For those that haven’t heard, a new federal law went “live” on January 1, 2024, which imposed new reporting requirements for business owners. Basically, any business entity (subject to certain exceptions) must report its owners, operators, and organizers to the Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). The report is called a Beneficial Ownership
Read MoreWhat is the Corporate Transparency Act? The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is a new federal law that is designed to create a national database of any entity (corporation, limited liability company, etc.) that is created in any state in the US. The goal is for the US Government to have one central database, where they
Read MoreThe Budget Act of 2022 (“Act“) was officially signed into law on June 28, 2022. The Act covers several items, one of which is a suspension of certain initial corporate filing fees from the California Secretary of State through July 30, 2023. In other words, generally speaking, the cost to file articles of incorporation (for
Read MoreToday’s ethics lesson comes from San Diego, where a judge reported an attorney to the State Bar Disciplinary Committee for a “serious covert insult” directed towards opposing counsel. The statement at issue was made during a trial, where the disciplined attorney (a man) made the following statement on the record to opposing counsel (both women):
Read MoreToday’s ethics lesson comes from New Jersey, where a judge is subject to an ethics complaint (“Complaint”) due to several instances in which he claimed to have no knowledge of the law or the cases before him. The judge had been assigned to the family law division one day per week from April 10, 2021
Read MoreIf you went online to file your annual statement of information with the California Secretary of State in the last few weeks, you should have noticed that not only could you not file a “No Change” statement, but they also added some new language that each filer must now acknowledge. The “new language” is the
Read MoreAs you browse a website, be cautious before you click on the user agreement; you might not even realize you are entering into an enforceable contract. This issue was recently addressed by a California appellate court in B.D., a Minor, etc., et. al. v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. In Blizzard, a dispute arose between a “user”
Read MoreAs managing partner of Oberg Law Group, digitizing our office has been a case of teaching an old dog new tricks—successfully. I (David) needed to take my firm digital and found out that many things are more efficient. Others I’ve chosen to keep old-school because that’s the way my brain is wired. I started practicing
Read MoreAs children, we learned that plagiarism is a big “no, no.” As lawyers, we learned that reinventing the wheel is a waste of precious time and resources. Our clients often come to us with a set of terms and conditions or simple contracts that they have pieced together from information that they downloaded from the
Read MoreToday’s ethics lesson comes from Pennsylvania, where an attorney was charged with disorderly conduct after he removed his pants in the courthouse. While trying to make his way through security, the attorney’s suspenders repeatedly set off the metal detector. Apparently, the attorney requested that the security guards use the metal detecting wand, but the security
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