Keith Paul Bishop of Allen Matkins Launches California Corporate Law Blog

IRVINE, Calif. - August 4, 2010 - Attorneys looking for the most current and insightful information about California corporate and securities laws now have a unique new online source to bookmark. Leading California law firm Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP is pleased to announce the launch of California Corporate Law, a blog that professionals in the field are likely to find not only engaging and informative but indispensable.

California Corporate Law (calcorporatelaw.com) is written by Keith Paul Bishop, a corporate and securities attorney and partner in the Orange County office of Allen Matkins. The blog covers California securities laws and regulations, corporate governance, the California Department of Corporations, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the California Secretary of State, and pending legislation and rulemaking, as well as other pertinent topics.

"California Corporate Law is for anyone interested in the latest on corporate and securities laws from a California perspective," said Bishop, an avid writer who has already contributed dozens of posts to the blog in anticipation of its official launch. "I've found it to be an ideal outlet for sharing some of the things I've learned as a securities and financial services regulator and in more than twenty years of practice."

Bishop has held several significant California government positions including Commissioner of Corporations for the State of California (1996-1997); Deputy Secretary for Business Regulations and General Counsel to the California Business Transportation and Housing Agency (1993-1996); and Interim Savings and Loan Commissioner for the State of California (1993-1996). In 1991, he was appointed by the Rules Committee of the California Senate to the California Senate Commission on Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights and Securities Transactions.

For the last several years, Bishop has served as practice consultant to the leading treatise on California's securities laws, Practice Under the California Securities Laws; has been a regular contributor to Broc Romanek's blog at TheCorporateCounsel.net; and has written articles and commentary that have appeared in the Los Angeles Lawyer, Daily Journal, The Recorder, Insights, Sacramento Bee, Orange County Register, Orange County Business Journal, Chapman Law Review, and Business Law News, among others. He also is an adjunct professor of law at Chapman University School of Law where he has taught classes in advanced topics in corporate governance.

To read California Corporate Law, follow it on Twitter, or subscribe to a daily newsletter or RSS Feed, go to http://www.calcorporatelaw.com/.

ABOUT ALLEN MATKINS

Allen Matkins, founded in 1977, is a California-based law firm with approximately 220 attorneys in four major metropolitan areas of California: Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco and San Diego. The firm's core specialties include real estate, real estate and commercial finance, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, construction, land use, natural resources, environmental, corporate and securities, intellectual property, joint ventures, taxation, employment and labor law, and dispute resolution and litigation in all these matters. For more than 30 years, Allen Matkins has helped clients turn opportunity and challenge into success by providing practical advice, innovative solutions and valuable business opportunities. When clients' challenges require experienced trial counsel, Allen Matkins has a proven track record of successful litigation before juries, judges and arbitrators.

Allen Matkins is located on the web at www.allenmatkins.com.