Daniel S. Kleinberger

William Mitchell College of Law

875 Summit Ave

St. Paul, MN 55105-3076

United States

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Scholarly Papers (51)

1.

A User's Guide to the New Uniform Limited Partnership Act

Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 37, p. 647, 2004
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 01 Dec 2005
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 1,598 (25,031)

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ULPA, RULPA, NCCUSL, Uniform Entity Acts

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The Next Generation: The Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act

Business Lawyer, Vol. 62, p. 515, 2007, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 60, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 07-13
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 01 Dec 2006
Daniel S. Kleinberger and Carter G. Bishop
William Mitchell College of Law and Suffolk University Law School
Downloads 974 (51,582)

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limited liability company, LLC, operating agreement, uniform law, charging order, shelf, law reform, NCCUSL, apparent authority, closely held, oppression, derivative, special litigation committee

3.

A Myth Deconstructed: The 'Emperor’s New Clothes' on the Low Profit Limited Liability Company

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-03
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 877 (59,502)
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Limited Liability Company, LLC, Low Profit Limited Liability Company, L3C, Program Related Investment, PRI, tax exempt organizations, Socially Beneficial Investing, Tranch, foundations, charities, private foundations, hedge funds, leverage

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The Single Member Limited Liability Company as Disregarded Entity: Now You See it, Now You Don’t

Business Law Today, Forthcoming, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-04, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 10-12
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 02 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 05 May 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger and Carter G. Bishop
William Mitchell College of Law and Suffolk University Law School
Downloads 865 (60,623)

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limited liability company, LLC, single member limited liability company, SMLLC, transparency, pass through taxation, Lattanzio, Hagerman, pro se representation, transfer taxes, transfer restrictions, conflation, entity aggregate

5.

Direct Versus Derivative and the Law of Limited Liability Companies

Baylor Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 63, 2006, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 47
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 19 May 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 650 (88,393)

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limited liability company, direct, derivative, close corporation, closely held, partnership, oppression, diversity, dissolution, standing

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Agents of the Good, Servants of Evil: Harry Potter and the Law of Agency

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 67
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 May 2007
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 581 (101,794)
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Harry Potter, Voldemort, Dumbledore, Snape, agency, fiduciary, fiduciary duty, good conduct, authority, actual authority, apparent authority, control, enterprise liability, loyalty, termination, consent, Restatement

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Seven Points to Explain Why the Law Ought Not Allow the Elimination of Fiduciary Duty Within Closely Held Businesses - Cardozo is Dead: We Have Killed Him

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 61
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 30 Nov 2006
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 492 (125,086)

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fiduciary, duty, Delaware, Cardozo, 'freedom of contract', eliminate, limit, restrict, limited liability company, LLC, Re-ULLCA, NCCUSL, uniform law, business, organization, entity

8.

Careful What You Wish For - Freedom of Contract and the Necessity of Careful Scrivening

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 52, XXIV Pubogram, No. 19, October 2006
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 22 Oct 2006
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 450 (139,331)

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limited liability company, limited partnership, contractarian, fiduciary duty, Delaware, eliminate restrict limit contract

9.

When the Law is Understood - L3C No

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-07
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 13 Mar 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger and J. William Callison
William Mitchell College of Law and Faegre & Benson LLP
Downloads 430 (146,805)
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limited liability company, LLC, low profit limited liability company, L3C, program related investment, PRI, tax exempt organizations, socially beneficial investing, tranch, foundations, charities, private foundations, hedge funds, leverage

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Charging Orders and the New Uniform Limited Partnership Act Dispelling Rumors of Disaster

Probate and Property, Vol. 18, July/August 2004
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 17 Sep 2006
Daniel S. Kleinberger, Carter G. Bishop and Thomas Geu
William Mitchell College of Law, Suffolk University Law School and University of South Dakota Law School
Downloads 377 (170,435)

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charging order, limited liability company, LLC, partnership, corporation, taxation

11.

