Business owners use incorporation to lawfully limit their personal liability for their businesses’ debts and obligations. However, where a corporate entity is so dominated by an individual and the entity is so ignored that it primarily transacts the individual’s business ...

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Consider this scenario: An elderly man and woman meet on a cruise. After disembarking, the shipboard romance continues and two weeks later they begin cohabiting, spending six months of the year at his home in New York and six months ...

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Since you are reading The Daily Record, I will presume that you are probably one of the more responsible people in your family. You plan ahead. You already completed a Health Care Proxy. You have discussed or written your preferences for end of life treatment with your family.

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Six pharmaceutical sales representatives decided to form a corporation, Stonetek. Each of the six shareholders owned 16.67 percent of Stonetek’s stock. Their Shareholders Agreement provided that a shareholder’s stock could be redeemed at book value, which would be periodically updated.

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In a unanimous decision, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that, under certain circumstances, a business seller may give active assistance to a new employer’s efforts to pitch its business to former clients without incurring liability for improperly soliciting business.

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It is no secret that it’s expensive to do business in New York. During the last decade, we have seen viable and successful businesses flee to other states to improve their bottom line and gain the economic advantages they cannot get here.

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Does your company organize and keep track of its electronically stored information (ESI)? It’s definitely in your best interest to do so in civil litigation or face the increasing prospect of sanctions that can take the form of monetary penalties ...

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As the potentially catastrophic health impacts from exposure to myriad chemicals, construction materials and other products becomes more evident, questions often arise as to when the statute of limitations accrues for exposures that may have occurred decades ago.

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Electronic discovery shouldn’t cost more than a case is worth. Uncovering relevant electronic evidence has become critical in a wide range of civil litigation, from divorce cases to business disputes.

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Electronic discovery shouldn’t cost more than a case is worth. Uncovering relevant electronic evidence has become critical in a wide range of civil litigation, from divorce cases to business disputes. But keeping a lid on e-discovery costs can be challenging ...

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New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights will take effect Nov. 29. The law is the culmination of a six year organizing campaign by Domestic Workers United, an organization of nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in New York.

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We litigators spend most of our time applying precedent and on rare, special occasions, shaping it. We are on the threshold of one of those rare experiences. In June 2009, the state Public Health Law was amended ...

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