Program Details
2026-06-11 13:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-06-11 13:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ESTExamine how operating agreements structure authority and how courts interpret governance provisions, including manager-managed versus member-managed structures, voting thresholds, deadlock resolution, manager removal, fiduciary duty modification, and common drafting ambiguities that trigger litigation.
Kinsey Lenehan
Jane Trueper
Janel M. Dressen
Cory D. Olson 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm ESTFocus on how disputes over access to company information serve as the first stage of broader ownership conflicts, including books-and-records requests as litigation omens, information access and control dynamics, and transparency disputes escalating into fiduciary-duty claims.
Kinsey LenehanJane TrueperJanel M. DressenCory D. OlsonKinsey Lenehan is Counsel at Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. in Wilmington, Delaware, where she focuses her practice on transactional matters relating to Delaware alternative entities, including limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and general partnerships. Kinsey renders advice and legal opinions in connection with structured finance transactions, investment funds, and other matters relating to issues of formation, operation, governance, dissolution, and enforceability involving alternative entities.
Jane Trueper is a Partner at Lathrop GPM LLP in the firm’s Kansas City office, where she advises privately held companies — including emerging growth businesses, founder-led organizations, and fund sponsors and managers — on transactional matters across the full lifecycle of a business. Her work includes entity formation, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and restructuring for succession planning. Jane brings deep experience in Delaware law, advising clients across technology, manufacturing, professional services, and life sciences on fiduciary duty, entity structuring, and governance matters.
Janel M. Dressen is an Attorney, Shareholder, CEO, and Executive Committee Member at Anthony Ostlund Louwagie Dressen & Boylan P.A. in Minneapolis. With over 24 years of experience representing business owners and their companies, Janel is a tenacious business litigator whose clients, colleagues, and competitors describe her as the most prepared person in the room. In 2021, she was selected as only the second Chief Executive Officer in the firm’s history, making her the first woman to lead the firm. Her specialty is shareholder, ownership, and business valuation disputes, and she was lead counsel for what has been reported to be the largest Minnesota trial award in a shareholder buyout case in Lund v. Lund.
Cory D. Olson is an Attorney and Shareholder at Anthony Ostlund Louwagie Dressen & Boylan P.A. in Minneapolis, where he is an experienced and effective litigator with a proven record of helping clients solve a wide range of legal and business problems. Cory has litigated in state and federal courts across the country, stretching from Minnesota to Alabama and California to Connecticut, and has arbitrated before every major arbitration service, including FINRA, NFA, AAA, and JAMS. His practice focuses on securities arbitration, disputes between business owners, shareholder litigation, non-compete agreements, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, breach of contract, and wrongful termination.
Kinsey Lenehan is Counsel at Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. in Wilmington, Delaware, where she focuses her practice on transactional matters relating to Delaware alternative entities, including limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and general partnerships. Kinsey renders advice and legal opinions in connection with structured finance transactions, investment funds, and other matters relating to issues of formation, operation, governance, dissolution, and enforceability involving alternative entities.
Jane Trueper is a Partner at Lathrop GPM LLP in the firm’s Kansas City office, where she advises privately held companies — including emerging growth businesses, founder-led organizations, and fund sponsors and managers — on transactional matters across the full lifecycle of a business. Her work includes entity formation, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and restructuring for succession planning. Jane brings deep experience in Delaware law, advising clients across technology, manufacturing, professional services, and life sciences on fiduciary duty, entity structuring, and governance matters.
Janel M. Dressen is an Attorney, Shareholder, CEO, and Executive Committee Member at Anthony Ostlund Louwagie Dressen & Boylan P.A. in Minneapolis. With over 24 years of experience representing business owners and their companies, Janel is a tenacious business litigator whose clients, colleagues, and competitors describe her as the most prepared person in the room. In 2021, she was selected as only the second Chief Executive Officer in the firm’s history, making her the first woman to lead the firm. Her specialty is shareholder, ownership, and business valuation disputes, and she was lead counsel for what has been reported to be the largest Minnesota trial award in a shareholder buyout case in Lund v. Lund.
Cory D. Olson is an Attorney and Shareholder at Anthony Ostlund Louwagie Dressen & Boylan P.A. in Minneapolis, where he is an experienced and effective litigator with a proven record of helping clients solve a wide range of legal and business problems. Cory has litigated in state and federal courts across the country, stretching from Minnesota to Alabama and California to Connecticut, and has arbitrated before every major arbitration service, including FINRA, NFA, AAA, and JAMS. His practice focuses on securities arbitration, disputes between business owners, shareholder litigation, non-compete agreements, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, breach of contract, and wrongful termination.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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