The Plight of the Bare Naked Assignee

Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 587, 2009, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Jan 2011
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 334 (194,624)

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Irony, LLC, Corporations, Business Law, Property Rrights

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The Closely Held Business Through the Entity-Aggregate Prism

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 827, 2005, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 25 Oct 2005
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 329 (198,478)

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Aggregate, Closely Held Business, Corporation, Entity, LLC, Partnership

13.

Wanted: An Ethos of Personal Responsibility - Why Codes of Ethics and Schools of Law Don't Make for Ethical Lawyers

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 21, p. 365, 1989, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 312 (209,489)

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Legal Instruction, Law School, Ethics, Professional Responsibility, Legal Analysis, Social Theory, Max Weber, moral responsibility, morality

14.

Diversity Jurisdiction for Llcs

Business Law Today, Vol. 14, p. 31, October 2004
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 17 Sep 2006
Carter G. Bishop and Daniel S. Kleinberger
Suffolk University Law School and William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 286 (229,808)

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Diversity, jurisdiction, limited liability company, LLC, federal

15.

Direct vs. Derivative, or What's a Lawsuit between Friends in an 'Incorporated Partnership?'

William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 22, p. 1203, 1996
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 30 Nov 2005
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 285 (230,633)

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Closely Held Corporations, Direct, Derivative, Minnesota

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A Myth Deconstructed: The 'Emperor's New Clothes' on the Low-Profit Limited Liability Company

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 35, No. 3, 2010
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Jan 2011
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 263 (250,369)

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Delaware, Journal, Corporate, Law, low-profit limited liability company, L3C, Internal Revenue Code

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An SMLLC Conundrum: Disregarded for Federal Tax Purposes but Not in Federal Court

Journal of Business Entities, Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 4, January/February 2010, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 09-42, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 121
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 17 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2010
Carter G. Bishop and Daniel S. Kleinberger
Suffolk University Law School and William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 263 (250,369)

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Why Not Good Faith? The Foibles of Fairness in the Law of Close Corporations

William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 16, 1990, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1990-03
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 235 (280,097)

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Corporate Law, Corporate Policy, Business Judgment Rule, Good Faith, Shareholder Oppression, Reasonable Expectations, Fiduciary Duty, Inter se, Close Corporation, Closely Held Corporation, Corporation

19.

ABA Business Law Section, on Behalf of its Committees on LLCs and Nonprofit Organizations, Opposes Legislation for Low Profit Limited Liability Companies (L3Cs)

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-05
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 May 2012
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 212 (309,311)
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low profit limited liability company, L3C, hybrid, social justice, benefit corporation, business, ABA, American Bar Association, Business Law Section, LLC, limited liability company, tranched, program related investment, PRI, social benefit, jeopardizing investment, moral capitalism

20.

No Risk Allocation Need Apply: The Twisted Minnesota Law of Indemnification

William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 777-842, 1987, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1987-01
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 28 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 185 (352,897)

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Contracts, Indemnification, Construction, Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation, Negligence, Indemnity, Strict Construction, Contribution, risk allocation, insurance, CGL

21.

Sorting Through the Soup: How Do LLCs, LLPs and LLLPs Fit within the Regulations and Legal Doctrines?

Business Law Today, Vol. 13, November-December 2003, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 24 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 173 (372,668)

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limited liability company, LLC, limited liability partnership, LLP, limited liability limited partnership, LLLP, corporations, business entities, business organizations, business regulation, common law

22.

Delaware Dissolves the Glue of Capitalism: Exonerating from Claims of Incompetence Those Who Manage Other People’s Money

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-01
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Apr 2011
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 155 (409,820)

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Delaware, Corporations, Corporate, Gross Negligence, Good Faith, Business Judgment, Race to the Bottom, Exoneration/Exonerate, Exculpation/Exculpate, Other People’s Money, Disney, Caremark, Stone, Ritter, Lyondale

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Who Owns the Christmas Trees? - the Disposition of Property Used by a Partnership

Kansas Law Review, Vol. 39, p. 245, 1991
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Nov 2005
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 138 (450,333)

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A Crack in the Shield? Malpractice Coverage at Risk

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 49, Bench and Bar of Minnesota, Vol. 63, p. 26, 2006
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 08 Oct 2006
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 128 (478,405)

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liability insurance, malpractice, attorney lawyer, professional firm, third party beneficiary, separate legal person

25.

