Tag Archives: West Palm Beach Business Litigation Attorney
Should You Have a Lawyer Review Your Commercial Lease Agreement?
For many business owners, choosing an appropriate space from which to run your business is imperative to your success. Your business space should be cost-effective, functional, and well-maintained in order to best conduct operations. While some owners have the resources and capital to purchase commercial property, many others have to rent space. When you… Read More »
Legal Issues surrounding the Ashley Madison Hack
A recent data breach of the Ashley Madison website highlights a variety of legal concerns for businesses that are responsible for the safekeeping of confidential consumer information. This is particularly true in the case of Ashley Madison as it is a dating website that caters to people in committed relationships who are looking to… Read More »
Corporate Bylaws and Shareholder Lawsuits
When it comes to shareholder derivative lawsuits, companies can often find themselves in an arms race with their own shareholders. Derivative lawsuits are tools that shareholders can use to bring a lawsuit on behalf of a company that they are invested in, when the directors or officers of the company refuse to bring a… Read More »
How to Close down an LLC in Florida
Businesses can close down for any number of reasons, from changing market conditions to key participants receiving better opportunities. When LLC owners recognize these changing circumstances and choose to close down their companies, it is important for them to go about it the proper way. Failing to dissolve an LLC in an appropriate manner… Read More »
Responding to False Advertising
One of the most frustrating things for a business owner to experience is having another company gain an unfair advantage through fraud or deceit. One common way this can happen is through false advertising. Fortunately, companies whose competitors are selling products using false or misleading advertising do not have to wait for the government… Read More »
Federal Court Snuffs out Controversial Copyright Decision and Makes Life Harder for Independent Actors
A recent decision by a federal court in California has important implications for actors looking to protect their interest or reputations based on movies they starred in. The case, Garcia v. Google, was being closely watched by the intellectual property community because the federal court involved had approved a novel theory of copyright protection;… Read More »
Client Poaching: Tortious Interference and the Competitor’s Privilege
No matter what industry a company operates in, every business is in the business of sales. Bringing in new customers and maintaining relationships with old ones is a key part of having a profitable growing business. So, it is only natural that the law would have something to say about the act of one… Read More »
The Geography of a Lawsuit Part 2: Venue Law
The U.S. court system is a patchwork of many different courts covering different geographic areas. Figuring out which of these different courts is the right one to file a lawsuit in can be of major importance to a case. It can change what law applies. It can alter the types of people who are… Read More »
Is Trade Secret Protection Right for Your Business?
Modern businesses have begun to realize that some of their most important assets are completely intangible, things like business reputation or innovative ways of doing things. This has led more and more companies to begin seeking intellectual property protection for their ideas in order to gain an edge over their competitors. When people begin… Read More »
A Business Negotiation Primer
People who find themselves involved in litigation often make the mistake of thinking about it like a sport, with each side trying to score points and the judge in the middle watching closely as a referee. However in real life, business litigation often does not look like that. Much of litigation involves posturing and… Read More »
