Posts by ADLI Law Group
Dispute Resolution Strategies
There are four common approaches to settling legal disputes: Direct Negotiation; Mediation; Arbitration and Litigation. Which one is right for you? Direct Negotiation: Works best in instances where the dispute is of fairly minor character and small in dollar amount, or where the disputing parties have an ongoing relationship that they don’t want to disrupt. …
Read MoreRobots Have Been Buying Your Hamilton Tickets!
On October 2, 2017, Ticketmaster, LLC with headquarters located in West Hollywood, filed a federal lawsuit against Prestige Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California. In the action, Ticketmaster claims that Prestige Entertainment used computer programs (robots) to scoop up large amounts of the tickets available for hot events such as…
Read MoreBusiness Entity Structures
Everyone has probably noticed that companies’ names often end in abbreviations such as “Inc.”, “LP”, “LLC”, “Corp.”, etc., but many people have only a vague idea what these designations actually mean. Yet, if you want to start a new company, choosing the form of that company is a fundamental and consequential decision that is best…
Read MoreThat Sucks For You. But, it doesn’t have to if you’re aware of this.
The Internet Corporation of Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) is the international company that oversees what are called generic top-level domains (“TLD”). These are .com, .net, .org and the others we’re all familiar with and likely use for our businesses and brands. Recently, ICANN approved and delegated about 550 new TLDs. One of them is “.sucks”…
Read MoreCan My Child Decide Who He/She Wants to Live With?
Child Custody is one of the most important issues to be decide in a martial dissolution matters. Indeed, parents going through divorce may end up spending tens of thousands of dollars and countless sleepless nights fighting over child custody and visitation. The issue of child custody has two components: (1) legal custody; and (2) physical…
Read MoreCourt of Appeal Affirms LA Superior Court’s Decision Not to Allow Husband to Modify Support Obligation Based on a Transfer of His Business to Current Wife and Claimed Retirement
The Second District Court of Appeal affirmed Judge Larua L. Siegle’s denial of a request for modification of support in the case of In re Marriage of Kevin J. and Cathy Berman (http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B272324.PDF), wherein the husband who owned a private investigation firm, had remarried and when he turned 65 years old, he handed the business…
Read MoreProtecting Jewelry Designs
Sales of Jewelry have been soaring over the past decade, with worldwide sales in 2016 totaling over US$300 billion dollars. Helped by instant world-wide access provided by Social Media, many jewelry designers have found themselves on the short end of the stick when their designs are pilfered. This article addresses various intellectual property tools that…
Read MorePsssst.. Your Confidential Information May Not Be Safe
You probably use confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements and confidentiality clauses in various types of business agreements. (I’ll refer to all of these collectively in this blog as “NDAs”). Their purposes are to protect your valuable confidential or trade secret information (“CI” for purposes of this blog), which are at the heart of a business’s value.…
Read MoreWho Gets the Dog in the Divorce?
In a time when more families own dogs, the question of who gets the family pet is a real question for some parties going through divorce. Last year, the Washington Post reported that three-fourths of Americans in their 30’s have dogs. Apparently, Millennials are more likely to have a pet than own a home, a car…
Read MoreSome Reality Show Stars Don’t Know Rights From Wrong…Or, Do They?
In an article for The Recorder, Paul I. Menes, Co-Head of the Entertainment and Media Practice at Adli Law Group, discusses the Jenners’ and Kardashians’ regular and repeated infringements of intellectual property and publicity rights of others since 2011. He asks and discusses whether they don’t know any better, or just don’t care”. To read the…
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