Monthly Archives: August 2025
Partial Payments of Debt, and Accord and Satisfaction Problems
If you’re owed money, for a lot of reasons, it is a good idea to see if you can work out an arrangement for payment, before just jumping into a lawsuit. But if you don’t do that correctly, you could end up hurting yourself, because of a little known legal doctrine, called accord and… Read More »
What is Tortious Interference with a Business Relationship?
It is illegal, and you can get sued for interfering with someone’s business relationships. But just what is a business relationship—and how do you know when it is illegal to tamper with it? Or on the other hand, if you are the one whose business relationship has been harmed, how do you know when… Read More »
Who Owns Your Customer or Client List?
Over time, if you’re like many businesses, you have developed a list of prospective and former customers and clients, all of whom you have had some degree of contact with, even if they never actually did business with you. When an employee leaves your company and takes that information or part of it, you… Read More »
What Does it Mean to be Defaulted and What Do You Do About It?
Let’s say that you check your mail one day, and you get what appears to be a lawsuit. It’s a document from a lawsuit, all right—but it also says that you have been “defaulted.” That can’t be good. What does that mean? What is a Default? A lawsuit starts with the filing of a… Read More »
