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Q&A on Protecting Family Enterprises Through Collaborative Family Law

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When family relationships break down, the impact can extend well beyond personal matters, putting the future of a family enterprise at risk. I recently spoke with Patricia Hebert, a collaborative family lawyer, mediator and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Dispute Resolution Methods: Using a Mediator

In family businesses, where many decisions are intermingled with emotions, conflicts are inevitable. However, conflicts do not have to lead to negative consequences—they are part of human interaction and can promote...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Are Arbitration Clauses a Good Option for Your Family Business?

What Is Arbitration and How Does It Compare With Mediation? Arbitration is a form of alternative dispute resolution for parties to resolve their grievances outside of the courtroom. Arbitration is normally a process that...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Ten Tips for Avoiding Litigation: Tip # 2: Avoid Doing Business with Members of your Family.

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This tip might sound counterintuitive to you, and, in any event, it might be unachievable, given that most of the businesses in this country start out, at least, as family businesses, but let me explain. Business people make...more

Stinson LLP

California's "New Employee Leave Act" Will Impact Small Businesses

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While parental leave rights under existing California and federal law only applied to employers with 50 or more employees, a new California law extends employee parent leave rights – and corresponding employer obligations –...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Should You Mediate Your Family-Owned Business Dispute?

Disputes between and among owners of family-owned businesses are sometimes unavoidable. When such disputes progress to litigation, they can be extremely costly, time-consuming, and disruptive for the business and its owners....more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Episode 7: Conflict in the Family-Owned Business: A Conversation with Professor Benjamin Means

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As many litigators will tell you, “business divorce on steroids” aptly describes the tenor of litigation that can erupt when members of a family-owned business have a falling out. No one has devoted more scholarship to the...more

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