California Corporate & Securities Law

The federal securities laws predate by decades the advent of limited liability companies and the statutory definitions of a "security" under those laws has not been updated to address membership interests in LLCs. California in contrast amended the...

NRS 107.028(1)(d) requires that a trustee under a deed of trust be a "domestic or foreign entity which holds a current state business license issued by the Secretary of State pursuant to chapter 76 of NRS".   In Mahban v. Prestige Default Services,...

The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (RULLCA) provides that when a member who is an individual dies, the member dissociates from the limited liability company. Cal. Corp. Code § 17706.02(f). Dissociation results in the...

Laura Graham was injured when she tripped over a sprinkler box located on property owned by a single member limited liability company.  She sued the LLC and asserted that its member was the alter ego of the LLC and the case was appealed to the Nevada...

"O, 'tis a fault too too unpardonable!"*

Law Professors Samantha Prince and Joshua Fershee have recently completed an article on the importance of not conflating limited liability companies with corporations.  In An LLC By Any Other Name Is Still Not...

I a short order of affirmance issued last week, the Nevada Supreme Court affirmed a basic requirement of derivative litigation. J. McDonald Co. v. Tropical & Losee, LLC, 2022 WL 6833521 (Nev. Oct. 11, 2022).  The case involved an attempt by J....

I must confess that I confess that I am nonplused by a recent ruling by U.S. District Court Judge James A. Teilborg in SinglePoint Direct Solar LLC v. Curiel, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19880. The case involved, among other things, a derivative claim...

When the Nevada legislature enacted the state's limited-liability company act, it did not prescribe the fiduciary duties, if any, owed by managers.   As I observed: