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E.A. Stacey Olliff III
9401 Wilshire Boulevard
Ninth Floor
Beverly Hills, California 90212-2974
 

Communication Center 
Phone: (310) 281-6306
E-mail: Email Me
Fax: (310) 859-2325
Web site: http://www.ecjlaw.com


PositionAreas of PracticeEducation
Published WorksAffiliations


Stacey Olliff is of counsel in ECJ's Business and Corporate Law Department.  His practice includes Internet and technology law matters, general contract and business law, mergers and acquisitions, and banking and commercial finance.

Mr. Olliff graduated cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1978, where he was Articles Editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation.  He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida in 1975.  Prior to joining ECJ in 1981, he practiced with the firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Mr. Olliff has written extensively on corporate and commercial law topics in numerous legal publications, and has been featured as a speaker or panelist at many programs and seminars for members of the legal and business community.  He has also been active in several bar association efforts to clarify the practice and procedures surrounding legal opinions in business transactions.

Mr. Olliff is a member of the American, California, Los Angeles, and Beverly Hills Bar Associations and has been active in the Corporate Law Departments Section and the Commercial Law Committee of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Financial Lawyers Conference.  He previously has served on the Board of Trustees and as Chair of the Business and Corporations Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and as Chair of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Bar Association as well as on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation.

Current Employment Position(s):
Of Counsel
Areas of Practice:
Banking and Commercial Finance
General Business Law
Mergers and Acquisitions
Internet Technology Law
Trademark and Technology Licensing
Real Estate Acquisition and Financing
General Real Estate Law
Bar Admissions:
California, 1979
Education:
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978
J.D.
Honors: Cum Laude
Law Journal: Harvard Journal on Legislation, Articles Editor


University of Central Florida, 1975
B.A.
Honors: Summa Cum Laude


Published Works:
"California Provides Tax Relief to Small Businesses" (Co-Author), ECJ Legal Up, Winter, 1999


"New Case Clarifies the Law on Payment-in-Full Checks", ECJ Legal Update, Summer, 1999


Co-Author, "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose...Even in Cyberspace: Internet Domain Names and Trademark Law", ECJ Legal Up, Summer, 1999


"Privacy Policies - Why You Need One and What It Should Be" (Co-Author), ECJ Internet & Tech Law Reporter, June, 1999


"Handling Year 2000 Compliance Inquiries from Third Parties" (Co-Author), ECJ's Year 2000 Law Reporter, January, 1999


"Payment-in-Full Checks: Money in the Bank?", ECJ Legal Update, Winter, 1997


"The Effect of 'Principles of Law and Equity' under Article 9", Los Angeles County Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section Newsletter, Summer, 1996


"Bankruptcy Danger for Software and Other Technology Licensees", ECJ Legal Update, Winter, 1996


"Aspen Enterprises v. Bodge: Mixed Collateral Decision Goes Flat", UCC Bulletin, Clark Boardman Callaghan, November, 1995


"Consignor Beware!" Gem Business Facets (Co-Author), American Gem Trade Association Newsletter, July, 1995


"Not In Dispute", Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 8, 1995


"The Remedies Opinion: Precautions and Pitfalls for the Business Lawyer,", Beverly Hills Bar Journal, Winter, 1990


"New California Legislation Tames White Dragon", Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business and Corporations Law Section Newsletter, October/November, 1990


"New California Legislation Affecting Corporations: Taming White Dragon and Facilitating Mergers", CEB California Business Law Section Reporter, October, 1990


Principal Editor, "1989 Report of the Corporations on Legal Opinions in Business Transactions", State Bar of California, Business Law Section, 1989


General Partnership or Joint Venture Interests as Securities", Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business and Corporations Law Section Newsletter, December, 1987


"Notice of UCC Foreclosure Sale Must be Given to Guarantors", Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business and Corporations Law Section Newsletter, January, 1987


"Changes to Civil Code Section 3440", Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business and Corporations Law Section Newsletter, June, 1986


"Compliance Problems Under the EFT Act and Regulation E", 2 Journal of Retail Banking 21, September, 1980


"The Electronic Fund Transfer Act: A Primer", 40 Ohio State Law Journal 531, 1979


Classes/Seminars Taught:
Moderator/panelist, "Enforcing Your Company's IP Rights on the Internet", Intellectual Property for In-House Counsel program, Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of California, Beverly Hills, CA, May 2007


Speaker, E-Commerce and Internet Advertising Law,, The E.W. Scripps Annual Legal Retreat, Cincinnati, OH, June 2006


Speaker, E-Commerce and Internet Advertising Law, 7th Annual Technology Law Conference, Association for Corporate Counsel (ACC), Pepperdine Law School, Malibu, CA, June, 2006


Presenter, "The Interplay Between Equity and the Commercial Code", Los Angeles County Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section Program, January, 1996


Organizer, the 27th Annual Securities Regulation Seminar, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business and Corporations Law Section, October, 1994


Organizer, Third Annual Entrepreneur's Workshop, Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Department, September, 1993


Panelist, Annual Glendon Tremaine Symposium on "Recent Developments of Interest to the Business Lawyer", Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business and Corporations Law Section, 1988 - 1992


Presenter, "Business Opinions 1991", PLI Program, San Francisco, CA, April, 1991


Presenter, "Legal Opinions in Business Transactions--Drafting Techniques and New Developments", Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business and Corporations Law Section Program, June, 1990


Presenter, "Representing the California Business: Liability, Financing and Transactional Considerations", Twelfth Annual Spring Program, State Bar of California, Business Law Section, San Francisco, Beverly Hills & San Diego, CA, May & June, 1990


"Business Opinions 1990", PLI Program, San Francisco, CA, February, 1990


"Legal Opinions", State Bar of California, Business Law Section Program, Los Angeles and Newport Beach, CA, December, 1989


Professional Associations and Memberships:
Beverly Hills Bar Association


Los Angeles County Bar Association


State Bar of California


American Bar Association


Financial Lawyers Conference


Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Association


Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Business and Securities Law Department


Past Employment Positions:
Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco and Los Angeles




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