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Update: The Key Bridge Collapse: The Law You Don’t Know Could Come Back to Bite You
Legal Alert – for PORT OPERATORS, FREIGHT BROKERS, and SHIPPERS If your property meets with the unimaginable, is the law on your side to sort it out in the aftermath? When a maritime disaster ruins and shuts down your port, it’s too late to then ask what compensation...
Boeing’s Missing Pieces: How A Simple Oversight Can Put You in Damage Control Mode (In More Ways Than One)
Imagine your product is involved in a serious incident, potentially life-threatening. Not only do you have some huge internal corrective measures to take, but the eyes of the world are now on you. How do you get your organization back on track, running like it should,...
Federal Non-Compete Ban – Protecting Your Trade Secrets
Does the absence of non-competes pave the way for dismissed employees to now march your trade secrets out the door, only to be delivered to your competitors on a silver platter? It doesn’t have to! Keep reading for how to prevent it. Last month we updated you on the...
A Legacy Food Company Files for Bankruptcy: Compliance Isn’t Just for Uncle Sam
Alert – FOOD SHIPPING, HANDLING, STORAGE & RETAILERS ‘Is every link in your production and storage chain reinforced? The breakage of just one could compromise your whole infrastructure! You can spend decades and decades running your company like a top, taking...
UPDATE: Banning of Non-Compete Agreements Goes FEDERAL
The rules have changed nationwide, so how do you now keep your trade secrets from walking out the door? Last year, we reported that a sweeping legal trend among the states was likely foretelling The Demise of the Non-Compete Agreement. Now we’re back with the latest:...
The Key to Tesla’s Legal Fight Over Musk’s Contract? Location, Location, Location!
If you’ve failed to strategize at each step of your operation, you may have strategized to fail. And if you’ve landed in a legal conundrum and want to know how looking back to your humble origins may be the key. Imagine a deal soundly struck between your board and CEO...
The Key Bridge Collapse: The Perspective No One’s Talking About Legal Alert – for PORT OPERATORS and BRIDGE OWNERS
If your government-owned port or bridge meets with the unthinkable, will you be adequately compensated? Sometimes catastrophe strikes. It’s impossible to see it coming (no pun intended) and hindsight sharpens to 20/20 for those directly involved (and stay tuned for a...
Trump’s Hush-Money Case – Trodden Legal Ground to New Frontiers
How would you rule? – There’s Hush Money, Concealment, and Subterfuge; But Establishing Fraud Isn’t So Cut-and-Dried. If a political candidate dodges a scandal with hush money paid through his attorney, then mislabels the repayment installments, has he defrauded the...
Navigating Regulatory Compliance and Legal Risks in the Supply Chain, Trucking and Logistics Industry: Why Your Organization Needs a Risk Assessment
Maintain Operational Efficiency and Safeguard your Business Interests Senior executives in the trucking, transportation, and logistics industry face an array of challenges that can impact the health and success of their organizations. From regulatory compliance to...
UPDATE: Corporate Transparency Act and Beneficial Ownership Information Report Filing Suspended
Last month, we informed you that A Pricey Policy may have just slipped in Under your Radar Now we’re happy to inform you that this burdensome needless threat to your business has suffered a devastating legal blow. In a nutshell, the Beneficial Ownership Report (BOI)...
Advantages of Conducting Business Under Texas Law for Merchant Banking and Factoring Companies
Anyone in the Factoring and merchant banking trades knows that these transactions can encounter real challenges almost everywhere in the US, as many state laws and governments are unfriendly to these industries. EXCEPT… In the very few states where the practice is...
Attention Transportation, Supply Chain & Logistics Leaders: A Hidden Compliance Minefield Threatens Your Business
Imagine having millions of dollars of product seized by US customs, to be held indefinitely, with no answers and no compensation coming your way. It may seem unfair. You did everything required to prepare this shipment, after overcoming all those COVID-era supply...
Supply Chain Chronicles Posts
Update: The Key Bridge Collapse: The Law You Don’t Know Could Come Back to Bite You
Legal Alert – for PORT OPERATORS, FREIGHT BROKERS, and SHIPPERS If your property meets with the unimaginable, is the law on your side to sort it out in the aftermath? When a maritime disaster ruins and shuts down your port, it’s too late to then ask what compensation...
Boeing’s Missing Pieces: How A Simple Oversight Can Put You in Damage Control Mode (In More Ways Than One)
Imagine your product is involved in a serious incident, potentially life-threatening. Not only do you have some huge internal corrective measures to take, but the eyes of the world are now on you. How do you get your organization back on track, running like it should,...
Federal Non-Compete Ban – Protecting Your Trade Secrets
Does the absence of non-competes pave the way for dismissed employees to now march your trade secrets out the door, only to be delivered to your competitors on a silver platter? It doesn’t have to! Keep reading for how to prevent it. Last month we updated you on the...
