Business Law

Our very own Julie Greenfield will be presenting on "The Revenge of the HELOCs: Another Foreclosure Crisis?" (presentation attached). She recently presented this to the Orange County Bar Association and we are lucky to have the opportunity to hear it too! Read more

Summary: In re: Larissa Anatolia Kenney, Case No. 1:10-bk-11635-GM (Bankr. C.D. Cal. November 16, 2018), the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California denied a debtor’s motion to avoid a creditor’s lien under 11 U.S.C. § 522(f) because, among other reasons, there was no valid lien to avoid where a lien did not attach to property the debtor acquired after discharge of her debt in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case. Read more

Summary: In Badea v. Schwartzer (In re Badea),No. NV-18-1038-BTaL, 2018 WL 4441731 (9th Cir. BAP Sept. 17, 2018), the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit ("BAP") vacated the order of a bankruptcy court holding the debtor in contempt and expunging a mechanics' lien recorded post-petition by the debtor after the chapter 7 trustee avoided the debtor's transfer of that property and remanded the matter with instructions to the parties and the court to consider the effect of 11 U.S.C. section 546(b). Read more

Summary: In In re Jeffrey Mark Freeman 2018 WL 4216653 (Bankr. C.D. Cal, 2018), the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles Division held that the debtor had not met his burden to show any knowing violation of the discharge injunction. A copy of the decision can be reviewed here. 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. 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