What is Intellectual Property

When an inventor, author, business or creative professional produce an original work, they create something known in legal parlance as “intellectual property.” These properties can be copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade dress or service marks. The...

Nationwide Takata Airbag Recall Still Ongoing

Takata, the maker of the defective airbags found in millions of vehicles, has now pleaded guilty to accusations that it deceived automakers about the safety of the airbags it made. Currently, automakers are disputing allegations that they knowingly installed those...

What Is a Tort and Where Does It Come From

If you have watched many primetime legal dramas, midafternoon episodes of “Judge of the Hour” or have spent much time perusing major cable news networks, you have probably heard the term tort.  While your first inclination may have been to think of that delicious...

Why Top CFOs Use Sale-Leasebacks to Raise Capital

All businesses eventually reach a point where they need additional capital to fuel growth. Traditional means of doing this include raising equity or taking on more debt. Growing in popularity, one of the more underutilized options for businesses that own their own...

Bad Facts: How to deal with them

Let’s say your client has something bad in his past that is admissible and will be coming out during trial.  Or perhaps there’s evidence that he may have been drinking earlier in the day of his car crash, where a negligent party hit him and caused serious bodily...

Important Intellectual Property Lawsuits

The term intellectual property refers to ideas and creations of the mind such as works that are literary, musical or artistic, including designs and symbols and names and images that are part of the world of commerce–meaning people make money (or at least hope...