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Business & Corporate Law

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Business and Corporate Law includes, but is not limited to:

  • Antitrust Law
  • Supply Chain Law
  • Contracts
  • Negotiations
  • Distributor and Reseller Agreements
  • Trade Regulation
  • Agency Regulation
  • Employment and Labor Matters
  • General Counsel
  • Domestic and International Transactions
  • Corporate Law
  • Corporate Formation
  • Corporate Governance
  • Shareholder Disputes
  • Shareholder Agreements
  • Investment Opportunities
  • Corporate Transactions
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Buy-Out Agreements
  • Winding up and Dissolution

Estate Planning

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Estate Planning includes, but is not limited to:

  • Probate
  • Trusts (Revocable Living Trust)
  • Trust Administration
  • Wills – Simple and Complex
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Power of Attorney
  • Medical Privacy Documents
  • Organ Donation and DNR Plans
  • Burial or Cremation Planning
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California senate approves right to die legislation (SB 128)

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Modeled on a law first enacted in Oregon in 1997, California Senate Bill 128 would permit doctors to provide lethal drugs to patients with less than six months to live. The measure passed 23-14, over passionate objections from Republicans who argued it devalues life.

The California Senate on Thursday took a key step toward being the sixth state to pass a controversial “Death with Dignity” bill, two weeks after the California Medical Association dropped its 28-year opposition to such legislation.
Other states include New Mexico, Montana, Washington, and Vermont. The bill now advances to the California Assembly, where the deadline to pass the legislation is Sept. 11.
The Senate vote came seven months after the debate in California reached a climax with the death of Brittany Maynard, a 29 year-old Californian with terminal brain cancer. She moved to Oregon to be one of the 750 people in the state to take advantage of the medically assisted dying law it passed in 1997.

Opposition came from a leading family values organization in California, which says vulnerable people will be pressured to die prematurely now that Democrats in the state Senate are promoting suicide as official state policy.
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Summer Camp’s New Duties to Disclose

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California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal has ruled that summer camps, as daycare providers, have a duty to minors and their parents to disclose suspected molestation by camp employees, a duty beyond simply caring for the campers.

The case arose after parents brought suit against Keith Edward Woodhouse and his employer, Camp on the Hill, a summer camp for first through sixth graders run by the First Baptist Church of San Jose.  Woodhouse had been repeatedly reported for inappropriate behavior with children, yet parents were never informed as the camp elected to turn their backs on the issue.

Special Relationship Triggers Duty

As with previous decisions in California, the Appeals Court decided, as a day care provider, acting in loco parentis, it had a special relationship which imposed a duty to prevent harm to the minors attending the camp and the general duty to act reasonably.  The California Supreme Court had previously found that therapists have a duty to third parties endangered by their clients to disclose credible threats against those third parties. State appellate courts have found a special relationship between a school district, a student and her mother, imposing a duty to disclose molestation by another student.

 

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Local Newspaper Sold

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Tribune Publishing, owner of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune newspaper, has agreed to purchase San Diego’s largest newspaper for $85 million in cash and stock, giving the company a great position over the publishing business in California’s two largest cities.

The Union Tribune will return to its longtime name, the San Diego Union-Tribune. The paper will be led on a day-to-day basis by Russ Newton, the new president and chief operating officer.

As part of the deal, Chicago-based Tribune Publishing created the California News Group, to oversee operations of the Los Angeles Times Media Group and the U-T. Times Publisher Austin Beutner has been named publisher of the U-T and will also serve as chief executive of the news group.

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Starbucks & PayPal Security Breach

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Starbucks

If you frequent Starbucks often and make use of the mobile phone app, check your account and credit(s) in the wake of the aftermath following Starbucks’s security breach in June, 2015.

Some Starbucks card holders and mobile app users recently received a disturbing announcement that some users had their Starbucks accounts drained without using an account number.

In certain instances, Starbucks was able to credit accounts following fraudulent transactions. However, in some circumstances, users were required to act on their own and dispute charges directly with their banks and/or credit card companies.

Paypal

This year has definitely been a bad one for cyber security and data breaches, especially for users using mobile applications. Payment giant, PayPal, also had their accounts hacked this month.  Researchers at Michigan-based Duo Labs identified a vulnerability in PayPal’s two-step security mechanism for mobile users — a mechanism similar to those used to protect some bank and e-mail accounts. Breaches of two-factor authentication – after users enter a username and password, a code is sent to the user’s cellphone to confirm their identity – are rare.

Lesson here: keep a close eye on your accounts maintained in your mobile phones. Second, immediately notify responsible companies of any suspicious activity, and third, change your passwords frequently. The Starbucks hack seems to be partly enabled by hackers recent intrusion into customers’ weak Starbucks account passwords to steal hundreds of dollars in minutes.  The PayPal hack is a sign of sophistication developing in hackers’ knowledge of available security measures.

Hello world! Initial Publication

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Welcome to Ryan-Cruz Law, APC. Ryan-Cruz Law is founded this June, 2015 with the mission of reviving the role of “counselors at law.” Often law firms advertise themselves as “attorneys at law” and proceed to perform legal tasks.  However, a connection between the attorney and client can get lost in the performance of legal work. Cultivating that special connection between a client and their attorney is necessary to successfully carry on custom legal representation and really allow an attorney to act, and excel, as a legal counselor.

This firm is set out to act as true legal counselors while providing clients with quality service. I sincerely appreciate your interest in this firm and hope you receiving a positive experience at Ryan-Cruz Law, APC.