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Face-off Over Facebook
"If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook." — Mark Zuckerberg, from the movie, "The Social Network" "The Social Network" movie is a fictional story of the birth of Facebook, but more specifically about founder Mark Zuckerberg and the...
The “Ordinary” Commercial Lease: A Fallacy. It Doesn’t Exist.
"It's just ordinary lease stuff," Frank said. After a short pause, he continued, "At least, I think it is." Frank had just been given a document entitled "Standard Commercial Lease – Net." He wasn't an unsophisticated businessman—his business had grown from him and...
Reasonable Accommodation and the Interactive Process: The ADA Requires Employees and Employers to Work Together
2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. A key distinction between the ADA and other anti-discrimination laws is the requirement for employers to make “reasonable accommodation” for the...
Shallow Pockets; the Risk of Undercapitalization
Assuming your company does not have 20 billion dollars stashed away in money reserves like BP Energy, many companies risk inadequate capitalization, or what is also referred to as "thin capitalization." Inadequate capitalization generally means funding resources that...