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Nobody enters into a business partnership imagining it will need to be dissolved one day. Unfortunately, a laundry list of unexpected life events, like market downturns, a change in a partner's professional direction and goals, bankruptcies, retirements, and deaths, can all force the potentially complicated issue of dissolving your business partnership.

Trade secrets are the “stuff” successful companies are made of. Their proprietary information may be the only feature that distinguishes them from similar companies, and that feature may be the key to their profitability.

Those in the business world know how important it is to set your goods and services apart from competitors to attract customers and protect your bottom line.

If you own or operate a business in California, you’re likely to develop multifaceted relationships with people and entities who help you with your operations.

If you operate a business, you’re no doubt aware that someone could come along and offer the same product or service at a better price—or they could use unfair competition practices to try to put you out of business.

When doing business, you are likely to sign a number of contracts with other parties to agree on mutually beneficial terms. Once a contract is signed, both parties anticipate that the other party will perform their contractual obligations.

If you’re a real estate owner or prospective owner in or around Santa Ana, California, and you need to know more about easements, it’s important to get your facts straight.

If you co-own a property with others and you want to cash out but the others want to retain the property for other purposes, what are your legal options? What if you inherit property with others and no one can agree on what to do with the property? Are all of you stuck until someone budges, or there’s a sudden meeting of the minds?

When you buy a home in California, you pretty much assume that the boundaries, as established by fences and other structures, are in the correct place; however, this is not always the case. After moving in, a homebuyer may get suspicious that something doesn’t look right.

The real estate market in California has been soaring since the onset of the pandemic. In November 2021, the average time on the market for a single-family home was 11 days, and the statewide median price was $782,480.