by e-LawLines | Feb 20, 2013 | Corporate Law, Employment Law
When there’s ice on the streets and the workday will be starting in only a few hours, many employers are faced with the question of whether or not they will be opening for business for the day. For those who do open for business, do they have to pay their...
by David P. Weiss | Jan 30, 2013 | Contract Law, Corporate Law, Small Business Law
Sign your agreement! There are just some things I don’t understand.One of them is why a company, a union, or an employer has their counterpart sign an agreement and yet they themselves never sign it. Sometimes the agreement even states that it is not effective...
by David P. Weiss | Jan 9, 2013 | Corporate Law, Small Business Law
It happened again. The pesky problem of keeping business records up to date with the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office resulted in a default judgment of $9.7 million, which mushroomed to over $11 million by the time the successful plaintiff got around to...
by e-LawLines | Jan 4, 2013 | Corporate Law, Probate & Estate Planning Law, Small Business Law, Taxation
In a move to avoid the fiscal cliff, the U.S. Senate, early on the morning of January 1, 2013, overwhelmingly passed a compromise bill, H.R. 8, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (“ATRA”), to extend and replace numerous provisions of the Internal...
by e-LawLines | Dec 14, 2012 | Corporate Law, Probate & Estate Planning Law, Small Business Law, Taxation
As 2012 draws to a close, it’s important to look at the significant changes that will be made to the Internal Revenue Code (“Tax Code”) beginning in 2013, short of an agreement between the White House and Congress. These changes include the...
by e-LawLines | Nov 8, 2012 | Corporate Law, Employment Law, Small Business Law, Taxation
Today, one of the most pressing issues concerning nearly all small business owners as well as their employees is the impact of the federal health care legislation signed into law by President Obama in March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
