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 February 2019 update to Advising California Partnerships. References are to the book’s section numbers. The most significant legal developments since the last update include developments in such important topic areas as professional responsibility, federal and state taxation, securities law, and arbitration. 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 Advising California Partnerships. References are to the book’s section numbers. The most significant legal developments since the last update include developments in such important topic areas as professional responsibility, federal and state taxation, securities law, and arbitration. 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 Advising California Partnerships. References are to the book’s section numbers. The most significant legal developments since the last update include developments in such important topic areas as professional responsibility, federal and state taxation, securities law, and arbitration. 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 Advising California Partnerships. References are to the book’s section numbers. The most significant legal developments since the last update include developments in such important topic areas as professional responsibility, federal and state taxation, securities law, and arbitration. The Medical Board of California (“Board”) received an anonymous complaint alleging that Dr. Kamyar Cohanshohet was prescribing excessive narcotics to his patients. After obtaining a report from the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) identifying the amount of controlled substances Dr. Cohanshohet prescribed, a Board investigator identified five patients who were possibly prescribed excess doses. Read more

As part of its long range strategy plan, the Business Law Section is actively working to create a culture of inclusion for all California business lawyers. To that end, the BLS was proud to share its diversity initiative and efforts with the other Sections of the California Lawyers Association (CLA) at the CLA’s inaugural Winter Leadership Retreat held last month in San Francisco. Read more

As of September 15, 2018, 89 states have adopted the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). See §1.18. In James v Global Tel*Link Corp. (3d Cir 2017) 852 F3d 262, 267, users of a telephone service for prison inmates could sign up either online or over the telephone. Read more

As reported by the Insolvency Law Committee, a district court in Delaware has held that disparate "gifts" from senior secured creditors to two different classes of unsecured creditors does not unfairly discriminate against the least-favored class and does not violate the "absolute priority" rule in a Chapter 11 reorganization. [In re Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc., 2018 Westlaw 3991471 (D. Del.).] In the context of a prepackaged Chapter 11 plan, a group of senior secured creditors agreed to provide "gifts" to… Read more

The Corporations Committee recently issued an analysis of an opinion relating to shareholder consent under the Delaware General Corporation Law: The Delaware Court of Chancery found that a stockholder consent signed without the stockholder having been provided the exhibits referred to in the consent made the consent invalid under the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”). This case could be of interest to California practitioners because the section of the DGCL in question is functionally identical to the corresponding section of… Read more

As we embark on this new year, I would like to share our Business Law Section’s long range strategy plan—which our BLS Executive Committee recently updated to more fully reflect our Section’s values and goals. Read more