A Legacy Food Company Files for Bankruptcy: Compliance Isn’t Just for Uncle Sam
Alert – FOOD SHIPPING, HANDLING, STORAGE & RETAILERS ‘Is every link in your production and storage chain reinforced? The breakage of just one could compromise your whole infrastructure! You can spend decades and decades running your company like a top, taking...
UPDATE: Banning of Non-Compete Agreements Goes FEDERAL
The rules have changed nationwide, so how do you now keep your trade secrets from walking out the door? Last year, we reported that a sweeping legal trend among the states was likely foretelling The Demise of the Non-Compete Agreement. Now we’re back with the latest:...
The Key to Tesla’s Legal Fight Over Musk’s Contract? Location, Location, Location!
If you’ve failed to strategize at each step of your operation, you may have strategized to fail. And if you’ve landed in a legal conundrum and want to know how looking back to your humble origins may be the key. Imagine a deal soundly struck between your board and CEO...
The Key Bridge Collapse: The Perspective No One’s Talking About Legal Alert – for PORT OPERATORS and BRIDGE OWNERS
If your government-owned port or bridge meets with the unthinkable, will you be adequately compensated? Sometimes catastrophe strikes. It’s impossible to see it coming (no pun intended) and hindsight sharpens to 20/20 for those directly involved (and stay tuned for a...
Trump’s Hush-Money Case – Trodden Legal Ground to New Frontiers
How would you rule? – There’s Hush Money, Concealment, and Subterfuge; But Establishing Fraud Isn’t So Cut-and-Dried. If a political candidate dodges a scandal with hush money paid through his attorney, then mislabels the repayment installments, has he defrauded the...
Navigating Regulatory Compliance and Legal Risks in the Supply Chain, Trucking and Logistics Industry: Why Your Organization Needs a Risk Assessment
Maintain Operational Efficiency and Safeguard your Business Interests Senior executives in the trucking, transportation, and logistics industry face an array of challenges that can impact the health and success of their organizations. From regulatory compliance to...
UPDATE: Corporate Transparency Act and Beneficial Ownership Information Report Filing Suspended
Last month, we informed you that A Pricey Policy may have just slipped in Under your Radar Now we’re happy to inform you that this burdensome needless threat to your business has suffered a devastating legal blow. In a nutshell, the Beneficial Ownership Report (BOI)...
Advantages of Conducting Business Under Texas Law for Merchant Banking and Factoring Companies
Anyone in the Factoring and merchant banking trades knows that these transactions can encounter real challenges almost everywhere in the US, as many state laws and governments are unfriendly to these industries. EXCEPT… In the very few states where the practice is...
Attention Transportation, Supply Chain & Logistics Leaders: A Hidden Compliance Minefield Threatens Your Business
Imagine having millions of dollars of product seized by US customs, to be held indefinitely, with no answers and no compensation coming your way. It may seem unfair. You did everything required to prepare this shipment, after overcoming all those COVID-era supply...
Litigation Posts
The Demise of the Non-Compete Agreement
The New York state legislature recently proposed a bill to ban employers from obligating workers to sign the now-standard Non-Compete Agreement, or any sort of contract or provision that “prohibits or restricts such covered individual from obtaining employment after the conclusion of employment with the employer.”
An Ulterior Motive At Work? The SEC vs. Crypto
Recently, the SEC filed major lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase, alleging the companies are skirting the law by supposedly dealing as exchanges in financial securities without the proper registration or regulatory oversight to do so.
What To Do When Adversaries Weaponize The Legal System Against You: 3 Tips to Win Like David When Goliath Cheats
What if a corporation and its lawyers start trying to game the justice system with a catalog of tactics designed to prevent your case from even getting off the ground?
In my recently concluded settlement, Judge Moyé of the 14th Judicial District Court ruled that BMW had fallen back on shenanigans including evasion, obfuscation, purposeful delays, and false incompetence.
Employee V Independent Contractor: On A Collision Course?
In 2016, a devastating traffic accident on a Nevada highway rendered motorist Allen Miller quadriplegic for the rest of his life, and freight broker heavyweight CH Robinson facing a potentially crushing money judgment and a “secret” multi-million-dollar settlement....
Transportation Posts
The Nuclear Verdict of Blake v Werner Enterprises, and the Impending Fallout How Would You Rule?
If a highway motorist loses control of their vehicle and rams into an 18-wheeler, causing catastrophic injuries, can the trucking company be held liable?
How Would You Rule? Miller v CH Robinson Upends Rules of the Road for the Trucking Industry
If a long haul trucker has an accident resulting in devastating injuries to a motorist is the freight broker that hired him liable? This interstate shipping case took a twisty road to arrive at the answer.