Posts Tagged ‘litigation’
RERL-1727-Growing Your Business – Litigation Finance – Large Growth
Go back 100 years and the law was against lawyers advertising and finding third parties to finance cases. Even contingent fees were scrutinized to dissuade lawyers from pursuing costly litigation. Though things changed in the 1980’s, lawyers still spend much of their time playing the role of peace maker as most cases cannot afford to…
Read MoreRERL-1727-Growing Your Business – Litigation Finance – Large Growth
Go back 100 years and the law was against lawyers advertising and finding third parties to finance cases. Even contingent fees were scrutinized to dissuade lawyers from pursuing costly litigation. Though things changed in the 1980’s, lawyers still spend much of their time playing the role of peace maker as most cases cannot afford to…
Read MoreRERL-1555- Jack Russo – Non Disclosure Agreement and Major Transactions
Nobody lives forever and you could say the same goes for businesses. A business typically gets sold, merges or goes public. When this happens it is called a major transaction and non disclosure agreements are signed since you are opening the door to a lot of detail with the new partner or acquirer. Today Joe…
Read MoreRERL-1547- Jack Russo – When the crisis is class action litigation
Scammers hacking into your personal information have been taking over the news and security issues are becoming a major issue for businesses big and small. After a hack not only does a company have to focus on improving their security, a class action lawsuit is likely just around the corner for negligence to provide sufficient…
Read MoreRERL-1545- Jack Russo – Litigation Funding
Throughout the last few weeks Jack Russo has been teaching us about the alarming challenges of litigation. Litigation funding is a whole new topic that changes the way entrepreneurs think about surviving litigation. In fact if it weren’t for litigation funding many cases just wouldn’t be able to happen. Today Joe and Jack tackle modern…
Read MoreRERL-1543-Jack Russo – Patent Litigation
In the last few Starting Something in Silicon Valley podcasts, Jack Russo has explained what happens when trademark and copyright infringement becomes an issue. So what happens when you get charged with patent infringement? Today Joe and Jack discuss the frightening topic of patent infringements. Specific topics include: The glut of patents Inexpensive overseas patents…
Read MoreRERL-1542-Jack Russo – The Crisis of Federal Court Litigation Over Copyrighted Matters
Litigation is one of those things you hope you never get into, but you have to educate yourself and understand how to prepare yourself just in case. An LLC does limit liability, but not as well as most people want to believe they do. Copyright infringements are one of the few exceptions that can cause…
Read MoreRERl-1535-When a crisis is the threat of litigation
No matter how much effort you put into crisis prevention anything could happen that puts serious strain on a new company. Even if you’ve already gotten the domain name with the intent-to-use trademark, another company could come out of nowhere and start causing issues. What can you do? Today Joe and Jack Russo discuss how…
Read MoreRERL-1530-Jennifer and Andrew Oldham with Compass
Disruption in the real estate industry is not slowing down and today Joe is bringing in two agents from Compass who are helping pave the way. Andrew and Jennifer Oldham are in the studio to talk disruption, technology and why they made the move to Compass. Specific topics include: State of the market What makes…
Read MoreRERL-1523-Legal Real Estate update, with attorney Dean Rossi
The people living in the Bay Area make this place a pretty special and unique place and we know our real estate market is no different. Every now and then it helps to bring in someone with the legal expertise to help us understand what we are really getting into when we make a transaction.…
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