Social Media Ideas for Breach Of Fiduciary Duty And Business Torts

What Your Business Partner Owes You Under Illinois Law, and What Happens When He Breaks That Duty

Your partner started a second company. You learned about it from a customer, not from him, and now you notice that the easy jobs still come to your shared business while the lucrat...

When a Competitor Steals Your Client: Tortious Interference Explained

You lose a long-time client to a competitor. A key customer suddenly stops returning calls, then signs with the rival across town. A former salesperson lands at a competitor and wa...

Tortious Interference With a Business Relationship: The Elements Florida Courts Require

A competitor calls your biggest customer and feeds them a lie that kills the deal. A former partner whispers to your referral sources that you are about to go under. A vendor you f...

When the Wrong Done to Your Company Is Yours to Fix: Illinois Derivative Lawsuits Explained

You find it by accident. A vendor mentions a company you have never heard of, and a week of digging shows that your co-owner has been routing the business’s best work through a sec...

Tortious Interference With a Contract: What You Must Prove in Florida

You had a signed deal in hand. Then a competitor, a former partner, or an outside player got involved, and suddenly your customer or supplier walked away from the contract. When so...

How to Protect Your Tampa Company from Partnership and Shareholder Disputes

Most successful Tampa companies are built by two or more people who trust each other. That trust is also the single biggest legal risk the business will ever carry. When co-owners...

What It Means When Executives or Managers Are Named in a Lawsuit

You always knew the company might face a legal challenge eventually, but you never expected to be named personally, right next to the business you built. For most owners, partners,...

What Is a Shareholder Dispute, and How Do Florida Courts Resolve One?

Most closely held Florida companies are built on trust between a handful of owners. When that trust breaks down, the fallout is rarely small. A shareholder dispute can freeze decis...

How Small Business Owners in Ponte Vedra Beach Can Avoid Costly Contract Disputes

Every business in Ponte Vedra Beach runs on contracts. The lease for your office on A1A, the agreement with the vendor who supplies your inventory, the engagement letter you send c...

Defending Against Injunctions in Commercial Contract and Tort Disputes

A former partner leaves and takes your client list. A supplier claims you breached an exclusivity clause and wants you to stop selling. A competitor accuses your new hire of walkin...

Fifth Circuit Case Shows Misappropriation Allegations May Trigger Broader RICO Exposure

Delaware Court of Chancery Examines Duties of Blockholder Directors

A recent decision from the Delaware Court of Chancery should be in the toolbox of all corporate and commercial litigators. In Guilbeau v. Footprint International Holdco, Inc., C.A....

What Happens When a Business Acquisition Falls Apart

Every business acquisition begins the same way. Two parties sign a letter of intent, exchange firm handshakes, and start picturing what life looks like after closing. Then the dili...

Resolving Earn-Out and Indemnification Disputes After a Merger

For most Florida business owners, the closing dinner is not the end of the deal. It is the start of a new phase, and in transactions involving professional services firms, that pha...

Delaware’s New ABC Act and What It Means for Company Fiduciaries

Employer May Pursue Multiple Claims Against Competitor for Raiding Employees and Customers

How Courts Evaluate Weak or Baseless Business Lawsuits

Getting served with a lawsuit is unsettling, even when you are confident the claim is thin. Many Florida business owners assume that once a complaint is filed, they are locked into...

Employer May Pursue Contractual Interference Claims Against Competitor for Raiding Employees and Customers

Acrisure Goes After Former Owners of Businesses it Acquired for Leaving to Compete

Brokerage Acrisure has filed a federal lawsuit, accusing a former employee of using employees and intellectual property to peel away at least 50 clients to a company he started—nam...

When a Key Employee Walks Out With Your Customers: Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and the Duty of Loyalty in Illinois

The resignation lands on a Friday and feels routine until Monday. Your top salesperson is gone, and so, it turns out, is the customer list, the pricing model, and the quarterly pip...

TRUSTWORTHY?: Podium Corporation Out of Case on Jurisdictional Grounds– But Did They Cause a TCPA Lawsuit and then Try t...

Corporate – LLC member prevails on breach of fiduciary claim

Where the jury found an LLC member did not breach his fiduciary duties, but the trial court set that verdict aside, it erred. The member’s conduct was supported by the […] The post...

When Plaintiffs Cross the Line Into Bad-Faith Litigation

Most lawsuits, even the ones a business owner thinks are wrong, are filed in good faith. The plaintiff believes they were harmed and asks a court to decide. That is how the system...

Rail Co. Says Seller Broke Deal By Launching Rival Biz

A railroad track design and manufacturing firm told a Florida federal court that the owners of a railroad construction company it acquired set up a competing railroad track company...