California Corporate & Securities Law

A complaint filed in the Central District of California caught my eye because it involved the rather unusual circumstance of a corporation suing a former director and officer for, among other things, failing to file reports under Section 16(a) of...

Last Friday's post concerned whether a plaintiff could establish jurisdiction by tagging a corporate officer attending a conference in California. The question was whether a corporation is present wherever its officers are present. Today's post...

When a corporation sends an officer to a conference in California, is the corporation present in California? A corporation can only act through its officers. Thus, it might be said that the corporation is present wherever its officers happen to be,...

In California, employees who blow the whistle are protected from retaliation by Labor Code § 1102.5(b) which provides:

An employee sues his employer for, among other things, violations of the California Labor Code. The quondam employer responds with a counterclaim against its erstwhile employee claiming that to the extent it is liable, the employee is partially...

Today's posting has nothing to do with corporate law and everything to do with trees. On November 30 and December 1, 2011, the City of Pasadena experienced an unusually violent windstorm. Wind speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour were recorded...

The question of whether finders' fees can be paid in securities transactions has bedeviled issuers for decades. The Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California has tried to address this recurring problem by sponsoring AB 713...

Delaware recently amended its law to allow parties to a written contract involving at least $100,000 to provide that any action based on that contract may be brought within a period specified in that contract provided that the action is brought...

At first, this case seems somewhat pedestrian - a lawyer sues her erstwhile law firm for employment discrimination. But then things get complicated. It turns out that the lawyer was employed by a law firm that was employed by an insurer to represent...