Online gaming Social Mediacommunities are incubators of defamation. Competitiveness combined with the ostensibly impenetrable shield of online pseudonyms and geographic distance from your opponent invites participants to...more
Everyone is a little braver when hiding behind their keyboard. Words fly a little easier online where the speaker and target of the speech do not occupy the same physical space. The exponential echoes of manufactured gossip...more
Each election season, political campaigns volley focus-group-tested attacks against opponents hoping something will stick. These political advertisements however, often lead to legal disputes....more
In early 2020, an Illinois law became effective providing a civil cause of action for victims of revenge porn. 740 ILCS 190/1 (Civil Remedies for Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images Act). The purpose of the...more
Every business struggles with negative online reviews. Unless the negative post directly violates hosts’ terms-of-use, it is highly unlikely that the host site (e.g. Yelp, Glassdoor, Instagram, etc.) will remove the post....more
Negligence is, by far, the most common cause of action against a gym. A liability waiver is your shield against those lawsuits. By signing the waiver, a member agrees not to hold you liable for negligence if they are injured...more
Forming a legal entity-
Establishing a business entity for your fitness studio can prevent you from being personally on-the-hook if your business is sued. Operating your business as an LLC (or as another entity) can also...more
On March 5th, Eater published a detailed account of how a former OpenTable employee made hundreds of fake reservations at restaurants that used Reserve, an online reservation company (and a competitor of OpenTable). His...more
Interstate commerce is happening all around us, all the time. Companies from all over the country do business with each other. Lawsuits between these companies, however, can only occur in one place (aka venue). Does it matter...more