10/24/2016 5:09:00 PM Corporate Practice Portfolio Series: Nonprofit Corporations By Jeff Hamilton Download a PDF of this piece California nonprofit corporations fall into three categories: Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporations,...
8/12/2016 8:01:00 PM Proposed Section 2704 Regulations Would Impose Significant Restrictions on Valuation Discount Planning for Family Controlled Entities By Lauren Galbraith High net worth families often utilize family entity structures, such as limited partnerships or limited liability companies, in order to...
8/2/2016 8:01:00 PM Update: Unraveling the Toxic Substances Control Act Reform Bill By Robert Hines In June, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed the long-pending Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) reform legislation,...
7/28/2016 8:01:00 PM New Ninth Circuit Decision Precluding CERCLA Liability for Airborne Emissions By Sarah Bell James Colopy Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued in the long-running Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd. litigation another...
4/20/2016 8:01:00 PM Keep These Cases in Mind When Segmenting Patents By Eugene Mar Erik Olson As the doctrines of first sale and patent exhaustion have gained momentum over the past decade, questions have arisen about whether a...
4/13/2016 8:01:00 PM California Court Imposes Duty to Accommodate Non-Disabled Employees Associated With Disabled Persons By Doug Dexter Chandra Andrade On April 4, 2016, a California Court of Appeal set new precedent in Castro-Ramirez v. Dependable Highway Express, opining that the...
4/5/2016 8:01:00 PM Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure Are Increasing: Review Your Insurance As “Internet of Things” Risks Grow and Change By Tyler Gerking In the December post Systemic Cyber Risks And The Internet of Things, we wrote about the increasing risk of cyber attacks on...
3/22/2016 8:01:00 PM A Strategic Pause: How Lauri Shanahan Successfully Transitioned to Full Time Board Service By Carly Alameda Published in the ACC Docket by Olga Mack and Carly O'Halloran Alameda. Lauri Shanahan, who went from being the chief legal and...
3/4/2016 9:01:00 PM Implementation of California's New Groundwater Law Continues as DWR Releases Draft Emergency Regulations for Groundwater Sustainability Plans By Robert Hines Update: On March 10, 2016, the State Water Resources Control Board announced that the deadline to submit written comments to the...
2/24/2016 9:01:00 PM Preemption Defense: Is Inaction by the FDA Enough? By Farella Braun and Martel A seeming contradiction between two recent federal district court rulings on preemption and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s...
2/19/2016 9:01:00 PM Insure Your Risk as an Airbnb Host By Farella Braun and Martel As Bay Area residents prepared for thousands of football fans and media to descend on their region for the Super Bowl, one began to hear...
2/18/2016 9:01:00 PM The Good Versus Money Dichotomy: Why Lawyers Serving on and Advising For-Profit Boards Benefits the Lawyers, Companies, and Communities By Carly Alameda Published in the ACC Docket by Olga Mack and Carly O'Halloran Alameda. Sometime between entering law school and taking the bar exam, many...