Business Law
Business law, also known as commercial law, regulates corporate contracts, hiring practices, and the manufacture and sale of consumer goods. Business law can encompass safety laws, the regulation of goods, contracts, and other business-related practice areas such as consumer fraud. It provides the regulation necessary to ensure fair business practices.
When conflict occurs, such as when a contract between two parties is not honored, a safety law is not enforced and an employee is hurt, or a job is not obtained due to discriminatory hiring practices, personal injury may have occured. If any transaction between a business and another party results in personal loss due to negligence on the part of the business, the injured party may be able to seek compensation for their losses.
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| Friday 09th of May 2008 03:09:07 PM Kauffman Certifies Class in Generic Drug Lawsuit A federal judge has certified a class action antitrust suit that accuses GlaxoSmithKline of using monopolistic tactics to boost its profits from Wellbutrin, a popular antidepressant, by delaying a generic version of the drug from coming to market. The suit was brought by direct purchasers who claim that GSK concocted a plan to keep Wellbutrin prices high by making fraudulent assertions to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and by engaging in "sham" patent litigation against generic drug manufacturers. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Friday 09th of May 2008 03:09:07 PM Firms Facing Tougher Loan Terms Law firms needing extra capital from banks to weather the rough economy are finding that the times -- and the terms -- have changed. Many law firms are seeing a slowdown in work and a lengthening in their client payment cycles. At the same time, banks that provide lending to law firms to help cover their revenue gaps and fund bigger projects are implementing more onerous requirements for doling out credit. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Friday 09th of May 2008 03:09:07 PM Yahoo's Skadden Lawyers Engineer Rarely Used Tactic to Hold Off Microsoft A timely maneuver by Yahoo's lawyers apparently played a key role in scaring off Microsoft for the moment. In a letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said concerns over Yahoo's plans to pursue a deal to outsource some online advertising to Google would bring "a host of regulatory and legal problems" and weaken Yahoo's paid search advertising position. Observers say it was a clever delay tactic by Yahoo's lawyers at Skadden that gave the company time to come up with the Google deal. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Friday 09th of May 2008 03:09:07 PM DOJ's Economic-Spy Strategy Emerges Federal prosecutors' tactics are under fire as defendants in one Silicon Valley economic espionage case are used against defendants in another. For the government to succeed in its apparent strategy of trading sentencing leniency for one pair of defendants in order to help convict another pair on higher-profile charges, they'll have to first persuade Judge James Ware to turn aside defense challenges to the FBI's tactics, which were aired in his courtroom last week. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Friday 09th of May 2008 03:09:07 PM Making Rain -- A Lawyer’s Second Job The rainmakers who spoke to for this article couldn't be more different from one another. They include women and men, litigators and corporate attorneys, large-firm lawyers and small. But they all have the same general ideas when it comes to building a book of business, and they all have little tolerance for excuses. It takes time, effort and interest to become a rainmaker, and all of these rainmakers have paid their dues. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Friday 09th of May 2008 03:09:07 PM Booming Markets Bring Risk, Says Home Depot GC Home Depot's top lawyer last week offered a particularly candid assessment of the risks of doing business in the fastest-growing markets around the world. Speaking at the State Bar of Georgia's April 24 conference on the global rule of law, Home Depot's Jack A. VanWoerkom said the Chinese economy is still essentially owned by government, and the justice system is unreliable. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
