As a business owner in California with your own products, processes, and creative properties, you likely want some form of protection to ensure that your ideas don't fall into the wrong hands. Making use of copyrights may come to mind. But just how much do you know...
Year: 2018
Questions to ask before signing a commercial lease
As a California business owner, you probably have a checklist you keep that tracks your preferences or needs in a commercial rental property. While inquiring about square footage, signage and other elements of a prospective rental is important when discussing a...
What to include in a non-disclosure agreement
As a California business owner, chances are, you exercise care before hiring someone new, and you make efforts to ensure that the people you hire use discretion when it comes to sharing important information about your business. What happens, though, when someone you...
Have unfair practices damaged your business?
If you are like many business owners, you know what it means to make sacrifices for your company. You may rarely see your family, that is, if you have even taken the time to start one. Can you remember the last time you took a vacation? Have you lost track of the...
When your business partner breaches a contract
As a California business owner who is also part of a partnership, you may understand all too well that maintaining a successful business partnership is not always easy. When there are “too many cooks in the kitchen,” so to speak, it can be difficult to make decisions...
Protecting your business’s trade secrets
As a California small business owner, chances are, there are certain aspects about your business that give it a leg up on the competition. Maybe your trade secrets involve certain recipes or processes, or maybe you have spent the last several years creating a solid...
How to properly evict a commercial tenant
As a California commercial landlord, you probably know that the rules governing your landlord-tenant relationships differ from those that apply to residential landlord-tenant relationships. While residential tenants typically have more protection that commercial...
Using California’s Anti-SLAPP statute to protect your pre-litigation letters
As often happens before a party files a lawsuit, letters are sent between the parties (establishing their respective positions) and, sometimes, witnesses. These types of letters are referred to as "pre-litigation letters". Because parties to a lawsuit have diverging...
How to assert and defend against a prejudgment writ of attachment
Sometimes, creditors are not satisfied with merely filing a lawsuit and waiting until the end of trial (and after post-judgment motions are completed) to obtain assets to satisfy the judgement. Instead, some creditors seek more rapid, immediate relief, by filing what...
Why you should not file a judgment roll appeal
The California Rules of Court allow an appellant (i.e., the person appealing the judgment or order) to appeal on what is known as a judgment roll; however, doing so would be a big mistake, because, although the costs of a judgment roll appeal are less, the standard...