Owning an insurance agency does not equate to “owning” the customers it serves. If the agents (or producers) who have the relationships with those customers leave, and those agents do not have an effective non-piracy agreement with the agency, the…

Nobody likes a fight. And that applies in the business world also. But when disputes emerge, you want the best litigation attorneys for business on your side.
It is important to invest the time to find a trusted legal partner,…

Protecting Trade Secrets in Security-Challenged Remote Working Scenarios
Trade secret protection is something that haunts companies and has for years. The work from home environment has only made that task even more of a challenge with the expansion of employees…

Employers must be prepared to continue with remote work as the change over the last two years to where we work has become more permanent.  With this change, employers face a number of employment law issues and considerations.  Three of…

As you probably already know, mediation is a non-binding process involving a neutral party who tries to resolve a dispute by working with the parties to negotiate a settlement. In most lawsuits, the parties agree to voluntarily mediate their case…

The Eleventh Court of Appeals in Eastland, Texas recently reversed a final judgment after the logistics in a hybrid-remote civil jury trial went sideways in August 2020, and remanded for a new trial. The moral of the hybrid-remote jury story:…

On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that set aside the OSHA mandate requiring a COVID-19 vaccination of all employees of businesses with more than 100 employees.
OSHA’s Mandate
In 2021, OSHA issued an emergency temporary…