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Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 285: Reflections from a California Bar Exam Grader – Part 2 (w/Jennifer Barry)
(Podcast) The Briefing: New California Laws for Digital Replicas Both Live and Dead
California Employment News: A Refresher on Voting Leave Laws for CA Employers
(Podcast) California Employment News: A Refresher on Voting Leave Laws for CA Employers
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 284: Reflections from a California Bar Grader – Part 1 (w/Jennifer Barry)
Podcast - What’s Next After Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Veto in California?
(Podcast) California Employment News – Key Rules for California Employers: Business Expense Reimbursement
California Employment News – Key Rules for California Employers: Business Expense Reimbursement
Bar Exam Toolbox Episode Update 1: The "California Bar Exam Experiment"
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Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 277: California Is Outsourcing the Bar Exam to Kaplan?!?
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 464: Listen and Learn -- Partnership Formation
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California Employment News: Understanding the Basics of Employee Personnel Files (Featured)
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California's version of the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act provides that in the case of a member managed limited liability company provides...more
In yesterday's post, I discussed the Court of Appeal's unpublished opinion in Milks v. Affirmed Techs., LLC, 2024 WL 1502944 (Cal. Ct. App. Apr. 5, 2024), reh'g denied (Apr. 30, 2024). That case involved claims against a...more
California's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act endows limited liability companies with a certain level immortality. Corporations Code Section 17707.06(a) provides...more
The California Corporations Code is a misnomer. While the Corporations Code does in fact govern corporations, it also governs a wide variety of unincorporated entities, including general partnerships, limited partnerships,...more
Under Section 1030 of the California Code of Civil Procedure, a defendant may at any time apply to the court by noticed motion for an order requiring the plaintiff to file an undertaking to secure an award of costs and...more
Yesterday, the Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a noteworthy opinion addressing at least two significant questions. Samuelian v. Life Generations Healthcare, LLC, 2024 WL 3878448....more
California's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act provides "The law of the state . . . under which a foreign limited liability company is formed governs all of the following: The organization of the limited liability...more
NRS 107.028(1)(d) requires that a trustee under a deed of trust be a "domestic or foreign entity which holds a current state business license issued by the Secretary of State pursuant to chapter 76 of NRS". In Mahban v....more
The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (RULLCA) provides that when a member who is an individual dies, the member dissociates from the limited liability company. Cal. Corp. Code § 17706.02(f). ...more
The California General Corporation Law is part of the California Corporations Code, but not every corporation incorporated in California is formed or governed by the General Corporation Law. In fact, the Corporations Code...more
In a recently published article, Professors Samantha J. Prince & Joshua P. Fershée focus on the propensity to conflate corporations with limited liability companies...more
The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act deals separately with the dissolution and cancellation of a California limited liability company and the cancellation of registration of a foreign limited liability...more
Section 17707.08(c) of the California Corporations Code provides...more
To every member of a limited liability company who is a natural person, death will come "soon or late". The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act provides that an individual dissociates as a member when...more
When a California limited liability company files a certificate of cancellation its powers, rights, and privileges cease. Cal. Corp. Code § 17707.08(b)(2)(C). This seemingly would preclude any further activity by the LLC,...more
In a recent unpublished opinion*, the Court of Appeal considered the question of partnership termination under the California Revised Uniform Partnership Act. Wickline v. Schweder, 2023 WL 6155353 (Cal. Ct. App. Sept. 21,...more
Last May, Andy Greene wrote an article for RollingStone magazine about the "the biggest, messiest band breakups in music history". In the introducing his list of the 50 worst breakups, Mr. Greene observed...more
Nine years ago, I posed the question of whether the California General Corporation Law permits corporations to serve as directors. My answer at the time was "no" because Section 164 of the Corporations Code defines...more
Section 17701.7 of the California Corporations Code sets up two arguably contradictory rules. Subdivision (b) provides that unless displaced by "particular provisions" of the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability...more
The possible application of California's Corporate Securities Law of 1968 may not be the first thing that comes to mind when amending charter documents. However, Section 25120 of the California Corporations Code makes it...more
Law Professors Samantha Prince and Joshua Fershee have recently completed an article on the importance of not conflating limited liability companies with corporations. In An LLC By Any Other Name Is Still Not A...more
In 2022, the California legislature amended several provisions of the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, including Section 17702.01 which lists what must be included in the articles of organization of a...more
The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act defines a "distribution" as a transfer of money or other property from a "limited liability company" (Cal. Corp. Code § 17701.02(k)) to another "person" (Cal. Corp....more
The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act contemplates requires that a California LLC have at least two types of offices - a principal office and a designated office....more
The California Corporations Code includes provides for the formation of corporations as well as limited liability companies. However, it does not provide for the formation of limited liability corporations. Oddly, however,...more