Our Partner and Shareholder, Jacqueline Radebaugh and Senior of Counsel, Yev Muchnik recently wrote this Exclusive Report: Solving the Riddle of the DAO with Colorado’s Cooperative Laws for The Defiant in which they reflect their legal analysis and anecdotal experience with DAOs adopting the LCA cooperative legal framework in the United States; as with other …
PATHWAYS TO PURPOSE DRIVEN LEGAL PRACTICE – JACQUELINE’S JOURNEY
Like many of my colleagues in transactional practice who focus on the social enterprise spectrum, the path to my current role was not a straight line. It has however been very true to what I believe in: integrity, justice and fairness, and service to others. I hope this personal post gives you some insight on …
Student Note | Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Combat the Costs of Obesity: City-Level Taxes and How the Federal Government Should Complement Them
ABSTRACT In many parts of the world, the struggle to procure enough food for survival has been replaced with a food landscape of abundance. This shift means that many people now have more than enough access to food. Industrialized agriculture has helped alleviate hunger, but it has also led to the creation of calorie-rich but …
Patagonia “Exits to Climate”: A Win for Capitalism, But a Mixed Bag for Stakeholder Governance
I, like most, was delighted to read the news that Patagonia’s shareholders decided to give away ownership of the company to benefit the climate and not private equity, a strategic buyer, or public capital markets. We’ve written extensively on mechanisms for mission protection in corporate entities. It appears that the Chouinard family, which owned …
Queering my Legal Practice, Part 2: Transactional Law in Defense of Queerness
Hi JWPC Blog Readers, Some of you have met me, some of you haven’t. So… I’m Erika(she), I am one of the associates here at JWPC. My background and passion is in food system change, but this post isn’t about that. This two-part post is about my queerness and its impact on my legal …
Queering my Legal Practice, Part 1: Queerness as a Lens
Hi JWPC Blog Readers, Some of you have met me, some of you haven’t. So… I’m Erika(she), I am one of the associates here at JWPC. My background and passion is in food system change, but this post isn’t about that. This two-part post is about my queerness and its impact on my legal practice. …
PR: JACQUELINE RADEBAUGH PROMOTED TO SENIOR ASSOCIATE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2, 2022 Jason Wiener|p.c., a public benefit corporation, is delighted to announce the promotion of Jacqueline to Senior Associate, effective immediately. Firm founder, Jason Wiener says: “Since Jacqueline joined the firm, she has brought immense creativity, rigor, and hard work to our team and to our clients. I am proud of …
What is the legal treatment of payments to DAO contributors?
If you have been active on Twitter this past year, you probably came across a reference to DAOs and maybe you saw statistics about developers and other folks quitting their jobs to become full-time web3 and DAO contributors. In my work, I have received many questions about DAOs’ legal status and distributions of tokens, and …
Revised Ohio LLC Act – Important changes coming up
Last year, Ohio revised its Revised Code (“ORC”) to update many provisions concerning the Limited Liability Company Act (the “Act”). The Act replaces the Chapter 1705 of the ORC with Chapter 1706. The new provisions will apply to both new and old LLCs and it will govern domestic and foreign LLCs formed before and after …
Patrons, Patronizing, Patronage Dividend
These are all terms used in the cooperative business community and sometimes their meanings are unclear or jumbled. This blog will discuss the definitions of these terms with examples of how they are used by different types of cooperatives. A patron patronizes a cooperative and receives a patronage dividend at the end of the year. …