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What to Do When One Partner Refuses a Buyout Offer

What to Do When One Partner Refuses a Buyout Offer Going into business with someone has many rewards, the greatest of which include having someone to share the responsibility with, having a second perspective, and having someone to swap ideas back and forth with. On the other hand, partnerships can be tricky because many times, Read More

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Age Discrimination Laws Make it Illegal to Ask Older Employees to Retire

“How can I ask my older employees to retire?” This is a question that a lot of employers find themselves asking as their workforce ages but shows no signs of retiring. As an employer, it is difficult to find a place for older workers, especially as technology changes and advances, competitive and diverse skill sets Read More

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Failure to Disclose Important Information Regarding a Real Estate Property in California  

  When an individual works with a real estate company or real estate broker in California, they expect the property that they purchase to be in the exact condition that the real estate agent represented it to be in. When an agent sells a home without disclosing all of the known information about it, the Read More

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Lost or Damaged Cargo Can Cost You Millions: Are You Protected?

As a business owner who imports and exports a large amount of goods, you rely heavily on transportation and freight services. Furthermore, you place a great deal of trust in the companies that perform those services for you. After all, it is up to them to ensure that your cargo makes it to and from Read More

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Monitoring Employee Emails: An Invasion of Privacy?

From company credit cards to company cars, and company cell phones to company email accounts, employers these days provide it all to their employees, and while such perks are mostly appreciated, they can come with their pitfalls, such as their subjectivity to employer monitoring. When an employer provides an employee with a credit card, cell Read More

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Terminating a Union Employee without Legal Backlash

You may hear people say: “Join a union because you cannot be fired,” or “Union members have job security for life.” While neither of these statements is true, it is true that it can be more difficult to terminate a union employee than it is to terminate a non-union worker. The United States is an Read More

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Employers Brush Up on Employee’s Rights in Case of a Buyout

As the economic outlook becomes more stable in the U.S., more and more corporate mergers are taking place, with 2015 seeing a record high of $5 trillion in deals (Harvard Law School Forum On Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation). 2016 is anticipated to surpass deals made in 2015, which can mean great news for the Read More

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The Healthcare Workforce in California

  In the town of Chico, California, a local hospital has demanded change as a result of their failing union. The healthcare workers, expressing their grievances towards the union system at their place of work, have left and moved to a rivaling union group in hopes of a more democratic system. They seek to raise Read More

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The Business Judgment Rule and Liability

The business judgment rule is an important aspect of business, and an essential instrument in a high-level executive’s toolbox. Corporate directors are required to make important business decisions on a daily basis, and need some kind of assurance that if a decision results in a loss of company value, they will not be held personally Read More

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Paid Leave as a Benefit May Increase Productivity: What an Employer Should Know

There is sometimes a perception abroad that Americans do not take sufficient time off of work, and that we are more focused on the “almighty dollar” than on enjoying the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness granted to us by our founding documents. Given some countries’ liberal leave policies, it is not a mystery as Read More

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