The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit ("BAP") recently issued the opinion, Kallman & Co. LLP Gottlieb (In re Lewis), BAP No. CC-13-1367-TaDKi (9th Cir. BAP Aug. 20, 2014), which held that a non-debtor spouse may purchase a debtor's claims under...
Signed into law in 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act provides protections to employees who blow the whistle on potential regulatory violations in the financial services industry. Provisions in the law protect whistleblowers from retaliation by their employers. However, a...
Whether you're purchasing, selling or leasing a property, commercial real estate transactions must be carefully planned, executed and documented in a contract that minimizes risk and protects your interests. The value of the property and any potential liabilities have...
Risk is a part of business. You can take action to minimize risk, but there may still be unforeseen events that result in losses. The Bankruptcy Code takes into account risk and offers protections for debtors and creditors. At , we help...
In California, if you have 75 or more employees on the payroll and you plan to lay off 50 or more, then you are required to give written notice to the employees at least 60 days before the layoff takes effect. Under the state's Worker Adjustment and Retraining...
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel in In re KVN Corp., Inc., 13-1318, decided July 29, 2014, remanded a bankruptcy case from the Northern District of California to determine if a carve-out agreement reached between a Chapter 7 trustee and a bank...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit ("BAP") recently held in Wu v. Markosian (In re Markosian), BAP No. NC-13-1339-JuKiD (9th Cir. BAP March 12, 2014), that a bonus earned by the debtor by his employer for services performed while the case was...
In Woodbridge Structured Funding, LLC v. Arizona Lottery, 326 P.3d 292 (Ariz. App. 2014), the Arizona Court of Appeals held that the first company's alleged security interest in lottery winnings did not attach because the first company never gave "value" to the winner...
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit ("BAP") recently issued the opinion, Yellow Express LLC v. Dingley (In re Dingley), BAP No. NV-13-1261-KiJuTa (9th Cir. BAP Aug. 6, 2014), which held that a creditor does not violate the automatic stay by maintaining...
A successful business is operated and grown by good, smart work. The effective coordination of skills and experience across jobs can have extremely positive outcomes, and employees and licensed professionals have to be carefully chosen to protect your interests,...