A business partnership can be a great idea for those seeking to grow their enterprises while sharing some of the responsibilities that come with business ownership. However, it can also be a source of trouble if one or some of the partners fail to live up to their...
When you get into a business partnership, you and your partners have similar goals: to grow the business and make profits. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for business relationships to break down for numerous reasons. When a party makes decisions that are...
Small businesses sometimes have a difficult time in their local markets, especially when larger competitors come in and try to take the market share. Big businesses often have the opportunity to reach larger populations and may even have the power to take ideas from...
Investment fraud includes a few different kinds of acts including: Market manipulation Pyramid schemes Ponzi schemes Advance fee fraud In real estate, you may run into a pyramid scheme, for example. With one of these schemes, you may be offered an opportunity to...
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...
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...
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...
Buffington Law Firm's breach of contract attorneys often deal with breach of contract lawsuits in which, upon examination of the facts, it becomes obvious that the requirements that one or the other party committed to can at best be characterized as "aspirational." ...
Buffington Law Firm's civil litigation team often deals with otherwise good cases that are unfortunately barred in whole or in part by a Statute of Limitation. Sometimes this was entirely preventable, and this scenario is what this article is about. As many people...