Do you own or work at a company with 50 or more employees? If so, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) likely is applicable. Violations of the FMLA have…
The Home Solicitation Sales Act (HSSA), codified at R.C. 1345.21, is a subdivision of the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act (CSPA) that protects consumers from certain types of high-pressure door-to-door…
You just discovered that you or your business are the subject of defamatory content on the internet. Or, a former employee has started poaching your customers or began working for…
The majority of successful family businesses in the United States are closely-held corporations: private (not publicly traded) companies with a limited number of shareholders holding the controlling share of corporate…
This is the seventh installment of our series on Ohio’s consumer laws, designed to raise awareness of a part of business owner’s potential pitfalls of these laws and how they…
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) refers to either mediation or arbitration, which provide alternatives to litigation. ADR, by comparison to traditional litigation, can sometimes be a less expensive, less risky means…
This is the sixth installment of our series on Ohio’s consumer laws, designed to raise awareness of a part of business owner’s potential pitfalls of these laws and how they…
This is the fifth installment of our series on Ohio’s consumer laws, designed to raise awareness of a part of business owner’s potential pitfalls of these laws and how they…
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (the “BBA”), which implements new rules for auditing partnerships and LLCs taxed as partnerships,[1] went into effect in January 2018. Under the new BBA…
A plumbing company, a mechanist, and a landscaper are all down on their luck. It sounds like the beginning of an excellent “dad joke?” But these companies reported symptoms of…





