Commissions not yet owed became lost wages when an employer retaliated against an employee foir complaining about commissions nonpayment.

Corporate debts can get personal if you make a mistake trying to avoid them.

An employee diagnosed with depression blurted out he was resigning. When he retracted his resignation, the employer refused to allow it and marked the employ...

Commercial tenants may not be able to stop eviction by filing a prior case for damages.

Uber's contracting process has been ruled ineffective.

The Virginia Supreme Court has decided that some contractual waivers of statute of limitations are unenforceable.

The danger of misclassifying a worker as an independent contractor is growing with the new ABC test.

In 2011 Congress passed the America Invents Act (“AIA”). It changed the patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-inventor-to-file system. AIA also cre...

A ruling from the Supreme Court overturns 80 years of case law on the subject of FLSA overtime exemptions.

A court has ruled that paid administrative leave does not necessarily shield an employer from employment litigation liability.

To be the subject of an infringement action, a patent has to be eligible for protection. Invalidity of the patent is a defense.

A company can sue a competitor that hyped a white paper criticizing its products without disclosing that it commissioned the report.

An agency that sponsors au pairs under a federal program sued Massachusetts claiming the federal program that brings au pairs to the United States on special...

A fraud case requires that a statement of fact made must be knowingly false when made and designed to be relied on by the party.

EMTALA is a law to prevent hospital emergency rooms from dumping patients. A case laid out analysis for determining whistleblower rights

We recently reported that the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that salespeople who are paid on a 100% commission basis are entitled to separate additional ...

A 58 year old experienced but unemployed attorney applied for a job as a Senior Counsel that required the ability to assume complex business projects. The jo...

Retail salespeople paid on a 100-percent commission basis are entitled to separate additional payments at one and a half times the minimum wage for overtime ...

Arbitration is a contract. The contract rules what happens in an arbitration, regardless how counterintuitive the result might be.

A company that provided temporary travel nurses to medical care facilities hired recruiters with an agreement restricting them from soliciting company employ...