'Magnificent Circularity' and the Churkendoose: LLC Members and Federal Employment Law

Oklahoma City University Law Review, Vol. 22, 1997
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 30 Oct 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 100 (575,945)

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Employment Law, Limited Liability Companies, partnerships, corporations

26.

Is the Delaware Court of Chancery Going 'Objective' on Us? Or Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago v. DV Realty Advisors LLC: More Delaware Permutations on Good Faith

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-12
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 08 Sep 2012
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 88 (624,766)
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good faith, fair dealing, good faith and fair dealing, covenant, contractual covenant, fairness, reasonableness, contract interpretation, limited liability company, limited partnership, Delaware, chancery, objective, subjective, contract interpretation

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'Apparent Servants' and Making Appearances Matter: A Critique of Bagot v. Airport & Airline Taxi Cab Corporation

William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, p. 1527, 2002
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger and Peter B. Knapp
William Mitchell College of Law and Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Downloads 86 (633,636)

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agency law, apparent authority, Bagot, taxi cab, apparent servant, respondeat superior, employee, servant, master, employer, torts

28.

The Limited Effect of 'Maximum Effect'

Bus. L. Today (Aug. 13, 2020), available at https://businesslawtoday.org/2020/08/limited-effect-maximum-effect/, U of Houston Law Center No. 2023-A-16
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger and Douglas K. Moll
William Mitchell College of Law and University of Houston Law Center
Downloads 70 (712,802)

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maximum effect, delaware, limited liability company, llc, freedom of contract

29.

The Reporter's Rejoinder

Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 37, p. 981, 2004
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 30 Nov 2005
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 56 (800,026)

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Uniform Limited Partnership Act

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LLC and Partnership Transfer Restrictions Excluded From UCC Article 9 Overrides

Business Law Today (February 2019)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 Jan 2023
Carl S. Bjerre, Daniel S. Kleinberger, Edwin E. Smith and Steven O. Weise
University of Oregon School of Law, William Mitchell College of Law, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P. and Proskauer Rose LLP
Downloads 54 (814,452)

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LLCs, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, Article 9, Uniform Commercial Code

31.

Ethos and Conscience - A Rejoinder

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 21, 1989, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 29 Jun 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 54 (814,452)

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Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, Law School, Legal Instruction

32.

Guilty Knowledge

William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 22, 1996, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1996-03
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2010
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 49 (852,726)

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Agency law, information attribution, scope of employment, acquired within, present knowledge, imputation, principal

33.

Limited Liability Limited

Business Law Today (September 2019)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 13 Apr 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 48 (860,859)

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Limited Liability Companies, LLCs, Shield, Dass, Tentexkota

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The LLC as Recombinant Entity: Revisiting Fundamental Questions Through the LLC Lens

Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, Vol. 14, 2009
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Apr 2022
William Mitchell College of Law and Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Downloads 44 (894,776)

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limited liability company, L.L.C., limited liability partnership, L.L.P., business organizations

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The Direct-Derivative Distinction, the Special Litigation Committee, and the Uniform Act: A Response to Professor Weidner

77 The Business Lawyer, Vol. 77, pp. 433-472 (Spring 2022)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Feb 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 37 (960,607)

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LLC, limited liability company, direct, distinction, SLC, special litigation committee, ADR, alternate dispute resolution, corporation, litigation, lawsuit, uniform acts

36.

What Is a Charging Order and Why Should a Business Lawyer Care?

