By its nature, business law is always playing catch-up to business reality. Few areas of law reflect the gap between every day events and court opinions as the area of social media. Social media gives everyone the power of the …

An interesting question regarding LinkedIn contact information arose recently in a High Court decision out of England. The matter involved whether email addresses stored in LinkedIn groups formed for the company’s benefit, which were maintained by employees, were the sole …

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John Malyevac (the “Employee”) sold computer products for Assurance Data, Inc. (“ADI”). The two parties entered into an employment agreement which contained non-competition, non-disclosure, and non-solicitation provisions.

According to ADI, after resigning from the company, the Employee breached the agreement …

Unfair business practices claims, such as breach of fiduciary duty, business conspiracies and tortious interference, have not usually been asserted by law firms against their prior attorneys or the law firms where their prior attorneys subsequently go to work. Among …

The attorney-client privilege protects the privacy of communications between an attorney and his client.  Most courts agree that the attorney-client privilege between a lawyer and a client that is a corporation extends to more than just the owners of the …

SBA recently issued a significant rule affecting Multiple Award Contracts (MACs) that implements Section 1331 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010.  Section 1331 focuses on several “tools” contracting officers can use to increase small business participation in MACs.  …

To the extent employers can, they should keep a record of objective criteria used when choosing one employee over another in the context hiring and promoting employees.  Keeping an accurate record of the reasons for employment-related decisions can be useful …

When two companies combine their efforts to accomplish a task, there can be confusion purposefully or incidentally created, as to which employees are acting on behalf of which company.  And that confusion can lead to legal problems.

When companies enter …