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A commercial lease is often substantially different than an “average” residential lease. The average commercial lease usually lasts for multiple years instead of a single year. Commercial landlords typically charge more per square foot for commercial property than...
Your employment contracts protect your business operations and relationships with employees. However, they can also get you into disputes if you fail to observe certain things. A significant percentage of contractual disputes stem from simple mistakes. Below are two...
Given how dense they tend to be, contracts can sometimes seem to be filled with extraneous language. However, language is – or, at least it should be – there for a reason. Without it, a contract could have a lot of holes in it -- or even be rendered invalid. That’s...
A business partnership can be fruitful for all parties. Partners can divide responsibilities and share liabilities and financial obligations. Nonetheless, there are occasions where business partnerships don’t work out as intended. A dispute between business partners...
When you buy a house in a community with a homeowners association (HOA), you are bound by its covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs). Some of these that you agreed to in order to purchase the home of your dreams can later turn out to be more onerous than...
Recently, there have been several high-profile stories about squatters or non-paying tenants who occupy properties without permission. One story that received national attention involved a family that could not move into a home purchased from the estate of the prior...
When buying real estate for commercial purposes, it is important to know that it is in the right zone. There are three main zones in use in most areas: Industrial, commercial and residential. These dictate the type of properties that can exist within those zones and...
When you enter into a contract with another party, you expect them to fulfill their obligations as agreed upon in the contract. Yet, sometimes, another party may indicate through words or actions that they are unwilling or unable to fulfill their obligations before...
Intellectual property can be crucial to a business’s success. Intellectual property helps a company make its brand unique and memorable. One component of intellectual property is trade secrets. Trade secrets include unique formulas, methods, designs and processes that...
Most of the time, you have to wait for a contract to actually be breached before you do anything about it. This is known as an actual breach. For example, perhaps your company signed a contractual agreement to hire a roofing company and they said they would arrive and...
