Partner Disputes and Shareholder Disputes in the Age of COVID-19
We have recently seen an increase in partner disputes and shareholder disputes in the age of COVID-19. The disruptions of 2020 are taking a toll on closely-held businesses.
Why now? A few sets of stressors seem to be uncovering or exacerbating conflicts. Remote work and the need to adjust headcounts...
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Federal Coronavirus Relief for Your Business
While COVID-19 continues to spread, the Federal Government has taken a number of steps and adopted many new programs to help businesses meet their needs in the face of today’s economic challenges.
Paycheck Protection Program The Paycheck Protection Program may be particularly helpful for your business as it authorizes up...
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Does Your Company Need an Employee Handbook?
Despite the critical role that the human resources function plays in companies of all sizes, HR personnel and departments are all too often overlooked when a company is uating its priorities and resource allocation. One frequently overlooked tool, which is available at a relatively low cost, is the employee handbook. Many companies lack...
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2017 Year In Review
Dear Clients and Friends,
Wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year!
In case you missed it last year, here are some of KCL’s 2017 highlights. Notable KCL Wins Board of Medicine Reverses Itself, Grants Andrew Hyams’ Client a Full Medical License | Attorneys: Andrew...
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In case you missed it last year, here are some of KCL’s 2017 highlights. Notable KCL Wins Board of Medicine Reverses Itself, Grants Andrew Hyams’ Client a Full Medical License | Attorneys: Andrew...
Annual Reporting Season: A New Year For Your Business
Each year Massachusetts corporations (and many non-Massachusetts corporations doing business in Massachusetts) must file an Annual Report with the Corporations Division of the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth within two and one half (2½) months after the close of the corporation’s fiscal year.* For many corporations, this means they must...
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The Innovators’ Counsel: The ADA And Your Small Business – Public Accommodations
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (hereinafter “ADA”) requires public accommodations to provide goods and services to people with disabilities on an equal basis with the rest of the general public. The stated goal is to afford every individual the opportunity to benefit from our country’s businesses and services, and...
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The Innovators’ Counsel: Fiduciary Duty Claims – Interference with Contractual or Business Relations, Vol. 2
Our last IC post began exploring the business litigation tort of interference with contractual or business relations. As previously noted, such claims typically arise in the context of business competition; e.g., where one party who has been unsuccessful in retaining or winning a third party’s business alleges improper interference by the successful competitor.
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The Innovators’ Counsel: Fiduciary Duty Claims – Interference with Contractual or Business Relations, Vol. 1
In early April, IC explored the business tort know as a “freeze-out.” (April 6, 2015 IC post). Another claim that is often asserted in business litigation is interference with contractual or business relations. Interference with business relations and interference with contractual relations are actually two separate torts (distinguished below). Such claims...
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The Innovator’s Counsel: Safe Harbor Period for Massachusetts New Earned Sick Time Law
Recently, the Innovator’s Counsel notified you of the new Massachusetts statute regarding earned sick time (previous post), which is going into effect on July 1, 2015. However, the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, the office tasked with the enforcement of the new statute, recently released a notification informing the public that...
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The Innovator’s Counsel – “E-Discovery” In The Modern Legal World, Vol. 1 –> What is It?
For those who have been involved in formal litigation, you will recognize the term “discovery” as meaning the phase in a lawsuit where the parties attempt to gather as much factual information as possible from one another. One of the primary tools lawyers use to get at this factual information are written...
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The Innovator’s Counsel: Default LLC Provisions in Absence of an Operating Agreement
As noted in previous IC blog posts, Massachusetts has codified its Limited Liability Company (“LLC”) laws at Mass. Gen. Laws c. 156C (“MA LLC Statute”). In the event individual members of an LLC fail to contemplate and adopt a comprehensive Operating Agreement outlining the LLC and individual members’ rights, responsibilities and operating...
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The Innovator’s Counsel: Massachusetts New Earned Sick Time Law
As of July 1, 2015 (the “Effective Date”), employers in Massachusetts must be prepared to deal with the implications of a new law regarding earned sick time. The new law requires employers who employ eleven (11) or more people to grant their employees the right to accrue paid sick leave up to 40 hours...
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