California Corporate & Securities Law

Yesterday, I discussed several vulnerabilities of exclusive forum bylaws should they be challenged in California. The California General Corporation Law includes many provisions that expressly subject foreign corporations to the jurisdiction of...

Forum selection bylaws are likely to become even more popular after this week's decision in Boilermakers Local 154 Retirement Fund v. Chevron Corporation, C.A. No. 7220-CS (Del. Ch. June 25, 2013). In that case, Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr. found...

In China's Hunan province, a written syllabic script was created, used and understood only by women.  This script is called NüShu (女书), meaning woman's book.  As far as I know, NüShu is the only exclusively gender based written language to have ever...

"Today I'd like to tell you a little bit about the color green . . ."

I've previously remarked on the different usages attached to the word "adjourn". Often a meeting will end with a motion to adjourn. Sometimes, a meeting will be prorogued - that is, continued to another date. "Adjourn" is derived from the Latin...

Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had charged a penny stock promoter in the San Diego area with fraudulently arranging the purchase of $2.5 million worth of shares in a penny stock company in an attempt to...

Usually when someone invokes her right to counsel, she usually has in mind the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (or perhaps Article I, § 15 of the California Constitution). Thus, I was surprised to see a case in which the plaintiff argued...

Yesterday, I discussed whether an SEC attorney might commit an ethical violation by encouraging an attorney to disclose her client's confidences.  That discussion was prompted by a recent posting by Lawrence A. West addressing whether attorneys may...

The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation included a comprehensive post by Lawrence A. West which tackles the question of whether attorneys can be award-seeking whistleblowers. I want to approach the topic from...