Business Law eNews

On October 4, 2019, the IPLC hosted a telephonic “fireside chat” with Mary Stone Ross, a privacy activist and co-author of the California Consumer Privacy Act and a national expert on the CCPA. The CCPA, which goes into effect on January 1, 2020, will have a profound impact on the rights of Californians to data privacy and on business who collect, use, and sell their data. She reminded the participants that the intent of the CCPA was to give all… Read more

On September 20, 2019, the Agribusiness Committee traveled to the San Luis Joint-Use Complex in Gustine, California. The Joint-Use Complex serves the State Water Project and the Federal Central Valley Project and includes the San Luis Reservoir, O’Neill Dam and Forebay, Gianelli Pumping-Generating Plant, B.F. Sisk Dam, Dos Amigos Pumping Plant, and a 103-mile portion of the California Aqueduct. This project was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and is operated by the California Department of Water Resources. The… Read more

Monique Jewett-Brewster It has been my honor and privilege to serve as Chair of the California Lawyer Association’s Business Law Section for the 2018-19 term. In case you weren’t already aware, our Section has about 8,000 members, including public and private practice attorneys, in-house counsel, judges, government officials, law professors. The BLS leadership is comprised of 14 unique Standing Committees organized by industry or practice, and its Editorial Board. Our sincere thanks to the BLS leadership, who are the lifeblood… Read more

Business Law Section (BLS) members, I am honored to serve as the Chair of the BLS for the 2019-2020 California Lawyers Association (CLA)/Bar year! 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 from the August 2019 update to Drafting Business Contracts: Principles, Techniques & Forms. References are to the book’s section numbers. See CEB’s BLS Landing Page for special discounts for Business Law Section members. Read more

Taking place September 11-13 at the L.A. Grand Hotel Downtown, the CMCP’s Annual Business Conference brought together over 500 business attorneys, from law firm associates to managing partners, to in-house and general counsel, from throughout California and the nation. T Read more

On August 15-16, 2019, CLA officers and Executive Committee members of the sixteen sections and California Young Lawyers Association (CYLA), the Board of Representatives, and CLA Committee Leadership attended a Leadership Orientation in Sacramento to discuss their goals for the upcoming year and to brainstorm about how the CLA can collaborate to deliver quality programming and services to members. In addition, many of the BLS officers had active roles in planning and speaking at the conference. Read more

The BLS has had a busy and productive 2018-19 CLA/State Bar year, and it has been my honor and privilege to serve as Chair during this transformative year. In this, my final eNews address, I encourage all BLS members to visit the new CLA website that launched this year at http://www.calawyers.org, and familiarize themselves with the CLA as well as all of the excellent benefits that membership in our Section provides. Read more

The California Lawyers Association has created a new advisory group to help ensure CLA members stay up-to-date with their ethical obligations. The new Ethics Committee will create educational content, comment on proposed rule changes, write advisory opinions on emerging ethical issues, and issue ethics alerts and reminders to CLA members. 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 from the July 2019 update to Internet Law and Practice in California. References are to the book’s section numbers. See CEB’s BLS Landing Page for special discounts for Business Law Section members. The most significant legal developments since the last update include developments in such important topic areas as copyright, patent, human resources, website accessibility, electronic contracting, privacy, initial coin offerings, taxation of Internet transactions, and litigation issues. Read more