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 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

BLS Vice-Chair Corey Weber, BLS Executive Committee Advisor Tom Phinney, and Insolvency Law Committee (ILC) members Misty Perry Isaacson, Maggie Bordeaux and Cathy Ta attended the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Spokane, Washington on July 20-25, 2019 as Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. The Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference is held once a year and participants include judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Courts and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, court staff, Lawyer Representatives, and other invited guests. Read more

At the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Spokane, Washington, BLS Executive Committee Advisor Tom Phinney was elected to a three-year term on the Conference Executive Committee. As a member of Conference Executive Committee for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Tom will help to plan the educational programs and events at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference for 2019-2022. Read more

A newly enacted law requires every publicly held corporation whose principal executive offices are located in California, according to the corporation’s annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to have at least one female director on its board by the end of 2019 and at least two, or three, female directors by the end of 2021 if the board consists of five, or six or more directors, respectively. Read more

The BLS is a proud Diversity Partner sponsor of the California Minority Counsel Program’s 2019 Annual Business Conference taking place September 11-13 at the L.A. Grand Hotel Downtown. The Annual Business Conference is the biggest annual business and diversity conference for attorneys in California, consistently drawing over 500 attorneys and diversity leaders from leading companies, law firms and agencies. Read more