As a small business owner, one of your top priorities is probably making sure that you protect your business. Most business owners take a hands-on approach to running the company. This enables them to make the decisions they feel are best, but there’s a major concern...
Business Disputes
Minimize the impact of partnership disputes on your company
Partners often go into business together because they share a similar vision and know that they can use each other’s strengths to help the company. Things might go well at first, but there will almost certainly come a time when a disagreement comes up. Handling this...
Signs you and your business partner may have a dispute
Working with a business partner is an attractive and yet somewhat complex proposition. You need to find someone who can add to the skills you have and make the company more successful. You also need someone who can get along with you and work with you as an equal....
What to do when a business rivalry turns ugly
A friendly rivalry with another store or company can actually be good for business -- just ask Coke and Pepsi. However, rivalries can sometimes turn very ugly very fast. When another business uses deceptive or otherwise wrongful practices to deliberately damage your...
Are you having an employment contract dispute?
When you hire a new employee, you present them with a contract for their review. If they’re okay with the terms and conditions of employment, they’ll sign the contract thus allowing you to move forward with the onboarding process. While all of that sounds easy enough,...
Defrauded? Fight back and protect your business
You are an upstanding business owner. You do all you can to pay taxes on time, to make good on your deals with other businesses and to uphold your contracts. You never expected that you’d be a victim in a fraud case, but that’s what happened. A company sent you a bill...
Take steps to protect your business
One of the top priorities of a business owner is keeping the business safe. This means that you make decisions that you feel are in the company's best interest and that you take steps to protect it from legal claims. This encompasses many aspects of the business so...
Steps to take to resolve a business dispute
Business disputes are costly most of the time. They can waste the time of several highly paid employees, they can diminish employee morale and they can result in costly litigation. They can also cause the reputation of the business in question to plummet. This is why...
Amazon seeks injunction to halt work on DOD JEDI project
Texas residents who follow the technology sector might know that a fierce legal battle is waging over the Department of Defense's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project. The DOD awarded the coveted $10 billion project to Microsoft Corporation in October 2019,...
Enforcing non-compete agreements in Texas
Your career path in Houston may allow you to climb the corporate ladder within a single organization. Then again, you may be forced to leave your current company if you want to seek a promotion. Doing so can be difficult, however, if your current employer says that...