For small businesses, just as for individuals, bankruptcy should dispose of all disputes with their creditors. A discharge under Chapter 7 or confirmation of a payment […]
… but a massive, enormous, extravagant Christmas lights display on what used to be a quiet residential corner. In an era when enterprising people organize paying […]
Limited liability is the cornerstone of modern, corporate free enterprise. It means the entrepreneur puts no more of their personal fortune at risk than they invest […]
The purpose of non-compete agreements, paradoxically, is to allow competition (there is a right to work and compete), all while preventing unfair competition by protecting employers’ Legitimate Business […]
In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, a question came up in the business community. Can you fire someone for being a white supremacist? The […]
The ADA is a noble law, and not just for bleeding-heart types of reasons. Certainly, it is primarily motivated by the emotional desire to see those […]
Do you know the difference between general and special damages? One “actually and necessarily” flows from the alleged wrong; the other “might result” from it but […]
For businesses, the first quarter of each year brings a number of fiscal and legal obligations. A business must, for instance, file its Annual Report with […]
The Florida Supreme Court decides remarkably few civil decisions, and even fewer commercial ones. Its docket is dominated by review of death-penalty decisions and updating rules […]
For businesses, the first quarter of each year brings a number of fiscal and legal obligations. A business must, for instance, file its Annual Report with […]
Representing businesses and business owners often means dealing with debt, whether owed by or to the client. And this in turn requires being at least aware […]
Think of the comma, that small, underused, throwaway punctuation mark. How unimportant, how easy to ignore it is. But like nerds in a bad 1980s movie, […]
The year 2015 included its lot of consequential cases. None received more press than the decision prohibiting bans on sex-same marriages across the country. None excited […]
Employers are sometimes too easily tempted to categorize people working for them as independent contractors. This avoids paying unemployment and other payroll taxes, and contractors are […]
A long, long time ago, at the dawn of the internet, courts decided that companies that hosted online forums, chat rooms, bulletin boards, etc… were not […]
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