Tag Archives: Business Lawyer

Standard Disclaimer: Vidar provides posts in this blog as general information. This is not meant to be specific advice and your business should always talk directly with a lawyer about your individual business needs. Note: This is the second of three parts about common mistakes businesses make with contracts and agreements. In the first part of this series, we discussed of the dangers of businesses avoiding contracts altogether. Today we are going...

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Standard Disclaimer: Vidar provides posts in this blog as general information. This is not meant to be specific advice and your business should always talk directly with a lawyer about your individual business needs. You started a business. You survived your first year. You started to make money and hire employees. You continue to expand. Congratulations! You have beaten the odds. Until ... you suddenly find your business involved in...

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Standard Disclaimer: Vidar provides posts in this blog as general information. This is not meant to be specific advice and your business should always talk directly with a lawyer about your individual business needs. Anyone remember the old game show Press Your Luck? It ran for about three years in the late 1980s. It wasn’t a big hit, but variations of it have appeared worldwide and the show itself was...

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Anyone who follows tech, startups, or privacy issues has probably seen, by now, the firestorm surrounding Uber this week. I will not go into extensive detail, but in brief, a senior executive at Uber apparently suggested that it might be acceptable to dig up dirt on individual journalists and their families if those journalists were critical of Uber. It seems generally understood that this was directed against one particular journalist (you can read her reaction here). Read more »

This week, the Huffington Post reported that sandwich maker Jimmy John’s requires even its lowest paid workers to sign oppressive non-compete agreements. The Jimmy John’s non-compete language is incredibly broad and is completely unjustified, especially when used with low-level employees. According to its terms, the non-compete prevents a low-level employee from taking a job at any business that get more than 10% of its revenue from selling “submarine, hero-type, deli-style, pita and/or wrapped or rolled sandwiches” for two years after leaving Jimmy John’s. It also says that the worker can’t take a job at this type of “competitor” if the new employer is located within 3 miles of the particular Jimmy John’s shop or within 3 miles of any other Jimmy John’s. Read more »

Sometimes interesting legal issues come from very unlikely sources. In this case, in 2011, a crested black macaque grabbed photographer David Slater‘s camera and snapped an awesome selfie. Although Mr. Slater apparently admitted that the animal was simply playing around with his camera and snapped the picture, Mr. Slater says he owns the copyright on the picture. Wikipedia posted the image on a page and has refused to remove the image claiming that no one owns the copyright. This is not a new story, but it has recently found new life as a result of the Wikipedia decision. Read more »