Banks Need to Protect Your Business Accounts
Keylogging software used by hackers presents an increased security risk to small businesses. The software records keystrokes on your keyboard and is used by hackers to obtain banking credentials to...
View ArticleWhy You Need a Will
There are many complex estate planning methods that are customized for those with assets valued in excess of the Federal estate tax exemption. But even without having “an estate tax problem” that comes...
View ArticleForeclosure Defense: 9 Paragraphs to Include in your Motion to Strike...
We’re all aware of the shoddy paperwork kept by lenders and the robo-signing scandals that recently made national news. Many times, the person signing the affidavit that is used as proof to take your...
View ArticleA Halt to Fees for Serving “Unknown Tenant”– Hopefully
In foreclosure actions, the borrower pays lenders fees including the process server. Other than the homeowner, other lien holders, spouses, and tenants are served at $50 to $90 each. What has annoyed...
View ArticleTemporary Injunctions – Careful what you ask for. You might get it.
You have a business dispute. Either the seller of the business you bought is directly competing against you after the closing or an ex-employee has gone to work for the competition taking trade secrets...
View ArticleWhen Can My Company Delete Business Records?
This year, the Florida Supreme Court adopted rules addressing discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”) in lawsuits. Electronic Discovery (“E-Discovery”) is how business lawyers obtain ESI...
View ArticleSales Tax on Items Not Subject to Sales Tax: Welcome to Retail and Office Leases
Recently, a commercial tenant came to me concerned about a landlord having the nerve to charge sales tax on his share of electricity. It seems incredible but the landlord did exactly what the law...
View ArticleForeclosure FAQ: Lender Lost the Note. How Does that Help Me?
It’s all the rage. You’re in foreclosure. You find out the lender has lost the note. Or if it was lost initially, the lender suddenly finds the note or proves its terms. But either way, the lender...
View ArticleLLC Action by Written Consent Instead of Minutes and Meetings
The Florida Limited Liability Company Act (the “Act”) provides an easy way to memorialize company action and resolutions taken. You don’t always need nor have time for a formal meeting with minutes to...
View ArticleCorporate Action by Written Consent Instead of Minutes and Meetings
Under the Florida Business Corporation Act (the “Act”), directors and shareholders or both can take any action required or permitted by the Act without a meeting. To do this, just circulate written...
View ArticleA Foreclosure Lawyer’s Take on Florida HB 87 / SB 1666
My clients in foreclosure, like many struggling homeowners across the country, constantly submit and resubmit paperwork in a bid to get the coveted yet elusive home loan modification. In New York, this...
View ArticleSurprise! Your Salaried or Commission Only Employee May Be Entitled to Overtime
One of my business clients wanted to address overtime issues that were becoming more common. His work force streamlined from the economic downturn was now being used to cover a recent increase in...
View ArticleHow to Protect and Copyright Your Web Content
Imitation, they say, is the greatest form of flattery. But ask a business owner if he would be happy to find out a competing company or ex-employee has copied the content of his website for their own....
View ArticleSocial Media and Company Liability
Businesses are using social media more and more. Even small businesses have put time and effort into their social media profiles such as Facebook Pages, Twitter, YouTube, and Google+. The legal...
View ArticleBanks Must Protect Your Accounts: Business Attorney Clearwater FL
Keylogging software used by hackers presents an increased security risk to small businesses. As a Business Attorney Clearwater FL I can’t emphasize to my clients enough of how vigilant they need to me....
View ArticleTemporary Injunctions in Commercial Litigation – Careful what you ask for....
You have a business dispute. Either the seller of the business you bought is directly competing against you after the closing or an ex-employee has gone to work for the competition taking trade secrets...
View ArticleTampa Business Lawyer Reviews When You Can Delete Business Records.
This year, the Florida Supreme Court adopted rules addressing discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”) in lawsuits. Electronic Discovery (“E-Discovery”) is how a Tampa Business Lawyer...
View ArticleSales Tax on Non-Taxable Items in Retail and Office Leases: Commercial Lease...
Recently, a commercial tenant came to me concerned about a landlord having the nerve to charge sales tax on his share of electricity. It seems incredible but the landlord did exactly what the law...
View ArticleForeclosure FAQ: Lender Lost the Note. How Does that Help Me?
It’s all the rage. You’re in foreclosure. You find out the lender has lost the note. Or if it was lost initially, the lender suddenly finds the note or proves its terms. But either way, the lender...
View ArticleLLC Action by Consent by Limited Liability Company Lawyer
I use this form for my clients in my capacity as a Limited Liability Company Lawyer. The Florida Limited Liability Company Act (the “Act”) provides an easy way to memorialize company action and...
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