NEW Non-Medical Caregiver/Companionship Home Care Business. No employees, all independent contract workers.

You may want to look into a professional employer organization/payroll service instead of assuming your workers are independent contractors. You...

What grounds would qualify for suing a bank?

The bank's regulator (federal or state) may have consumer behavioral standards, but these don't usually cover general rudeness. The facts you list...

Is it perjury if a business partner state they closed the joint business during a deposition but did not?

"Perjury. In Tennessee, perjury consists of (1) Making a false statement, under oath; (2) Making a statement, under oath, that confirms the truth...

Adding partner after statute of limitations

This will depend on whether your local law treats partnerships as entities, and (as is generally the rule) makes partners liable for entity debts,...

Lawyer to sue private colledge for not advising her she was not getting into pharmacy and telling her to take a back up course

Federal regulations may apply to the college as a whole, if it engages in predatory practices. See...

Can a lawyer accept a fee from opposing counsel without advising the client?

If you received a settlement that you agreed to, and your lawyer received a separate check for a lawyer's share consistent with the contingent fee...

I have an "instagram" page and do a lot of photography, but will eventually sell decals. Do i need to trademark my page?

You normally file for copyright for photographs and works derivative of same, to get statutory protection. See generally...

The sports team in question may have common law or state or federal registered trademark rights to their name and logo. Consult the uspto.gov site...

What's the best way to legally pay a birddog property locator?

The "finder" may be acting as a Realtor under state licensing laws, and so may need that license to have a valid contract to be paid.

Two partners are in dispute and in accordance with their Buy-Sell Agreement go to mediation then arbitration. To what extend?

US law (see http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/9/chapter-1) and state laws make arbitration contracts enforceable in civil courts. The...