Month: June 2016

Contracts are commonly used every day in many aspects of business and record the obligations parties have to one another as part of their agreed upon working relationship. At times, working relationships do not go as planned and contract disputes can be challenging...

In an ideal world, when consumers go to a store any buy something, they are getting exactly what is being advertised and for exactly the price being advertised. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Often times, companies engage in unfair trade practices that...

Often, people who have known each other for a long time or gone to college together come up with a creative idea and decide to turn their friendship into a business relationship. In other situations, individuals who do not know one another very well may decide to...

When New York residents enter into contracts -- be they of employment or of business -- they assume they are the only parties involved in the contractual negotiations and that when the contract is completed and executed, the parties are now bound to one another for...

Recently, this New York City Business and Commercial Law Blog discussed upcoming changes to family leave regulations. Now, further changes to employment law offer relief to employees in New York as well as across the country. The recently changed Fair Labor Standards...