In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to answer a basic question that I am not frequently asked about, but sometimes do get asked about, especially with people who may have done this with a family member, or who drafted this without consulting an attorney, and that is, “How ...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, we're having a different type of blog article.  Today is the 4th of July, America's Independence Day!  We are closed as are most small businesses, courthouses, banks, and there's no mail today, either.  It's a special holiday weekend.  Today we...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to answer another basic question that I am not frequently asked, but clients and prospective clients ask different variations of the same question all the time, “How should I handle breach of a commercial lease?”  Or “How should I handle...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to answer a basic question that I am not frequently asked, but clients and prospective clients ask me about different aspects of the same question all the time --- “I'm thinking of filing a lawsuit, what should I expect?”  Or “My company...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to answer an important question, and in fact, someone asked me about this issue this week, and that is “What is the statute of limitations?”  There is a deadline for filing lawsuits in Oklahoma, and depending on the type of lawsuit you'r...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a question I get asked about somewhat often, and that's whether a verbal agreement is legally binding or enforceable in Oklahoma.  Everyone knows they can enforce a contract or agreement in writing, and that's why the old a...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that often comes up in breach of contract cases, and that's vendor disputes. Relationships with vendors are critical to the success of any business, large or small.  However, if disputes arise over pricing, quality,...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to answer what might appear to be a strange question.  When it comes to employment law, everyone knows that employees frequently sue their employers, either for workers' compensation, or for wage and hour disputes.  However, there are ti...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that comes up with some of my business litigation clients.  Sometimes another business is somehow interfering with the client's business and the client wants to know whether or not the conduct is actionable.  In oth...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that often comes up with my breach of contract clients.  Many times, these kinds of clients wish to maximize their recovery, and so they ask about damages, and how much they can collect or recover, even beyond the a...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that comes up with some of my business contract clients, and that's how to use a contract to avoid business disputes.  In other words, what types of clauses a business contract should have to avoid a dispute later o...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that some of my clients ask me about, and that's what your small business should do if it gets sued.  In Oklahoma, you only have 20 days to file a response to a lawsuit, and if you're an LLC or a corporation, you ca...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that often comes up with my construction clients, and that's something along the lines of “What's an M&M lien?” or “How can I resolve a construction dispute with a lien?” or something similar along those lines.  Giv...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to answer a question I am asked by many of my breach of contract clients, and that's something along the lines of “What can I expect in my breach of contract lawsuit?”  Or, put another way, “How should I approach the case?” Again, there'...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, we're continuing and concluding our series on commercial leases, and I want to talk about one more topic in this area, and that's why you would want to terminate your commercial lease, especially if you're a landlord, but also if you're a tenan...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to continue talking about commercial leases (this is turning into a series), and discuss another topic related to commercial leases that doesn't come up often enough, and that's how to renegotiate your commercial lease.  Just because you...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to continue to talk about commercial leases, and another topic related to that which does not come up often enough, and that's how to avoid defaults in your commercial lease.  Not how to avoid having default terms in the lease itself, bu...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that doesn't come up often enough with clients which have growing business and which are entering into commercial leases, and that's how one goes about negotiating a commercial lease and what problems one might enco...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to once again continue from where we left off in last week's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter.  Last week I talked about how to avoid business partnership disputes.  Unfortunately, however, disputes are very common in business pa...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to continue from where we left off in last week's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter.  Last week I talked about how to successfully leave a business partnership, and one of the issues I brought up was that business partnership disp...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that probably does not come up often enough, although I do get a lot of inquiries each year about LLCs who wish to restructure their business because either someone is leaving the LLC, someone is joining the LLC, or...

In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that I am asked about frequently by business owners ready to start a new business, or if they need to restructure an existing business, and that's how they should choose a business entity (or structure) for their sm...

In this week's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, we're wrapping up the series Top 5 in 2025, and today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter was the most popular topic from the Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter in 2024.  In today's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, I'm...

In this week's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, we're continuing in the series Top 5 in 2025, and today's edition is probably the 2nd most popular article that I have out there right now, and that's how a small business can resolve non-payment issues, especially of its customers.  I get ...

In this week's Freedom Friday blog and email newsletter, we're continuing in the series Top Five in 2025.  Every year, at least two or three times a year, I get questions and sometimes clients who need assistance in possibly forming a PLLC, which is a professional limited liability company.  This...