Business Law Today (March 2019)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 09 Jan 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 35 (991,101)

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Charging Order, Closely-held Corporations

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Delaware’s Implied Contractual Covenant of Good Faith and “Sibling Rivalry” Among Equity Holders

Proceedings of the  21st Century Commercial Law Forum: 15th International Symposium 2015 Tsinghua University School of Law, (Beijing, China)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 Feb 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 31 (1,023,132)

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Covenant, Good faith, Fair dealing, Delaware, UCC, Uniform Commercial Code

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Minority Oppression and the LLC: Manere v. Collins, the Uniform Act, and Comment 701

Business Law Today (April 8, 2021)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Apr 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 30 (1,034,192)

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LLCs, Limited Liabilty Corporations, Close-Corporations, Minority, Oppression, Manere

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Series of Unincorporated Business Entities: the Mobius Strip and Klein Bottle of Business Entity Law

Business Law Today (February 17, 2015)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 May 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 26 (1,080,683)

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LLC, Protected series, Internal shields, Limited Liabilty Company, Uniform Law Commission

40.

Don’t Dabble in Delaware

Business Law Today (July 20, 2017)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 12 May 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
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Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, LLC, Delaware Court of Chancery

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No Longer Peas in a Pod: More Implications of the Divorce of Minnesota Corporate and LLC Law

Bench & Bar Of Minnesota (February 2018)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 02 Feb 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
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LLCs, Minnesota, Corporate Law, Partnership, Uniform Limited Liability Company Act

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We Interrupt This Program...to Talk of Transfer Restrictions

Business Law Today (September 2018)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 09 Jan 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
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LLCs, Limited Liability Companies, Iowa, Operating Agreements, Transfer Restrictions

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Like Great Britain, a Limited Liability Company May Have an Unwritten Constitution

Business Law Today (September 2017)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 06 Jan 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 25 (1,092,643)

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Limited Liability Companies, Operating agreements

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Two Decades of "Alternative Entities": From Tax Rationalization Through Alphabet Soup to Contract as Deity

Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, Vol. 14, 2009
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Apr 2022
William Mitchell College of Law and Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Downloads 23 (1,117,277)

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limited liability company, L.L.C., limited liability partnership, L.L.P., business organizations

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Protecting the Sacred Writing: The Operating Agreement

Business Law Today (February 15, 2018)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 04 Mar 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 22 (1,129,750)

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Limited Liability Companies, LLCs, Contract, Oral modification, Operating agreements

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Delineating the Implied Covenant and Providing for 'Good Faith'

Business Law Today (May 30, 2017)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 12 May 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
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ULLCA, Delination, Good faith, Implied covenant, LLC, Delaware

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The Fatal Design Defects of L3Cs

The Nonprofit Quarterly, Summer 2010, at 39-43
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 16 May 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
Downloads 17 (1,191,682)

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Limited Liability Company, LLC, Low-Profit Limited Liability Company, L3C, Program-Related Investment, PRI, Tax Exempt Organizations, Socially Beneficial Investing, Private Foundations

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How Can I Be a Party to a Contract and Yet Lack Standing to Sue Another Party for Breach?

Business Law Today (July 16, 2018)
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 12 May 2023
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
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Direct-derivative distinction, ULLCA, Limited Liability Company

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Donahue's Fils Aîné: Reflections on Wilkes and the Legitimate Rights of Selfish Ownership

Western New England Law Review, Vol. 33, 2011
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Apr 2022
William Mitchell College of Law and Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Downloads 12 (1,249,831)

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Close corporations, Partnership, Fiduciary duty

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Foreword: Shape Shifting in the Law

William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2012
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 29 Apr 2022
William Mitchell College of Law and Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Downloads 8 (1,287,956)
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business organizations, non-profit, "social value" enterprise

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Fezzik, Are There Rocks Ahead? Navigating the Oppression Doctrine in the Age of LLCs

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 24 Feb 2025
Daniel S. Kleinberger
William Mitchell College of Law
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close corporation, closely held, unfair prejudice, unfairly prejudicial, oppressive, oppression, LLC, limited liability company, CHB, CHLLC, convergence, overlap, dissolution, remedy