Freedom Friday Blog

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 times when it is appropriate...

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 other words, can...

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...

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...

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...

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.  Given...

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?”...

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 tenant.  In...

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 sign a commercial lease doesn't...

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, but...

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 encounter during that...

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 partnerships (and in multi-member LLCs),...