Unpacking the Future: What you and your clients need to know about transacting in digital assets and electronic commerce

R. Marshall Grodner | McGlinchey Stafford PLLC

R. Marshall Grodner is a Member in the McGlinchey Stafford’s Baton Rouge office. His practice focuses primarily in commercial transactions, secured transactions, commercial finance, opinion letters, and commercial real estate. Marshall serves as chair of the firm’s legal opinion committee. He is the immediate Past President of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, the immediate Past Chair of the Commercial Finance Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, and a past president of the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys. Marshall is also a Fellow in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the American College of Mortgage Attorneys.

Marshall has served as an adjunct professor at the Louisiana State University Law Center. He has authored or co-authored several articles in law reviews and other publications dealing with secured transactions, commercial real estate and other business law issues. Marshall has also delivered lectures and papers throughout the country dealing with loan documentation, secured transactions, ethics and professionalism in the transactional context and real estate law.

I. Current legal framework affecting transactions in digital assets, including ESIGN, UETA and the Uniform Commercial Code, specifically Articles 8 and 9 | 12:00pm – 12:20pm

II. Proposed legislation affecting transactions in digital assets, including the 2022 proposed revision to the Uniform Commercial Code, specifically the proposed new Article 12 | 12:20pm – 12:40pm

III. The present and future marketplace in digital assets | 12:40pm – 1:00pm