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Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 278: Listen and Learn -- Partnership Liability
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Nonprofit Basics: Overview of Nonprofit Charitable Organization Types: Corporation, LLC, Trust, Association and Fiscal Sponsorship
Episode 19 | Business Law Update: A Primer on Ohio's Revised LLC Act
Episode 23: LLCs as They Approach the 50-Year Milestone: A Conversation with Professor Susan Pace Hamill
Why Cannabis Related Businesses Must Consider Legal and Tax Issues
Episode 14 | You Came Up With a Great Business Idea During the Pandemic - Now What?
NGE On Demand: Profits Interests: Granting & Receiving with Patty Cain and Josh Klein
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 280: Listen and Learn -- Piercing the Corporate Veil
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Byron Egan – Upcoming Release of EGAN ON ENTITIES Third Edition
THE ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR PART IV
Navigating the LLC Jungle - I Know a Lawyer Podcast
THE ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR
Episode 021: Member Liquidity, Default Rules, and the Corporate-ization of LLCs: A Conversation with Dean Donald J. Weidner
Episode 20: The LLC's Two Worlds: A Conversation with Professor Peter Molk (Part Two)
Episode 19: The LLC’s Two Worlds: A Conversation with Professor Peter Molk (Part One)
One of the most important rights owned by LLC members is the right to inspect the LLC’s books and records. For an overview of LLC books and records requests, see the prior LLC Jungle post: Why LLC Managers Should Take Member...more
California Court Recognizes LLC Member Lists as Trade Secrets in Recent Ruling - When an LLC member suspects the company is playing favorites with redemption requests, how much access should they have to the membership rolls...more
Yesterday's post considered one of several matters raised on appeal in Perry v. Stuart, 2025 WL 1501935. The case involves a former member's demand for inspection of records of a California limited liability company. ...more
A prior post — Statutory LLC Buyouts – “Fair Value” vs. “Fair Market Value” — covered an unpublished opinion filed in 2021 addressing the difference between the statutory buyout processes governing California corporations and...more
The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, Cal. Corp. Code § 17701.01 et seq., clearly authorizes the appointment of officers...more
A prior post — A Receiver For Your LLC? — covered the basics of court-appointed receivers acting on behalf of an LLC. It is always worth keeping in mind that a receiver appointed to handle the affairs of an LLC is a “general...more
Professor Eugene Volokh recently highlighted a decision by U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan taking a plaintiff to task for inadequately pleading diversity jurisdiction when the defendant is a limited liability company. ...more
California's version of the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act provides that in the case of a member managed limited liability company provides...more
In yesterday's post, I discussed the Court of Appeal's unpublished opinion in Milks v. Affirmed Techs., LLC, 2024 WL 1502944 (Cal. Ct. App. Apr. 5, 2024), reh'g denied (Apr. 30, 2024). That case involved claims against a...more
California's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act endows limited liability companies with a certain level immortality. Corporations Code Section 17707.06(a) provides...more
The California Corporations Code is a misnomer. While the Corporations Code does in fact govern corporations, it also governs a wide variety of unincorporated entities, including general partnerships, limited partnerships,...more
Under Section 1030 of the California Code of Civil Procedure, a defendant may at any time apply to the court by noticed motion for an order requiring the plaintiff to file an undertaking to secure an award of costs and...more
Yesterday, the Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a noteworthy opinion addressing at least two significant questions. Samuelian v. Life Generations Healthcare, LLC, 2024 WL 3878448....more
California's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act provides "The law of the state . . . under which a foreign limited liability company is formed governs all of the following: The organization of the limited liability...more
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....more
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). ...more
The California General Corporation Law is part of the California Corporations Code, but not every corporation incorporated in California is formed or governed by the General Corporation Law. In fact, the Corporations Code...more
In a recently published article, Professors Samantha J. Prince & Joshua P. Fershée focus on the propensity to conflate corporations with limited liability companies...more
The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act deals separately with the dissolution and cancellation of a California limited liability company and the cancellation of registration of a foreign limited liability...more
Section 17707.08(c) of the California Corporations Code provides...more
To every member of a limited liability company who is a natural person, death will come "soon or late". The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act provides that an individual dissociates as a member when...more
When a California limited liability company files a certificate of cancellation its powers, rights, and privileges cease. Cal. Corp. Code § 17707.08(b)(2)(C). This seemingly would preclude any further activity by the LLC,...more
In a recent unpublished opinion*, the Court of Appeal considered the question of partnership termination under the California Revised Uniform Partnership Act. Wickline v. Schweder, 2023 WL 6155353 (Cal. Ct. App. Sept. 21,...more
Last May, Andy Greene wrote an article for RollingStone magazine about the "the biggest, messiest band breakups in music history". In the introducing his list of the 50 worst breakups, Mr. Greene observed...more
Nine years ago, I posed the question of whether the California General Corporation Law permits corporations to serve as directors. My answer at the time was "no" because Section 164 of the Corporations Code defines...more