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Fraud Alert — Beware of “Barrister Richard Burt” (it’s not me)

05/21/2020

I was contacted by someone who had been asked to pay $5,000 for legal services. The person asking for the money was supposedly Barrister Richard Burt. This impostor showed my office address (right down to the suite number) as his…

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Breach of warranty in the sale of goods and the statute of limitations

05/15/2020

Cardinal Health 301, Inc. v. Tyco Electronics Corp. (2008) 169 Cal. App. 4th 116. Holdings Noted The four-year statute of limitations bars warranty claims unless the warranty explicitly extends to future performance of the goods and discovery of the breach…

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Out-of-State Partnership Required to File in California because of Pass-Through Income

03/05/2020

LCP VII Holdings LP was a foreign partnership with interests in entities both inside and outside of the United States, and it had California-source income from pass-through entities. It did not file tax returns in California on the basis it…

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Richard Burt Selected as a 2019 Top-Rated Lawyer

07/24/2019

I was informed by the National Law Journal that I was selected as a 2019 Top Rated Lawyer for a special section to be published by it highlighting the West Coast’s Top Rated Lawyers. I would be impressed by my…

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California Corporations Code Not Applied to Avoid Dissolution of Foreign Entities

06/07/2019

When an action is brought to dissolve a California limited partnership or a California limited liability company, the California Corporations Code allows the other partners or the other members to avoid the dissolution by purchasing, for cash, the interests owned…

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Civil Code Sections relating to General Releases Modified

02/28/2019

On February 28, 2019, the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association published an e-bulletin that I authored. The text of the e-bulletin, as submitted for publication, follows. With SB 1431 (chapter 157, statutes of…

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Legislature Expands Shareholder Inspection Rights

02/27/2019

The Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association today published an e-bulletin, which I authored. The text follows: The legislature amended Corporations Code § 1601, which grants shareholders the right to inspect and copy corporate…

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Bad Corporate Practice Leads to Bad Result

02/19/2019

I recently had a practice note published in the February 2019 eNews from the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association. What follows is the text that was submitted for publication. The Delaware Court of Chancery found that a stockholder…

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Delaware Court Upholds Non-Compete against California Employee

12/10/2018

The following is the text of an e-bulletin that I wrote and that was published by the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association. Patrick Miles, a California resident, was first hired in 2001 by…

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Administrative Dissolution of Corporations and LLCs Adopted in California

12/10/2018

The following is the text of an e-bulletin that I wrote and that was published by the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association. On September 22, 2018, Assembly Bill No. 2503 was signed into…

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