For months, the debate has been coming to a boil: To what extent should a business, hospital, or other open-to-the-public entity be exposed to Covid-19 related tort liability? Republicans have predicted a Read More

In the June 2019 post, “China’s New Foreign Investment Law and Its Implications on Foreign Investors,” we announced the publication of  Cavitch attorney, Yao Liu‘s, article in the issue of the May Read More

Cavitch shareholder Max Dehn recently prosecuted a lawsuit to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars wrongfully taken from an Ohio family. This is a summary of the family’s story. Names have been Read More

Tim Warner, Chairman of the Litigation Group at Cavitch, a practicing mediator and arbitrator and a litigator for almost twenty five years, was recently published in the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal in Read More

Parties may consider Non-Administered Arbitration (“NAA”) to resolve their next dispute. NAA is an informal dispute resolution process designed to proceed without the involvement of a separate administrating entity such as the Read More

Online System Changes How Employees Initiate Discrimination & Harassment Claims The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has launched a new Online Inquiry and Appointment System.  This system will permit electronic inquiries and requests Read More

On occasion, a plaintiff in litigation needs to stop the defendant from continuing to commit improper acts that harm the plaintiff. In order to stop or enjoin the defendant, the plaintiff must Read More

Ohio has adopted a new “parking lot law” regarding guns in the work place.  The law restricts both public and private business entities from prohibiting persons with valid concealed carry weapons (“CCW”) Read More

Many (if not most) of my business clients are taxed as partnerships and S-corporations, which are commonly referred to as “flow-through” entities, because they pay no corporate level taxes. Most headlines today Read More

Representative Bill Seitz recently introduced a bill in the Ohio General Assembly that, if enacted, will bring significant changes to Ohio’s workplace discrimination laws.  The most notable changes in House Bill 2 Read More

In Ohio, shareholders in a close corporation have fiduciary duties to one another.  A close corporation is generally characterized as a corporation with few shareholders who own shares that are not traded Read More

With consistent weakness in department stores’ fourth quarter financials being widely reported in recent weeks, there’s quite a bit of buzz in the insolvency community that some form of a retail bankruptcy Read More

In the Fall of 2016, the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court announced a series of proposed revisions to the Rules of the Commercial Division (22 NYCRR 202.70[g]), which govern Read More

OBTAINING RESTRAINING ORDERS AND INJUNCTIONS IN CIVIL BUSINESS LITIGATION In many civil disputes, it is simply not enough for a party to file a Complaint against another party and await a trial, a Read More

Ohio Law Allows an Employer to Sue an Errant Employee In The Absence of an Employment Agreement Some business owners are under the false impression that if they do not have a Read More