Dear Clients and Friends, An LOI is often used to provide a memorandum of understanding for a business transaction – but do note the...

The Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 (FEGLIA) establishes an $824 billion program providing low-cost life insurance...

A limited liability company (LLC) is a business structure that combines some of the best features of sole proprietorships, partnerships,...

Long-arm statutes permit a court in a particular state to bring within its jurisdictional reach nonresident persons who, by their...

The federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) gives eligible employees the right to up to 12 weeks of leave per year, which may be...

Strong public policies support the appropriate use of arbitration over litigation in settling legal disputes and, in fact, such policies...

It is not a new development in employment law that many employers take into account an applicant’s or employee’s criminal history...

California’s budget crisis is now dramatically affecting our Los Angeles Superior Court system and that affects the level of justice we...

It is no secret that businesses generally, and small businesses in particular, have been through rough times, and those are not over yet....

Anna was the mother of three children and the widow of the man who invented the heart defibrillator implant. In 1992, she created a trust...

Businesses have been dependent on computerized information for some time now, but it has been only relatively recently that insurance...

An enforcement action by the U.S. Department of Labor resulted in a ruling that nurses were employees, not independent contractors, of a...

When the owners of a party store received an offer to purchase not the entire property, but only their liquor license and fixtures, they...

The advantages of operating a business from your home need to be balanced against legal considerations that may not be as apparent....

Six times a day, for 6 to 10 minutes each time, workers at a chicken processing plant were required to put on, take off, and clean safety...

A two-hour photo shoot paying $250 has turned into a jury verdict of over $15 million for the model, but it took almost 20 years and some...

The Internal Revenue Service has created a free CD-ROM that is designed to help small businesses establish and maintain retirement plans...

The Department of Labor recently issued sweeping new regulations on the eligibility of workers, especially “white-collar” employees, for...

Lost Database Is Not Insured “If you can’t reach out and touch it, it is not insured.” That was the gist of a court’s ruling in a lawsuit...

As a sales representative for a computer software company, Richard received an annual salary and sales commissions as determined by a...