Business Law eNews

On April 13, members of the BLS Executive Committee traveled from around the state to Sacramento to attend the Spring Long Range Planning Meeting. The attendees explored how the CLA can best serve its members, build constituencies, and create synergy among the BLS’ Standing Committees and Sections. Read more

On April 30, the Insolvency Law Committee co-sponsored a lecture and visual presentation by the Hon. Scott C. Clarkson, United States Bankruptcy Judge, that combined art and insolvency law to reveal fascinating insights into the Dutch artist Rembrandt's life (1606-1669), his Amsterdam workshop, his loves, real estate and art investing, and his eventual insolvency. The Hon. Neil W. Bason, United States Bankruptcy Judge hosted the event. Read more

It has been my pleasure this year to meet many members of the Business Law Section at various events hosted by the BLS or California Lawyers Association. When I make these members’ acquaintance, I make a point of asking why they joined the BLS, or what they enjoy most about their membership. Almost without fail, the members respond that membership in the BLS helps them stay on the forefront of developments in their industry or field of substantive business law expertise. Read more

The Commercial Transactions Committee (the “CTC”), a standing committee of the BLS, is currently seeking members. Read more

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On March 12, the Financial Institutions Committee, the San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association and Financial Women of San Francisco co-hosted a special presentation on “The Financial Services Industry in the Crossroads: Legal, Regulatory and Technology Developments and Disruptors.” The presentation included seven panelists, and approximately 100 people in the banking industry attended the event, which is held annually at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Board. Read more

The BLS is comprised of 15 Standing Committees whose members review and propose legislation, draft eBulletins, BLN articles, and practice guides, and speak at live and webinar programs. The committees meet between 5 and 10 times each year, usually by telephone. Committee members develop valuable personal and business relations with other practitioners in their respective fields of practice. Read more

On March 21, the Nonprofit Organizations Committee welcomed Tania Ibanez, the Senior Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Charitable Trust Section of the California Attorney General’s Office, to discuss matters of interest to charities and other nonprofits in California for the second time in 2019. Read more

Members of the Insolvency Law Committee (ILC) and the BLS Executive Committee were invited to attend the Conference of Chief Bankruptcy Judges and Bankruptcy Lawyer Representatives of the Ninth Circuit in Portland, Oregon on March 17 and 18, 2019. ILC members Maggie Bordeaux, Misty Perry Isaacson, and Cathy Ta, BLS Vice Chair Corey Weber and BLS Executive Committee advisor Tom Phinney all attended the conference as Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. Read more

On a January morning, as a potential government shutdown threatened to disrupt court operations, Chief Judge Virginia A. Phillips gathered her senior leaders around the large oval conference table in the clerk of court’s office to plan for the impending crisis. And then she noticed something that hadn’t occurred to her before: The court’s senior management team are all women. Read more