Some may view dissolution as the final curtain for a corporation and its shareholders. But unlike mere mortals, a corporation does not strut and fret its hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
Keith Paul Bishop
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Yesterday was the famous Ides of March. The Ides weren't a holiday, but a term used in Roman calendar system which was based on three dates in each month, known as the Kalends or Calends (think calendar), Nones and Ides. The Kalends always falls on...
In English, we have two articles - "the" is the definite article and "a/an" is the indefinite article. Latin, on the other hand, lacks articles, definite or indefinite. Indeed, the great first century Roman rhetorician Marcus Fabius Quintilianus...
Recently, the Department of Business Oversight issued the following warning:
The idea that men won't ask for directions is a staple of many jokes. I don't know whether this is fact or urban myth. However, a few years back the Princeton University Press published an entire book on the subject. In my former career as a...
In January, I decided to update an earlier post regarding the number of calls made to the California Attorney General's hotline mandated by Labor Code Section 1102.7. A few years earlier, I had published these data for the years from 2004 to 2010....
In February, I posted this little rumination on the origin of the term "chairman". Then I came across SB 351 introduced late last month by the California Senate Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions. Currently, Sections 5213, 7213 and 9213...
I've often wished that my legal acumen could be judged by the same standard as professional baseball players. If that were the case, I could be wrong nearly 60% of the time and yet be considered one of the greatest legal mavens of all time. I would...
California State Senator Marty Block has introduced a bill, SB 197, that would authorize a licensed finance lender to compensate an unlicensed person or company in connection with the referral of one or more prospective borrowers to the licensee for...