Business partnerships are a lot like relationships. Eventually, the honeymoon phase will come to an end. Feelings of mutual trust and respect can corrode. Left unchecked, these problems could mean the end of a once-successful business partnership. Sometimes, ending a...
Is your business partnership about to end?
Building a business is a lot of hard work and having a business partner means that you don’t have to do all the work alone. However, there is always a risk that one day, your partnership may come to an end. Stories of business partnerships becoming tense are not...
Protect people from slips and falls in restaurants
If restaurant owners do not maintain safe premises, their patrons and employees may incur injuries after a slip and fall. Many of these accidents result from preventable circumstances. Slips and falls are more common than restaurant owners may realize. According to...
The Price of an Unexpected Funeral
Death is expensive in more ways than one. The emotional toll can be the hardest cost to pay, but you might find it exacerbated by the other charges that are racked up in the process of attending to an unexpected loss. Those people experiencing the trauma that comes...
Is texting negligence that can lead to personal injury claims?
Staying in constant contact has become the default, instead of something only expected of medical professionals and others in emergency-related careers. Employers at businesses ranging from restaurants to retail shops often expect their staff members to answer their...
The trade secret policies
Apart from the patents, copyrights, and trademarks, trade secrets are another type of intellectual property. The trade secrets entail information and may handle the process, method, device, program, compilation, pattern, or formula. What is the usefulness of a trade...
Protection of trade secrets
Along with copyrights, trademarks and patents, trade secrets are a type of intellectual property used in business. Both the laws of the United States and international law afford businesses a degree of protection for their trade secrets. The definition of a trade...
Apple’s concerns of trade-secret flight
Trade secrets are inherently valuable. This property is included in both the federal and the Florida state definition of the term. As such, people often go to great lengths to misappropriate this type of information. In some cases, people even flee the country in...
Understanding the nondisclosure agreement
It is possible that you may have been presented with a nondisclosure agreement by a new employer in Florida as part of your new hire onboarding paperwork. You may or may not have read through all of the terms in the contract as your first day is generally wrought with...
Reducing the risk of getting sued as a small business
When small businesses get sued in Florida, it may feel like the end of the world. If the accusations are false, then the lawsuit feels even more unfair. Forbes estimates that each year, up to 53% of small businesses get dragged into some form of litigation. Overall,...
