advisors should be applauded for all of their successes, big and small, this last term.  Indeed, some of the smallest successes took the most effort to achieve, and in… Read more

Courtesy of CEB, we are bringing you selected legal developments in areas of California business law that are covered by CEB’s publications. This month’s feature is a preview of the September 2025 update of Sales and Mergers of California Businesses. Read more

When I was first recruited to be an active member of a CLA subcommittee, I had no clue how the system was structured. I was recruited to join the Insolvency Law Committee, a committee of the BLS. (The BLS is one of eighteen sections of the CLA; that is a story for a different day.) Read more

James A. (“Jim”) Hayes, Jr. is currently the chair of the CLA Insolvency Law Committee’s Education Subcommittee and a member of the Legislation Subcommittee. Throughout his nearly 30 years as a member of the legal profession, Jim Hayes has blended representing clients as a practicing lawyer with an academic career as a law professor, both full-time and part-time. In his law practice, Jim is a founder of Zinser | Hayes with attorney Kelly Zinser.  Jim concentrates on corporate and business… Read more

July 2025 Recently, I had someone ask me, why do you bother being civil with that person?  You know they’ll never treat you with respect, let alone civility, and in any case, they appear to favor cruelty above all else, so why bother?  Ultimately, that is one of the main reasons our clients come to us.  They have an irreconcilable disagreement with another party or parties, and they would like us to advise them on how to navigate those challenges… Read more