Let’s play a word association game. I say “Intellectual property.” Your three most likely responses are: “patent,” “copyright,” and “trademark.” The federal government agrees. It has enacted statutes and created government agencies to guard and enforce your rights in those special forms of property. Indeed,…
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In construction law, there is no better bargaining chip than the threat of a mechanic’s lien, and that chip just got bigger. It is a given that commercial landlords subject themselves to the risk of a mechanic’s lien anytime they contract for improvements to their…
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It has been about three weeks since the release of the “Panama Papers” set news outlets abuzz. The documents and related news articles identified politicians, celebrities, and other prominent public figures as clients of a Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, and as participating in offshore…
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Arsenio Hall, a late night TV talk show host from the early 1990s, had a segment he called, “Things That Make You Go ‘Hmmmmm’”. This past Monday, an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Minnesota definitely made criminal tax lawyers across the…
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When a new business is formed by two or more owners, just like a new marriage, the participants often are so enamored with the new endeavor that little attention is given to the possibility that their union may one day come to an end. Buy-Sell…
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On March 8, 2016, following a Trump campaign event at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, Michelle Fields accused Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, of grabbing her and bruising her left arm. Fields, at the time a reporter with Breitbart News, wrote: “.…
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The Government has in its possession an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook who was killed in a shootout with police after he and his wife murdered fourteen people on December 2, 2015 in San Bernardino, California. The Government also has in its possession a warrant,…
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