Month: September 2015

When an employee is asked personal questions about their social or private life, they may think there is no problem with it, but the truth of the matter is that it can come under the purview of sexual harassment. What is sexual harassment? Sexual harassment is an...

Running a business in New York can be complicated whether it is an individually created start-up or a franchise. There are so many issues that will come to the forefront - many that the proprietor never even considered - that employer representation is an integral...

When New York residents work hard to create something new, they invest a lot of money and energy into the work. In addition to this, they probably feel passionately about the works they have created and want their names to be associated with them, and rightly so. When...

Readers of the New York City Business and Commercial Law Blog may be aware that when someone creates an original idea, whether or not he or she registers the copyright, the copyright exists in that piece of work. That means that if someone else violates the exclusive...

Though it is always in everyone's best interests to avoid a business dispute and last week's post focused on how New York residents could go about avoiding partnership disputes, the truth of the matter is that business issues cause disputes across the city on a daily...