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On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | February 26, 2014 |
Business Litigation
A female sales manager for an office furniture company alleged that on two separate occasions, her male supervisor acted inappropriately while driving her back to her hotel after company-sponsored training sessions. In the first instance, the pair had been at dinner with a group of co-workers when…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | February 24, 2014 |
Business Litigation
If you are one of the handful of people who loved the short-lived Aaron Sorkin show Sports Night, you might remember the scene where Dan (played by Josh Charles) gets called to the network lawyer’s office because the network has been billed $2,500 by the representatives of Mildred…
by Stephanie Wilson | February 17, 2014 |
Business Litigation
On February 12, 2014, President Obama signed an Executive Order raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour for federal contractors, starting January 1, 2015. Although the Administration has stated that the increase will apply only to new federal contracts, in reality it may end up applying to some existing federal contracts…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | February 10, 2014 |
Business Litigation
If you have ever considered representing yourself in litigation (proceeding “pro se,” in legal parlance) as a cost-saving measure, a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit might give you a reason to hesitate. Although pro se litigants typically enjoy leniency from the courts,…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 28, 2014 |
Business Litigation
President Obama recently announced his intent to sign an Executive Order which would unilaterally increase the minimum wage for certain workers on federal projects. The current federal minimum wage rate is $7.25 an hour, and President Obama is looking to raise it to $10.10 per hour. At first glance,…
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 27, 2014 |
Business Litigation
Although task order contracts are common, the rights contractors have to win one are complex and vary widely depending on whether the task orders are under FAR Part 8, the GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) or FAR Part 16, Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC). It is important,…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 27, 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…
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…
