California Corporate & Securities Law

Rosenthal Fair Debt collection Practices Act defines a "debt collector" as "any person who, in the ordinary course of business, regularly, on behalf of himself or herself or others, engaged in debt collection". Cal. Civ. Code § 1788.2(c). "Debt...

California adopted the 1962 Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act in 1967.  The Act was intended to encourage the reciprocal recognition of United States judgments abroad by codifying rules as to foreign money judgments. In 2005, the...

Seven years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission amended Part 2 of Form ADV to require investment advisers to provide new and prospective clients with a brochure and brochure supplements written in plain English. The SEC's stated purpose was...

Last year, Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher authored a bill, AB 1209, that would have required employers with 500 or more employees in California to provide to the Secretary of State specific information regarding gender wage differentials...

Earlier this week, Stepanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump in the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles.  Clifford v. Trump, L.A. Super. Ct. Case No. BC 696568 (filed Mar. 6, 2018).  The complaint...

Old school lawyers are familiar with the notion that "the failure to reach a meeting of the minds on all material points prevents the formation of a contract even though the parties have orally agreed upon some of the terms, or have taken some...

Marlene Dietrich reportedly said "When you're dead, you're dead, thats it."  At one time, that was true of limited liability companies formed under California's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. 

Identity theft, including business identity theft, is all too common. In its most straightforward form, the thief simply appropriates the identity of an individual or business and uses that identity to obtain goods, services, credit or personal...