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Protecting Intellectual Property In Digital Marketing Assets

By John Wright, Esq. Small businesses can achieve big results from digital marketing efforts, but must take care to protect intellectual property from theft and infringement. Intellectual property found in digital marketing assets includes creative works subject to...

Use Of Criminal Background Checks – The EEOC’S “Guidance”

Use Of Criminal Background Checks - The EEOC’S “Guidance” And Attempts To Regulate A Court’s Decision That The EEOC Statistics Are “Scientific Dishonesty” A federal judge cast doubt on government efforts to restrict employers' use of criminal background checks when it...

Detroit Law Office

The Law Firm of Berry Moorman PC has had an office located in the City of Detroit since it first opened its doors in 1926. The Firm’s Detroit law office is in the historic Buhl Building in the Financial District, just across the Detroit River from Windsor, Canada. Our...

Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM LAW OFFICE BERRY MOORMAN P.C. The Law Firm of Berry Moorman P.C. established an office in the City of Birmingham in 1997, in order to better serve our clients in Oakland, Wayne, Macomb, St. Clair, Lapeer, Genesee, Livingston, and Washtenaw Counties. Our...

Judicial Disqualification in Michigan – A Slippery Slope

Judicial Disqualification in Michigan - A Slippery Slope Michigan Court Rule 2.003 [PDF] pertains to the "Disqualification of Judge." Subsection (C) thereof sets forth the grounds. Section (C)(1)(b) is a recent addition, and it provides as follows: The judge, based on...

Automotive News

Randy Wright moderated a panel discussion involving the Russian Automotive Sector presented by the US Russia Business Council.

Selling A Business in Michigan – The Sale Process

Selling A Business in Michigan - The Sale Process Once owners decide to sell their business they must engage in an emotional, time consuming, and challenging sale process. At the same time they must operate the business without having the sales process negatively...

Deadline For Posting of Employee Rights Notice Extended

The NLRB recently extends deadline For Posting of Employee Rights Notice The National Labor Relations Board recently extended the deadline for complying with its new employee notice rules from November 14, 2011 to January 31, 2012. These rules apply to any employer...

DMCA Offers Copyright Owners Protection For Internet Content

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Offers Copyright Owners Protection For Internet Content Picture it: Your significant time and effort creating a content-rich, customer friendly business website is paying off with rave reviews and new business. Now picture this: a few...

Nonprofit Benefits-The Current IRS Target

Nonprofit Benefits - The IRS turns its sights on benefits given by nonprofit organizations. Recently the IRS has turned its sights on benefits given by nonprofit organizations using as its weapon the intermediate sanctions provisions under IRC Sec. 4958. In brief,...

Until Divorce or “Debt” Do Us Part – Marital Agreements in Michigan

By John J. Schrot, Jr.
“I love you, now sign here.” Most of us were taught the art of self-preservation at a young age, and that art should not be abandoned once we reach adulthood and begin to make life-changing economic, social and psychological decisions. Premarital (prenuptial) and post-marital (postnuptial) agreements are firmly rooted in contract law and are recognized in Michigan. Both simply afford some security in this age of increasing multiple marriages. Such agreements should not kill the romance, but should quell your fears about marriage and love.