There Is No Second Place In A Courtroom
At some point, you will encounter disputes or issues while running your business. If not handled correctly, you could find yourself facing a lawsuit. Commercial litigation is complex and time-consuming, and without the right resources, you could watch your business...
Due to the costs of starting a business, many entrepreneurs choose to develop partnerships, where the partners share the costs, responsibilities and profits of the company. However, if you do not choose the right partners, you may experience unexpected problems. Like...
Many people view social media channels as platforms to exercise freedom of expression without concern for their words' accuracy or harm. As an employer, your current or former employees, partners or clients can use Facebook and other platforms to spread lies and...
A family business can be extremely rewarding and extremely challenging. Our client devoted years of her life working side-by-side with her father in his car dealership. Unbeknownst to her, years before, her dad put a succession plan in place with his attorney that gradually provided larger and, ultimately, complete ownership to our client. Once he decided to retire, he revealed…
No one enters into a partnership with someone they believe might defraud them and then try to cut them out of the very business they created. Sadly, this happened to our client who formed a specialty practice with his medical colleague. To his frustration, when a national healthcare organization approached his partner, that same partner bolted to start a competing…
Our client, a family-owned business was approached by a competitor asking if they wanted to buy some of the competitor’s assets. The competitor claimed that the United States Justice Department had ordered it to sell off certain assets so that it could merge with a third company. When the Department of Justice and a federal judge issue antitrust orders directing…
When three friends decided to pool their life savings and open a restaurant franchise, they never thought they would be misled and hoodwinked into financial disaster, teetering on the edge of professional and personal bankruptcy. After investing hundreds of thousands of dollars, our clients decided to open their restaurant in the location recommended by their franchisor, based on the cost…
For a man who spent his entire life serving his local community through public service, rising through the ranks to the Assistant Chief of the Dallas Fire Rescue Department, nothing could be worse than sitting in front of the television with his two girls listening to a news story describe him as an abusive governmental official who was fired for…
Terminating a partnership can be one of the most difficult and stressful things a person can go through in their professional career. When our client and his law partner decided that it was time to go their separate ways, things did not proceed amicably. Having been opposing counsel to the Ayres Law Office, a Dallas lawyer turned to us to…