Business Litigation
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 27, 2014 |
Business Litigation
Should a federal government construction contractor assume that its permit request for a construction project will be approved by local state authorities? Absolutely not, according to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit found that the plain language of FAR’s Permits and Responsibilities Clause, which…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 24, 2014 |
Business Litigation
Many contracts, especially those between sophisticated parties, contain clauses specifying the state in which disputes arising out of the agreement must be litigated. For instance, a company headquartered in Virginia would want to specify that all disputes be litigated in a predetermined county or federal court in Virginia. While…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 17, 2014 |
Business Litigation
In a recent and instructive case, a company that had successfully performed contracts at Camp Pendleton for almost a decade lost a recent contract because it carelessly prepared its proposal. It failed to follow precisely the proposal instructions, relying instead on two wrong assumptions. First, it assumed that its…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 16, 2014 |
Business Litigation
Berenzweig Leonard is beginning the New Year with a summary of four important government contract legal decisions handed down in 2013. We began by describing in two blog articles the problems a government contractor can get into as a result of “apparent…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 15, 2014 |
Business Litigation
Berenzweig Leonard is beginning the New Year with a summary of four important government contract legal decisions handed down in 2013. We began by describing in two blog articles the problems a government contractor can get into as a result of “apparent authority”, a one-sided legal concept that does not apply to…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 14, 2014 |
Business Litigation
Berenzweig Leonard is beginning the New Year with a summary of four important government contract legal decisions handed down in 2013. A previous blog article discussed the one-sided legal concept of “apparent authority” that applies to a government contractor but not to the government. Today we discuss another problem…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 13, 2014 |
Business Litigation
With so many government contract legal decisions handed down during any year, it’s helpful at the start of the New Year to summarize those handed down the previous year that impact a government contractor’s bottom line. Over the next four days, we will provide a summary of an important decision from last year,…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 11, 2014 |
Business Litigation
It is every company’s worst nightmare: An anonymous poster goes online and makes negative and disparaging statements about the company. In the social media age we are in, this unfortunate scenario has played out countless times on such sites as Yelp, Rip-Off Report, and other online review sites. Companies…
by Declan Leonard | January 9, 2014 |
Business Litigation
An IBM employee with a spotty performance record claimed his firing was the result of age discrimination. As evidence, he produced a text message between two HR managers at IBM in which one asked about the employee’s “shelf life.” The fired employee also claimed that an employee retention…
