Can I get sued if my partner in a general partnership took trade secrets that I didn't know about?

Yes, you can get sued if your partner misappropriated someone else's trade secrets, as by being partners, you are jointly and severally liable for...

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How can I prove that I never had a partnership?

The questions are very fact-dependent. If a lawyer wrote the demurrer for you, consult with him or her. These questions often turn on small issues...

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Can you sue someone who steels your vision, concepts, business plan, rendering and intellectual property.

Did he agree not to use your vision, concepts, business plan, rendering and intellectual property before you disclosed it to him? If so, it had...

Should the members of an LLC have the right to elect and get rid of managers?

A 100% requirement ostensibly is to encourage unanimity. However, if one of the members is the manager, then it gives that member/manager...

Prepping legally for an assistant

You've got some great questions, but the exact solutions need to be discussed with a lawyer of your choosing. To recast some of the questions, here...

Do I have a case?

Starting a new married life has a lot of stresses, good and bad, but this shouldn't be one of them. This is a failure to communicate. The...

Is it copyright infringement when your written work is in another person's book, without your permission?

Unless you registered your copyright with the US Copyright Office at the time you posted the page, you probably don't have much to recover. If you...

Other company uses the same name as my company

Priority for trademarks is established by the first to use a mark for a particular product or service in a given geographic area. Under the facts...

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Nullifying my contract

Under California Business and Professions Code section 16600, unless you are selling the goodwill of a business, covenants not to compete are...

How do you transfer ownership in an LLC? What is needed?

One thing to look for is whether the departing owner took his interest as community property. In that case, his wife may already "own" the...