Category Archives: Business Law
Privacy Publicity and Wrongful Usage of Your Likeness and Image
There is a lot being made of the name, image and likeness rights of college athletes lately. But these rights don’t just attach to athletes and public figures; we all have these rights, although for most of us, they don’t have the value that they do for public figures. Your NIL Rights You own… Read More »
E-Signatures are Legally Valid But There are Some Legal Issues
We live in a digital age, and just your day to day experience, where you likely have signed contracts electronically before, would tell you that electronically signed signatures or e-signatures, are legally valid and binding. But that’s not the end of the legal issues or inquiry. If you have a contract that is being… Read More »
What is Self Dealing and How Can You Avoid Doing It?
As the owner of a company, or a higher level officer or shareholder, you have certain obligations to your company. You are a fiduciary to the company, and owe the company certain duties, including duties of loyalty, and to put the interests of the company ahead of your own, personal interests. Self-Dealing This is… Read More »
What Happens if Someone Doesn’t Pay You Pursuant to a Settlement Agreement?
If you’re in a lawsuit and you’ve settled your case, that’s a good thing, usually. You’ve taken matters into your own hands, and avoided the extended time and cost of litigation and trial, not to mention the uncertainty of the outcome. But just because you’ve agreed as to who will do or pay what,… Read More »
Loss of Goodwill as an Element of Damages in Commercial Litigation Cases
If your business has to sue someone, you may look at only countable monetary losses, as a measure of your damages. But in some cases, the damages to your business go beyond hard financial losses. In some cases, someone may have done something to harm or damage your business’ goodwill. Why So Difficult? Goodwill… Read More »
Employee Evaluations Can Have Legal Consequences
If you have a business, and that business has employees, you may already be giving those employees performance evaluations. But like anything else, there are legal pitfalls to doing such evaluations, if they aren’t done correctly. Protection from Harassment Allegations That’s not to say that they shouldn’t be done. Aside from the business benefits,… Read More »
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 »
