Business Law News Table of Contents

• Publication year: 2018

BUSINESS LAW NEWS Table of Contents

Executive Committee: Message from the Chair....................................................................4

BLN Editorial Board: Message from the Editor.....................................................................6

Enforcing Arbitration Agreements in Bankruptcy.................................................................9
By Reno Fernandez
The author first presents a primer on the Federal Arbitration Act and its underlying policies, and then explores the application of both the Act and those principles in recent bankruptcy cases. This article provides a helpful digest of cases addressing a number of relevant issues.

MCLE: The Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct........................................................17
By Neil J. Wertlieb
The author provides an extremely useful introduction to the new set of Rules of Professional Conduct that have been presented to the California Supreme Court for approval. The proposed Rules reflect a comprehensive revision of the existing Rules, and the author discusses both proposed changes to current law and ways in which the proposed Rules differ from the Model Rules that have been adopted in virtually every other state in the country.

Companies Face Consequences for Unenforceable Noncompetition Clauses in California 25
By Justene M. Adamec
The author first provides an introduction to California's historically inhospitable treatment of covenants not to compete included in employment agreements, discusses several recent cases that have imposed harsh penalties on employers who choose nevertheless to include unenforceable provisions in their forms of employment contract, and provides guidance for drafting limitations on an employee's post-separation freedom of contract that stand the best chance of being enforced by a...