If you own a multi-unit commercial building, whether it's a plaza full of spaces or a building full of offices, beware of the exclusive use clause. Most of your tenants, if they have any experience with commercial leases, will want them. However, agreeing to broad...
Rental landlords should know that there's a right way and a wrong way to evict a tenant. The wrong way is posting a 72-hour notice on someone's door after a hurricane, having their electrical power cut off and telling them that you want them out so that repairs can...
Your home is important to you -- so when you hire a contractor to do renovations or build an addition, you expect your contractor to live up to his or her end of the bargain. So, what do you do when the work seems to crawl to a stop, leaving you with an unfinished...
Is your business in a legal dispute with someone? Depending on the nature of the dispute -- and your desire to resolve the issue quietly and quickly -- you may want to consider hiring a private judge. Hiring a private judge to settle a civil suit between two...
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is designed to prohibit discrimination against the disabled in a number of areas, including commerce. Many small businesses regularly run into difficulty with ADA compliance and find lawsuits over compliance both common and...
In any business deal, all the involved parties are expected to look out for themselves, but that doesn't mean that a party can resort to trickery just to make a deal. A fraudulent misrepresentation is a type of deliberate untruth that one party uses to lure another...
What can a tenant do when a landlord fails to maintain a property in a way that he or she is legally obligated to do? In effect, tenants can allege that they have been the victim of a "constructive eviction." As a result, they may be entitled to end the lease and...
"Native" ads are designed to fit right into a social media feed in a way that enhances the viewer's experience, rather than detracting from it. Unfortunately, some companies have gone too far in their efforts to disguise paid-for content as something organic. That can...
A defective work claim is one of the most common sources of conflict during construction. Property owners are understandably upset when they find out that their new home suffers from a serious construction defect that is going to be expensive -- if not impossible --...
A Naples man and his mother have been sued in U.S. District Court for allegedly running a fraudulent scheme to illegally gain more than $70 million. They stand accused of artificially raising the prices on supplies purchased by foreign companies doing business in the...
