Recent Posts in Business Law Category
Posted on Mar 8, 2019 By Ken Milner
By understanding the distinctions between different Pennsylvania business entites, people will be better able to determine which entity is best designed for their respective businesses. In Part One of ...
Continue reading "An "Entity Identity" Update (Part One of a Two-Part Article)" »
Posted on May 4, 2018 By Kraut Harris
When franchising and franchised businesses started to take off in the 1960s and 1970s, the typical franchisee was an individual who, after working for others for decades, decided that he or she wanted ...
Continue reading "Why is the Franchise Disclosure Document Hard to Understand?" »
Posted on Dec 1, 2017 By Kraut Harris
There are times when the best thing an entrepreneur can do is to say "That's enough. It's time to stop operating this business." For some, the decision will entail passing the ...
Continue reading "Winding Down Doesn't Have to Mean Winding Up" »
Posted on Aug 10, 2017 By Kraut Harris
Litigation is expensive. All too often, a person or company will have to abandon a claim because the cost of litigation is simply too high to justify pursuit of the claim. In Pennsylvania, Magisterial ...
Continue reading "Single Member LLCs Must Use Counsel in PA Court of Common Pleas" »
Posted on Apr 26, 2017 By Kraut Harris
We are used to feeling the winds blow when we are outdoors in March. But what are those breezes we feel when we are inside our offices in April? They are the effects of exhalations of principals, ...
Continue reading "Tax Returns Filed? Good. Now is the Time to Worry." »
Posted on Feb 12, 2017 By Ken Milner
It has been a little over four months since the Federal Aviation Administration issued regulations relating to the operation of commercial unmanned small aircraft, i.e., drones. While opening up some ...
Continue reading "FAA Drone Regulations Fail to Propel Deliveries" »
Posted on Jan 23, 2017 By Ken Milner
Pennsylvania: A large state with a diverse population to match, with big cities such as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, small manufacturing and mining towns, farmlands, distributors and middle-America ...
Continue reading "Another New Entity Law in Pennsylvania" »
Posted on Jan 2, 2017 By Ken Milner
One of the mainstays of franchising has been that a franchisee is an independent contractor, rather than an employee of the franchisor. In fact, a mantra of franchise organizations has been that a ...
Continue reading "Franchisor as Joint Employer? Not So Fast...." »
Posted on Feb 21, 2016 By Ken Milner
[In Part 1 of our review of Confessions of Judgment ( see our Blog of January 14, 2016 ), we explained that Confessions of Judgment are remedies which allow commercial creditors and landlords to not ...
Continue reading "Confessions of Judgment Still Enforced in PA--Part 2 (of 2)" »
Posted on Jan 14, 2016 By Kraut Harris
If you have ever borrowed money to finance the purchase or operation of a business, or if you (or your company) have ever entered into a commercial real estate lease, there is a good chance that, ...
Continue reading "Confessions of Judgment Still Enforced in PA--Part 1 (of 2)" »
Posted on Jul 6, 2015 By Kraut Harris
For decades, if the decision-makers of a Pennsylvania business entity wished to change the structure of that entity, the only way they could do so would be to dissolve the existing entity and to form ...
Continue reading "New PA Entity Transactions Law Effective July 1, 2015" »
Posted on Feb 16, 2015 By Ken Milner
I can see the look on my client's face when I recommend that, if the client plans to do business in another state, he or she should register the company to do business in that state. The ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2015 By Kraut Harris
Why do so many attorneys and professional advisors recommend forming "Delaware corporations"? Why is it that Delaware is to corporate law what McDonalds is to franchising? For many, the ...
Continue reading "Who Should Pay When a Shareholder Sues the Corporation?" »
Posted on Sep 29, 2014 By Ken Milner
Under current Pennsylvania Law, a judgment lien may be revived every five years. It has always been a popular belief that a failure to "revive" the lien before the five year date would mean ...
Continue reading "Failure to Revive Lien Does Not Invalidate Lien" »
Posted on Aug 18, 2014 By Craig J. Fleischmann, Esquire
As a follow up top my Blog post regarding the Superior Court's decision in Shafer Elec. v. Mantia, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided the issue, and affirmed the Superior Court's ...
Continue reading "It's final - HICPA Will Not Bar A Claim for Quantum Meruit by a Contractor" »
Posted on Aug 14, 2013 By Craig J. Fleischmann
In a coup for contractors, two recent decisions from the Pennsylvania Superior Court, Shafer Elec. & Const. v. Mantia and Durst v. Milroy General Contracting, Inc. and Durst v. Milroy General ...
Continue reading "Recent Developments Under The Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act ("HICPA") Benefit Contractors" »