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In Pennsylvania, there are thousands of small businesses that are organized as corporations and owned by a small group of shareholders. They are referred to as closely held corporations. The person or persons who own 51% or more of the shares of the corporation will...

Business disputes come in many shapes and sizes. When filing a lawsuit, of course, attorneys will attempt to cast the facts in the light most favorable to their clients. Likewise, they will select the legal theories that best correspond to the underlying factual...

in the majority of business litigation matters, the plaintiff has the option of choosing among various venues in which to file the case. It is possible that the case could be brought in either a state or a federal court, or in a court located in one of several states,...

Most business litigation matters will never make it to trial. That is a statistical fact. The vast majority of civil cases will either be settled or dismissed before a trial occurs. Indeed, if every case that were filed had to be tried, the courts would grind to a...

You might be surprised how frequently business is conducted on the basis of an agreement that is not in writing. All sorts of agreements, large and small, valuable and nominal, are routinely negotiated and performed on a verbal basis. But when a dispute arises, the...

Recently, when discussing the moment he knew that he had to terminate a member of his professional team, a client told me that it was when the team member complained about several supporting members of the team. The supporting employees were administrative and...

I receive many inquiries from recently terminated employees asking about their right to severance pay. In the states where I practice, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, there is no common law right to severance pay. However, although relatively rare, there are some...

Business Litigation is a document intensive practice. More often that not, a dispute as to what happened in a particular case is determined by reviewing the parties’ contemporaneous documents. When I began to practice law, documents consisted primarily of letters,...

Small companies can face big problems as their success leads to growth and expansion. While most anti-discrimination employment laws do not apply to private companies with only a few employees, what happens when a business adds employees or sets up an office in...

I enjoy speaking to prospective clients, learning about their businesses, hearing about their legal disputes, and most of all, collaborating with them to develop a strategy for representation. I often explain to clients that two terrific lawyers can hear the same set...