As a business owner, a commercial lease is one of the most important aspects of your company. With the right terms and conditions in place, you'll feel good about your place of business as well as how much money it costs you each month.During your search for the...
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Planning a new business location in the greater Oakland area
Running your own business requires a lot of knowledge and personal investment. Whether you have already operated a successful business in another location, developed a business out of your home and now need to expand to a different facility, or have a business plan...
7 cybersecurity tips for your small business
It seems as though the internet becomes more useful each day. Businesses use computer systems to purchase products online, collect data for marketing purposes, send email updates to clients regarding their order and much more.Although the internet and computer systems...
What this Supreme Court case could mean for discrimination
On Monday, CNN announced that the Supreme Court would hear a racial discrimination case. The case involves Comcast and Charter Communications and Entertainment Studios, an African-American owned entertainment company.Comcast is challenging a lower court’s...
Did Netflix engage in unfair competition with Viacom?
Viacom has filed a lawsuit against Netflix alleging it breached an employment contract with a former employee. According to Deadline, the cable company claims that Netflix violated terms of a contract when they hired Momita Sengupta as VP for physical production...
Instead of selling your property, what if you exchange it?
If your home in the bay area has significantly appreciated in value, selling your property will mean taking on a sharp capital gains tax. Instead of selling, consider exchanging your property.A real estate professional, tax advisor, and other exchange specialists can...
Disregarding Company Separateness Cancels Loan
In Mountain Air Enterprises, LLC v. Sundowner Towers, LLC, decided on July 31, 2017, the California Supreme Court upheld a Marin County trial court decision, that the integration clause in an agreement between the plaintiff and the owners of a company, cancelled a...
Breaking Anonymity on the Internet
In ZL Technologies, Inc v. Does, issued July 19, 2017, the California Court of Appeal in San Francisco explained the test for deciding when a plaintiff's need to identify the human beings behind internet usernames outweighs those users' First Amendment right to remain...
Employee versus Independent Contractor
Businesses are examining the option of treating the people who do the work for them as independent contractors and not employees. Independent contractors can be denied most of the protections the law provides to employees. These include, but are not limited to,...
Call Your Lawyer Fast
If you are injured by someone, your property is damaged, or someone breaches a contract with you, call a lawyer immediately. Even though the statute of limitation for personal injury and property damage is 3 years, and for breach of contract is 4 years, if one of the...