Listen and Learn -- Duty of Loyalty (Corporations)

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today's episode, we're talking about the duty of loyalty owed by directors and officers of a corporation, and the main types of conduct they are prohibited from engaging in.

In this episode, we discuss:

• A review of the rule for duty of loyalty
• The four types of prohibited conduct when the officer's interest is placed before that of the corporation
• The situations in which a conflict of interest occurs
• Usurpation of a corporate opportunity
• Other topics that duty of loyalty is often tested with
• Analyzing three hypos from California bar exam essays involving duty of loyalty

Resources:

• “Listen and Learn” series (https://barexamtoolbox.com/bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-archive-by-topic/bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-explaining-individual-mee-and-california-bar-essay-questions/#listen-learn)
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2015 (https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/admissions/gbx/July2015_CBXSelectedAnswers_EssayQuestions1-6_R.pdf)
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2009 (https://juraxbar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/February-2009-CBX.pdf)
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2002 (https://juraxbar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/February-2002-CBX.pdf)
• Examples & Explanations: Corporations, by Alan R. Palmiter (https://www.amazon.com/Corporations-Examples-Explanations-Alan-Palmiter/dp/1454802472)
• Podcast Episode 23: Tackling an MEE Corporations Question (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-23-tackling-an-mee-corporations-question/)
• Podcast Episode 35: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Corporations (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-35-tackling-a-california-bar-exam-essay-corporations/)
• Podcast Episode 120: Listen and Learn – Piercing the Corporate Veil (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-120-listen-and-learn-piercing-the-corporate-veil/)

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(https://barexamtoolbox.com/episode-124-listen-and-learn-duty-of-loyalty-corporations/)

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Alison & Lee