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 David P. Weiss | Dec 4, 2012 | Small Business Law
I made an overture to a relative of mine in another state inquiring whether or not they knew someone who might be able to get us some information to access a fund in that state to relocate, or start a new, manufacturing plant in that state. I emailed my relative on...
by David P. Weiss | Nov 27, 2012 | Employment Law, Small Business Law
As we know, criminal activity has consequences. What may not be understood is the collateral consequences of criminal activity. Besides the possibility of imprisonment, fine and the tarnish of a conviction, conviction can also jeopardize or derail your trade or...