College Activities

The College and its members are engaged in a number of projects designed to advance the practice of commercial law, including:

• Co-sponsorship of meetings and programs of the Uniform Commercial Code and Commercial Finance Committees of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law

• Submission of a comment letter on the March 2011 Draft Report of the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code – UCC Rules Applicable to the Assignment of Mortgage Notes and to the Ownership and Enforcement of those Notes and the Mortgages Securing Them. A copy of the letter can be accessed here

• Sponsorship of Task Force on ADR in Commercial Finance Transactions, which published its final report in 2011

• Sponsorship of participation in UNCITRAL Third International Colloquium on Secured Transactions

• Endorsement of the Voluntary Good Practices Guidance for Lawyers to Detect and Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

• Participation in the Synergy Group Conference

• Participation in the Article 9 Review Committee 2010 Amendments process

• Participation in the Working Group on Legal Opinions

• Co-sponsorship with the Commercial Law Center of Gonzaga University School of Law of a Symposium on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, published in the Gonzaga Law Review

• Support of the Legal Opinion Customary Practice Report

• Luncheon Sponsor, Uniform Law Commissioners Meeting (July 2008)