Posted on: July 9, 2013

In Cook v. Patient Edu, LLC, 2013 WL 2501940 (Mass.), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has held that under Massachusetts state law (specifically, the Wage Act), managers of a limited liability company can be found liable for unpaid wages to employees of the LLC.

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Tag: Alternative Business Entities, Corporations, Labor and Employment, Limited Liability Companies
Posted on: July 8, 2013

Law and the Multiverse, a blog dedicated to the legal analysis of comic books and other related media, has a very fun but informative overview of trade secret law.

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Tag: Commercial Transactions, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Technology & Law
Posted on: July 8, 2013

Oregon, which previously passed a benefit corporation statute, has now become the second state in the country to enact benefit limited liability company (BLLC) legislation. House Bill 2296, signed by Governor Kitzhaber, authorizes the creation of LLCs that do not have profit as their primary purpose.

Tag: Alternative Business Entities, Legislation, Social Entrepreneurship
Posted on: July 4, 2013
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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Tag: Legal History
Posted on: July 3, 2013

Chapter 9 (Steps in a Civil Case) of Business Law Basics is now available online.

Tag: Professional News
Posted on: July 1, 2013

We have previously discussed a number of legal issues relating to the electronic currency known as Bitcoin, including implications with respect to corporate and estate law.  The news broke Friday of the first-ever government seizure of Bitcoins, conducted by the Drug Enforcement Agency.  The details can be found in the technology blog io9.com:

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Tag: Administrative Law, Commerce, Commercial Transactions, Criminal Law, Law & Economics, Technology & Law

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