Tag Archives: West Palm Beach Business Litigation Attorneys
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 »
How to Handle Squatters in Florida
Discovering that a home has become the residence of a squatter is always an unsettling experience. If the home is privately owned, it can feel like a violation of the owner’s privacy. If it is a commercially owned property, then the squatters can mean serious financial damage to the property’s value. Fortunately, the law… Read More »
Dealing with Bad Reviews Online
Internet review platforms like Yelp have provided a voice for any customer to broadcast their experience with a company to the world at large. While this benefits companies that receive consistently strong reviews, it also allows a small number of dissatisfied customers to do serious damage to a company’s reputation and its bottom line…. Read More »
Options for Handling Bad Customers
People just starting out in a business often think that any customer is a good customer, but often that is not the case. While putting up with the occasional rudeness might be worthwhile, customers who are constantly demanding or unreasonably failing to live up to their duties can end up costing a business more… Read More »
When Your Words Come Back to Haunt You: Emails as Evidence
Emails have become a ubiquitous part of the modern business landscape. They, along with texting and instant messaging, have created a massive textual record of conversations between colleagues that used to happen over the phone or in person, never to be written down. Of course, as with many new technologies, the convenience comes with… Read More »
Understanding Cease and Desist Letters
Many people picture legal disputes being settled in court, a judge or jury rendering a decision in the case after an extended trial. However, most cases never make it that far. It is much more common for cases to be settled by the litigants in advance of the trial, and even those that do… Read More »
How to Hold a Sweepstakes
Sweepstakes and other promotional contests are a common marketing tool that companies both large and small use to attract new customers or build a rapport with old ones. Despite the common nature of sweepstakes, Florida law heavily regulates them to ensure that they do not constitute unfair trade practices or gambling. The full contents… Read More »
Understanding Limitations on Corporate Liability
Corporations confer a variety of benefits on their shareholders and executives. One of the most important benefits from a business litigation standpoint is that the corporate structure creates a way for investors to limit their liability in the company in case something goes awry. This limited liability means that in most circumstances, the corporation’s… Read More »
What to Do When Your Company Gets Sued
For most people a civil lawsuit is a rare occurrence. Maybe they will need to go through a divorce, or deal with a personal injury lawsuit that will bring them into court a few times over the course of their lives. The same cannot be said for companies. In fact, a study performed by… Read More »
How Statutes of Limitations Affect Your Case
To paraphrase former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., people often mistake courts of law for courts of justice. While judges often strive to come to equitable outcomes, and laws are supposed to be fair, there are also practical considerations at play. These sorts of considerations can sink an otherwise winning claim, if… Read More »
Learning to Read Boilerplate
In a world where contracts and agreements can be stored electronically, more and more small business owners are having to deal with written contracts in their day to day dealings. In an ideal world, people would have the time and money to let lawyers look over every contract before they signed it, but that… Read More »
