Unincorporated Business Law Prof Blog

LLCs at 20: Program and Webcast

The Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Suffolk University is hosting a symposium on "Limited Liability Companies at 20", to be held on June 13.  If you can't make it to Boston, there is a free webcast, but you have to register in advance.

The program has an impressive line-up of presenters and topics:

1. Are Courts Developing A Unique Theory 0f LLC (Or Simply Borrowing from Other Forms, and, If So, Which)? A Review of the Case Law (Prof. Elizabeth S. Miller)
2. LLCs in the Non-Profit World (Robert R. Keatinge, Esq.*)
3. What Single-Member LLCs Tell Us About LLC Theory (Prof. Carter G. Bishop)
4. LLCs Should Not Wear Derivative Suits (Prof. Larry E. Ribstein)
5. The Plight of the Bare Naked Assignee (Prof. Daniel S. Kleinberger)
6. External Entities and Internal Aggregates through the Lens of the Charging Order (Thomas E. Rutledge, Esq.)
7. Death of Contractualism In LLCs (Prof. Ann E. Conaway)
8. What's in a Name? Distinguishing LLCs, Members and Managers by Designation (J. William Callison, Esq.)
9. Should There Be A Single Theory of LLCs? If You See a Fork in the Bridge... (Prof. Thomas E. Geu)

*Although Keatinge is a visiting professor at Suffolk this year, I believe he is going to escape once the Spring semester is over, and return to practice.

Hat tip to Tom Rutledge.

Limited Liability Companies at 20

     posted by Gary Rosin

The Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Suffolk University is finalizing the program for a symposium on "Limited Liability Companies at 20", to be held on June 13.  Details have not yet been released.

Hat tip to Tom Rutledge.

4th Annual Symposium of the Law of Delaware Business Entities

     posted by Gary Rosin

The Delaware State Bar Association is hosting the 4th Annual Symposium of the Law of Delaware Business Entities, An International Dialogue: Current Trends Affecting the Governance and Structure of Delaware Business Entities in the Public and Private Capital Markets, will be held on May 29-30, 2008.  The afternoon session of the second, on Delaware Series LLCs, looks particularly interesting.  For more information,see the brochure and registration form.

Hat tip to Tom Rutledge.

Lawyers, Law Firms, & the Legal Profession: An Ethical View of the Business of Law

posted by Gary Rosin

The Sixth Annual DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal Symposium,
Lawyers, Law Firms, & the Legal Profession:  An Ethical View of the Business of Law, is scheduled for May 1, 2008, in Chicago.  Although the Symposium is does not focus on the law of agency or of unincorporated business entities ("UBEs"), we all could use some ethics booster-shots.  The lineup of topics looks interesting:

• Lawyers in a Fee Quandary: Must the Billable Hour Die?

• Luncheon: The Roberts Court, the 2008 Election & the Future of the Judiciary

• Lawyers in Transition: Ghosts from the Old Firm Haunting the New Firm

• Lawyers in the Hot Seat: The State of Ethics & Professionalism

Lawyers in Transition looks particularly interesting.  Certainly it's an area chock-full of ethical, fiduciary and UBE issues.

Section Program At 2007 AALS Annual Meeting

On January 4, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m., the AALS Section on Agency, Partnership, LLCs and Unincorporated Associations is sponsoring a program at the AALS Annual Meeting titled "What Can Theoretical Perspectives Add To Our Understanding of Unincoporated Business Associations?" The location for the program is Wilson A, Mezzanine Level, at the Mariott Wardham Park Hotel.

The speakers were chosen from a competitive call for papers and are Victor Fleischer, University of Colorado School of Law; Larry Ribstein, University of Illinois College of Law; Robert H. Sitkoff, New York University School of Law; and Brett David Freudenberg, Griffith Business School, Queensland, Australia.

You can view the panelists' papers on the AALS website here. This promises to be an exciting program.

[Gregory Duhl]