California Corporate & Securities Law

As previously reported in this blog, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to force the international law firm of Covington & Burling, LLP to identify hundreds of its publicly traded clients.  See SEC Demands That...

Yesterday, I wrote about the Securities and Exchange Commission's attempt to force the prominent law firm of Covington & Burling LLP to "name names".  In some discussions about the case, some have assumed that the concern is about information...

Earlier this week, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against one of the country's leading law firms - Covington & Burling LLP.  According to the complaint, "threat actors" associated with the Microsoft Hafnium...

In a ruling this week, Vice Chancellor Lori Will addressed whether one-half of an evenly divided board could gain access  privileged communications between the corporation and its long-time outside counsel.  In re Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, 2022...

The fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege holds that a fiduciary, such as a trustee of a trust, is disabled from asserting the privilege against beneficiaries on matters of trust administration.  Nevada, like California, has codified...

Last Friday, I wrote about one of the docketed appeals in Wynn Resorts, Limited v. Eight Jud. Dist. Ct., 41 Nev. Adv. Op. 52 (2017).  Today's post concerns the other docketed appeal in that case.  This appeal addressed whether disclosure of an...

Nevada, like California, has codified the attorney-client privilege:

California has codified the attorney work product doctrine in Section 2018.030 of the California Code of Civil Procedure.  That statute establishes two categories of protected work product.   Under subdivision (a), a "writing that reflects an...

Last December, Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero ruled that the SEC's attorney-conduct rules preempt California's statutory and professional rules requiring attorneys to maintain inviolate the confidences.  Wadler v. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.,