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Jun 30, 2020
3 min

Controlling Board & Officer Cybersecurity Liability

High-profile breaches have affected millions of customers and employees. They have created major losses to businesses through direct...

Paul Peter Nicolai

Jun 23, 2020
2 min

VOLUNTEER DIRECTORS IMMUNE

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has issued a broad decision immunizing volunteer directors to Massachusetts nonprofits from liability and...

Paul Peter Nicolai

Jun 16, 2020
4 min

Workforce Coronavirus Relief

The federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 ("Families First Act") is the second in a series of legislation to deal with...

Paul Peter Nicolai

Jun 9, 2020
1 min

Arbitration Notice Succeeds

A Plaintiff sued her employer saying it misclassified her as an independent contractor and failed to pay her minimum wages. The court...

Supreme Court Says Willful Infringement Not Required to Award Profits In Trademark Cases

Paul Peter Nicolai

Jun 2, 2020
1 min

Supreme Court Says Willful Infringement Not Required to Award Profits In Trademark Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a trademark infringement plaintiff does not have to show willful infringement to get an award of profits.

Good-Faith Presumption under Paycheck Protection Program

Paul Peter Nicolai

May 27, 2020
2 min

Good-Faith Presumption under Paycheck Protection Program

SBA has determined that payroll protection plan recipients of less than $2 Million will be presumed to have determined need in good faith.

Paul Peter Nicolai

May 12, 2020
6 min

Understanding Cyber-Risk Insurance

Shopping for cyber risk insurance means understanding both the insurance and what you need.

Paul Peter Nicolai

May 5, 2020
1 min

RETALIATION TRIPLES DAMAGES

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

Paul Peter Nicolai

Apr 28, 2020
1 min

Oops...Corporate Debt Gets Personal

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

Paul Peter Nicolai

Apr 21, 2020
3 min

Making M&A Earnouts That Work

Parties use earnouts to overcome differences of opinion on value. The wrong clause can mean lawsuits later.

Paul Peter Nicolai

Apr 16, 2020
4 min

PPP FORGIVENESS HOOPS

Millions of companies have submitted for PPP. Now it;s time to think about manximizing foregiveness.

Paul Peter Nicolai

Apr 14, 2020
1 min

Depression Leads to Discrimination

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

Commercial Landlord & Tenant – Possession

Paul Peter Nicolai

Apr 7, 2020
1 min

Commercial Landlord & Tenant – Possession

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

Uber’s Arbitration Terms Ruled Unenforceable

Paul Peter Nicolai

Mar 31, 2020
1 min

Uber’s Arbitration Terms Ruled Unenforceable

Uber's contracting process has been ruled ineffective.

Does Coronavirus Excuse Contract Performance?

Paul Peter Nicolai

Mar 25, 2020
2 min

Does Coronavirus Excuse Contract Performance?

The answer depends on the force majeure clause in the contract – if it has one. If it does, start with its language. It may contain a...

Paul Peter Nicolai

Mar 20, 2020
2 min

Coronavirus Thoughts For Business

Not pretty but coronavirus business survival means preserving cash.

Coronavirus Employer Requirements Coming

Paul Peter Nicolai

Mar 20, 2020
4 min

Coronavirus Employer Requirements Coming

A rundown of federal employment related mandates and benefits on the table and being rolled out to deal with coronavirus.

Paul Peter Nicolai

Mar 17, 2020
1 min

Limitations Waiver Unenforceable

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

Private Software Licenses vs. Government Software Licenses

Paul Peter Nicolai

Mar 12, 2020
6 min

Private Software Licenses vs. Government Software Licenses

Government procurement regulations automatically insert clauses into software licenses which are surprisingly different than private deals.

Paul Peter Nicolai

Mar 10, 2020
1 min

Employee Misclassification Spreads

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

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