Properly written contracts and agreements are the first step to avoiding litigation. Well thought out indemnity clauses serve to protect business. They avoid vague boilerplate clauses and spell out terms of a contract so that both parties understand their roles
Text as Contracts
In today’s evolving electronic world, more and more business is conducted via text messages. This raises the question: can text messages form a binding contract?
The answer is YES assuming certain elements are met. Courts that have been
So many of the initial conversations I have with potential clients begin in almost the same fashion:
“Mr. Burt, I know nothing about probate. What does that even mean?”
Often as professionals, we take the language and processes that are
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
