Business Law Breakfast

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 

Looking for past Business Law Breakfast programs? Visit our Business Law Breakfast Archive to explore previous events.