Sunday Book Review: July 20, 2025, The Best Books on Business Edition
Excessive Compensation: What to do when the co-owners of your business pay themselves excessively
Building and Exiting Business Partnerships
When a co-shareholder purchases the debt obligations of the company without partners' knowledge
What happens when a majority owner makes a bad-faith capital call?
Making the Lawyer-Client Relationship Work in Challenging Litigation – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
Prelude to the Business Court and 15th Court of Appeals: More Questions Than Answers | Tyler Talbert | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Navigating Corporate Divorce With Michael Einbinder
Business Courts and Other Highlights of the 88th Texas Legislature | Jerry Bullard | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Physician Partnership Agreements: Setting Yourself Up for Success
An Inside Look as a Juror - FCRA Focus Podcast
I Wish I Knew What I Know Now: Conversations with AGG on FDA Issues - Business Divorces in the Food and Supplements Space
How can an emergency injunction save your business?
Law Brief ®: Alan Gaynor and Richard Schoenstein Explore Business Divorce
Navigating the LLC Jungle - I Know a Lawyer Podcast
Episode 5: Business Divorce, Delaware Style
CorpCast Episode 7: Better Know a Judge: the Honorable Mary M. Johnston of the Delaware Superior Court
Paths to Dispute Resolution
What is arbitration?
Should any business sign a contract that includes an arbitration clause?
Fiduciary duty claims between closely-held business owners are commonplace in litigation before the Commercial Division. A decision last fall from Suffolk County Commercial Division Justice James C. Hudson in Matter of Lehan...more
Disputes over confidential information rarely begin with obvious misconduct. In most cases, the conduct that ultimately raises legal concerns looks ordinary at the time it happens. It blends into daily work, especially when...more
We are delighted to present the 41st edition of Arbitration World, a publication from K&L Gates’ International Arbitration practice group that highlights significant developments and issues in international arbitration for...more
They say inertia is the strongest force in the universe. It can be the strongest force in litigation too, where business owners sometimes have to endure endless years, countless dollars, and incalculable torment just to...more
In 2025, the Eastern District of Virginia (“EDVA”) remained one of the fastest federal trial courts in the country while simultaneously handing some of the most complex civil litigation nationwide....more
In life and business disputes are inevitable. Let’s focus on business disputes. Whether it’s a disagreement with a supplier, a conflict with an employee, or a legal battle with a competitor, these disputes can and do drain...more
Construction and business disputes often present complex issues that the mediator or arbitrator must understand to help settle the case or reach an informed arbitration decision. In order to help in this process, the neutral...more
In Ameriguard Security Services, Inc. & Garcia v. Anderson, et al., Judge Maria Gall of Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District’s Business Court found that absent fraud or manifest error, the certified stockholder list maintained...more
On November 25, 2025, the North Carolina Business Court issued an opinion in Estevez v. C&S Commerce, LLC, 2025 NCBC 73, and reaffirmed the enforceability of fiduciary duty waivers in LLC operating agreements....more
A lawyer for whom I have mediated has a favorite expression: “What you see depends on where you sit.” In the past six to seven years, I’ve sat in and mediated 250+ mediations, virtually all involving disputes over franchise...more
A recent Israeli Supreme Court ruling mirrors the trend in Israeli contract law rulings of returning to the basic tenets of certainty, formalism and the autonomy of the contracting parties, particularly in commercial...more
In valuation disputes, the Discount for Lack of Marketability rarely behaves. Courts disagree about it, lawyers and experts litigate it to exhaustion, and business divorce cases often see seven-figure swings based on the...more
I love endurance sports, and I work out incessantly. But I don’t watch sports or know much about them. Before hanging out with a group other men, I ask my wife to give me a summary of which local sports teams have recently...more
“Dark matter” is an invisible, mysterious substance that makes up about 27 percent of the universe. Its existence is inferred from its gravitational effects on ordinary matter, but it’s not made of the same particles. While...more
Welcome to the fourth edition (2025) of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer’s Guide to Dispute Resolution in Africa. We are delighted to present this updated publication, which continues to offer a comprehensive overview of...more
Divorce can be especially complicated for restaurant owners, as it often involves not just dividing personal assets but also making tough decisions about the future of the business....more
Balancing numbers and relationships when business and family intersect. Family-owned businesses occupy a unique and vital space in the economy. They combine entrepreneurial drive with deep personal commitment and long-term...more
As part of Hong Kong Arbitration Week 2025 programming, on 21 October 2025, Skadden hosted “Navigating the Storm: Effective Crisis Management.”...more
Talk about a roller coaster ride. Years ago, we wrote about Lengyel-Fushimi v Bellis, a pitched legal battle for control of a Brooklyn brewpub, Kings County Brewers Collective, LLC (“KCBC”), yielding not one, not two,...more
In today’s digital environment, misinformation spreads like wildfire and can inflict severe reputational damage. For businesses, false statements about products, employment conditions, financial reporting, or ethical...more
Most business owners think the rules are clear: if there’s a dispute among members in a limited liability company (LLC), the operating agreement and California’s LLC statues control what happens. But a recent case shows that...more
In the high-pressure world of restaurant ownership, partnerships can be as delicate as they are rewarding. When business owners don’t plan for the unexpected—whether that’s a partner’s departure, illness, or...more
On September 18, 2025, the District Courts of Harris County announced a major development: the addition of five new district courts within Harris County. This long-awaited expansion comes amid a period of momentous change and...more
Companies doing business internationally often insert arbitration clauses in their contracts. They do so for good reasons. One is to ensure that future disputes will be resolved in a neutral forum, not in the home court of...more
More than two centuries before Hamilton became Broadway’s most successful musical, Alexander Hamilton and his nemesis, Aaron Burr (sir), chose to resolve their disputes by dueling at dawn in Weehawken, New Jersey. This...more