ACLL News & Events

November 27, 2019

Emerging Issues in

Cannabis Taxation:

The Grass is Not Always Greener

Thursday, December 5

Noon to 1:00

1 hour of participatory MCLE credit

$35 advance registration, $45 day of event

Speaker: Mark Muntean

Talking Points:

• Obtain an understanding of the new state taxes that apply to cannabis cultivation and sale in California
• Obtain a different perspective on the financial realities for cannabis sellers in California
• Learn about the federal and state tax mechanics to cannabis
• Get updates on the federal taxation of cannabis
• Questions and answers

About the speaker: Mark Muntean, J.D., LL.M. Taxation (Georgetown) is a business and tax lawyer in the San Francisco/Bay Area of California at Mark Muntean, Attorney at Law, a Professional Corporation, with nearly 40 years’ experience in federal, state, and international tax matters.  He represents clients in connection with federal and state (FTB, OTA and CDTFA) tax matters as well as excise tax matters; corporate, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, business law matters; and criminal tax issues. Mr. Muntean is co-author of the Matthew Bender Series: Ballantine & Sterling California Corporate Laws; the author and editor of the Matthew Bender Series: Professional Corporations; and author and editor of the Matthew Bender Series: California Legal Forms Transactions Guide.

Online registration HERE

Download a program 2019_1205_Cannabis_Taxation_flyer1.pdf

The Alameda County Law Library is a multiple activity provider approved by the State Bar of California.

Co-sponsored with CEB

Real Property:

Sales Remedies

Wednesday, December 11

Noon to 1:30

1.5 hours of participatory MCLE credit

$40 advance registration, $50 day of event

Speaker: Stephen M. Morger

This program will explore the parameters of the available remedies and the practical considerations that must be weighed when real property transactions fall through.

• Contract issues -- breach of contract, fraud and nondisclosure, specific performance (including lis pendens), rescission, reformation, and liquidated damages
• Title issues -- slander of title, quiet title, partition, and cancellation of instruments
• Possession issues -- ejectment and trespass
• Equitable remedies -- constructive trusts, resulting trusts, and equitable liens

This is a basic level program and assumes no prior experience in real property law. Appropriate for attorneys new to real property law, as well as those seeking a refresher.

About the speaker:  Steven M. Morger is an experienced business litigator who represents clients involved in real estate and complex business disputes. He has particular expertise in the areas of mortgages, deeds of trust, foreclosure and anti-deficiency issues, as well as guarantees and U.C.C. personal property-secured transactions. He has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and has provided expert testimony involving real estate secured transactions and guarantees as well as title insurance, escrow and related disputes. He works with all aspects of civil litigation and discovery through trial and appeal.

Mr. Morger has counseled cannabis industry clients on lease and financing transactions and defended property owners in claims brought by federally chartered banks based on medical dispensary issues.

Online registration HERE

Download a program 2019_12_11_Sale_Remedies.pdf

The Alameda County Law Library is a multiple activity provider approved by the State Bar of California.

Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession December 2019

Thursday December 12

Noon to 1:00

1 Hour MCLE Competency Issues Credit

$35 advance registration, $45 day of event

Speaker: David Mann, Northern California Consultant, The Other Bar

Mann approaches this very serious topic in a manner that incorporates humor and irony and invites attorneys to engage in a bit of sometimes much-needed self-reflection. He incorporates his own situation as a case study of an addict. You will laugh, you may be shocked and you will be tempted to cry.

He will review the brain chemistry of addiction and alcoholism, and discuss the behavioral and health consequences of the disease. The personality traits of attorneys and the qualities of the legal profession combine to make lawyers significantly more susceptible to addiction, and more difficult to treat than the general population. A self-diagnosis exercise is provided for attorneys who are concerned that they may have a problem.  He discusses both systemic and individual solutions to the problem, with references to strategies and resources available to attorneys. The ethical rules concerning substance abuse are cited.

Online registration HERE

Download a program flyer - Substance Abuse MCLE 2019 Dec flyer.pdf

Alameda County Law Library is a multiple activity MCLE provider approved by the State Bar of California.