Does Your Website Offer “Equal Access”?
As the landscape of business and other services continue to evolve from physical brick and mortar stores to online websites, courts across the country have been seeing an increase in the number of cases regarding website accessibility under the Americans...Continue reading→
California’s Coming Rent Control Law
AB 1482 Explained In early September, 2019, the California legislature passed AB 1482, which would enact a statewide rent-control law and other eviction protections for renters. AB 1482 is part of the State’s efforts to reduce the cost of housing...Continue reading→
Increasing Client Requirements: Securing Law Firms for the 21st Century
Gone are the days of “basic security.” What used to be optional is now standard: two factor authentication, complex passwords, clean desk policies, data encryption at rest and in transit, mobile device management and up-to-the-minute patching. Clients expect these items...Continue reading→
Can Subsequent Creditors Rely Upon the Accuracy of Existing UCC-1 Financing Statements?
Collateral descriptions in Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) financing statements have been the genesis of numerous conflicts between creditors. The purpose of a financing statement is to give notice to subsequent creditors of a prior security interest in personal property . ...Continue reading→
Clearing Up A Black Sky, California Supreme Court Expands Creditors’ Deficiency-Judgment Rights
By Brian L. Bloom and Gerrick Warrington The law is often complex and convoluted. But in some cases, the law is remarkably simple and straightforward. In Black Sky Capital, LLC v. Cobb, decided on May 6, 2019, the California Supreme...Continue reading→
Part III: Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
As the third and final article in our series on blockchain technology, we will discuss how the burgeoning technology will affect the financial industry. To review, blockchain in general can be described as a decentralized, shared, public ledger that is...Continue reading→
Part II: Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
As part two of our three part series on blockchain technology, we will provide an overview of the many different applications of blockchain and how it will change a variety of industries. As discussed in our first article, blockchain technology...Continue reading→
Oversecured Creditor Not Prevailing Party – What Law Governs Fees?
In Bankruptcy, Are Both the Prevailing Party and the Oversecured Creditor Entitle to Attorneys’ Fees When the Oversecured Creditor Loses the Action on a Contract? In a case that should grab every commercial lenders’ attention, a bankruptcy court in the...Continue reading→
The Rule’s of Golf… They Are A Changin’
On January 1, 2019, the most significant and game-altering changes in decades to the Official Rules of Golf will take effect. Implemented after a multi-year vetting and commenting process jointly overseen by both of golf’s supreme governing authorities–the United States...Continue reading→