In my last two posts, I discussed non-compete agreements and nondisclosure agreements, both of which are key for small businesses operating in a competitive market. However, neither agreement is worth the paper they are written on, if your business is not prepared to enforce the...
Last week we discussed non-compete agreements, and why they are critical to protecting your company’s trade secrets and other propriety information, such as client lists, marketing plans, and pricing and discount structures. However, what if your business is located in or doing business in a...
Competition is key for innovation and growth in any market. However no small business wants to see its best and brightest employees leave and set up an identical business (or work for an identical business) down the proverbial block. While you cannot keep your former...
JPMorgan Chase & Co will pay $797.5 million in cash to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to end all litigation concerning the September 2008 global financial crisis. Lehman entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 15, 2008--the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, with $613 billion in debt--and since...
AES Electrical, Inc. (d/b/a Freestate Electrical Construction Company), an electrical subcontractor who worked on the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C., has sued Trump Old Post Office LLC, the holding company for the Trump hotel, as well as Lend Lease (US) Construction, Inc., the general...
JPMorgan Chase agreed to a $55 million-dollar settlement with the U.S. Justice Department concerning allegations that it discriminated against minority borrowers by allowing mortgage brokers to charge them more for home loans. In United States of America v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA, No. 1: 17- cv- 00347 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 18, 2017),...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday granted a petition for writ of certiorari to review a lower court's decision to dismiss a consumer class action lawsuit against Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc (SC.N), over allegations it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA"). The...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") issued a press release on Tuesday that revealed it is fining TransUnion and Equifax more than $17 million in restitution to consumers, and fines totaling more than $5 million to the CFPB, for deceiving consumers in marketing credit scores and...
Yesterday the Colorado Court of Appeals in Stone v. Life Time Fitness, Inc., et al., No. 15CA0598, 2016COA189 found a patron of Life Time Fitness was not contractually barred from suing the gym, based on assumption of risk and liability release language contained in her...
On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court decided it would hear an appeal challenging whether professional debt collectors can face legal liability for seeking to collect on a debt in bankruptcy, knowing the statute of limitations for the debt has expired. Midland Funding LLC brings the appeal...
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