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...
Business Litigation
Protect yourself from investment fraud
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...
Has your trade secret been stolen?
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...
Has a competitor engaged in corporate espionage against you?
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 can a company be held liable for an employee’s actions?
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...
Is a competitor getting an unfair advantage?
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...
Breach of Contract Lawsuits. Avoid Aspirational Requirements
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." ...
Statute of Limitations — Don’t Delay Bringing Your Claim!
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...
Why are business partnerships so difficult?
Most entrepreneurs have entered into a business partnership at one time or another, or at least entertained the idea. Sadly, despite the best of intentions on all sides, these arrangements often fail. Common pitfalls of entering into a partnership Some of the factors...
What can you do if someone is about to sue your business?
Running a business is full of constant challenges. However, there is a difference between a challenge that requires your blood, sweat and tears and legal trouble that comes suddenly and unexpectedly. Unfortunately, you put yourself in the line of fire when you start a...