On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Mar 18, 2019 | Business Litigation
It is entirely common for employers to seek consumer reports and background checks on prospective and current employees. However, the law governing how the employer can go about this can be tricky, and if done wrong leads to a massive legal nightmare. The most recent...
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | May 1, 2018 | Business Litigation
American federal law that seeks to ensure fair competition in the commercial realm is both robust and long-tenured, with so-called “antitrust” protections aimed at precluding monopolies and other business-choking strategies being well established and...
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Apr 17, 2018 | Business Litigation
The above query in today’s blog post can be answered in a single word: carefully. Some thorny issues with a contracting entity or other third party can ultimately be resolved in relatively civil fashion, of course, without the need to move forward and invoke a...
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Apr 11, 2018 | Business Litigation
The jury has spoken, and what it recently concluded clearly has mammoth medical device and consumer goods company Johnson & Johnson on edge and wary of future outcomes that don’t bode well for the global enterprise. What is obviously of material concern to...
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Nov 29, 2017 | Business Litigation
Is Swedish furniture maker Ikea’s response to a defective product concern adequate or abysmal? Some commentators think that the company has acted ethically and diligently in a safety matter involving many millions of chests and dressers sold to consumers across...
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Nov 16, 2017 | Business Litigation
Company mergers are central parts of the business landscape in California and across the country, with their combinations often spelling a win-win formula for two joined entities. Given their consolidation of resources and power, though, they are also often targets of...
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Oct 31, 2017 | Business Litigation
One company is an established tech enterprise headquartered in Florida. The other is a just-coming-to-the-party California startup. The following is their connected story, which is borne of acrimony and marked by contractual complexity. The former company, Citrix,...
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Sep 26, 2017 | Business Litigation
“So far, the alleged injury is vague, very indefinite for most people,” says one legal analyst commenting in the wake of what has been described as one of the largest security hacks to have ever occurred in the United States. Equifax fervently hopes that...
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Sep 19, 2017 | Business Litigation
Imagine politicians in one state purposefully drafting legislation to fail in its first assessment by a court. That is precisely what has happened in South Dakota, with the national publication Bloomberg noting that a statute enacted by legislators there “was...
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Sep 5, 2017 | Business Litigation
An industry commentator notes in an intellectual property-themed article relevant to business startups that many entrepreneurs materially neglect paying timely attention to a critically important matter when they begin their enterprises. And here is an additional...
