Business Law eNews

Two BLS Standing Committees, Corporations and Non Profit Organizations, sponsored new legislation signed by Governor Newsom on October 5, 2021. AB 663 (Assemblymember Chen) amends the General Corporation Law and the Corporations Code provisions relating to Nonprofit Public Benefit, Mutual Benefit and Religious Corporations and Cooperative Corporations. It will allow California corporations in non-emergency circumstances to use remote participation (including telephonic participation), while preserving the ability of shareholders and members to attend a meeting in person if they want to do so by requiring a meeting to be “hybrid” (i.e., also have a physical location) unless all shareholders or members consent to a “virtual” meeting. The bill also provides delegates the ability to conduct virtual meetings. 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 September 2021 update to Sales and Mergers of California Businesses. 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 COVID-19, antitrust, noncompetition agreements, securities, and taxation. Read more

The Business Law Section presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to Mark A. Moore at the 2021 CLA Annual Meeting on September 24, 2021. This award is given annually a California lawyer who “over an extended period has made significant contributions to the Business Law Section or to business law generally in the State of California and who has achieved high status in the legal community.” Read more

The Financial Institutions Committee, a standing committee of the BLS, is currently seeking new members. Read more

Around this time last year, the first cases of what we now know to be COVID-19 were discovered, and our lives have not been the same. We endured quarantines and lockdowns — masked and socially distant from our family, friends, and colleagues — while learning how to navigate virtual depositions, trials, and meetings. 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 2021 update to California Business Litigation. 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 unfair competition, trade secrets, antitrust, trademarks, copyrights, patents, business torts, and unfair employment practices. Read more

As we enter autumn, the California Lawyers Association closes the 2020-2021 term and with it, BLS welcomes its new leadership slate. Our incoming class of Executive Committee members and Standing Committee leadership Chairs are poised to take up the mantle to support our business law community. BLS recently increased its executive committee class from five to eight because of the breadth and depth of our activities. 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 2021 update to Internet Law and Practice in California.  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 copyright, patent, trademark, independent contractor classification, privacy, cybersecurity, Internet advertising, and First Amendment issues.   Read more

Starting Fall 2021, CLA will launch a new membership plans. Read more

BLS and the Litigation Section are continuing a series of webinars on Hot Topics in Business Litigation. Read more