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Business & Compliance
UCC Security Interests: Attachment, Perfection, Priority, and Financing Statements
Article 9 turns a promise of collateral into a right that beats other creditors — but only if attachment, perfection and priority are handled in the right order.
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Business & Compliance
Antitrust Basics for Competitors Planning a Collaboration
Competitors can lawfully build things together. What they cannot do is agree on price, split up customers, or rig a bid — and the line between those worlds is sharp.
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Business & Compliance
Franchise Disclosure Documents: What Item 19 Does and Does Not Promise
Item 19 is the only place a franchisor may make financial performance claims — and it is voluntary, which makes a blank Item 19 one of the most informative pages in the document.
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Business & Compliance
Independent Sales Representatives and Commission Statutes
A commission agreement is not the whole deal. In many states a sales representative statute overrides the contract on when commissions are paid and what unpaid ones cost.
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Business & Compliance
Joint Venture Agreements: Contributions, Control, Profit Sharing, and Exit
Most joint ventures fail on questions the parties never wrote down: who decides, who owns the work product, and how anyone gets out without a lawsuit.
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Business & Compliance
Registered Agents and Annual Reports: Keeping an Entity in Good Standing
Two small state filings decide whether a company can sue, borrow, or close a deal. Here is what a registered agent does and what a periodic report actually keeps alive.
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Employment Law
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: Accommodation Requests and Employer Duties
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act reaches limitations too minor to count as disabilities, and it allows an essential job function to be paused. Here is how a request actually works.
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Employment Law
Wage Garnishment at Work: Employer Duties, Limits, and Priority
A garnishment order makes the employer a collection agent with real liability. The federal cap is only a floor, and support orders, student loans and tax levies each follow different rules.
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Employment Law
OSHA Injury Reporting and Recordkeeping: What Employers Must Document
Calling OSHA about a serious injury and keeping the 300 log are separate obligations with separate rules. Confusing them is the most common recordkeeping failure.
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Employment Law
Internships and Trainee Programs: When the Worker Must Be Paid
An unpaid internship is lawful only when the intern is the main one gaining from it. The test is flexible, fact-heavy, and applied more strictly by several states.
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Employment Law
Workers' Compensation Claims: Notice, Treatment, Disputes, and Return to Work
Workers' compensation trades the right to sue an employer for benefits paid without proving fault. The system is built out of deadlines, and most claims are lost on those.
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Employment Law
Salary History Bans and Compensation Questions During Hiring
No federal law stops an employer from asking what you earned before. A patchwork of state and city rules does, and they differ sharply on voluntary disclosure and prior-pay reliance.
7 min readExplainer
