New Jersey business law presents no thornier area than business divorces – when a venture goes south and the owners – the partners, corporate shareholders or limited liability members – acrimoniously split up. The Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey recently addressed such a painful business divorce…
New Jersey Business Law and Liquidated Damages Business parties draft contracts to give them a measure of certainty in their future relationship. However, it is not a secret that contracts are frequently breached, so parties often want a degree of certainty about what will happen in the event of a…
Very often, a person or business will want to confer a benefit on a third party but will not be able to do so itself, for a variety of reasons. So then, to make sure the benefit will be conferred, it will enter into a contract with a person or…
Businesses acquire rights in a trade name which they use in commerce, whether they register it or not. One of those rights is protection from “cybersquatting.” This protection was added to the federal Lanham Act in 1999, which protects against unfair competition and is the main federal law protecting trade…