Florida Business Litigation Lawyer Blog

There are always deadlines for bringing employment-related claims when the employee is the person initiating the claim because there are statutes of limitations. Some statutes of limitations are very short, for example, an employee will need to file a charge of discrimination for certain types of discrimination claims within a certain number of days, otherwise,…

Employer’s not always required to pay for those types of days, sick days, holidays, personal days. Many employers by contract with the employees will do that. They’ll do that through an employee handbook or written policies and procedures. Under those circumstances, the employer has to abide by the promises it made to the employee.

An employer can not force somebody to do something. In other words they cannot lock them in or make them do something through some kind of compulsion, but the employer can ask the employee to stay later. The employee could say no and the employee could say yes. The issue is, does the employee want…

Not every discrimination law covers every employer. Most anti-discrimination laws require a certain number of minimum employees. For example, Title XII of the Civil Rights Act, as well as the Florida Civil Rights Act, require a minimum of 15 employees for the law to apply at all. Other laws, though, do not require a minimum.…

Whenever your business is sued, the most important thing is to promptly address the situation. Retaining legal counsel, getting legal advice is very important. Sometimes people wait and they wait til the last second. A default sometimes can be entered if you wait past the deadline. It’s very important to be proactive and address the…

A registered agent is for a corporation and the purpose is to accept service of process. A corporation is a pay per person and that person can designate an individual, a human being or another company to accept legal papers, such as, a lawsuit, and that is the designated person to receive these documents on…

Liquidated damages are an agreed fixed amount of money that parties enter into in a contract where they said if another party breaches it, this is going to be the amount they agree upon in damages. Liquidated damages frequently exceed what the law permits and there are legal limitations as to what a liquidated damage…

There are many different types of contracts, but the most common component of a contract is offer, acceptance, and consideration, meaning that one party offers something, the other party supplies something else, and there’s mutual promises exchanged. There are other types of contracts also, such as unilateral contracts, where one party has offered to have…