For many entrepreneurs in California, investing is an occupation. Unfortunately, even professional investors can fall for many scams perpetrated by other individuals. When an investment fails, taking a significant toll on the value of your portfolio, you might not...
Companies often have trade secrets that they hold near to them, but there’s sometimes confusion about what constitutes a trade secret. In the most general terms, a trade secret is something that helps the company to be successful and is unique to that company's...
Making an offer to buy a piece of real estate is a big commitment. You could make payments on that property for the next three decades of your life. You will also be responsible for anything that goes wrong with the property once you are officially the owner. There...
Unfair competition can hurt your business and lead to substantial financial losses. Fair and appropriate competition drives innovation and helps keep prices fair for consumers, but unfair competition may ultimately achieve the opposite. By potentially forcing one...
When the seller doesn't adequately reveal a property's actual condition in the appropriate disclosures, you may have a valid claim to take up with them in court. You may have a legal right to seek compensation or other remedies if you're successful in taking legal...
Companies of all sizes in virtually every type of industry rely on their employees for their success. Often, front-line employees are the only people in a large corporation with whom customers ever interact. So if one of your employees injures or harms someone while...
Consumers rely on healthy competition to keep the prices down and the standard of offerings high. The federal and state governments consider free competition so vital that they have laws to protect it. Yet, some business owners still use illicit tactics to limit other...
When a person sets up a trust, they leave instructions outlining how they want their assets handled after they pass away. Many trusts are executed without any issues; however, there are times when a person might realize that their trust wasn't set up as they thought...
Placing your property on the market, or purchasing a new home, are massive decisions that come with numerous legal considerations. Going into a property deal without prior awareness of potential deliberations can lead to disagreements between buyers and sellers. Thus,...
Buffington Law Firm's team of trust litigation attorneys has recently been asked to discuss certain estate planning practices or scenarios that tend to lead to trust litigation, i.e. trust disputes. Our Firm has been handling Trust disputes for decades. In this...