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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

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

Consumer Financial Services Committee’s Chair Jeanette Quick was recently named a 2019 Eisenhower Zhi-Xing Fellow. As part of this fellowship, Jeanette will spend June in China, meeting with policymakers, technology leaders, and regulators to discuss fintech, financial access and inclusion, and public-private partnerships to bring fair and safe credit and banking products to the underserved. Congratulations to Jeanette on her initiation into this prestigious fellowship! Read more

2017-2018 BLS Chair Uzzi O. Raanan was recently named Century City Bar Association “Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year.” Awards will be presented at the CCBA’s 51st Annual Installation Banquet and Awards Ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City on April 30, 2019. Congratulations to Uzzi on this well-earned recognition. Read more

As we enter Spring, we are approaching the mid-point of the State Bar/California Lawyers Association year – the perfect time to examine our progress on the goals formulated by the Business Law Section’s Executive Committee and Standing Committee leadership at the start of the year to make membership in the BLS more rewarding as a part of the CLA. Read more