Richard Burt Professional Law Corporation
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In communicating through a website with a lawyer you are thinking of hiring, you should not provide any confidential information concerning your legal matter until an attorney-client relationship has been formed.
Sending an email to Richard Burt or leaving a voice mail for him or his assistant (and a reply from either) does not create an attorney-client relationship.
No attorney-client relationship will be formed until you and Mr. Burt have agreed that he should represent you, he has determined that there is no conflict with an existing client, you have signed an engagement letter that sets forth the terms of the representation, and, when requested, you have made a fee deposit.
Please note that the initial consultation is solely to determine the nature of your legal matter and to discuss fees. Mr. Burt does not offer free legal advice.
After an attorney-client relationship has been formed, email (and voice mail) may of course be freely used for confidential attorney-client communications.
If we try to call you at a telephone number that you provide to us and are unable to reach you (and your voice mail is full or is not set up), we may text you at that number to let you know that we tried to call you. By sending an email via this website or by calling and leaving a voice-mail message, you consent to receiving such texts. At any time, you may reply STOP to opt-out from further messages.
NOTE: Mr. Burt does not handle litigation of any kind. If you wish to sue someone, are being sued, or need to make a court filing of any kind, Mr. Burt cannot help you. You should not contact him for those services.
Directors and officers
In Villari v. Mozilo (2012) 208 Cal. App. 4th 1470, the court held that under Delaware law a shareholder who was a plaintiff in a shareholder derivative action lost standing to maintain that action once a merger resulted in the…
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Read MoreThe business judgment rule insulates directors from liability from bad decisions if certain conditions are met. A recent U.S. District Court opinion holds that the business judgment rule does not apply to corporate officers. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Perry…
Read MoreUnder the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, lawyers, physicians, and others engaged in occupations specified by the act may organize their practices as professional corporations. By reason of Chapter 381 of the Statutes of 2011, the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act has…
Read MoreExisting law requires corporations and limited liability companies to file with the Secretary of State annual statements of information with specified information. To aid these entities in filing timely, the Secretary of State mails a notice to them three months…
Read MoreIn Nicholas Laboratories, LLC v. Chen (October 12, 2011) 11 C.D.O.S. 12769, the court decided that an employer was not obligated to indemnify its employee for expenses the employee incurred in successfully defending himself against employer’s lawsuit for breach of…
Read MoreThe general rule is that directors of a corporation owe no duty to creditors because it is the shareholders who own a corporation. From an economic perspective, when a corporation is solvent, it is the shareholders who are the residual…
Read MoreThe case of Chang v. Lederman (2009) 172 Cal. App. 4th 67, while dealing with the obligations of an estate planning lawyer to beneficiaries of the estate, may be of interest to participants in business transactions or business enterprises. Facts…
Read MoreCorporations Code section 1602 provides that: “Every director shall have the absolute right at any reasonable time to inspect and copy all books, records and documents of every kind … of the corporation of which such person is a director….”…
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