Attempting to maintain and salvage some intellectual properties from a company being dissolved.

The intellectual properties belong to the corporation, and while they can be liquidated as part of a dissolution, failing to pay the reasonable...

How Implied Promises, Breaches of Good Faith and Fair Dealing are treated in California?

To have something more than "at-will" employment, you have to be able to prove a contract. "We'll take care of you" is not an enforceable promise....

Internet Website Terms of Use and Privacy Law

Usually, if a lawyer feels qualified in one of the "specialties" that you mention, he or she has experience in writing Terms of Use and Privacy...

A quality response requires reading the contract. Consult with an experienced business lawyer in Orange County -- there are a lot of good ones.

A company wants me to sign competitor exclusion agreement. Is this legal or a good idea in California?

You really need to have a lawyer skilled in this area of the law review the agreement and give you advice. If it is equivalent to a covenant not to...

Is it right for wellmens compensation to be charging $18,000 for filling 2 1099 of the amount 20,000

This is much more than "just" an insurance issue. All employers are required to have worker's compensation insurance for their employees. Workers...

I had just started working at this buisness

It is certainly possible you were let go because of your refusal to submit to sexual harassment. That would be illegal. I think that it would be...

Can I credit someone's name in the opening title credits of my movie without their knowledge?

That is a form of false advertising, and you could be held liable for misleading people into believing that those directors had something to do...

I'm looking for an attorney to quote on a legal review of a memoir manuscript, formal or informal.

There is no question for us to answer here. Use the Find a Lawyer function to find a lawyer. This isn't the place to seek bids.

If I was to create a game based around a book would it be considered copyright infringement?

A game is a likely derivative work of a book, and the right to produce derivative works belongs to the author of the book, not you. You will most...