Register now for our free CLE Webinar at noon ET Thursday, May 25, 2023
Donald J. “Don” Weidner, mediator and arbitrator with Upchurch Watson White & Max and Dean Emeritus, Florida State University College of Law, will consider the Florida LLC Act’s provisions for when a dissatisfied member of an LLC may bring a direct claim against another member, manager, or the LLC, or whether that member’s claim will be treated as a derivative claim on behalf of the LLC.
He will explore whether, if a member of an LLC brings a derivative action on behalf of the LLC, the LLC has the right to respond by creating a special litigation committee (“SLC”) to determine how the derivative claim should be handled. And he’ll consider the judicial standard of review of the composition and work of SLCs, with special emphasis on Delaware.
The Florida Bar has accredited this Webinar with 1.0 General Continuing Legal Education credits and 1.0 Business Litigation Certification Credits.
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Don is dean emeritus at Florida State University College of Law, where until 2016 he served as dean for almost 25 years. He served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Uniform Law Commission from 2011-2023 and was the Commission’s Reporter for the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (1994). He is also an elected member of The American Law Institute and serves on its Members Consultative Group on the Restatement of the Law of Corporate Governance. He gave a similar talk on special litigation committees for the Florida Tax Institute earlier this year in Tampa.
From 2011-’13, Don was an appellate judge within the Gulf Coast Claims Facility to resolve disputes arising from the British Petroleum Oil Spill at Deepwater Horizon. Don is co-author of The Revised Uniform Partnership Act (Thomson Reuters 2021) with Robert W. Hillman and Allan G. Donn. He also has written numerous articles on limited liability companies and on partnerships. He has taught business and property classes at Florida State and other law schools, including Stanford, the University of Texas, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of South Carolina. He also teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution.
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