by David P. Weiss | Nov 18, 2020 | Commercial Law, Contract Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law
A recent case out of Illinois illustrates the danger of failing to keep track of deadlines, and expounds on the purpose of liquidated damages. The facts of the case are rather straightforward, but the results surely must have stung for one of the parties. A contract...
by David P. Weiss | Aug 18, 2020 | Employment Law
On Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum (not an executive order, as reported in the popular press) suggesting deferral of the employee portion of FICA taxes from Sept. 1, 2020, through the end of 2020. The full text of...
by David P. Weiss | Apr 2, 2020 | Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Employment Law, Homeowner Associations, Physicians & Healthcare, Small Business Law
These are trying times for employees and employers alike in just about every industry imaginable. Disrupted work, adjusting to work from home (for the lucky ones!), uncertainty about how long stay-at-home and social distancing orders will last, outright business...
by David P. Weiss | Mar 3, 2020 | Employment Law
All elections are important; it’s just that some elections seem more important than others. Presidential election cycles always fall into that latter category, and thus this upcoming primary election, and then the general election in November, are of perceived,...
by David P. Weiss | Aug 28, 2019 | Homeowner Associations
It has been well-settled law in Missouri that when it comes to indentures and restrictive covenants limiting the use of real property, the ability to amend such an instrument was to be restricted to only those amendments that lessened, alleviated or made such...