The Business Law Breakfast series provides an informal venue for the discussion of current business law issues with the region’s business and legal communities. It offers a networking opportunity for our students to get to know professionals in the community including attorneys, accountants, investment bankers and academics.
Visit our Events page for information about upcoming Business Law Breakfast Events. Past Business Law Breakfast topics include:
2025-2026
Tuesday, October 20, 2025
AI and the Practice of Business Law
Eric C. Chaffee, Professor of Law
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Antitrust vs. Tech & Media: From Alphabet to Warner Bros.
Richard Parker, Partner, Milbank LLP
Michael B. Dorff, Executive Director, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy
2024-2025
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Election 2024: Presidential Politics and Tax Policy with Professor Kimberly Clausing
Kimberly Clausing, UCLA Law Professor
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
OpenAI: Nonprofit in Name Only?
Rose Chan Loui, Founding Executive Director, Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits
Michael Dorff, Executive Director, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy
Ghaith Mahmood, Partner, Latham and Watkins
David Shevlin, Partner, Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Insider Trading in Plain Sight
Andrew Verstein, UCLA Law Professor
Thursday, February 13, 2025
The Power to Destroy with Michael Graetz
Michael Graetz, Yale Law Professor
2023–2024
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Witness to a Prosecution: The Myth of Michael Milken
Richard Sandler JD ’73
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
The Future of Mass Torts in Bankruptcy After Purdue Pharma
Daniel Bussel, UCLA Law Professor, and Thomas E. Patterson
2022–2023
Thursday, September 13, 2022
The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Threatens the Integrity of Public Companies
James J. Park, UCLA School of Law Professor
Monday, November 14, 2022
Rethinking Securities Law
Marc I. Steinberg, Rupert and Lillian Radford Chair in Law and Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Recent Enforcement Actions by the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Eric Halperin, Assistant Director for Enforcement at the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Thursday, April 26, 2023
The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization
Stephen M. Bainbridge, UCLA School of Law Professor