Background
Prendergast, James D. was born in 1943 in Alameda, California, United States.
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James D. Prendergast
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University of California at Berkeley (Bachelor of Arts, 1965. Master of Business Administration, 1967). Hastings College of Law, University of California (Juris Doctor, 1974).
Career
Worked at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison Limited Liability Partnership (Los Angeles, California) specializing in Commercial Law, Debtor-Creditor Law, Corporate Law. Admitted to the bar, 1974, California and United States. District Court, Central District of California.
1978, United States.
Supreme Court. Order of the Coif. Member, Editorial Board, Hastings Law Journal, 1973-1974. Author: Note, "Cognovit Revisited," Volume 24 Hastings Law Review, 1973.
"The Use of Data Processing in Litigation," Loyola Law Review, Volume 10, March, 1977.
"Federal Control of Tender Offers," The Review of Securities Regulation, Volume 10, May, 1977. "Discretionary Trading Accounts," 12 The Review of Securities Regulations 823, December 19, 1979.
"Leap Back to PerfectionA Naked Assignment Work?" Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal, ET 371, Spring 1995. Company-author: "Automated Litigation Support Systems for Evidentiary Management," 11 Toledo Law Journal 255, Winter 1980.
"Defining a "Security" After the Forman Decision," 11 Pacific Law Journal 213, January 1980.
"Securities Maze Awaits Resort Time-Sharing Offerings," 10 Real Estate Review 59, Spring 1980. "Discretionary Trading Accounts-Revisited," 16 The Review of Securities Regulations 854, September, 14, 1983. "Loan Participations: Are They Securities?," in the Banker"s Guide to Multi-Bank Credits & Loan Participations, Chapter VIII, (Executive Enterprise Publications Company, Incorporated., 1989).
"Whether the Pledge of Capital Stock in a Commercial Transaction is the Purchase or Sale of a Security Under Federal Securities Law?" 95 Commercial Law Journal 435, Winter 1990.
"Applying Federal Securities Law to the Trading of Bankruptcy Claims," Bankruptcy Law Review, Winter 1992 at 9. "Cross-Boarder Lending Transactions," The Secured Lender, January-February 1994, at 24.
"The Stuff at the End of the Loan Agreement," The Secured Lender, July/August 1994, at 34. "Leap Back to PerfectionWill a Naked Assignment Work?" 27 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal, Spring 1995.
"Use of Attorneys in Commercial Finance TransactionsOr Misuse?" The Secured Lender, May/June 1995, at 26.
"Portfolio ReviewDo it Now!" The Secured Lender, March/April 1996, at 14. Member: Executive Committee. Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Committee, 1996-1998, Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Member, Business Law Section, UCC Committee, 1994-1997.
Company-Vice-Chair, UCC Committee, 1995-1996, State Bar of California.
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Membership
Member, Editorial Board, Hastings Law Journal, 1973-1974.
