Business Disputes

Running a family business isn’t easy. Your parents may have spent years building your business’ operations and services for the business to succeed. You may have spent long hours, over decades, to ensure your business kept up with changes in your industry, so you can...

Co-owners often formalize an agreement with a handshake, but no serious partnership should move forward without a business partnership agreement. The best agreements are those that are the most thorough. They can also change over time as the business grows and...

Business partnerships start with the best intentions, but some fall apart when one partner leaves. Often, it is a matter of one partner giving up and moving on, while the other feels there is still an opportunity for success or obligations to clients or employees to...

A company may have to deal with theft someday. Sometimes it may even be a partner intentionally committing the wrongdoing. While some matters can lead to criminal action, more often than not, they end up in civil court. The goal for the victim is to recover stolen...

Going into business with a sibling or taking over a company from a parent can be rewarding. Nevertheless, a solid business plan should be in place from the beginning. While co-owners who are siblings expect to have a high level of trust, there are still times when...

Copyright laws are often complex and can be confusing. This confusion was no doubt in part because the Circuit Courts were not ruling consistently on points of law related to copyright protection. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has weighed in. In a rare example of...

When a business provides yours with goods or services, any contract you create will include terms about deliverables. Most businesses will satisfy these. But some may fail to deliver on the goods or services – at the price agreed upon – in your contract. In these...

Parents often take pride in holding their children in equal regard, so those who hand down a business will likely award equal shares. On the surface, this would seem fair. But look a little deeper, and that decision of equal ownership may be a lethal blow to the...

Running a growing business is challenging in the best of times. Yet few actions are more devastating than discovering that a partner is stealing from the company. They may rationalize it, but taking assets without authorization, misappropriating funds, or committing...

Business partnerships are a lot like marriages when they are successful. Similarly, they can be spectacularly ugly when the partnership falls apart. Assuming that all attempts by the partners to find a fair and equitable solution on their own were unsuccessful, it is...