BLS x JD/MBA Present: Paul, Weiss NY Corporate Law 101 Panel

"The Business Law Society and the JD/MBA Students’ Association present: Paul, Weiss NY Corporate Law 101 Panel

We invite you to join 4 esteemed Paul, Weiss New York associates for a discussion on the various practice groups within the firm's Corporate Department. You will hear about their typical day as an associate, what skills are necessary for success, and much more!

Please register here by Monday, January 31 at noon: https://forms.gle/q2Er9gSxXxr39nwZ6

 

Panelist Biographies:

Santa’s Christmas secret? Maybe it’s artificial intelligence: Op-Ed co-authored by Professor Benjamin Alarie

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

In an op-ed published in the Globe and Mail, Dec. 22, 2021, Arthur Cockfield, an associate dean and professor with Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law and Faculty of Law Professor Benjamin Alarie, Osler Chair in Business Law and CEO of Blue J, an AI company that helps lawyers, write about the future of AI: 

B.C.’s law allowing directors to be appointed without a shareholder meeting must be changed

Jeffrey MacIntosh
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

B.C.’s law allowing directors to be appointed without a shareholder meeting must be changed

(first published in the Globe and Mail, November 10, 2021)

The goings-on at Rogers Communications Inc. with two competing boards contending for mastery, demonstrates how corporate governance can sometimes resemble a blood sport.

We now have a winner in the battle of the boards, with Edward Rogers coming out on top. Last Friday, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick of the B.C. Supreme Court held that Mr. Rogers was fully entitled to remove and replace five directors by an instrument in writing signed only by him. Christmas dinner with the Rogers will never be the same.

There are, however, a number of troubling aspects of this decision.

Mr. Rogers’s opponents argued that the outcome of the case should depend not only on the company’s constitution and its interaction with the governing legislation (the Business Corporations Act in British Columbia, where Rogers Communications is registered).

Rather, his opponents argued, the court should have regard to a reasonable shareholder expectation that company directors would only be removed and/or replaced as they always had been in the past: at a shareholders meeting.

These shareholder expectations were furthered by Rogers Communications’ repeated public statements that it is committed to “good” or “sound” corporate governance practices.

BLS Presents: New York Panel

BLS is excited to present our New York Panel. Please join us for a panel discussion and Q&A on practicing law in the Big Apple!

 **To attend, please register by MIDNIGHT on Monday, November 15th: https://forms.gle/GoEn1F5tFmAJ47oQ9**

 **We will e-mail a Zoom link closer to the date of the panel.**

Panelists include:

Business Law Society presents: In-House Panel

BLS Presents: In-House Panel

Friday, March 12, 2021
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Via zoom

Registration required (see BLS Facebook page for registration details)

Venture Capital Law Society: Careers in Venture Capital

VCLS: Careers in Venture Capital

Monday, November 23, 2020
12:30 PM -1:30 PM

Location:  Zoom

BLS Presents: New York Panel

BLS Presents: New York Panel

Friday, November 20, 2020

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Via zoom (see BLS Facebook page for details)

No registration required.

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