Tag Archives: West Palm Beach Business Litigation Lawyer
A Business Negotiation Primer
People who find themselves involved in litigation often make the mistake of thinking about it like a sport, with each side trying to score points and the judge in the middle watching closely as a referee. However in real life, business litigation often does not look like that. Much of litigation involves posturing and… Read More »
How to Handle Squatters in Florida
Discovering that a home has become the residence of a squatter is always an unsettling experience. If the home is privately owned, it can feel like a violation of the owner’s privacy. If it is a commercially owned property, then the squatters can mean serious financial damage to the property’s value. Fortunately, the law… Read More »
Dealing with Bad Reviews Online
Internet review platforms like Yelp have provided a voice for any customer to broadcast their experience with a company to the world at large. While this benefits companies that receive consistently strong reviews, it also allows a small number of dissatisfied customers to do serious damage to a company’s reputation and its bottom line…. Read More »
Options for Handling Bad Customers
People just starting out in a business often think that any customer is a good customer, but often that is not the case. While putting up with the occasional rudeness might be worthwhile, customers who are constantly demanding or unreasonably failing to live up to their duties can end up costing a business more… Read More »
Understanding Cease and Desist Letters
Many people picture legal disputes being settled in court, a judge or jury rendering a decision in the case after an extended trial. However, most cases never make it that far. It is much more common for cases to be settled by the litigants in advance of the trial, and even those that do… Read More »
How to Hold a Sweepstakes
Sweepstakes and other promotional contests are a common marketing tool that companies both large and small use to attract new customers or build a rapport with old ones. Despite the common nature of sweepstakes, Florida law heavily regulates them to ensure that they do not constitute unfair trade practices or gambling. The full contents… Read More »
Understanding Limitations on Corporate Liability
Corporations confer a variety of benefits on their shareholders and executives. One of the most important benefits from a business litigation standpoint is that the corporate structure creates a way for investors to limit their liability in the company in case something goes awry. This limited liability means that in most circumstances, the corporation’s… Read More »
What to Do When Your Company Gets Sued
For most people a civil lawsuit is a rare occurrence. Maybe they will need to go through a divorce, or deal with a personal injury lawsuit that will bring them into court a few times over the course of their lives. The same cannot be said for companies. In fact, a study performed by… Read More »
How Statutes of Limitations Affect Your Case
To paraphrase former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., people often mistake courts of law for courts of justice. While judges often strive to come to equitable outcomes, and laws are supposed to be fair, there are also practical considerations at play. These sorts of considerations can sink an otherwise winning claim, if… Read More »
Learning to Read Boilerplate
In a world where contracts and agreements can be stored electronically, more and more small business owners are having to deal with written contracts in their day to day dealings. In an ideal world, people would have the time and money to let lawyers look over every contract before they signed it, but that… Read More »
Surviving a Deposition as a Witness
Clients often benefit from taking an active role as a member of their own legal team, but depositions are an area that can force clients to take a particularly prominent position. Depositions are procedurally-authorized interviews that allow the lawyers to ask questions of the other side’s witnesses, including the other side’s client. These sorts… Read More »
Duties of the Board of Directors
One of the biggest problems faced by corporations is the known in economics as the “principal-agent problem.” Basically, the issue is that there are all sorts of costs imposed when one person has to act for the best interests of another. Agents may not know what the principal actually wants, or they may act… Read More »
Strategies for Resolving Partnership Disputes
People who go into business with a partner often do so while wearing rose-colored glasses. No one ever expects disputes to arise among people who are willing to go into business together. Yet, all too often it happens. Partnership disputes can often be high stakes; the future of the business itself may be on… Read More »
Likelihood of Confusion in Trademark Law
Trademark law is a complicated field with a variety doctrines and nuances, but the core goal of the law is to prevent consumers from being confused about what company is offering a product or service. That means that in order for a plaintiff to prevail on a trademark infringement claim, they need to show… Read More »
Daniel Lustig Named 2015 Rising Star
Pike & Lustig, LLP is pleased to congratulate Daniel Lustig on being awarded Rising Star status by the independent Super Lawyers rating agency. This award is designed to recognize the top 2.5 percent of young attorneys practicing in a state, and it signals an attorney with strong potential and a bright future. Lustig’s Career… Read More »
Michael Pike Named a 2015 “Super Lawyer”
Pike & Lustig, LLP is proud to announce that Michael Pike has been named a Super Lawyer for 2015 by the independent rating agency Super Lawyers, an award provided to only the top 5 percent of attorneys practicing in a state. This represents Pike’s third straight year of recognition by the agency as a… Read More »
Keeping Trademarks Covered: Avoiding Naked Licenses
Trademarks are commonly referred to as “source-identifiers.” They are logos or words that tell consumers where the good or service that they are purchasing comes from. This makes trademark licensing a bit of an unusual problem. After all, if the point of the mark is to tell consumers who makes a product, would it… Read More »
The Costs of Dialing a Wrong Number
Dialing a wrong number is a fact of life for most people, but a company calling the wrong person using an autodialer can face serious penalties. This is the result of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which lets consumers sue companies calling them without consent for $500 a call. In fact, Florida citizens… Read More »
Contract Damages: How Much Can You Agree To?
American law has a fairly robust respect for people’s freedom to contract, especially in cases where both sides are of equal bargaining power and sophistication. However, there are certain clauses that the law refuses to enforce either to protect society or to protect one of the parties to the contract. One area where this… Read More »
Tortious Interference Claims in Florida
Economic competition is at the heart of the American economy. The idea is that by competing with each other, businesses produce better, cheaper goods and services for the consumer. However, this type of economic competition is not a free for all. There are rules. One particular rule is that competitors are not allowed to… Read More »
