Tag Archives: Brownsville Corporate Defense Lawyers
Properly Considering Tax Issues before Selling Your Business to Avoid Corporate Liability
When it comes to potential corporate liability, nothing is quite as risky as selling your company while ignoring tax issues. It is crucial that business sellers never agree on any aspect of a sales agreement until they are advised by an attorney that works in corporate liability and business transactions who can advise them… Read More »
What To Do After Getting Hit with a Big Plaintiff’s Verdict
Getting hit with a large jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff who sued you is never easy. The sheer size of the verdict can appear daunting. Take, for example, a recent jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest companies in the United States. Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay… Read More »
Strategy for Getting a Case Out of State Court and into Federal Court
Plaintiffs lawyers often try to invoke something commonly referred to as the forum defendant rule in order to keep a defendant in state court where the plaintiff attorney believes they have a better chance of securing a verdict in their favor. This rule is codified in Chapter 21 of the United States Code §… Read More »
Check Your Ego at the Door – How Courts Can Haul Corporations into Court on Alter Ego Jurisdiction
Your company is based in Brownsville, Texas. It has done business primarily in Texas for decades. Nevertheless, your company owns a small subsidiary in Nevada that oversees different tasks largely unrelated to the core business in Texas. However, you discover suit has been filed against the Texas corporation – in Nevada. How is that… Read More »
Farm Employees Can Sue Growers for Minimum Wage Violations
June Marks 50th Anniversary of Historic South Texas Farm Strike This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the historic farm workers strike in South Texas, according to NPR. In the summer of 1966, organizers for the National Farm Workers’ Association (later the United Farm Workers) came to the Rio Grande Valley and organized a… Read More »