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On December 8, 2009, while struggling with health care reform, financial industry overhaul, a spiraling deficit, the risk of a double-dip recession, and all of the other headline-grabbing events of the past months, the House of Representatives took an important step in pushing forward legislation which could, if enacted, have a significant impact on almost […]
You’ve gotten a judgment against that troublesome borrower who hides assets and plays games, but you are afraid that it will be many moons before you are able to collect. You know that one of the best ways to get this kind of person to deal with you is to get a statewide judgment lien […]
Cloud Computing, Part I This article is the first in a series about cloud computing. Read parts two and three to get the full story. On October 29, 2009, the City of Los Angeles announced that it is outsourcing its e-mail services to Google, becoming the largest governmental body to outsource such a key computer […]
Merchants, Beware: Could You Be Liable for Credit Card Breaches? by Robert E. Braun Retail Merchandiser December 2008 If you had been following financial headlines in August of this year, you would have seen the following reports: August 5, 2008: The United States Department of Justice announced the largest identity theft case ever prosecuted in […]
"Foreign Investment: A Chat Across the Pond," featuring Bill Capps, Chair of JMBM’s Corporate Department, and Laura O’Neill, a partner in the Corporate Department of SJ Berwin in London, was published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP and SJ Berwin are members of Interlaw Ltd., an association of 70 […]
Bruce Jeffer’s article titled, "The First Chapter of Building Your Book: Get Yourself ‘In Action’," was published in the New Lawyer section of the May 30, 2007 issue of the Daily Journal.
Bob Braun’s article entitled “Documenting Corporate Joint Ventures” was published in the Summer 2007 edition (Volume 22, Number 3) of California Business Law Practitioner, a journal published by the Continuing Education of the Bar.
The California courts have recently held that a seller’s agreement not to solicit employees of the buyer is too broad under California Business and Professions Code Sec. 16601, and thus not enforceable. In Strategix, Ltd. v. Infocrossing, _ Cal. Rptr. 3d _ (4th Dist. 2006), the court said any such restrictions on employee solicitation must […]
The Problem—The Information Explosion Meets Electronic Discovery The explosion in the amount of electronic business records, now nearly 20 trillion documents a year, is a byproduct of technology-driven gains in productivity. Unfortunately, the way these proliferating records are often mishandled is a disaster waiting to happen. E-mail is now the majority of evidence in litigation, […]
California has adopted legislation which changes how companies can use electronic communications in their “corporate communications.” The changes broaden the options available to corporations for conducting many of their required communications, such as meetings of boards of directors, shareholder meetings, delivering notices of meetings, taking actions without a meeting and annual reports. In most cases, […]
