How to Negotiate a Tenant Improvement Allowance

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Congratulations. Accelerating sales have driven your young company toward an important crossroad. You need more space. You have found a commercial location that satisfies all your requirements and now you are getting ready to sign a lease. Remember to plan ahead so you can negotiate a tenant improvement allowance that will satisfy your needs. Here …Read more

5 Keys to Understanding Copyright Protection

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Despite the advent of many new forms of digital technology, artists, authors, actors and architects still look to federal copyright law to protect their creative works. While copyright law is quite broad, you can’t copyright everything. Keep these five points in mind as you consider copyrighting your original works of authorship. 1. You Can’t Copyright …Read more

Downloading Pirated Software Without Installing It is Still Copyright Infringement

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If your business creates software or simply uses it to perform work – let’s face it, what business doesn’t use software in one way or another – we encourage you to take note of a recent ruling made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The case – Design Data Corp. v. …Read more

Can My Claim Survive Bankruptcy?

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One of the key reasons a debtor files bankruptcy is to obtain a discharge of the debtor’s pre-petition debts.  Generally, only an individual debtor obtains a discharge.  In cases of corporate reorganizations, the Plan may include a provision that except as provided in the plan all pre-petition obligations are discharged, but otherwise, the corporation does …Read more

Can Debtor Avoid Turning Over Assets to the Bankruptcy Trustee?

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Let’s say “Jane” doesn’t see a lawyer in time to orderly dissolve the company, and now Big Bank and a few other creditors are coming after her.  She hasn’t found a new full time job, and she’s coming to the end of her savings.  Pretty soon she won’t be able to pay her credit card …Read more