Business Law eNews

On May 17, the Insolvency Law Committee hosted its Welcome Reception at the annual California Bankruptcy Forum. The ILC is known for hosting its successful Welcome Reception at the CBF, which provides bankruptcy judges, law clerks, attorneys and insolvency professionals from all over the state the opportunity to network in a fun and social atmosphere. Read more

Purnima Viswanathan Bajpai and Naomi Dewey present “Will That Smiley Face Cost You a Case?: The Business of Law, Emojis, and Text Communication.”Jared Gordon explains how law firms may face exposure for website accessibility in a panel entitled “Website Complianceand Accessibility (ADA): How to Improve Your Law Firm’s Website for the Modern Client.”Alicia Journey provides useful tips on client and stress management in a panel called “Unplug and Debug the Stress of Client Communications: The Health and Wellness of effectively… Read more

As we approach the official start to Summer, your Business Law Section continues to explore program and publication opportunities with cross-over appeal to our 15 Standing Committees, as well as the CLA’s other Sections and external bar associations and organizations that share the BLS’ goal of providing topical, timely and educational no-cost or low-cost MCLE to our membership. It is my pleasure to provide a recap of recent BLS programs as well as promote upcoming programs of interest to BLS members in this edition of the eNews. Read more

Did you know that the BLS maintains a presence on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook where BLS posts regular updates about new cases, new regulations, key legislative developments, and news and events from the BLS’s Standing Committees? What you may not know is that you can not only send items to the BLS to post or tweet, but also suggest items from your own social media pages for the BLS to re-post, re-tweet, or like. Read more

The Business Law News (BLN) is seeking articles of general interst to business law practicioners. Publishing in the BLN is a terrific opportunity both to influence the discsoure in areas in which you practice and to market yourself and your skill set. You can also obtain MCLE credit. Please contact the BLN’s editor-in-chief Jerome A. Grossman, grosspersonlaw@gmail.com for further information. Read more

The Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, recently implemented several changes to the Temporary Judge Program. These changes are intended to simplify the tracking of the MCLE requirements to serve as a temporary judge and to better serve the volunteer attorneys who give their time to the temporary judge program. 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 April 2019 update to California Law of Contracts. 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 authority to contract, contract formation and interpretation, the doctrine of unconscionability, warranties and covenants, breach of contract actions, and arbitration. Read more

In Boschetti v. Pacific Bay Investments Inc., 2019 Cal. App. LEXIS 193, filed on March 7, 2019, the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District held that Boschetti, a partner of a California general partnership, could not enforce California statutory buy-out provisions upon dissolution of foreign limited partnerships and limited liability companies owned by the general partnership. 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 February 2019 update to Financing and Protecting California Businesses.  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 start-up financing, going public, securities law, lending transactions, insurance, cybersecurity, and tax law. Read more

The California Minority Counsel Program Ambassadors Council (CMCPAC) is hosting a “Championing Diversity!” event on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney LLP in San Diego. A moderator-led panel of in-house attorneys and in-house counsel will discuss strategies for how attorneys can get their company or law firm to go beyond simply having a diversity mission statement and take steps to focus, recruit, and promote diverse attorneys within their company or law firm. Read more